Titles starting with K from Steven Temple Books (ABAC / ILAB)

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., (copyright 1922).. A later printing, ca. second half of the 1920s? Tall 8vo, hardcover, medium blue cloth, spine lettered and illustrated in black, page edges stained yellow, black & white pictorial endpapers. (5)-(299), [1, blank] pp. 12 colour plates inserted, line drawings in text. Light rubbing to spine tips and front joint; name neatly in red ink to top margin of front free endpaper and again in green ink in the appropriate box on the following leaf; light tan stain t... more information

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San Francisco: City Lights, 1961. Squarish 16mo, black & white card covers. pp 100, sewn. Printed by Villiers, London, in a run of 2500 copies. 10 line publisher statement on rear cover. Pocket Poets Series Number Fourteen. Spine a little yellowed, with mild rubbing at tips; small crease to lower corner of front cover; tiny red ink notation to upper inner corner of title page; VG+ otherwise. An essential beat document, AG's most important book after HOWL. Cook, Pocket Poets. Pp 12-13. . First pri... more information

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Helsinki, Finland: Otava, (c. 1923), 1923. Second Finnish printing / edition. Quarter bound in publisher's light brown decorated cloth and tan decorated boards, gilt lettered. (252), [3] pp. Damp stain to rear board; text panned tanned as expected; rubber stamp on endpapers of the Finnish Workers Club / Finnish Workers Federation/ Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Ink Finnish inscription on front pastedown, blue pencil name and smudge on front free endpaper, good tight copy otherwise of a scarce edition. I thin... more information

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928.. First US edition ("First Edition" stated). 8vo, blue cloth spine with paper label and pictorial boards boldly illustrated in colour. Light rubbing to edges of boards; a VG bright, tight jacketless copy otherwise, no previous owner names. The 3rd Kai Lung book. Not actually crime fiction.. ... more information

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NY: Harper & Row, (1977).. First edition. Cloth and boards. Book very slightly leaned, else fine. Jacket has minor rubbing to spine tips, corners, else fine. A crime novel with jazz content set in New York City.. ... more information

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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971. Octavo, red boards. Slight foxing to top page edges, else fine in very nearly fine jacket. A novel set in Australia by this Australian immigrant. . First printing. Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Cape, 1966. First UK printing of the author's first book. Pink boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a corner crease to front flap, else fine. Very nice copy indeed of the scarce British edition.. First UK printing. Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Routledge. Early edition (ca. 1860s?) (first was Routledge, 1859). 16mo, red decorated cloth stamped in green, gilt and black. Pp iv, 444 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 other plates. Xmas, 1870, ink gift inscription at front; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; tissue guard tanned; minor wear to spine tips and outer corners; only minor soiling to rear cover; text paper lightly toned; in all, a VG+ bright, tight, and most attractive copy of this Australian juvenile. . Hardcover. ... more information

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NY: Doran, (1924).. First printing. Small octavo, hardcover, colour pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. (vii), (8)-(64) pp. Illustrations in text. Mild rubbing to foot of spine, slight wear to head of spine; ink gift inscription to front free endpaper; else a VG+ t ight and unworn copy, in the uncommon dust jacket, which has a bit of rubbing to flap and spine folds, very small chips to spine tips and outer corners, tiny hole to front spine fold, else VG+, most attractive. A volume in Cobb's humourou... more information

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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1951).. Brown cloth. 144 pp, index, bibliography, plates. VG clean copy, no owner marks. Price-clipped dust jacket has small chips and tears, VG generally.. First edition in English.. Hardcover.. Octavo. ... more information

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Evanston, (Illinois): Northwestern University Press, 1968.. 8vo, dark blue cloth. x, 194, [4] pp. Sunning to spine and margins of covers; light spots to green topstain; else a VG jacketless copy, no previous owner marks.. ... more information

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London: Collins, 1986. Grey boards, endpaper maps. 575 pp. Tanning to page edges, some yellowing to text paper, as usual (pulpy paper), else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. A novel of the resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by this most popular of Afghan writers. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Tall octavo. ... more information

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Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, (1960).. Grey burlap stamped in black & white, black endpapers. 251 pp, photos throughout, glossary and index. Neat ink owner name to bottom margin of half-title leaf, else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has light wear to spine tips, internal tape repairs, rubbing to front flap fold, external tape repair to lower outer corner of front panel and flap; VG otherwise. Lacking the slipcase. "The first complete and authoritative book to give a sober and systemat... more information

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Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1901.. First US edition. 16mo, grey cloth stamped in red and dark green. 181 pp + 11 pp ads. Frontispiece portrait inserted. Minor wear to spine tips; spine lightly tanned, with thin red author and title lettering indistinct; endpaper tanning from binding; dark spot to top page edges only penetrating slightly into text margins; small corner crease and soil spot to margin of pp 33-34; VG copy otherwise.. ... more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2000).. New editon. Black boards. (xvi), 166 pp, indexed, plates inserted, maps in text. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names. Story of Stefansson's tragic Arctic expedition of 1913. Of a crew of 25, 11 died. The author was one of the survivors.. Hardcover.. Octavo.. ... more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1976).. First UK edition. Tall 8vo, hardcover, grey boards. xiv, 170 pp. Plates inserted, map in text. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, else very nearly fine in like price-clipped jacket. "This book tells for the first time the full story of the Karluk, the leading ship of Stefansson's Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, which was crushed and sunk in ice almost before the expedition had properly begun. The ship's crew of twenty-five people were left stran... more information

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Toronto: William Briggs, 1915. Grey linen grain cloth lettered and decorated in white. pp 259. Fine copy. Grey pictorial jacket printed in red & black is very lightly yellowed on spine, else fine, a super copy. Watters p. 371. Author was a former fur trader who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company who became M.P.P. for Ft. Nelson, Manitoba, in 1914. This vanity press novel was based on Ray's experiences in the Chesterfield Inlet area.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Octavo.. ... more information

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London: Oxford Unversity Press, 1959. First edition with these illustrations. Tall narrow octavo, 49 pp. Cloth spine and illustrated boards in colour. Line drawings and bold & colourful illustrations in text. Minor rubbing to outer corners of boards, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has tears at head of spine and panels; some rubbing; small hole to inner margin of front panel; good, but still presentable in appearance. A nice edition of this little-known story for children by the great Russian wri... more information

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(Toronto): Rumour Publications, 1978. The correct first edition. (3)-145, [1] pp. Black on pale pink pictorial card covers have minor rubbing to edges; nick and soft crease to fore margin of front cover; near fine otherwise, no owner names. LAID IN are five square black on pink cards reproducing Kushner drawings (3 different illustrations). Edition of 500 copies, not issued in hardcover.. First Edition. Softcover. Square octavo. ... more information

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(Victoria, BC): British Columbia Provincial Museum, (1979).. Reprint (both titles originally published 1955). 4to, paper covers. 31, [1]; 92, [2, blank], [2, ads] pp. Crease to rear cover; spine rubbed with much of the spine lettering rubbed away; ink name inside front cover; a good unworn copy otherwise.. ... more information

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