Search Results: Authors starting with K from Cornell Books Limited

London: Dean & son, no date [1909]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 16mo (14cm by 11cm), 48pp. Illustarted throughout in colour and b&w by Gordon Robinson. Original green cloth spine, decorated boards. The backstrip is chipped, the rear free endpaper is missing, the preliminary pages are foxed and there is a gift inscription (dated 1909). Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition. Undated - COPAC dates this book to 1909.

London: Conway Maritime Press, 1990. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 25cm), vi, 217pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0851775322

London: E & F N Spon, 1913. First edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 61pp. 12 illustrations. Original printed grey card wrappers. Covers stained and chipped, contents good to very good. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

Kingston [ON]: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1979. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 20cm), 192pp. 51pp illustrations. Rebound in brown cloth, with the original card wrappers bound in. This book is in very good condition. A typed signed letter from the author is included.

London: Duckworth & co, 1904. First edition (hardback). 16mo (15cm by 10cm), viii, 174pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling and design to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Light spotting of the endpapers, gift inscription to the front free endpaper; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

London: University of London Press, 1949. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 237pp. Colour frontispiece and text illustrations by Anton Lock. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good minus condition (chipped and torn with a little loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: Charles H Kelly, no date [c. 1905]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 62pp. Frontispiece and text illustrations. Original grey cloth. This copy is generally in good condition, but is marred by scuffing and discolouring to the front board. A short series of sketches of the history of Tewkesbury, told from a Wesleyan perspective. An extremely rare book, with no copies listed on COPAC.

Osceola[WI]: Motorbooks International / Society of Automotive Engineers, 1979. First edition (softcover). 4to (28cm by 21cm), iii, 85pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original printed card wrappers. The covers are somewhat rubbed and sunned; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1932. First edition (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 13cm), [vi], iv, 80pp, 2pp index. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt borders to the front board. Rubbing to the edges of the binding, titling a little dulled on the spine, light thumbing of the preliminary pages, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is copy number 479.

London: National Portrait Gallery, 1981. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), x, 749pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is near-VG (some creasing of the rear panel). ISBN 0852495161

Pretoria: Botanical Research Institute, 1986. Volume 18, Part 3, first edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 18cm), ix, 76pp. Text illustrations. Original white card wrappers. There are a couple of minor marks to the binding, else this book is in very good condition. ISBN 0621096989

Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xx, 429pp. 8pp colour plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. There is some mild tanning to the edges of the text block; otherwise, the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 090839666X

Gloucester: Albert E Smith, 1962. Reprint of the 1912 edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), [xiii], 174pp. 10 plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Light browning of the endpapers, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good condition (some rubbing, some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 25cm), x, 214pp. Colour frontispiece, 199 text illustrations in b&w and colour. Original burgundy cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0300068018

Loughborough: The Book House, 1972. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 17cm), [x], 74pp. 22 folding plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, slight fraying to the front inner hinge, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (slight chafing of the edges). ISBN 0902520016

London: Gentry Books, 1971. First (limited) edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 22cm), 126pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. De-luxe binding of full green calf, gilt titling and raised bands to the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled slipcase. Light scuffing to the raised bands on the spine, light foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The slipcase is in near-VG condition (slight wear to the extremities). This edition is limited to 150 copies, but please note that this copy is neither signed nor numbered (which seems to be the case with all copies of this edition). ISBN 0856140058

Minneapolis: Kraus-Anderson Companies, 2001. First edition (softcover). Square 8vo, [v], 167pp, xv. Illustrated throughout in b&w and colour. Original laminated wrappers. The book is in very good condition.

London: Cassell, 1932. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 18cm), 256pp. 4 colour plates by Paul Bransom, text illustrations by Don Nelson. Original blue cloth. This book is only in fair conditon overall; the binding is rubbed and bumped, and there is some thumbing and foxing of the contents. Suitable as a reading copy

London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. Second imnpression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 347pp. Original brown cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. The binding is a little rubbed and marked, there is light foxing to the edges of the text block, and an ownership inscription; overall, this book is in good condition.

London: Pan Books, 1991. First UK edition (ie first UK impression), hardback. 8vo (24cm by 16cm), vii, 322pp. Original grey boards, dustwrapper. There is some tanning of the contents; otherwise, the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0330315315