Search Results: Authors starting with K from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, Department of English, Bibliographical Series, No. 2, 1967 *Limited Edition* numbered 141 of 350 copies. Softcover light blue wraps with blue ink, 8vo, 35 pp. Details the collection bequeathed to the University of South Carolina's McKissick Library, by English book collector Simon Nowell-Smith in 1966. "Poet, prosodist, anthologist and typographer Robert Bridges was one of the most influential literary figures of the early 20th century." (According to the university, the collection was named for the small village on the outskirts of Oxford where the collector lived for a number of years.) Condition: Exterior is Very Good: cover is slightly faded and toned near edges, small amount of soiling near upper spine. Interior contents are Fine.. Limited Edition. Softcover. Very Good.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1921 207pp+ads. A drama by George S. Kaufman (1889-1961), an American playwright who wrote for the Marx Brothers, and won the Tony Award for Best Director in 1951 for the musical "Guys and Dolls". Kaufman wrote "Dulcy" and four other comedy plays in collaboration with Marc Connelly (1890-1980), who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with "The Green Pastures" in 1930. Condition: The book is remarkable fresh and clean-looking, about Very Good or better. The spine label is lightly dust-soiled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

Portland, Oregon: Perri Press, 1949 Paper wraps. 42pp unnumbered. Condition: Pages age-toned. Small closed tear to top of front cover and pages. Covers dust-soiled. *** A short story written by noted pulp magazine writer, David H. Keller (1880-1966). It was written around ten illustrations, which were winners of a contest held by the Portland Fantasy Society. A psychiatrist by profession, Keller turned to short-story writing as a hobby, and notably helped out Arkham House when it ran out of funds in 1948.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus.

Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1879 Hardcover, 12mo, in brown cloth with gilt titles, 232 pp., plus seven pages advertisements. Arranged by subject, the book has numerous proverbs from England, Scotland, Wales as well as the Continent, with notes translated from the original Latin, Italian, French and German. An example of the type: " A house wi' a reek and a wife wi' a reerd [scolding noise] will sune mak a man run to the door.--Scotch." Words to live by indeed. The author, Walter Keating Kelly, (died London 1867) wrote books on other topics; Indo-European folklore, a history of Russia, a translation of Cervantes, as well as the erotic poetry of Catullus and Tibullus and the Virgil of Venus. Condition: Good: Hinges starting. Rubbing to edges of boards, top edge of text block dusty. Mild foxing to end papers only. Rare edition. . Hardcover . Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922 Second Printing. Hardcover, 8vo, in publisher's navy cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, 12 plates in volume 1, 10 plates in volume 2, 421pp + foldout map; 421pp. Stated Second Impression. CONDITION: Near Fine. Light bumps to corners and small dent to spine on vol. 1. Former owner's signature to ffeps. Clean and bright, with firm hinges. Some pages unopened. ** An illustrated biography of Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909), the American railroad tycoon associated with the Illinois Central and Union Pacific Railroads, among others. His sharp business practices were criticized by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and he was considered "robber baron" of the Gilded Age, with interests in finance as well as industry. The book paints, however, a somewhat sympathetic view, discussing his philanthropic causes such as founding the Boys' Club of New York in 1876. A steamboat scientific journey underwritten by him along the Alaskan coast to Siberia in 1899 is… Read More

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1929 Hard cover, ex-lib, 8vo, in half brown cloth over brown paper covered boards, titles in brown to front board, and with printed paper label to spine. Lacking d/j. xii, 304 (1) pp., black and white illustrations with labelled tissue-guards. Printed at the Bruce Burrough Press, San Francisco. **Reminiscences of Chicago-born businessman, rancher and conservationist William Kent (1864-1928), who was perhaps best-known for donating the land which became the redwood forested Muir Woods Nat'l. Monument near San Francisco, California. He also sponsored the bill in Congress which Theodore Roosevelt would eventually sign into law in 1916, creating the National Park Service. The tissue-guarded, labelled silvertone frontispiece photo of Mt. Tamalpais has been attributed to Ansel Adams. The remaining full page photos are offset lithography. Condition: Very Good. Lacking d/j. Library marking at foot of spine in pen, label neatly removed. Ghost of rear pocket glue. Otherwise,… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1932 Hard Cover, 8vo., 288pp. In publisher's navy cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Illustrated with photographic plates. Condition: Very Good. Light marks to covers with light stain to front. ** A history of the British Navy, and an account of its operations, and lessons learned during WWI. The author, Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. J.M.Kenworthy, was a former Admiralty War Staff and Assistant Chief of Staff. He writes in the foreword of the importance of the Royal Navy to Great Britain, in ensuring her defense. The final chapter looks to the future, and tries to map out the resources needed to maintain maritime security.... the book was published in 1932. OCLC 752917672.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Columbia, SC: Camden House, Inc., 1996 Hard cover, 8vo, in navy blue cloth with titles to front and spine in gold, First Edition, (xii), 282pp. English text. Condition: Fine, (like new). ** This is part of a series by Camden House of "Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture." A volume celebrating the career of the scholar Professor Robert Browning, (1911- 2000) who taught for many years at Hamilton College, and was a widely respected author on German poetry. This anthology, in English, contains articles from various scholars, including: Paul F. Casey, "Children and Images of Childhood in German Biblical Drama of the Sixteenth Century"; Thomas Kerth, Sibylle Schwartz and die Art der Bilder"; Gerald Gillespie, "Baroque High: Above it All with Balde"; George C. Schoolfield, "Memory's Lane: Simon Dach's Memel Epithalamium of January 18, 1655"; Anthony J. Harper, "Urbs Litteraria: On Researching the Literary Life of the Town in Seventeenth-Century Germany"; John Roger Paas, "The… Read More

New York: Will Bradley [Wayside Press] for R.H. Russell, 1907 Hard cover, 12mo, in gray-green paper-covered boards printed with green filigree design, by Bradley (unsigned) on heavy laid paper, many pages unopened, fore edges untrimmed, the text highlighted with Bradley's carved "persian-esque" devices printed in red, (1) 61 (5) pp. , First Edition Thus. Colophon states the volume was printed at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Mass. in August, 1907. CONDITION: Very Good. Sunning to spine. The printed spine label is missing, which happened. Very minor wear to spine surface and front joint. There are a few small tears at front hinge, but holding firm. Mild age toning. Some foxing in places to the untrimmed fore-edge. Text is clean. This attractive version of the 12th century poet's thoughts on love continues to find a contemporary audience today. Includes a biography of the author. This is the scarce first edition overseen by the notable Lynn Massachusetts-born typographer and book designer Will H.… Read More

London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, [1929] Presumed second edition. Soft cover chapbook, (3 x 6 inches), 36 unnumbered pages, in second variant cover of Japanese vellum wraps with yapp edges over card, contents printed on art paper, with the Glasgow-born Scottish Graphic Artist Jessie M. King's (1875-1949) line-drawn cover illustration in gold, blue, orange and black, with the artist's signature vertically down the design's lower right corner. Also has King's artwork upon the double endpapers, printed in three colors, of a girl dancing on a hillside, also with similar signature to wraps. This is a RARE mis-binding of the contents, given the text is for a completely different booklet, selected verses from the love poetry of The Rubyaiat of Omar Khayyam. Also has black and white halftone illustrations by the Artist Charles Robinson. Condition: Fine. Wraps Fine. King bibliographer Colin White presumed the mis-binding was due to an inattentive apprentice at the printer's plant. (A Guide to… Read More

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1985 336pp. Comic novel set in Maine and praised by Stephen King. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper. Condition: About Fine in like dust jacket (now protected in mylar).. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Cambridge, England: David Kindersley and Linda Lopez Cardozo, 1979 Soft cover, 4to, in gold card wraps over stiff card, with red print to cover and spine, multi-colored pages feature the calligraphy and artistic letterforms designed and executed by the artistic typographer and stone-cutter David Kindersley, MBE (1915-1995.) . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by David Kindersley.

London: Seaby, 1987 Hard Cover, 8vo, 214pp. In publisher's black cloth binding with silver lettering. Condition: Near Fine in a like dust jacket. ** Second edition of volume 5 of the famous reference books on Roman coins by the coin dealers, B.A. Seaby Ltd, covering the period from 286 AD to 476 AD. Illustrated throughout. OCLC 957797.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds, 1896 Hardcover, 12mo, measuring 5 x 7 3/4 inches), in blue cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, floral printed endpapers, 115pp plus 11pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Condition: Very Good Plus. Light wear to spine ends and corners. A couple of light marks to top board, gentle age-toning. Hinges and joints are firm. **This volume is the account of an incident of religious intolerance, largely unrecorded by other contemporary historians, by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1651. Three Rhode Island Baptists, John Crandall, Dr. John Clarke and Obadiah Holmes arrange a pastoral visit to the aged and ailing fellow congregant, John Witten,of Swampscott, Massachusetts. No sooner did they arrive then the three are made an example of: arrested, imprisoned, fined and whipped under the aegis of Governor Endicott. As the author says," uniformity of religious belief was the animating purpose of the [Puritan's] government." (p.71) Other… Read More

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1997 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 â…œ"). pp xxiii [3] 248 [6]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring an African river, gilt titles to spine on dark green printed labels, and end papers featuring a map of West Africa. Condition: Fine. *** One of the few Western women to travel in Africa in the nineteenth century, Mary H. Kingsley (1862-1900) had, after her parents' death, "five or six months which were not heavily forestalled" and, being giddy "like a boy with a new half-crown" determined to spend her newly found freedom in exploration of the world. She decided on Africa in part because she had read of its perils - and no doubt, because it was a land that her explorer father, George Kingsley, had not sought out. She traveled by river, at times in a dugout canoe, and sought out cannibals (stayed with them overnight), got caught in a game trap, freed a captive leopard, and took several fish specimens back to the British Museum. *** Mary Kingsley… Read More

Princeton: Privately printed at the Princeton University Press, 1931 Hard cover, 8vo., 98pp. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering. Condition: Near Fine. ** Illustrated with photographic plates. ** Military Order Book kept by Peter Kinnan, a New Jersey soldier during the American Revolutionary War, who was in General Heard's brigade and in Colonel Ephraim Martin's regiment. Among his other duties, Kinnan had the authority to sign passes to allow civilians to cross the Hudson, carrying General Head's authority. A photograph showing such a pass is included among the illustrations. OCLC 2321781.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1994 Hard Cover, 8vo, 159pp. Condition: Fine. ** A series of articles on Canada's money. Illustrated throughout. Chapters are titled: "An American Collector's Guide to the Coins of Nouvelle France", "Boulton, Watt and the Canadian Adventure", "The Magdalen Island Token", "The Powell and Sutherland Golden Wedding Commemoratives", "The So-Called English Issues of the Bank of Montreal", "Medallic Memorials of the Visit of the Prince of Wales to North America in 1860", and "Patterns and Trial Pieces of Canada". OCLC 30950535.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Mainz: Druck der Mainzer Presse, 1951 Hard cover, quarto, pp 58 [6]. Illustrated covers. Includes illustrations of the books of Gutenberg. Christian Heinrich Kleukens (1880 - 1954) was a German printer and typographer. Condition: Near Fine. With signature of University of Michigan Professor of German, Emery E. George to front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books for St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001 Hard cover with dust jacket in mylar cover, 388 pp. Inscribed to fellow thriller author David Putnam, and signed by Author on Title page. The fourth novel of the John Caine series, this takes us from a murder in San Francisco, back to Caine's native Hawaii and an exciting showdown over an important underwater discovery. Our hero must dodge a murder rap of his own, all while protecting a friend from a set of serious police charges. Author Charles Knief has written a number of books set in Hawaii. His first, Diamond Head, won the SMP/PWA contest for Best First Private Eye Novel in 1995. Condition: Fine, with a Fine dust jacket in mylar.. Signed and inscribed by Author on Title page to David Putnam, fellow thriller writer. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Thomas Dunne for St. Martin's Press, 1986 Signed and inscribed by Author on Title page. Hardcover, with dust jacket in Brodart cover, 234 pp. Winner of the 1995 St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. From the blurb: "Retired U.S. Naval Officer John Caine lives aboard his sailboat ...off Oahu and makes a living doing "favors for friends, "-recovering lost property and running high-risk errands..." His former commanding officer's daughter turns up dead, plunging Caine into a double jeopardy: can he solve the case without splashback sullying the reputation of his client? Scandal, romance, fire, sharks and contract killers...all in a day's work for our hero. Condition: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Like New.. Signed and inscribed by Author on the title page.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.