Search Results: Authors starting with K from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: Collier-Macmillan, London. Brown cloth, copper titles on front board & spine, xiii, 625 pp, chapter notes, author & subject indices. The book aims to be "a comprehensive study of the principal child welfare services." Contents: child welfare-orientation, scope, perspectives; supportive services; supplementary services; income maintenance; protective services; homemaker services; day care service; foster family care; adoption; the child-caring institution; child welfare services in other countries; sociology of the child welfare worker. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 6th ptg. . Fine/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red ribbed cloth, gilt titles on front boards & spines. Common condition of both volumes: corners bumped, extremities rubbed, faint spotting to boards, two previous owners' names of fpd & ffep of each volume. Vol. 1 also has small marginal tears with creasing to title page & next leaf, both of which are manufacturing defects, else VG. Vol. 2 has a long tear to last page of index, small hole in trailing blank, else VG. Vol. 1: Transportation, Communication, and Power; xvi, 574 pp, 319 illustrations; contains histories of railroads, steamboats, electric streetcars & trains, automobiles, aviation, printing, typewriters & typecasting machines, telegraph, telephone, telefacsimile, radio, solar power, movies, phonograph, steam power, electric power, artificial lighting. Vol. 2: Material Resources & Labor-Saving Machines; xiv, 457 pp, 204… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. With a foreword by his son, DeWitt Wallace, editor of Reader's Digest. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine, 255 pp, color frontispiece and 5 ff b & w photo plates not in pagination. Very light wear to corners and spine ends, paper lightly browned, faint offsetting from frontispiece to title page. DJ spine faded, extremities slighlty rubbed, a few small (under 4 mm) chips and tears; in Brodart archival cover. Inscription in blue ink on recto of ffep is dated Macalester College, September 18, 1957. Wallace started at Macalester in 1887 as professor of Greek, at a time when the college was unable to afford salaries for faculty, and eventually became President. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 14 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, black cloth spine with copper titles, endpaper maps, xiii, 336, [1] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 5 maps, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, red endpapers, 388 pp, index. DJ scuffed, corners of front flap trimmed, possibly by publisher to cancel original price during an inflationary era; in Brodart archival cover. This is a history of Harvard University, mostly covering the period since long-time New Yorker staff writer Kahn matriculated. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Warner Books, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, blue spine with gilt titles, viii, 320 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, index. There is a 1 X 5 cm chip from top of pp 161-2, with loss of about 6 letters on each of 6 lines (3 on each side), otherwise fine. DJ fine in Brodart archival cover. The jacket copy on this biography of Dwayne O. Andreas, long time CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, reads more like an ad for Andreas than for the book. (Portions of this book are revisions of a profile published in The New Yorker in 1984 and 1985.) Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . 23½ X 16 cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan boards, black & copper titles & decorations, xvii, 301 pp, bibliography, index. Boards warped, owner's name on title page, scattered pencil notes. Treatment is mostly descriptive with details of proofs set as exercises. Contents: mathematical linguistics; finite-state machines; Turing machines; linear-bounded automata; pushdown automata; other machine models; operations on languages; solvable linguistic questions; unsolvable linguistic questions. Appendices: abbreviations; relationships between classes of languages; solvability results. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1972. Tan boards, black & copper titles & decorations, xvii, 301 pp, bibliography, index. Boards rubbed at corners & spine ends, owner's name on title page, underlining & yellow highlighting. Treatment is mostly descriptive with details of proofs set as exercises. Contents: mathematical linguistics; finite-state machines; Turing machines; linear-bounded automata; pushdown automata; other machine models; operations on languages; solvable linguistic questions; unsolvable linguistic questions. Appendices: abbreviations; relationships between classes of languages; solvability results. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . G/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on title page. Black boards, grey spine with red foil titles, red endpapers, [ix], 289, [5] pp. Author's signed inscription is dated in the year of publication. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contains six short stories and a novella in which, according to the DJ, "Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous." Kalfus lived in Russia from 1994 to 1998. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York, London & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black pebble-grained cloth, chapters individually paginated, 4 cm thick, index. Slight shelf wear, original owner's name & address stamped on endpapers, else fine. This copy printed 1971 but copyright 1961. Subtitle: A practical design and applications manual for the mechanical services covering steam plants, power plants, heating systems, air-conditioning systems, ventilation systems, Diesel plants, refrigeration, and water treatment. Contents: instrumentation & control fundamentals; measurement of pressure & draft; temperature measurement; measurement of flow; measurement & control of liquid level; final control elements; measurement & control of pH & conductivity; boiler instrumentation & control systems; steam-pressure reducing & desuperheating; steam-turbine instrumentation & control; Diesel-engine governing;… Read More

Cairo: Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Red cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, si, 567 pp, index. Boards sunned & bumped, lacks front free endpaper, Kamal's incription to a fellow epidemiologist is signed and dated in November 1958. The book was written to provide "compiled information on the main epidemiological features of communicable diseases as they occur in Egypt." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . G/No dj. 25 X 17½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter burgundy cloth, burgundy paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, viii, 864, [4] pp, 145 b & w illustrations, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. History of how Americans remember their past (e.g., holidays, veterans' & patriotic groups, preservation societies, museums, literature, song, film, monuments, tourist sites). Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

Cambridge, MA: Helix Books (Perseus Publishing), 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, foil titles on spine, pale grey endpapers, xix, 199 pp, photos, diagrams, glossary, index. Small spot on fore-edge, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Kane explains elementary particle physics using many diagrams and almost no equations. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16 cm.

Mount Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles & device on spine, mauve endpapers, viii, 472 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. For over forty years, Tom Kane wrote a weekly newspaper column about happenings current and historical in and around the tiny village of Truro on Cape Cod. This is a collection of those columns. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Moscou: Éditions en Langues Étrangères WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, circa 1962. Full beige cloth with titles & decorations in black & red, 272 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, each chapter has a b & w head piece. Corners bumped, but otherwise clean with very little wear. An official tourist guide to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) that was translated into various languages; this copy is in French. Photos are printed by gravure. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 2nd ed. . VG+/No dj. 16½ X 11½ cm.

Fairlawn, NJ: Eurasia Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Distributed by Harper & Row. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, endpaper maps, xvi, 336 pp, many b & w illustrations in text. DJ has a hint of edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. Updated Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Doubleday, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter burgundy cloth-textured paper, black paper-covered boards, foil titles on spine, burgundy endpapers, xiii, 850 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter mauve cloth with grey paper-covered boards, genealogical chart on endpapers, 286 pp. Corners slightly bumped, top & bottom edges of boards and spine slightly worn. DJ lightly rubbed & soiled, edges slightly worn, half-inch closed tear with associated creasing at bottom of front joint, pen hole halfway up front joint; in Brodart archival cover. Both this book, which is Kaplan's first novel, and her previous book of short stories, were National Book Award nominees. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York: Random House, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White boards, gilt titles on spine, xvi, 364 pp. Bottom edge rubbed, one leaf dog-eared. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Kaplan, a keen observer of culture, correspondent for Atlantic Monthly and author of Balkan Ghosts, traveled through Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan in 1998 and 1999. From the DJ: "Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters past and present, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of the lands in which he travels. He ventures from the famed archaeological ruins of Syria to the markets of Lebanon to the military outposts of Turkey and Israel; from Baku, capital of new business and new oil, across the Caspian Sea to the Deserts of Turkmenistan and back to the killing fields of Armenia." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Random House, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Creamy white boards, gilt titles on spine, xvi, 364, [3] pp, 2 maps, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Kaplan, a keen observer of culture, correspondent for Atlantic Monthly and author of Balkan Ghosts, traveled through Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan in 1998 and 1999. From the DJ: "Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters past and present, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of the lands in which he travels. He ventures from the famed archaeological ruins of Syria to the markets of Lebanon to the military outposts of Turkey and Israel; from Baku, capital of new business and new oil, across the Caspian Sea to the Deserts of Turkmenistan and back to the killing fields of Armenia." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.