Search Results: Authors starting with K from Black Paw Books

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Master's thesis presents an implemented parser based on GB theory for a particular free-order word language, Warlpiri, an aboriginal language spoken in Australia. Quarto, 167 pages. In wraps. From private collection.

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Period history of the British East India Company's rule over India from the early 1600s to the mid-19th century. The author, John William Kaye (1814-1876), was a British civil servant, historian who served in India in the mid-1800s and was one of the foremost writers on the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Octavo, x, 712 pp. Brown cloth binding. From the private collection of historian Frederick A. Hagar. Corners gently bumped. A number of pages show brief annotations in pencil.

London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing of SHADOW OF THE MOON, a historical novel by M.M. Kaye, set in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The story follows the life of Winter de Ballesteros, a young Englishwoman who arrives in India as the wife of a British colonial administrator. Winter soon becomes involved in the politics and intrigue of the Indian court, and finds herself drawn to a dashing Indian nobleman named Sardar Singh. As the Indian Rebellion unfolds, Winter and Sardar must navigate the complex and dangerous world of colonial rule and Indian nationalism. Octavo, 332 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Previous owners' names on ffep. Faint spotting to edges of book block. Lacks dust jacket.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1891. Very Good. 12mo (7 3/4"), 207 pp. + fold-out map. From private collection of Frederick A. Hagar. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown; name printed on ffep. Cloth shows some rubbing with minor wear to corners.

FASA Corporation, 1985. Softcover. Very Good+. Quarto, 16 pp. Stapled wraps. Minor sticker scuffs and light rubbing to wraps. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Los Angeles: The Fantasy Association, 1974. Softcover. Very Good+. Articles include William Morris: Dreams and the End of Dreams by Donald G. Keller, Lord Dunsany, Master of Wonder by Darrell Schweitzer, The Death of Robin Hood by Joe R. Christopher, and Which Does Not Touch Upon Mirror and Pigeon by E.E. Farley. No. 172 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Quarto, 28 pp. stapled wraps. From private collection. Minor rubbing to wraps.

New York: Self Published, 1933. Softcover. Good. Uncommon work tells the story of gnomes and their kingdom. 5 1/2" tall x 6 3/4" wide. 16 pages. Illustrations. In stapled wraps. From private collection. Small ring stain to upper wrap. Pages show some smudges and stray pencil marks. Pages 7 shows some scribbling in pencil.

Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Written from a bold feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual analysis. Sections on women's writing in the periods 1820-1880, 1881-1917, 1917-1954, and 1953-1992 are followed by essays on individual writers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including rare literary journals and almanacs, Catriona Kelly's account shows familiar figures such as Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Tolstoya in a radical new context and brings to light a colorful gallery of fascinating but neglected writers including Elena Gan, Nadezhda Teffi, Natalya Baranskaya, and Nina Sadur." Octavo, 512 pp. Black cloth. From private collection. Clean, unmarked copy remains tightly bound. Dust jacket show some rubbing and scuffs from shelf wear.

Munich: Verlag der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1915. Softcover. Very Good. German language work. Quarto, 17 pp. In wraps. Single institutional stamp on upper wrap deaccessioned with additional "cancelled" stamp. some of the leaves remain unopened. Pages margins are lightly agetoned and show light wear.

Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Incl, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of 1864 edition. Quarto, 292 pp. Green cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked copy.

Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions of the Tudor monarchs. Drawing upon the historiographies of law and society, political culture, and state formation, mercy is used as a lens through which to examine the nature and limits of participation in the early modern polity." Octavo. 238 numbered pages. In brown cloth binding. From the private collection of Boston historian Frederick A. Hagar. Bookplate on front pastedown, else Fine. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In handsome dust jacket.

Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color. Quarto, 16 pp. Stapled wraps. From private collection. Wraps show some rubbing.

Faber and Faber, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. From private collection. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Cloth binding is a little sunned along spine. No dust jacket.

Singapore: Concept Media, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Ninth issue of "Mimar: Architecture in Development," a quarterly periodical dedicated to contemporary architecture and urban design in the Islamic world. Issues cover a range of topics related to Islamic architecture, such as building design, urban planning, and the conservation of historic buildings. Quarto (30 cm tall). 71 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps lightly yellowed along edges. Minor wear to upper corner.

London: The Rights Book Club, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Diary of English clergyman Francis Kilvert for 1870-1879 with reflections on life in rural England. ("One of the jewels of English literature and a unique cameo of a life that has vanished" --J.M. Brereton, Blackwood's Magazine). 8vo (7 1/2"tall), 350 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection of Boston historian. Cloth is a little faded along spine. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Lacks dust jacket.

Department of East Asian Studies, Yonsei University, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Masters Thesis. Quarto, 105 single-sided pages. Black cloth. Cloth binding shows some splotches and rubbing to front board. Gift inscription inside book. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

The Macmillan Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (9" tall). Vol. I: lxix, 445 pp; Vol II: xxiii, 502 pp. Brown cloth. Deaccessioned library copy with usual stamps and markings; otherwise, clean and unmarked. Bindings remain tight.

London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Presumed First Edition. Octavo, 246 pp. Black cloth. Top edge of book block is dust stained. Name and brief notations in pencil on ffep and front pastedown. Price-clipped dust jacket is browned and chipped, with some soiling and spotting.

Routledge, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. These stimulating essays reassess the meaning of British imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are written by leading authorities in the field and range in scope from the aftermath of the American revolution to the liquidation of the British empire, from the Caribbean to the Pacific, from Suez to Hong Kong." Octavo. 272 pp. Navy blue cloth binding. From private collection. Appears unread. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very faint spotting to edges of book block. In handsome dust jacket.

Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2014. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto, 35 pp. Black & white photos. Stapled wraps. From private collection. Minor creasing and wear to edges of wraps.