Search Results: Authors starting with K from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Toronto, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum , 1977. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy table,, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 32. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Hong Kong: Yung Ming Tang, 1998. First Edition. Paperbound. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 208. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Amazon notes: "This book accompanies the exhibition of the Kai-Yin Lo Collection of Chinese ceramics at the Denver Art Museum from October 1, 1998 - September 30, 1999, featuring white and Qingbai wares from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty. Essays include: - Glimpses of a Splendid Era - Life in the Song dynasty by Kai Yin-Lo - Bright as Silver, Bright as Snow: White Wares of North and South China by Regina Krahl - The Development and Background of White and Qingbai Wares from Tang to Song by Li Zhiyan - Material Culture in the Northern Song dynasty: The World of Zhang Zeduan by Roderick Whitfield - Hangzhou in Southern Song - Perspectives Through Print Culture by Soren Edgren."

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing, 1961. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 66. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Colonel Conner's Portable Layout....Bulder's Supply Store...Dashner's Survey Map....Swiss model Railroading in Israel....Yard Switching....Diesel Colours, &ct.

San Diego, California: Save Our Heritage Organization SOHO, 1975. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 12. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, sketches, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Irving John Gill did most of his work in Southern California, especially in San Diego. He is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. Twelve of his buildings throughout Southern California are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and many others are designated as historic by local governments.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. reading Copy. Octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full gilt-embossed cardinal-red cloth sans dust jacket, pp. lxxi, 526. There a small chip in the center of the spine. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Los Angeles : Thames & Hudson & The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed sylvan green cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 327, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: Point Loma High School,, 1937. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp.48. Illustrated with b-w halftones, artwork, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... PLHS is the third oldest high school in the San Diego Unified School District. It was dedicated in 1925 as Point Loma Junior-Senior High school. Students who live in Mission Hills may choose to attend Point Loma High School as their neighborhood school. ... The school holds the distinction of having produced two major-league baseball pitchers who threw perfect games - David Wells and Don Larsen. Only 21 pitchers have thrown perfect games in Major League Baseball history. Wells also threw a perfect game while a student at PLHS. Wells became the school's head baseball coach starting with the 2014-2015 school year. He had been volunteering as an assistant coach for several years. The team's home… Read More

New York & Washington: Rizzoli & The Library of Congress, 1991. Hardcover. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 376, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Housed among the 2,000 rarities in the special collections of the section are cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, incunables, decorated Jewish marriage documents, micrographies, miniature books, amulets, and the section's most noteworthy treasure: The Washington Haggadah, a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript copied by Joel ben Simeon. The more than two-hundred Hebrew manuscripts held in the section include a translation of the Koran into Hebrew, various responsa of the rabbis, an 18th-century decorated Scroll of Esther, and an early Ethiopian Psalter in Ge'ez. The section's treasures include examples from among the first books printed in Spain, Portugal,… Read More

New York: Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University, 1975. First Edition. paperbound. As new. Demy folio, [33.75cm/13.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.309 . Fully illustrated with b-w plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Arthur Mitchell Sackler (1913–1987) was an American psychiatrist and of pharmaceutical baron whose fortune originated in medical advertising and trade journals. Sackler amassed the largest Chinese art collection in the world, which he donated to the Smithsonian. Additionally he underwrote many, many art museums, galleries and medical schools. Since his death, Sackler's reputation has been tarnished due to his company Purdue Pharma's role in the opioid crisis. See: "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker, (October 23, 2017).

The Penn Publishing Company. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition spine lightly sunned/No dust jacket. Octavo, [21cm/8.5inches], full gilt-embossed pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The publisher's blurb notes: "A story of adventure and bravery in which Nicholas Rountree, coming to Pennsylvania in early colonial days, finds himself the center of intrigue against the safety of the colony. The border warfare between Maryland and Pennsylvania with Black Cresap's men, makes a stirring story." ... Reginald Wright Kauffman was the author of numerous works of fiction and Hollywood film productions,  Always willing to move where the work was, Reginald held the post of Editor of the Bangor Maine Daily News. And, only recently, it was discovered that he was an accredited correspondent with the United States Navy, and a member of La… Read More

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Company, 1978. Third Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition./VG Very Good. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed dark celestial-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. x, 214, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Kaufmann's obituary noted: "William Kaufmann, one of the best-known popularizers of astronomy, died suddenly at the age of 51 in 1994. He left behind a legacy of nontechnical books through which students, amateurs, and the public learned about some of the most abstract and fascinating research topics of our day. ... In 1970, Kaufmann was selected as the Director of the Griffith Observatory, a post he held until 1974. At Griffith, he initiated a number of programs designed to raise the profile of the observatory such as public lectures and planetarium shows on current and exotic topics in astronomy."

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy octavo, [18cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 256. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Keating, known as "Harry" to friends and family, typed out his first story at the age of eight. In 1956 he moved to London to work as a journalist on The Daily Telegraph. He was the crime books reviewer for The Times for 15 years as well as chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) (1970–71), chairman of the Society of Authors (1983–84) and president of the Detection Club (1985–2000). He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy octavo, [18cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed red cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 208. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . ... Keating, known as "Harry" to friends and family, typed out his first story at the age of eight. In 1956 he moved to London to work as a journalist on The Daily Telegraph. He was the crime books reviewer for The Times for 15 years as well as chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) (1970–71), chairman of the Society of Authors (1983–84) and president of the Detection Club (1985–2000). He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition./In quite good condition.. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full ebony-embossed adobe-coloued cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 110, indexed. Illustrated with 75 b-w halftones by the author, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Rex Keating, (1910-2005), was attached to the Palestine Broadcasting Service during the war. Built and operated a small broadcasting station in Egypt before joining Egyptian State Broadcasting as Director of Talks and Drama in 1935. He became Director of European Programme Division in 1942 and was the official commentator for the Ministry of Information’s weekly cinema newsreel “War Pictorial News” 1940-1945 for which he wrote over 200 commentaries. He also wrote and recorded about 25 documentary films for the Ministry of Information including several training films for British Services and “shorts” for Palestinian, Sudanese,… Read More

San Diego: Point Loma High School, 1942. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio. [10.75 inches], full red and blue-embossed white cloth, sans dust jacket, unpaginated. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs

New York: Sotheby, Parke Bernet PB Eighty-Four, 1980. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated; 418 Lots. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: Sunbelt Publications , 2005. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed adobe-red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 236, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Edited by Judith Hancock Sandoval. Foreword written by Dr. Mary Miller of Yale Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Pál Kelemen, a Hungarian historian, was a leading authority on the pre-Columbian art and civilization of America. His two volume Medieval American Art was a pioneering venture, covering and documenting the Maya, Aztec, and Inca arts, approaching his subject from the point of view of art history, combining it with the study of archeology, anthropology, and ethnology. His wife, Elisabeth, was an American-born opera singer who gave up her budding career to become Pal's fellow explorer and photographer. This is their story; a romantic tale of discovery in an age… Read More

Leawood, Kansas, 2015. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/no. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 112. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Charles Harold Davis, Helen Farr Sloan, &tc. See: Photos Scan june 2021: 1 &2

Santa Ana, California: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art,, 2000. First Edition. Paperbound. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 253. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Today the collection includes more than 100,000 objects, including a large collection of sculpture dating back to 10,000 BC.

Rye, New York: Al Kelley - Jack Malloy Fine Antique Firearms and Cartridges , 1940. First Impression. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. , indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated; 109 items listed and described.. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.