Search Results: Titles starting with K from Joseph Valles - Books

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002., 2002. As New. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xiii, 391 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0824824032 ; OCLC: 51812862 ; LCCN: 2001-27912 ; OCLC: 46952291 ; consists of thirteen plays that showcase early kabuki's scintillating and boisterous styles of performance and illustrates the contrasting dramatic techniques cultivated by actors in Edo (Tokyo) and Kamigata (Osaka and Tokyo). ; AS NEW

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1928., 1928. Fair. 1st edition ; v, 320 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 28-14321 ; OCLC: 619027 ; LC: PR6037.M425 ; blue cloth with bright, colored, illustrated paste downs on front cover and spine ; wear to spine ; shaken ; front hinge starting ; an interesting attempt to fashion a novel in English after the style of Qing Dynasty stories, with a great number of proverbs and metaphors ; pencilings in margins ; "The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramah's droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular." ;… Read More

London : Zed Books ; Totowa, N.J. : US Distributor, Biblio Distribution Center, 1984, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xii, 126 p. : maps ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0862322081 (hard); 9780862322083 (hard); National Library: B84-10704 LCCN: 85-143155 ; LC: DS554.8; Dewey: 959.6/04 ; OCLC: 15251009 ; Rev. and re-edited version of: Kampuchea in the seventies. 1982./ Includes bibliographies./ Report of the Kampuchea Inquiry Commission. ; red boards ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: Historical background -- Democratic Kampuchea -- The People's Republic of Kampuchea -- Refugees and opposition movements -- The interests of power politics -- International humanitarian aid -- International law and the Kampuchea question -- The question of Kampuchea in the mass media -- Maps -- Tables ; VG.

[Malang, Indonesia] : Penerbit Hasta Bandung, 1980., 1980. Fair. New edition, Ed. baru 3rd printing ; xi, 299, 307 p. ; 20 cm. ; black paper wrappers ; "dengan ejaan yang disempurnakan oleh S. Wojowasito, Tito Wasito W." ; OCLC: 32774060 ; LC: PL5076; Dewey: 499.221 ; a little soiled, wrappers a little worn ; FAIR

Penerbit C. V. Pengarang, 1976., 1976. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 3rd printing ; 558 pp. ; name on t.p., e.p. and last page ; in paper wrappers with plastic protector sleeve ; VG.

New York : Hudson Hills, c1979., 1979. Very Good. 1st American edition ; 172 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm. ; ISBN: 0933920008; 9780933920002 LCCN: 79-12966 ; OCLC: 5101749 ; LC: ND699.K3; N6999.K33; ; 48 color plates, numerous black & white illustrations and photographs ; pictorial cloth ; dust jacket a triffle soiled, but bright and shiny ; decorative eps ; spine creased at page 64 ; VG/VG

Boston ; Rutland, Vt. ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 1997., 1997. As New. Rev. ed. ; 427 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0804820775; LCCN: 98-123384 ; OCLC: 38990179 ; "Since 1981, Japanese Kanji & Kanaby Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn has been one of the most trusted and popular study guides for beginning and intermediate students of Japanese. This revised edition not only covers the current 1,945 joyo kanji, it also provides a comprehensive overview of the Japanese kanji and kana writing system, including writing, usage, punctuation, and how to use kanji dictionaries. Indexes allow for kanji look-up by pronunciation, radical, and stroke order. A unique feature is a jinmeiyo kanjilist covering characters frequently used in personal names but seldom taught in class. Each entry includes onand kunreadings, English translations, stroke order, and example vocabulary." ; stiff paper wrappers ; AS NEW [This listing contains text in Japanese fonts]

New York : Stein & Day, Publishers, 1986., 1986. Fine. 1st edition, 2nd printing ; 575 p. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0812830989 :; 9780812830989 LCCN: 85-40958 ; OCLC: 12973834 ; pale orange cloth with gold lettering, in color dustjacket ; a novel of the Afghan War by the well-known Sufi writer ; "During the occupation of Afghanistan, Adam Durany, the American-educated Afghan engineer known as Kara Kush, rallies the Afghan patriots into war against the Russian invaders" ; 'A riveting and fast-paced novel in which "Kara Kush"-or "The Eagle," as the Afghan-born, American-schooled, Adam Durany becomes known-returns to his homeland to lead his people against the Soviet atrocities and communist infiltration that threaten to annihilate his country and its dreams of modernization. Adam, convinced that a resistance movement is imperative, rallies his followers, the ill-equipped patriots, to fight back. Idries Shah, the author of this gripping story, is the best-known Afghan writer of our time. His books on Sufism,… Read More

New York, N.Y. : Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1983., 1983. Very Good. 1st US Edition, 2nd printing ; 547 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0880640111 ; LCCN: 83-16461 ; OCLC: 9894460 ; LC: PT2607.O35; Dewey: 833/.912 ; Translation of: Karl und Rosa ; The second and third volumes of the November 1918 trilogy chronicle the end of Germany's 1918 revolution and the ensuing civil war that left the revolutionaries defeated on all sides. ; illustrated paper wrappers ; slight wear, else VG

Dayton, Ohio : Lorenz Publishing, 2003, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. approx. 50 copies ; SATB ; 10/3027L-1; .

Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, Inc., MCMLXXXVIII (1988), 1987. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 48 copies ; SATB ; A-1855.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1982., 1982. Very Good. [1st edition] ; 1st printing ; black cloth with gold lettering in red white black and gold dustjacket ; viii, 340 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 068417863X ; LCCN: 82-16950 ; OCLC: 8826208 ; "First published...1983" ; cover edges show sunning, else VG/VG

Garden City, N.Y. : Dial Press, 1985., 1985. Very Good. BOMC ; xiv, 391 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0385276753 (pbk.) :; 9780385276757 (pbk.) LCCN: 84-14924 ; LC: TX601; Dewey: 641.4 ; OCLC: 10949539 ; pictorial color stiff paper wrappers ; Gives practical advice on selecting and storing vegetables, fruits, nut s, milk, cheese, eggs, grains, meat, poultry, and fish, and discusses spices, herbs, condiments, sauces, coffees, teas, and snacks ; "A field guide to your local supermarket, with tips on buying everything from oysters to olives, from baking soda to butter lettuce, from frying chickens to frozen orange juice, with an eye to freshness and maximum nutrition. An encyclopedia of information on storing foods, with hundreds of useful tips such as keeping tomatoes out of the refrigerator and spices in the dark, avoiding storing apples next to carrots, freezing cheddar but not cream cheese. An emergency manual for the kitchen that addresses the age-old question, Should I throw it out? - with advice on what… Read More

New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985, ©1984, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. xvii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0030540666; 9780030540660 LCCN: 84-19719 ; LC: N7483.C55; Dewey: 709/.2/4; B ; OCLC: 11113241 ; Contents : Young man running -- The Clarks of Paisley -- Moments of Vision -- Ghosts -- Keeping Secrets -- Winchester -- I Tatti -- Getting things done -- Fearfully Bolshie -- Top people -- The Giorgionesque -- Black as our loss -- Green grow the rushes, O -- Art completes -- Ministering to the arts -- Another side of the Alde -- Civilisation -- Other parts of the wood -- The last of the roses ; Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England. She has written biographies of Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, Salvador Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Leonard Bernstein.; light pale orange and black cloth ; pictorial dustjacket ; crease on back dustjacket flap, else FINE/FINE.

London ; New York ; Sydney : Amsco Publications, c1988., 1988. Fine. 134 p. : ill., music ; 31 cm. ; compiled by Leonard Vogler. ; ISBN: 0711912297 (pbk); 9780711912298 (pbk); LC: MT191.F5; Dewey: 781/.22; OCLC: 60001819 ; "Every chord you'll ever need to play shown clearly in diagrams and notation. Special selection on inversions, substitutions, chord voicings and progressions." ; "This convenient reference shows every chord, from simple major and minor inversions to the 'thirteenth-flat-five- sharp-nines,' in standard notation "--Electronic musician ; photographic paper wrappers ; FINE

Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, 1974, 1974. Fine. xxxi, 602 pp. ; LCCN:74-4095 ; red cloth in dustjacket ; thick volume with numerous photographs ; Contents: Marshal Zukov and the Anti-Party Group -- The Navy (The fall of Admiral Kuznetsov, the Rise of Admiral Gorshkov) -- Bombers and missiles (Tupolev and air power, Korolyov and rocketry, Building a missile army, Exploring the cosmos) -- The scientific intelligentsia (Academicians Kurchatov, Keldysh, Lavrentev, Academician Kapitsa : a confession, Academician Sakharov and the H-bomb) -- The creative intelligentsia -- Housing the people -- Feeding the people -- Poland : the making of an ally -- East Europe : the making of an alliance (Rumania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Forming the Warsaw PAct) -- Rough spots in the Alliance (The Polish October, Disputes with Comercon, Trimming the Warsaw Pact, Conflict with Rumania) -- China (Origins of the schism, First visit to Peking, Mao in Moscow, Second visit to Peking, The Formosa Strait Crisis,… Read More

"???????", Moskva : "Planeta", SP "IUpiter" ; Zagreb : Izd-vo August TSesarets, 1992., 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 4th edition ; 239 pp. ; chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm. ; text in Russian and English ; ISBN: 5852503983; 9785852503985 ; OCLC: 29649767 ; "avtor s"emki Vil'iam Mendeleev ; avtor teksta Aida Nasibova ; khudozhnik Nenad Dogan ; perevod s russkog o Artura Shkarovskogo-Raffe." ; red silk with embossed Cyrillic lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; features color photographs of the artworks and artifacts, including the Imperial regalia, to be seen in the state apartments and churches o f the Kremlin ; crease to back dustjacket flap and back endpaper, small nicks to top of dustjacket at spine, else FINE/FINE [This online listing contains text in Russian fonts].

New York ; San Francisco ; Washington ; Auckland ; Bogota ; Caracas ; Lisbon ; London ; Madrid ; Milan ; Montreal ; Mexico City ; New Delhi ; San Juan ; Singapore ; Tokyo ; Toronto ; Sydney : McGraw-Hill, 1998., 1998. Very Good. xviii, 206 pp. : illustrated with photographs and artwork ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0786312416 ; LCCN: 98-193485 ; OCLC: 39284317 ; LC: HD9330.S653 ; Dewey: 338.7/6645 ; "Rich in Kikkoman company lore, the book features dozens of never-before-published anecdotes & stories. The Kikkoman Chronicles is much more than an entertaining read, it is a compelling saga of 17 generations." ; Contents: Completing the Circle -- From Osaka Castle to the Big Foot Prairie: A Brief History of Kikkoman -- A Global Company with a Japanese Soul -- There's No Business Like Shoyu Business: A Concise Soy Sauce Primer -- Diversify or Die: Kikkoman's Strategies for Success -- The Road to Walworth: Kikkoman's Big Gamble on the Big Foot Prairie -- A Soy Sauce Plant Grows in the Land of Cheese -- A Culture… Read More

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963., 1963. Good. black cloth ; ex-lib ; stamps ; front cover shaken ; G

New York : Pantheon Books, 1998., 1998. As New. 1st edition, 1st printing ; black cloth with silver lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; high-resolution, digitally enhanced photographs from the artist's monumental collection of striking individuals encountered during his travels across the cou ntry at the end of the millenium ; AS NEW