Search Results: Titles starting with K from Rulon-Miller Books

[Hanoi]: Giai Phóng, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. 149, [1]; original white pictorial wrappers (soiled), some foxing, general shelf wear; pages uniformly toned, else interior mostly fine. Anthology of native Vietnamese short stories on the American War. Wason 812.

Oahu & Honolulu: Na na misionari i pai, 1843. First octavo edition, and the first one-volume edition of the Bible in Hawaiian. 8vo, pp. 1451, [1]; original full Hawaiian sheep, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; vertical crease in spine, small chips at spine ends, the whole moderately scuffed, old Bowdoin accession label at base of spine, upper joint cracked at the top. Contained in a new brown cloth clamshell box. Ex-Athenian Society of Bowdoin College, with the Society's bookplate, a college "withdrawn" stamp on the front pastedown, and the Soiciety's oval stamp in the upper corner of the title page. According to the bookplate the Bible was presented to the college by Bowdoin alum Rev. Daniel Dole. Dole and his wife arrived in Honolulu as missionaries in 1841. Dole was principal of the Punahou School for the children of missionaries there, and after the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Dole's son Sanford became president of the Republic of Hawaii, and the first governor of the… Read More

Montréal: J. M. Valois, 1892. 16mo, pp. xi, [1], 384; text in the Nipissing dialect of Algonquin, original pebbled black cloth with gilt title on spine; endpapers renewed, paper toned, half-title chipped; ex-library with label residue on spine, mark on flyleaf, title, and page 51. A translation of the Life of Jesus. Pilling, Algonquian, p. 345; Pilling, Proof-sheets 949 (first edition).

[Amsterdam, 1750. Engraved map (316 x 352 mm.); a few shallow tears along margins not affecting map, previous folds, else a very nice copy; from the author's Nieuwe en beknopte hand-atlas (according to OCLC).

Tokyo: Chuubunkan, 1944. Third edition reprint of the 1931 Manyoukaku edition, folio, 2 vols. in 1; pp. vi, 2-260, ii, 1-(ii), 1-2, 1-171, ii, 29-1, ii; stab bound with blue boards and braided cord; fine with mild browning to pages and rubbing to board edges; cardboard slipcase. The first volume consists of over 700 images of prints related to the depiction and advertisement of kabuki theater, while the second contains the explanatory text and index.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., n.d., 1950. 9¼" x 7", pp. [8], 15-297, [3]; illustrated throughout in black & white; original green cloth stamped in black on spine, pictorial pastedown on upper cover; the book is fine and the unclipped dust jacket is near fine with just a small piece out at the top of the spine. See Oziana XVI, p. 88.

Tokyo: Daigaku Nanko, 1870. Oblong fukurotoji, 5" x 7; 5, 32 leaves; 4 pages with hand-colored flags of 26 nations and states; original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; very good. Based on The Statesman's Year-Book, and other reference books. Library of Congress and National Diet Library only in OCLC.

Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1893. First edition (an earlier account - only 68 pages - was published in 1863); 8vo, pp. [2], 236; 3 lithograph plates (the Japanese castaways in a longboat with the American ship in the distance; a chart of Yokohama harbor; and the American fleet at Shimonoseki); original pictorial wrappers, printed paper label on spine; spine partially perished, hinges of wrappers professionally reinforced, one or two other short tears or creases, but otherwise a good copy of an uncommon and interesting account by the first Japanese-American. Heco (a.k.a. Hamada Hikozo, 1835-1897) here writes about his stint as a cabin boy at the age of 13 on the Eiriki-Maru, which was shipwrecked in the Pacific in 1850, and the subsequent rescue of its crew by the American ship Aukland, their stay in San Francisco and first encounters by the Japanese with American life and Western technology. He did not return to Japan until 1859. He became the first Japanese national to be naturalized as an American citizen.… Read More

Tokyo: [published for the Author], 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. 2, 4, 166, [2]; text in Japanese; 16 pages of plates; tan cloth boards; ex-library, with spine labels and stamps; boards lightly soiled, very good. The Japanese imperial government actively courted Islamic countries during its expansion into Asia, believing that they were allied in resistance to Western control of the region and that good relations with Sino-Muslims would undermine Chinese resistance to occupation. Wakabayashi Han was an active agent in that process. His book emphasizes the close relationship between Japan and Middle Eastern governments, and includes an account of Japanese making the Hajj. His book was popular, seeing at least three reprints within the first year, and at least two more thereafter.

Tokyo: Sanseidou, 1941. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. [2], 2, 2, 3, [3], 6, 4, 237, [3]; two maps; soft blue cartonnage covers; upper cover bowed, small red ink stain to lower edge, not affecting text, top edge foxed, text clean and unmarked, very good. Each dialog includes a hanzi text, transliteration in katakana and in roman characters, and a Japanese parallel text. Berkeley, Waseda, NTU, and Diet library in OCLC.

Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1956. 8vo, pp. 46; Together with: Kaiser Commodus und Herodian, 1954; Uber die Glaubwordigkeit der historia Augusta, 1953; Um Arminus: biographie oder legende? 1951; and Ein politischer witz auf Caracalla, 1950. All together 5 papers, all in yellow printed wrappers, and four with inscriptions by Hohl on upper cover. Light chipping to a few spines, underlining in Kiaser Commodus und Herodian, else near fine.

[Malta]: A.C. Aquilina & Co, 1971. 8vo, pp. 384, iv; text in double column, previous owner's bookplate, lacks flyleaf, extremities a bit worn, else very good in blue printed wrappers.

New York [et al.]: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition, 8vo, pp. 102; frontispiece map, 11 illustrations (mostly full-page); original pictorial wrappers, light wear.

[Reykjavík]: Almenna bókafélagið, 1978. First edition, 8vo, pp. 203; 13 illustrations from photographs; fine copy in the dust jacket. Travel to the USSR in the summer of '56.

Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, [4], 628; lexicon in double column; full-page linguistic map; fine copy in original brown cloth, without a printed dust jacket, as issued. Dictionary of Dutch, and Kambera (Indonesian island of Soembaas).

Tokyo: Shunyoudou, 1944. 8vo, pp. [4], 293, [3]; text illustrations, one grayscale plate, title page with illustrated border; pictorial stiff paper boards; boards soiled, closed tear at bottom of spine, one page with small ink stain on lower corner, otherwise toned but clean, good. Kamigata is an older term for the Kansai region of Japan, or sometimes Kyoto specifically.

Djakarta: J.B. Wolters, 1953. First edition, 2 volumes, pp. ix, [1], 468; vii, [1], 170; text in double column; publisher's maroon cloth, upper covers lettered in gilt, blue gilt spine lettering pieces; cloth edges quite dampstained, small loss to Vol. II spine foot; textblocks about fine. "The Kamus Inggeris is an attempt to meet the requirements of Indonesian schools and the general reader" - from the Preface.

Chicago: Sidney C. Miller & Co, 1891. Second edition revised, 8vo, pp. viii, 689, [5], 26 plates; full blindstamped red leather, marbled edges; light edgewear, else fine.

Tokyo: Heishiro [?], 1861. Large, folding hand-colored world map approximately 53" square (map itself is approx. 38" x 50"), the map surrounded by 158 hand-colored flags of nations, states, etc., with detailed tables at the bottom giving statistics on the world's largest rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, countries and their populations, capitals, ports, distribution of fauna, table of distances, etc.; the map itself detailed with ice berg limits, shoals, ocean currents, and tracks of famous voyages. The whole folding down into a small folio (13" x 9"), with blue raw silk covers, printed paper label on upper cover; contained in its original decorative paper folding sleeve, secured with thongs in the Oriental manner, with a printed title page laid down as an endsheet, and another printed paper label on the upper cover. The box is worn, with a few small cracks and splits, but the map itself, together with the blue silk covers, is fine and bright, and the whole very appealing visually. Originally… Read More

Leavenworth, Kan: Ross & Co., Saturday, November 1, 1884. Approx. 22" x 15", pp. [8]; unopened; 6 columns per page; very good. Contains a letter by the ex-President John Adams expressing dangers of the republican government, an article on the gold fields of Africa, the swine plague, along with Kansas news, minor mentions, casual, and miscellaneous sections. Numerous ads (with cuts), stoves, musical instruments, saddlery, and patent medicines to name a few.