Search Results: Titles starting with K from Lucius Books

London: C. Hurst and Company. 1970. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original light brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs in black and white, diagrams and maps. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£3. 3s / £3.15 net to the lower front flap). Inscribed by the Saudi-born cultural anthropologist in blue ink on the front endpaper "To Lewis / warmest regards / Talal". An account of the political structure of a large nomadic group in north-western Sudan that formed under British colonial rule. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius… Read More

New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is a little faded to the spine and with a price-label to the rear. A study of Kafka's major works through the lens of sin de siècle travel culture. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. 1965. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the white boards clean and bright. Previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. Complete with original lightly rubbed, nicked and edge-darkened dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy in the original lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Inscribed by the author on the half title "For Bill [Gray] / from Chris". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Bantam Press. 2019. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Steve Stone illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a bump to the top edge of the lower board, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£20.00). Uncommon in hardcover (there was a simultaneous paperback edition). The third novel in the high fantasy 'Path to Ascendancy' series, set in the world of Malazan. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Cambridge and London: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. 1996. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm. There is a previous owner's name and a date written in ink to the upper left corner of the front free endpaper, and the same owners initials to the centre of the rear pastedown. The contents are otherwise clean throughout. Light vertical crease to the cloth of the spine panel (not affecting the binding). In the unclipped dustwrapper, faded to the spine, showing a little light soiling and few light marks to the upper spine area. "The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333–1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order. But far from resisting change, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues, the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his iconoclastic associates were among… Read More

London: Cassell and Company. 1933. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint mottling at the extremities and a slight spine lean. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a few foxing spots to the text block edge are othwerwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has several tiny chips or closed tears at the extremities but remains bright and attractive. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Unpublished original manuscript]. [c.1960]. Illustrated manuscript comprising 43pp. (+ 7pp. blank) of neat calligraphic text wonderfully embellished throughout with original illustrations and decorative borders in watercolour and ink. Original handmade pictorial cloth binding decorated in fabric collage and ink by the artist/author over stiff boards. Oblong folio. Condition is very good, the binding slightly skewed with a little dust-soiling to the covers and minor shelf wear to the extremities. The contents with a couple of small nicks and some toning to the endpapers are otherwise excellent, remaining clean and bright throughout, the colours fresh. An imaginative and beautifully executed original composition of both text and artwork, paying homage to the life of London's Kew Gardens, celebrating with affection and good humour the experiences of the diverse range of visitors that have past through its gates over the previous two centuries (although focussing particularly on the present day).… Read More

London: George G. Harrap and Company. 1931. First English edition, first printing. First English edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents with a hint of spotting to the text block edge and some offsetting to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, correctly priced 7/6 net to the front flap. A tale of the mysterious murder of a notorious international financier in St. Petersburg on the eve of the 1917 Revolution. A very scarce title from the 13 times Nobel prize nominated author. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest. 1989. First hardcover edition. First hardcover edition. Deluxe issue, signed by the author and illustrator. Publisher's original textured boards with black titles to the spine, in the Phil Parks illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. Full page illustrations by Phil Parks throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a small bump to the bottom edge of the upper board. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Complete with the fine clean and bright dustwrapper. The slipcase is in fine condition. Limited edition of 550 hand numbered copies, this being copy 320, signed by both Dean Koontz and the illustrator, Phil Parks in black ink on the limitation page. The Key to Midnight was originally published as a paperback original under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Chapman and Hall. 1899. First edition of an authoritative history of the British Army participation in the Mahdist War, by an eye-witness to the Soudan campaign. First edition of an authoritative history of the British Army participation in the Mahdist War, by an eye-witness to the Soudan campaign. Publisher's original light brown cloth with gilt illustration and titles to the upper board and spine. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 29 further illustrations throughout the text. Four maps. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and a lightly rolled spine. The contents, a little shaken, with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown, another to the front endpaper and mild spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Bennet Burleigh, was hired in 1881 by the London Telegraph to cover the war in Sudan. He was a correspondent for the Central News Agency during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 and was the first to report the… Read More

London: Cassell and Company. 1970. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy, lightly spotted and dusty to the text block edges in the very good ever so slightly spine-faded dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. The book inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Kay, with love from the author, John Boland" Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Cassell and Company. 1886. First edition [second issue]. First edition [second issue]. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Black coated endpapers. Fold out map frontispiece. Catalogue to the rear. An excellent better than very good copy, the spine tips a little bumped, the cloth clean and the binding firm. The contents are entirely complete and without previous owner's inscriptions but with a small stationers blind stamp to the front endpaper. The hinges remain firm and without repair and other than some minor foxing to the text block edge the book is clean and bright throughout. A very attractive example in entirely original condition. Second issue, with the corrected text to pages 40, 64 and 101 and with the adverts to the rear dated July 1886 Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Herbert Jenkins. 1933. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles and border to the upper board and spine, in the Vernon Soper illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm although heavily bumped at the corners, the cloth fresh and bright. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate and shelf stamp to the front pastedown, and his ownership inscription and acquisition date at the head of the title page are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a few short closed tears and some creasing but little if anything in the way of loss. With the publisher's printed price of 7/6 net to the spine, and a 2/6 net paper label over the top. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1914. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red card wrappers with titles in black to the upper cover and spine and a declaration of the "Aims and Objects of the Humanitarian League" to the rear. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little minor chipping to the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and the text-block edge are otherwise clean throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A scarce collection of anti-hunting essays edited by the leading vegetarian and animal rights author Henry Stephens Salt, with a preface by his friend, fellow vegetarian and committed opponent to blood-sports, George Bernard Shaw, and including an essay by like-minded socialist thinker, poet and early gay rights activist Edward Carpenter. Published under the auspices of Salt's Humanitarian League, the collection presents… Read More

London: John Murray. 2018. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the clean and bright dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 net to the front flap). The second novel in the Killing Eve series following Codename Villanelle. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: George G. Harrap and Company.� 1932. First Rackham illustrated trade edition, first printing. First Rackham illustrated trade edition, first printing. Original illustrated card cover, in dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. With four full-page colour plates and various black and white or red illustrations and vignettes by Arthur Rackham throughout the text. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the card cover lightly rubbed and creased with a few very tiny closed tears to the edges. The contents, with some very light spotting to the text block edges and a small crossed out name to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which has toning and a tiny stain to the spine, a short closed tear to the top of the front spine fold, and a small pen inscription to the top of the front flap. Not price clipped (5/- net to the front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request.… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1936. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with black titles to the front and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy showing only minor rubbing and toning to the board edges. The contents are clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good original rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is darkened to the spine. Scarce. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Nesbit & Co. Ltd. 1912. First edition. First edition. Signed Limited Edition. Original white paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the front, vellum spine with gilt titles. An excellent near fine copy, the vellum spine very clean and bright, the boards darkened to the edges but the gilt legible and bright. The contents are without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps and clean and bright throughout. All ten tipped in colour plates and their tissue guards are present as called for and in fine condition. A lovely copy. Limited to only 100 copies signed by Edmund Dulac, of which this is number 17. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: William Heinemann. 1939. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with newspaper cutting affixed to the rear pastedown and spotting to the prelims and text block edge are otherwise clean throughout. A scarce title, issued as volume six in the 'I Believe' series edited by R. Ellis Roberts. Inscribed by the author in black ink at the top of the front endpaper "Angela, with love from Naomi, this very / uneven book - but with / so much love. 1939". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.