Search Results: Titles starting with K from Books of the World

Johnstown, New York: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Company. 1936. Staple Bound pamphlet. Very Good. Cover and internal pages are tightly secured by two clean staples. Cover shows minor shelf wear, including a half-inch tear perpendicular to the bound edge (see photo). Internal pages are clean; no writing/markings noted. 55 pages. 4.3 x 6.4 inches. When Rose Knox inherited the Knox® Gelatine company from her husband in 1908 she reevaluated advertising methods and concentrated on selling gelatin to the American housewife. Gelatin is bought and used by women, she reasoned, and women are more interested in foods that are economical, nutritious and easy to prepare. She set up a test kitchen and developed hundreds of recipes which were printed on Knox® packages, on leaflets and in illustrated cookbooks meant to educate housewives in the use of a new commercial product. It was through her efforts that gelatin evolved from a delicacy and invalid food into a common household staple. Rose Knox became recognized as… Read more

Georgetown, Guyana: Demerara Publishers Limited. Paperback. 1991. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine creased and leaning. Reading wear to covers.

New York: Oxford University Press. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Pages tanned, edges foxed, otherwise nice. Cover clean and bright. Spine straight and tight. Interior is unmarked. Not ex-library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, no creases.

Iowa City, Iowa: Penfield Press. June 1983. Staple Bound pamphlet. Fine condition. Cover and internal pages are tightly secured by two staples. Internal pages are pristine. Cover is clean. Great condition for an almost 40 year-old book. 64 pages. Fully illustrated. Explains the Amish and Mennonite cultures centered in Kolona, Iowa. The booklet contains many recipes and photographs of beautiful country scenes.

Washington, DC: Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center, April 1975. Series 1501 Air; Sheet NC 28-12; Edition 2. Map. Reprinted by NIMA April 1997. 22" x 29" sheet, folded to 11" x 7.5". NIMA Stock No. 1501XNC2812. Color. Printed on one side.

Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation. Paperback. 2000. New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. Not from a library. vi + 161 pages. : ill. ; 23 cm.

New York: Knopf. Hardcover. 2010. First edition (stated). As New book in an As New jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 568 pages.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. Black cloth over boards with silver titles to spine and front board and an embossed garuda to front board. Sewn binding. Green illustrated endpapers. No jacket. Good. Spine cracked at rear hinge. Prior owner's name "John P. Hazen Perry" and "Christmas 1927" penciled to FFEP. Text block unmarked. Spine and corners bumped. Quarter-inch tear at top of rear hinge. Light shelfwear to covers. Not from a library. 301 pages. 35 B&W photos. Folding color map. 24cm. King Cobra is Harry Hervey's account of his 1925 quest for a lost Khmer temple. Three stories march side-by-side to the measure of his cadenced prose: the impact of French colonialism on the Far East; the tale of the glorious Khmer civilization; and the sensual lives of the region's people. Lavishly illustrated with 35 photographs by the author. John P. Hazen Perry was a prominent architect briefly married to mystery writer Mignon G. Eberhart.

New York: Simon and Schuster / SFBC, 1981. Hardcover. Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Very Good book in Very Good dust jacket. Interior unmarked. Foxing to top edge and endpapers. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Edgewear to jacket, chipping at spine head. Not from a library. xii+275 pages.The year is 3013. The imperial navy has invaded Prince Samual's world.... The superior weaponry of the CoDominium Empire has brought unity to the Samualans—at the cost of their liberty. Their last bid for freedom is to create a space program. But the knowledge to build a starship is extinct. Colonel Nathan MacKinnie, leads a daring raid to steal these secrets from the planet of Makassar, where the key to space technology is guarded by Temple priests. MacKinnie battles across the universe, to wrest away the knowledge left by the first settlers who traversed the void of space from a planet called Old Earth. To live in peace they must fight for ancient secrets. To gain their freedom they must build....

Loughborough, England: Wills & Hepworth. Hardcover. 1968. Pictorial covers. No jacket as issued. Sewn binding. Very Good book. Interior unmarked. Spine tight, but tilted. Ends bumped. A Ladybird History Book, Series 561, #24. Rear cover lists to #26 in series. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 50 pages.

Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. 1970. Revised second edition. 1973 printing. Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name inside front cover and a few notes on table of contents, otherwise text unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Shelfwear to covers. Dust stains to edges. 160 pages. Discusses the characters, careers, and influence on history of each English king and queen from the early Saxons to Elizabeth II.

Rare! London: Evans Brothers Ltd. 1980. Sixth Printing. Staple-bound pamphlet. Good. Ex-Library.

New York: Dorling Kindersley. Hardcover. 1992. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Pictorial covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 128 pages. 350 color illustrations. This guide provides insights into cat behavior based on the scientific research and careful analysis of veterinarian Bruce Fogle. Supported by 350 color photographs taken especially for this book, Fogle explains how cats communicate through body language, meowing and hissing, and rituals like rubbing and grooming.

North Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press. Trade Paperback. 2014. As New. Suitable for gifting. It's 1950 and Communist North Korea has invaded neighboring South Korea. The United Nations has stepped in to help South Korea by providing weapons and soldiers. Nearly all of these soldiers come from the United States. Will you: Serve as a pilot in Korea with the U.S. Marine Corps? Lie about your age to enlist as a 16-year-old member of the U.S. military reserves? Join in the fight for your country as a young South Korean man? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death.

New York: W. W. Norton. Trade Paperback. 1974. N724. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased but sunned. Foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 271 pages. In March 1921 the sailors at the Kronstadt Naval Base rose in revolt against the Bolshevik government which they themselves had helped into power. Under the slogan of "free soviets" they established a revolutionary commune that survived for sixteen days until it was crushed by the Red Army. In the aftermath, many foreign Communists questioned their faith in a government which could deal so ruthlessly with genuine mass protest.

Montréal: Our Generation Press / Black Rose Books. Paperback. 1973. Second Edition. Translation of La Commune de Cronstadt. Introduction by Murray Bookchin. Fine. Lightly tanned. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 93 pages. The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 was one of the most important yet often overlooked events of the Russian civil war. The bloody suppression of the popular uprising by the "government of the workers and peasants" marked the final blow to any hopes of a genuine popular revolution based on democratic self-management. This volume relates the events that made clear the true nature of the "proletarian" dictatorship.

New York: Dover Publications. Trade Paperback. 1970. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light edgewear. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. viii + 307 pages. A facsimile of the 1927 Vanguard Press edition, edited with Introduction, Biographical Sketch and Notes by Roger N. Baldwin. Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), one of the few members of the Czarist nobility to go over to the revolution, was the ablest and most influential theoretical anarchist of his time. For 42 years, he lived in exile (mainly in England), making a scanty living, before he was allowed to return to Russia in 1917, at the age of 75. During this time he wrote a great number of popular books and pamphlets in which he advocated complete social reorganization based on mutual aid, sympathy, individual liberty through free cooperation and solidarity. Kropotkin saw anarchism as simply the formulation of an ancient and universal desire of… Read more

Washington, DC: Counterpoint. Hardcover. Second printing. October 1997. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright. xxi + 392 pages. Kundun is a story of reincarnation, coronation, heartbreaking exile, and finally, the tenacious efforts of a holy man to save a nation and its people. This is the first work to focus on the Dalai Lama's family: his parents, four brothers, and two sisters. Particularly compelling are the author's portraits of the Dalai Lama's siblings, who have negotiated with China on behalf of their country, enlisted the aid of international allies to spearhead Tibetan Resistance, and worked tirelessly to help thousands of refugee children.