Search Results: Titles starting with K from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. MBS

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt and Co., 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in her uniquely beautiful calligraphic hand. Features the wisecracking female PI Kinsey Millhone. Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. The police cannot establish neither motive nor suspect for her death. So before Kinsey can expose a murderer, she must prove murder. "K" IS FOR KILLER won the Shamus Award as Best Novel. Very fine. first edition, first printing, in flawless, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M114

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The Dial Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A finalist for the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction, KAATERSKILL FALLS is the assured, highly-praised first novel by the author of A FAMILY MARKOWITZ. New, unread copy in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L91/ L35/ L34

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A mile-long freight train steams through the heart of Idi Amin's mad, tortured, magical, and corrupt Uganda, loaded down with kahawa (Swahili for coffee). What Amin doesn't know, what his most beautiful spy has not been able to wring out of her latest victim, and what the world's coffee markets may be unable to swallow, is that the train and six million dollars worth of coffee are about to disappear into the hands of a conflicted, colorful, swashbuckling band of mercenaries and moneymakers. "KAHAWA is such a splendid huggermugger that if you don't like it, there's something wrong with you.... No reader that I will ever want to meet should dare complain." --The New York Times Mint, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M57

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2003. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M6/M36

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Joshua Ali Quare lives life to the full-- deacdes before, he was infected with avirus that ensures that for every fifteen years he lives, he gains another ten. After each virus induced coma, he wakes with his memory erased and ten years younger. This time round, in 2109, someone is looking for him and it is time to pust the record straight once and for all; doing so takes us through a century of gripping future history. KALEIDOSCOPE CENTUR isthe second book in the Century Next Door series.John Barnes is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award nominee. Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust acket. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} L158

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine (minor wear to spine flaps), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L36

New York, New York, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected lustrated with black-and-white photographs.431 pp, with Index. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the final days of the Third Reich, Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer, is obsessively compiling an archive of every conceivable nuance of human sound. Karnau's assignments take him to Nazi party rallies, where he records the rantings of leaders, the roar of approving crowds, the labored breathing of the crippled, the rasp of throats constricted with fear; to Alsace, where he plays his part in silencing any sound that is not German; to the Eastern Front, where he records the screams and death rattles of fallen soldiers. His work so impresses Hitler's chief propagandist that he entrusts his children to Karnau's care, and Helga, the oldest daughter, who is wise beyond her years, forms a warm bond of friendship with the engineer. Marcel Beyer received Germany's Ernst Willner Prize for THE KARNAU TAPES, a "virtuoso… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Berg received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for LINDBERGH, and the 1978 National Book Award for MAX PERKINS: Editor of Genius. He also is the author of the widely-praised GOLDWYN: A Biography, and is currently researching a new project on Woodrow Wilson. He was a longtime personal friend of Katharine Hepburn. Mint, unread first edition, first printing, in as new mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A92

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Not often is a book about a film star more gripping than anything the star has played on the screen, but Barbara Leaming's biography has that distinction..KATHARINE HEPBURN is Ms. Leaming's penetrating look beyond Ms. Hepburn's acting career and into the forces that shaped such an emblematic figure...Prodigious research has yielded a family history that is both revealing on its own terms and a necessary backdrop to any consideration of Ms. Hepburn's career." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times Book Review. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographs. 549 pp, with Inex. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A105

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W W Norton & Co Inc., 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Isabel Russell gives readers a portrait, both humorous and touching, of one of the great literary marriages of our time and of two people whose love for one another and their work burned as brightly in their old age as it did in their youth. Mint, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A97

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Winner of the Koret, the 1998 Jewish Book Award. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L37

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A69

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but only now was he ready to return home. For years, he's lived on the fringes of the law, using a soldier's skills to keep watch over those too young to defend themselves. Some consider him nothing but a kidnapper for hire--the best in the business; others call him a hero. His specialty has been rescuing children from abusive parents and escorting them to loving homes. But after twenty-five years, he is ready to take on his final case--a case that could destroy him. The boy's name is Jamie: He believes his father is going to kill him. Allen is convinced that the twelve-year-old is right and devises a strategy to save him. His last job done, Allen heads back to Folly Island, where he plans to settle into a quiet life. But not long after his return, a small plane piloted by the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Villard Books, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Monumental in scope and written with extraordinary sensitivity, THE KENNEDY WOMEN chronicles five matrilineal generations in our nation's premier political dynasty. It is at once a distinguished cultural history and an epic story brimming with triumph and tragedy, courage and compliance, self-sacrifice and self-delusion.933 pp., with Index. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} F

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This remarkable book is composed of actual transcripts-most never before published-from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and telephone conversations between the violent crisis in 1962, when James Meredith attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi, and the groundbreaking passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Setting these transcripts within an historical narrative, Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of America's struggle for racial equality during two tumultuous years. KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTIC brings the reader into the room as Kennedy argues with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and the white business leaders of Birmingham, Alabama, and as Johnson makes late-night phone calls to Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP head… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The New Press, 2007. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L58

London, UK: John Murray, 1959. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. First British edition. Classic biography of the author of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by English novelist and critic Peter Green, contemplating the life, work and times of Kenneth Grahame (1859-1832). Very fine, first edition, first printing, in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. *Very scarce first edition title, especially in this condition. {Not price-clipped or remainder-marked} A106

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1959. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First U.S. edition. Classic biography of the author of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by English novelist and critic Peter Green, contemplating the life, work and times of Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) Very fine, first edition in blue cloth boards with red pinstriping and gilt lettering to spine and front board, in fine (minor lower rear corner flap crease, else very fine) mylar-protected dust jacket. *Very scarce first edition title, especially in this condition. {Not price-clipped or remainder-marked} A106