Search Results: Authors starting with K from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Madison, WI: Red Mountain Publishing House, 1980. Slim volume of poetry on themes of foreign lands, mostly. Stapled pamphlet, yellow cover, brown titling & red art. Spine tanned, light wear. INSCRIBED by the author to Jim Batt. Text clean, 32 pages.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 5¼" by 8½".

Madison, WI: Red Mountain Publishing House, 1979. Slim volume of poetry on themes of pre-colonial exploration of the Americas, mostly. Stapled pamphlet, blue cover, black titling & art. Spine tanned, light wear. INSCRIBED by the author to Jim Batt. Text clean, 28 pages.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 5¼" by 8½".

Malibu: [author], 1973. Collection of mostly kinetic b/w photographs. Thin paperback, grey covers. Light wear. Contents clean; 36 pages, 22 images.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8" by 11".

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 1924. Journal offprint; a brief sketch of Wisconsin's great agricultural chemist. Stapled pamphlet, tan covers, black titling. Light wear, minor creasing & edgewear. Text clean; 4 printed pages, b/w photo portrait of Babcock with lab apparatus.. Reprint. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 6" by 9¼".

Baileys Harbor, WI: Meadow Lane Publishers, 1981. Gravestone art from this county on Wisconsin's 'thumb', with some discussion of cemeteries, markers, gravestone symbology; biographies & final resting places of local notables, with a few portraits. SIOGNED by the photographer on the title page. Oblong paperback, as pictured. Light cover creases and rubbing, minor spotting/foxing, corners a little rubbed, State Historical Society Award of Merit sticker on front cover. Text clean; 204 pages, profusely illustrated in black-and-white, map, references. . Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Albert Quinlan. Oblong, 8" By 11".

[Paris]: Éditions du Chat Perché/Flammarion, 1977. Word book for children, in French, showing ordinary places and activites, with names of many objects piuctured. Hardcover, color cover. Shows some wear, nick, dents, corners chipped, spine & part of rear cover faded, light tanning to front cover; ink name on free endsheet. Text clean; [4]-[45] pages, vivid color illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Benvenuti. 9" by 11½".

Ithaca / London: Cornell University Press, 1985. Scholarly study of "the idea that the activity of reading can instill adequate moral judgement and proper ethical standards in readers", exploring its roots in Aristotle's "ethic of prudence", and rhetoric of early humanists Coluccio Salutati, Giovanni Pontano, and Lorenzo Valla; and the skepticism of Montaigne & Hobbes. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, base of spine bumped; jacket shows some edgewear, short tears, light creasing. Text clean; 243 pages; index, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Stockholm: Stockholm University, 1990. Scholarly study of a form of popular story-telling street entertainment in China. INSCRIBED by the author to a colleague, dated 1993. Stout paperback. Light wear, minor corner curling; rear cover & a few adjacent pages creased; top edge foxed/spotted. Text clean; 515 pages; Chinese glossary, bibliography.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6¾" by 9½".

[no place]: [Chinese National Committee of City Sculptural Art], 1992. Large pamphlet featuring color pictures of public sculptures in Chinese cities, published with civic pride in honor of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the "National city's Sculptural Planning Group"; introductory note by KaiquLiu, who, on behalf of the Committee, "invite[s] suggestions and criticisms from everybody, so that we may make our administrative work more perfect in future." Stapled pamphlet, black covers with color photo. Light wear, faint creasing. Text clean; 28 pages including covers, almost all with color photos; captions in Chinese & English.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 8¼" by 11¼".

Porvoo / Helsinki: Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, 1946. 'The Beautiful Nature of Finland', replete with green-tone photos of conifers & birds, other creatures. Text in Finnish. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, no jacket, corners bumped, light stain to lower rear cover, minor external splits to hinges; frontispiece creased. Text clean; 456 pages; bibliography, many photos, maps. Text in Finnish. . First Edition. Half Calf. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1988. First only of three volumes reprinting transcripts, documents, letters, and relevant excerpts regarding Virginia's debate over the Constitution, from 3 September 1787 to 31 March 1788. Hardcover, as pictured; missing the jacket. Light wear to book, corners bumped. Text clean; xlix, 557 pages + colophon; color map endsheets, editorial procedure, chronologies, contextual introduction, note on sources. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008. First only of two massive volumes (the fourth of five NY volumes) reprinting transcripts, documents, letters, and relevant excerpts regarding the New York Convention, held in Poughkeepsie from 17 June to 26 July, 1788; included here are documents & debates through 12 July. Stout hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine. Text clean; xxvii, [3], pages 1669 to 2166; color map endsheets, editorial procedure, chronologies, list of NY state officers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.

Madison, WI: Madison House, 1989. Hardcover in jacket. New in publisher's shrinkwrap.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Octavo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Scholarly history of early New York, emphasizing the social stresses from the colony's dual Dutch-English heritage, unique to the early American colonies. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing) with full number string. Book shows light wear, residue from a lapsed name/address label on free endsheet, smaller stain opposite; jacket with edgewear including light creasing & short tears, faded spine, minor chipping. Text clean; xix, [3], 426 pages; index, bibliographic essay, b/w illustrations, maps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Translation into English of Kammer's German version of Shissai's 1729 text on swordsmanship and the sword in Japanese culture, literally 'Discourse on the Art of Mountain Demons'; Kammer's book includes his historical & philosophical commentary. The translator from the German, Betty Fitgerald, has intended to present Kammer's work as correctly as possible in English. First edition in English. Brown hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, hint of spine fade; near fine. Text clean; xvii, blank, 118 pages; bibliography, notes, appendices on Japanese names for and important schools of swordsmanship, a few illustrations from old Japanese sources, prefaces from translator & Kammer.. First Edition in English. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 8¾".

London: University of London / Athlone Press, 1960. Important edition of this challenging text, in Middle English with extensive commentary on content & methods. Hardcover, full ochre buckram, copper titling. Light wear to book; jacket edgeworn with some short tears, chips, small chunk missing from rear panel. Text clean; [xii], 457 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 6½" by 9½".

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008. Novel for young adults of poverty, racism, & eugenics in 1930s Vermont; Molly, a French Canadian girl, befriends Henry, an Abenaki Indian boy. First edition (first printing) with full number string. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Black hardcover, blue titling. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.

The Hague: Mouton, 1976. An "attempt to reconstruct an anthropological concept of rationality" through the reinterpretation of Mead's works. Publisher's Approaches to Semiotics series number 54. Hardcover. Light wear to book, jacket rubbed & lightly edgeworn with tape stain near base of spine on the rear panel. Text clean; 219 pages; index, bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Scottsdale AZ: Associated Book Publishers, 1982. Foods of Eastern Europe, including Russia, Croatia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia [Czechia & Slovakia], Poland, and Slovenia. Paperback, as pictured. Shows some wear & scuffing, stains to bottom edges of covers - pages unaffected; minor creasing to covers. Text clean; [6], 265 pages; index.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9".

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Views of Asian philosophies, mostly Zen Buddhism, on death & dying. Stated first edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover. Light wear to book, sticker on free endsheet; jacket rubbed with a short tear & creasing to rear panel. Text clean; xviii, 110 pages; index, notes on contributors, glossary. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.