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

Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc, 1995. 8vo, pp. xx, [4], 226, [2]; text illustrations, charts and maps; pictorial paper wrappers, fine.

Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1906. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxxxix, [3], 336, [3]; ix, [1], 396, [2]; viii, [2], 385, [2]; 162 illus. and maps throughout, including 16 folding maps and facsimiles; very good, sound set in original red cloth gilt. Standard history of Japan first published in 2 folio volumes, 1727, and not reprinted in full until the present edition. "Its chief interest lies in its account of an abortive attempt to revive the English trade with Japan which had ceased since 1623-24" (publisher's note). Includes a life of the author and a long historical introduction.

Kasukabe: Hitsuji Shobo, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 395, [7]; text in Japanese; laminated paper wrappers; fine. Inscribed by the author to fellow linguist S. Y. Kuroda.

Tokyo: Bunkyudo, 1938. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 4, 2,2, 6, 26, 143, [1], 31, [3]; Shanghainese texts with Japanese furigana and translations, and a 20-page section on Shanghainese slang; full green cloth; boards rubbed at extremities, a couple pages with marginal scribbling, two pages heavily stained with ink resulting in the eradication of some text, final two leaves loose but present, fair. OCLC notes Berkeley and Harvard in the US.

[Hoillis Hills NY: Esskay Publishing Company, 2015. 8vo, pp. [4], 126; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Steven Kahan was a contributor to the periodical Word Ways. This is the seventh book in a series of self-published word puzzle collections.

[Hollis Hills: Esskay Publishing Company, 2018. Square 8vo, pp. [4], 126; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Steven Kahan was a contributor to the periodical Word Ways. This is the tenth book in a series of self-published word puzzle collections.

Ohlau: Hermann Eschenhagen, 1934. 8vo, pp. 83, [3]; text in German; blue printed paper wrappers; spine faded, owner's signature on title page, very good.

Shanghai: Temperance Union, 1895. First book edition, small 4to, pp. 180; text in double column, black & white photographic illustrations; tan boards with black lettering & illustration of a boat on front cover, brown pebbled cloth spine. Some darkening to boards, wear to extremities, but a very good copy overall. Reprinted from the "Temperance Union" for which Kahler was the editor. A detailed and entertaining book giving an account of three houseboat tours, from Shanghai to Hangehow and back via Ningpo; from Shanghai to Le Yang via Soochow and the Tah Hu; and from Kiukiang to Wuhu, accompanied by black & white photo-illustrations of scenes along the way. Scarce. OCLC shows only 8 American institutions holding copies.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 165; 8 plates; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; a few chips and tears along jacket edges; ownership signature and rubberstamp on front free endpaper; interior fine.

Göttingen: Officina academica dieterichiana typis expressit, 1896. 8vo, pp. 37, [1]; text in Latin; red underlining, texblock split into two separate parts, fair only.

New York: The Typophiles, 1950. Edition limited to 420 copies, small 8vo, pp. viii, [6], 60, [2]; 8 plates plus illus. in text, designed and printed by Taylor & Taylor. Fine copy in orig. cloth. "First documented biography" of the inventor of the Columbian, "America's first important contribution to printing."

Turku: Turun Yliopiston Kustantama, 1957. 8vo, pp. 155, [1]; gray printed wrappers; wrappers detached, owner's signature on verso of half title and transcribed quotes from reviews in back; fair. Kajanto would go on to become a professor of Latin and Roman language at the University of Helsinki.

Thessaloniki: [n.p.], 1963. 8vo, pp. xii,117, [1]; text in French, printed gray wrappers; wrappers sunned, text clean and sound, very good. An analyzed collection of Homeric usages focusing on φιλος, έτης, θεραπων, and ξεΐ. Ap. 9 of the E biliotheke tou philologou series.

Vienna: Mkhitaryan Press, 1915. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8, 384; with index and bibliography; original gray printed paper wrappers; wrappers loose and lightly tide-stained, bottom of spine chipped, textblock separated into three sections, unopened and untrimmed, good. Kalemkiar was an Armenian philologist and priest. He provides here biographies of Hovhannes III of Constantinople (1554-1634) and Zakaria I of Constantinople (1576-1639) as well as ten bishops. Surrogates only in OCLC.

Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1844. 8vo, pp. xiv, 404; text illustrations; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Baptist Mission Society House Library with usual markings, front hinge starting to crack, spine head a bit chipped, horizontal crack across top quarter of spine between spine title words "Yates's" and "Nalodaya"; interior mostly fine. Text in Sanskrit and English. OCLC locates 2 copies in the United States, at Rochester and the Newberry.

Kjobenhavn: G.E.C. Gad, 1890. First edition, 8vo, viii & 240pp., original printed wrappers, presentation copy from the author to George Stephens; fine. Study of Shakespeare's contemporaries and his influence on them. From the library of George Stephens.

n.p.: Mathematical Association of America, 2009. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 265, [1]; blue and green pictorial boards; fine. The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions number 35. "Particularly recommended for professional development and continuing education of secondary and college mathematics teachers. It provides teachers an opportunity to enrich and strengthen their command of mathematics, not at advanced theoretical levels, but in direct contact with the topics they teach."

[London]: Thames and Hudson, 1997. First edition, American issue, 4to, pp. 360; frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout (primarily in color); small crease in front free endpaper, else fine in original mustard cloth, dust jacket (central crease). "The young republic of Uzbekistan, with its ancient urban cultural centers of Bukhara, Chiwa and Samarkand, is the heartland of the Silk Road. The artistic and cultural history of the region, through more than two millennia, is represented here in four main sections.."

Moscow: Sovetskii Xudozhnik, 1986. Folio, pp. 218; text in Russian with summary in English; full-color illustrations throughout; full blue cloth gilt, in illustrated dust jacket; fine. A lavishly illustrated tour of the artifacts and architecture of the Menshikov Palace, part of the Hermitage Museum.

[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1996. 11" x 15½" prose broadside printed to announce the 1996 publication of Flickering Shadows.