Search Results: Authors starting with K from Dark Parks Books & Collectibles

New York:: Scribner,, 2012.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth over boards about as new. Illustrated dust jacket as new near fine. Excellent copy. Fascinating work on the history of monsters. In new protective mylar. Scarce.

Amsterdam:: Corn. de Vries, Hend. van Munster en Zoon,, 1824.. First edition.. 8vo. . Original paste paper boards with later white paper spine and printed label. Some minor edge wear partial split at title page gutter. With 4 folding plates containing 8 engraved illustrations couple of closed marginal clean tears to the plates at lower folds. Contemporary ink inscription dated 1843 to inside front board. A good working copy. Popular geometry as applied to surveying. Dutch language.

New York:: Sci-Fi Book Club,, 2008.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth over boards minor bump to spine end still near fine and about as new. Illustrated dust jacket as new. In new protective mylar.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1981.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers red cloth, title to spine, very minor shelf wear, remainder spray at bottom of text block, no affect to book, pages clean and crisp, still about near fine. Illustrated dust jacket, very minor shelf wear, bit of minor rubbing, about near fine. In protective mylar.

8.25 x 11 inches.. Hard stock promotional color photograph for Ernie Ball guitar strings. Jesse Keeler [Death From Above & MSTRKRFT]. Shows Keeler playing bass live on stage. Signed in silver felt ink pen. Guaranteed authentic. From a private collection of numerous NAMM [National Assoc. of Music Merchants] appearance autographs. The Namm shows features hundreds of musicians each year promoting various music products and signing promotional material. A Dark Parks favorite. Dying to be framed. Comes in mylar and back board. A COA from Dark Parks is available on request. 8.25 x 11 inches.

Baltimore:: Cemetery Dance,, 2020.. First edition. First limited signed edition.. Hardocver.. publishers cloth title in gilt to cover and spine as new unread about fine. Illustrated dust jacket as new near fine in new protective mylar. Signed by author and numbered 368 of 750 copies printed. Very cool memoir of Keene and writing in the horror genre as well as favorite horror writers and novels. Illustrated with b&w photos.

Philadelphia:: Silverthought Press,, 2007.. First edition. Signed limited edition. Scarce.. Hardcover.. Heffernan, Mike, editor. Publishers gray cloth title to spine very minor lean of spine still about as new and fine. Illustrated dust jacket as new fine. Signed limited edition # 214 of 600 copies. Signed by Mike Heffernan editor - Alex Mcvey artist and Darren Whalen jacket designer. Scarce book with only two other copies located at time of description. All new horror fiction by some of the best authors in the genre - 20 terror packed tales of World War II.

London:: Printed by H. W. for William and John Innys, and John Osborn,, 1720.. First English edition. Scarce.. 8vo.. Modern fine binding antique full calf with gilt rules to spine and black title label. New endpapers. Fully illustrated with woodcut diagrams and small illustrations throughout. With last leaf ads for books printed for John Osborn at the Oxford-arms in Lombard-street. A clean copy that is near fine. John Keil (1671-1721) mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher and defender of Isaac Newton. ÒJohn Keil played an important role in the dissemination of Newtonian ideas in the first two decades of the eighteenth century. In 1700 in his role as deputy to the Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford, Keil gave an important and innovative series of lectures, which expounded Newtonian natural philosophy with the aid of practical demonstrations and experiments. These lectures were published as Introductio ad veram physicam in 1702 to wide acclaim. Later in a paper in… Read More

London:: Bernard Lintot, at the Cross Keys,, 1730.. From the second edition.. 10.5 x 18.5cm. Single leaf.. Title page, only. Adhered to white paper backing. Suitable for framing, or perhaps mating with another copy.

New York:: Coward McCann,, 1959.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers yellow cloth with title to cover and spine very minor shelf wear overall excellent with full page illustrations by Leonard Shortall. Inscribed by author to first blank in blue ink ÒTo Bob and Sherman with best wishes Leota KeirÓ. Illustrated dust jacket with few minor edge tears overall presents very well in new protective mylar (see pics). At time of description we locate no copies of any of Harris books signed. Scarce. A fun coming of age novel of a young woman that wanted to be born a boy but changes her mind.

2005.. 12 x 7.5 inches, artwork. 12 x 16 inches overall, matted.. Original signed pencil sketch on artist board that has been professionally double matted using all acid free materials. This piece is fantastic and represents a common theme of the master artist, fame, Conan the Barbarian, and, or, medieval warriors. Ken Kelly, famed fantasy artist is best known for his fantasy artwork dealing with warriors, monsters, myth and legend. Kelly is also very well known for his Robert E. Howard and Robert AdamÕs books, as well as numerous rock n roll album covers including KISS (Love Gun & Destroyer), which has earned him his own gold albums. Kelly was a student and assistant to the fantasy art maestro, Frank Frazetta.

2004. 5 x 7 inches, sketch, 12 x 16 inches overall, matted.. Fantastic signed 5 x7 pencil sketch of a warrior, professionally double matted with a great color reproduction of a Kelly painting, similar to the pencil sketch. An excellent price of well known fantasy art. Ken Kelly, famed fantasy artist is best known for his fantasy artwork dealing with warriors, monsters, myth and legend. Kelly is also very well known for his Robert E. Howard and Robert AdamÕs books, as well as numerous rock n roll album covers including KISS (Love Gun & Destroyer), which has earned him his own gold albums. Kelly was a student and assistant to the fantasy art maestro, Frank Frazetta.

New York:: Outdoor Life Books,, 1987.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers blue cloth very minor shelf wear some minor foxing at top of textblock, no affect to content, else near fine fully illustrated with b&w photographs. Pictorial dust jacket minor edge wear about near fine in new protective mylar. Scarce book. Priced to go.

London:: Trubner & Co.,, [1868].. First edition. Rare.. 8vo. Hardcover.. Modern brown buckram gilt title to spine stamp of ÔUnion College SchenectadyÕ at bottom of title pgae. Pages 609-611 with minor chipping/tear at top edge no affect else rest of book near fine. We find all Kenealy original works to be rare. Second book in a series of three printed 1867-1870 each complete and stand alone, on The Apocalypse. Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1819-1880), Irish barrister, politician and writer. He was declared to be the Twelfth Messenger of God by his followers, following prophets beginning with Adam and ending with Genghis Khan as the eleventh, of whom Kenealy was supposed to be the re-incarnation. Kenealy wrote a series of texts including a three volume work on the apocalypse of Adam, titled The Book of God, and followed by the second book of the second messenger Enoch and the third messenger Fo . All books were anonymous other than the credited symbol of the Circumpunct (see title page). ÒKenealy was… Read More

New York:: Sky Horse,, 2010.. First edition.. Softcover.. Publishers laminated, illustrated, thick paper covers, minor shelf wear, still about near fine. Fully illustrated.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1987.. First edition. Scarce.. 8vo.. Publishers cloth, title to spine, fine. Illustrated dust jacket, fine. Fine/fine. In protective mylar. Sequel to Daggerspell, second book of the Deverry series. Barron Fantasy: 4A-149.

Amsterdam:: Johannes van Keulen,, 1681-1684.. From first edition. Very rare.. 10 x 15.5 inches. Single leaf.. Fantastic frontispiece. Trimmed just outside of border. Mounted on larger plain leaf. Privilege text is on verso. Suitable for framing, or perhaps mating with another copy. Dramatic frontispiece from Part IV of KeulenÕs Zee-Fakkel, or ÒSea TorchÓ. Illustrates a sea-goddess representing navigation and trade, with an armillary sphere as a head piece, in a shell chariot pulled by two sea-horses. She holds a rudder and a torch signifying the guidance by the atlas of the charts. Artist is Jan Luyken. Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715), Dutch bookseller and cartographer, publisher of the influential nautical works Zee-Atlas and the pilot guide Zee-Fakkel. The Zee-Fakkel was published in 5 volumes between 1681 and 1684, with over 130 new charts/maps by Claes Jansz Vooght and illustrations by Jan Luyken. The work made Keulen famous. Complete copies of the Zee-Fakkel, when on the market, fetch… Read More

London:: Printed by J.H. for W. Rogers,, 1699.. 115 x 197mm. Single leaf.. Title page for Part II., single leaf. Slightly browned, minor corner folds. Verso mounted at edges onto white paper backing. Suitable for framing or mating with another copy. ESTC: R14446. Wing K403.

New York:: Forge,, 1998.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth, title to spine, very minor dusting at top of textblock, no affect, still about as new and nearly fine, appears unread, pictorial dust jacket, fine. In new protective mylar. Priced to go.

1929.. 10 x 13 inches.. Original b&w lithograph by Alexander King likely from The Works of Francois Rabelais 1929. Illustrates a large man upon a donkey with a demon in background. From the fourth book of Gargantua and Pantagrule by Rabelais. Gastrolaters are a gluttonous group that make food offerings to Gaster, the Lord of the Belly. Fine impression. Minor edge wear no affect to illustration. Most suitable for framing. Comes with mylar and back board. 10 x 13 inches. Alexander King (1900-1965) editor, artist, illustrator and author often used black themes in his work. Described as a thief, morphine addict, failing playwright and painter, Alexander King was a man of Òiconoclastic observations and caustic humorÓ who began his career as a painter of human figures primarily of the face. The he became an art thief stealing fifty prints from the Metropolitan Museum. He was jailed twice. He wrote the book ÒRich Man, Poor Man, Freud and FruitÓ and died suddenly one day after appearing on ÒThe Today… Read More