Search Results: Authors starting with K from The Sensible Magpie

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good Minus. FIRST EDITION. From the dust jacket, "Quasars -- or quasi-stellar objects associated with discrete radio sources -- look, to optical astronomers, like very blue but otherwise normal stars... As the quasars were investigated further it became clear that they are amoung the most exciting discoveries in astrophysics in this century." This volume is a collection of lectures given in Manchester in 1965, when quasars were attracting attention in the popular media. 112 pp. Very slight edgewear to book, light wear and light creasing to DJ edges, a couple tiny closed tears, and light scuffing to DJ surfaces. Gilt lettering to book spine, tight, bright, clean.

London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Brown paper wrap is not original dustjacket. Black lettering debossed to spine of grey cloth-covered boards. Map. Clean, tight, bright. 108 pp with appendices. Records of Plays and Players in Lincolnshire, 1300 -- 1585. The Malone Society is a British-based text publication. Edmond Malone (1741 - 1812), was an English scholar dedicated to the study of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. It publishes editions of plays from manuscript, facsimile editions of printed and manuscript plays of the period, and editions of original documents relating to English theatre and drama.

Reading, PA: Published by the Author, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. FABULOUS early visual dictionary, bi-lingual in English and German, self-published in the late nineteenth-century. Quarto measuring 8 in. x 11 in. Red cloth-covered boards, with black lettering and an elaborate bright gilt design to front board. Same design reproduced, in blind, on rear board. 247 pp. total. A few stray marks on an otherwise near-fine set of bright red boards. Begins with English and German (Fraktur) pronouncing dictionaries, followed by 171 pp. with 12 detailed drawings (except the first page, which has only 11), each within an arched border, measuring 1.75 in. x 1.75 in., totalling 2051. 46-page secion of full definitions, arranged by page number; Alphabetical List of Important Inventions; Vocabulary of Words Necessary to be Known in English and German Conversation, divided by topic -- for example, phrases necessary when dealing with Hotel personnel, the Laundress, etc. etc.; German Proverbs; and finally,… Read More

Aberdeen, South Dakota: North Plains Press, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. A tiny white speck to upper front board. Dustjacket good plus. Scuffing to illustrated jacket with several closed tears, 1.5" and less, to edges. Great illustrations!! Sketches, paintings, photographs, block prints, black and white and color. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of blue-grey cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 208 pp with bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Known for memorializing the "day-to-day existence of prairie pioneers" on canvas, this is an "inspiring biography of one of American's greatest artist-illustrators, and unforgettable teacher and a sentimental he-man," (front flap).

Paris: Payot, Paris, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. In French. Beautiful blue and gold marbled endpapers. A .25" wide and less tide line to top of last 3 endpapers. Faint spotting to sea green cloth-covered boards. Very edge of bottom spine cap looks to be chewed off? Just a handful or less of neat penciled bracketing lines. Soft deckle edges tanned with age. Gilt lettering within maroon label affixed to spine. 282 pp. with notes, bibliography, and indices. Nice tight binding for a book of this age. Translated by F. Mosse. Introduction to the study of Germanic languages and civilizations.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. STATED FIRST EDITION. 1954 to copyright page. No later printings or editions mentioned. Mylar wrap over dustjacket. Ex-Libris, but WITHOUT any pockets or stickers or tape, only a small stamp to upper righthand corner of FFEP. Light scuffing and wear to edges, some light creases, and sunning to spine of dust jacket. NOT price-clipped, no tears beside a 1/4 inch to upper spine of DJ. Mild rubbing to board edges, spinecaps folded and a bit chipped, small bumps to corners. Slight spine lean. Endpapers acid transfer of DJ. Some spots to lower edge of text block, and barely noticeable wavy area from pages 160-180. Possible minor food spill left some small stains on pages 170-171, visible on few dearest pages, as well as in area of pages 43-49. Spine color bright turquoise-blue, boards clean, khaki color. NO markings of pen or pencil in text. Tight binding. "The extremely well ordered life… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Six pp of notations and underlining in ink. Dustjacket fine. Gilt lettering to spine of blue cloth-covered boards. Bright and tight. 312 pp with index. An incisive eloquent memoir of twenty years' restless wandering through Italy. A celebration of the passions, stories, colours and sounds of Italian life, past and present.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. FINE, but for three tiny spots to top edge. Purple lettering to spine, purple and white lettering to front board, gray cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. No markings. 345 pp with notes on contributors and index. "A representative sampling of the roles most often allotted women in Renaissance drama -- victims of male lust and violence (and lust for violence)... These roles signal [the] widespread exclusion of women from subject positions, and its tendency to marginalize women as objects of masculine fantasies and tokens in masculine exchanges," (introduction). In three parts, The Rhetoric of Women, Power and Patriarchy, and Gendered Bodies/ Bodies Politic.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Metallic red lettering debossed to spine of light grey cloth-covered boards. Black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 254 pp with references and index. This study examines the factors that gave rise to a newspaper strike at Capital Cities' Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1997. Paperback. FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. IN JAPANESE. Attached ribbon bookmark. Gilt lettering on spine of grey, suede-like covers. Dustjacket Near Fine. Over 280 color plates. 320 pp. Clean, bright, tight. Guide to wild birds written in Japanese

New York: Greenwich House, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to. Tiny bumps to top rear and bottom front corners. Dustjacket very good plus. Clipped. A .75" closed tear to front bottom edge. Mild wear to top jacket edge. Mild shelfwear to surfaces. Gilt debossed lettering to spine of mint-green, cloth-covered boards. Gilt illustration to front board. With more than 200 illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 272 pp biographies of the artists, selected bibliography and index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. This is the history of the great impressionists combined with more than 200 "dazzling color plates" by the 29 artists represented within. Keller follows the career of the key artists of the movement -- Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec and more. A beautiful volume.

San Antonio, Texas: Maps Publishing, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. SECOND PRINTING. Minor shelfwear. Bottom corner lightly creased. Red lettering on spine, teal lettering on illustrated white cover. Clean, bright, solid. 107 pp with bibliography and suggested reading. This book provides you with information to determine what your nutritional needs may be and how to satisfy them. Contains a questionnaire suitable for each member of your family which will help you determine solutions for particular problem areas.

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Previous owner's ex-libris to front paste-down endpaper. Light foxing to top edge. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to spine. Lightly soiled rear cover. Now Mylar protected. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of sage-green, cloth-covered boards. Portrait of Albert Osbun on frontispiece. Maps. Charts. Clean, tight, bright. 233 pp with appendices and index. "Dr. Albert G. Osbun's two-year odyssey from 1849 to 1851 first takes him to mine for gold on the Yuba and upper Sacramento rivers. A glimpse of his return home via Mexico concludes this outstanding diary of the gold-rush period," (front flap).

New York: Pantheon, 2001. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Lightly bumped top corners. White lettering to black cloth-covered spine of midnight blue boards. Illustrated dustjacket very good plus. Very mild shelfwear to jacket. Illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 292 pp with notes, bibliography and index. "Why do millions of people spend so many hours scaring themselves?" The author explores how fear blends into other feelings and cohabits with them. "I've gone in search not of meanings but of feelings, those momentary prickles of the scalp and sudden intakes of breath that provide mysterious pleasure."," (introduction).

Alberta, Canada: The Albertan, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Light scuffing to boards. Corners lightly nudged and worn. Spine caps folded under. Stain to edge of page 71. With 21 black and white illustrations. Frontis photo by W. J. Oliver. Black lettering to spine and front of green and tan, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 392 pp. Fred Kennedy, 1900 -- 1988, was a Calgary Herald employee for 30 years. He toured with the rodeo company as publicity director before joining the Calgary Herald in 1927.

San Francisco, CA: Papagayo Press, 1945. Comb-Bound. Good Plus. Small (6" x6") comb-bound book containing nearly-naughty quatrains about various denizens of the sea. Thick card covers, over what appears to be hand-made rice paper. Schenkofsky was a cartoonist, illustrator and even a mapmaker. Staining to covers, but quite intact. Inscribed on first blank page - and could be author's signature. 

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NEW YORK: Exposition Press , 1963 . FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS in very good dustjacket . By assigning numerical values to the letters of the Greek alphabet, the author, a longtime Methodist minister, calculates the number of years transpiring between various Biblical periods, and most remarkably, the number of years required for prophecies in Daniel, Ezekiel, and others to be fulfilled. Author draws parallels between some of these prophecies and current world events. 105 pp. Study chart laid-in. Tight, clean volume. Light rubbing to spinecaps and corners of binding. Slight bump to front bottom corner. Very slight age-tanning to edges of front pastedown, rear pastedown. More significant but still slight age-tanning to edges of study chart. Very light waving to text block. Light edgewear to dustjacket. Four corners of DJ flaps clipped. Light sunning to DJ spine. 1mm chip to front DJ plate with surrounding 1cm circumference rubbed. Light age-tanning to edges of front and rear of DJ. Age… Read More

New York: Harper Collins, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE on half-title page. Dustjacket very good plus. Very mild shelf and edgewear to jacket. Gilt lettering lightly debossed to brown, cloth-covered spine of apricot boards. Publisher's imprint, in-blind, to front board. Eight page section of black and white photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 372 pp with acknowledgements, notes, bibliography and index. "Clever Girl is the definitive biography of a conflicted American woman and her controversial legacy. Set against the backdrop of the political drama that defined mid-twentieth century America, it explores the spy case whose explosive domestic and foreign policy repercussions have been debated for decades but not fully revealed -- until now," (rear flap).