Search Results: Authors starting with K from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Harper and Row, 1996. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Kahn's account of the early years of the Dodgers, including the 1955 World Series.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (42/-net), lightly toned, generally worn with chips and closed tears. Blue cloth, pushed at the foot of the spine and corners. Square and firmly bound, signature of American executive Miles Marsh inside the front board, clean otherwise.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped. Quarter blue cloth with navy blue paper on the boards. The first Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov novel, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel in 1988.

New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 100 copies signed by Kaminsky. Complete in the issued slipcase. Fine. Burgundy buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board, paste-down portrait of Kaminsky on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second Porfiry Rostnikov novel.

New York: iBooks Inc, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound with lightly toned pages. A Toby Peters mystery about Bette Davis's kidnapping and a Nazi plot to steal American plans for superbombers.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Kaminsky on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.95). Brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The seventh Toby Peters mystery, one that sees him going undercover as a clown.

London: T.V. Boardman and Company, Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), sticker remnant on the front panel, rubbed and with a few shallow chips and tears, soiled at the back panel. tape repair on the verso. Orange cloth, faded at the top edge, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, foxed at the top edge. A Peter Chambers detective novel, also published as Death is the Last Lover.

New York: Lancer Books, 1970. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, creased at the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, former owner's name on the first page, clean otherwise. The third Peter Chambers novel, this one involving the work of a sex-blackmail team.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2013. Paperback. Near Fine. Translated by H.J. Paton. Tenth Printing. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Random House, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($28.00). Quarter black paper with red paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Kaplan's blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history that "examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more.

New York: Random House, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($28.00). Red paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Kaplan's work focused on "Monsoon Asia," revealing "how crucial this dynamic area has become to American power in the twenty-first century.

Los Angeles: Impact Library, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. IL-418. Introduction by Robert Rehbein, PhD. Very Good. Wraps lightly soiled, a few creases at the top spine fold and on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of case studies of "black female office virgins--white, lecherous bosses--and the promises of advancement and salary raises that go with rare perversions and sex bondage. Rehbein's Introduction positions this as a kind of companion work to Calvin Hernton's Sex and Racism in America.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Katz opposite the title page. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), rubbed at the edges. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square, front hinge weak from being opened for the inscription, firmly bound otherwise. The final volume in Katz's trilogy consisting of Wier & Pouce and Florry of Washington Heights, a collection of works in the same vein as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, no jacket. Quarter blue cloth with black paper on the boards, bowed, generally soiled and rubbed, stains to the pastedowns and with multiple chips to the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, bookplate inside the front board, inscription on the front endpaper, foxed at the edges and preliminaries. Kauffer's work that reviews "the Poster's progress both past and present, and [emphasizes] the importance of those designs that show a tendency to free the art of the Poster from the abuse to which it is so often subjected.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), lightly soiled, a few small closed tears at the edges. Quarter green cloth with lighter green paper on the board. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the edges, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Kauffman's debut collection of stories, this copy including an announcement from Knopf with quotes from Publishers Weekly and Booklist.

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Signed by Florence Eldridge and Fredric March underneath their photo together opposite the title page. Very good in an about very good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and chipped. Blue buckram with red and gilt paneling on the spine and front board. Square with some reading wear on the binding. Two gift inscriptions to a "Henry" on the front endpaper. A serious bit of political theatre from two noted comedians. Reviewed by Variety on the front flap: "Kaufman and Hart, who have delivered a number of top comedies, are thoroughly serious with 'Way'; apparently swayed by the terrors of Nazism and its offshoots in the U.S.

New York: World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Block as Kavanagh on the front endpaper. About Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95). Blue cloth with gold and green gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound, front hinge a bit over-opened, clean internally. The story of Miles Dorn and his fight to save America from the attacks of Heidigger.

New York: Abrams, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. No additional printings listed. About near fine in the wraps, lightly edge worn and a touch of toning on the spine. Square and tight, clean internally. A collection of portraits of artists and photograhers with an interview by Andy Warhol.

New York: Abrams, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by Kayser on the title page. About Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of portraits of artists and photograhers with an interview by Andy Warhol.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Translated by Athena Gianakas Dallas. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($7.50), toned from an old laminate. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, some pencil notes and marginalia throughout. The first English translations of three of Kazantzakis's plays, two based on Ancient Greek legends and the third an imagining of Columbus's voyage.