Search Results: Authors starting with K from James Arsenault & Company

Camden, New Jersey: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo, light brown cloth, gilt title on cover and spine. 288 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good in fair dust jacket with chip at head of spine.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. 8vo, pictorial tan cloth. Frontis., 226 pp., 15 sepia plates, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Second edition, revised and enlarged. A handsomely designed bird guide, reflecting the Arts & Crafts aesthetic of Paul Elder and Company. Charles Keeler, a resident of Berkeley, contributed much to Bay area cultural life in the early twentieth century. A poet as well as an ornithologist, Keeler was also an advocate of the Arts & Crafts Movement in architecture, commissioning architect Bernard Maybeck to design his house, "the first of many redwood-clad hillside homes designed by Maybeck, and the first in a cluster of influential First Bay Tradition houses in Berkeley, designed to blend in with their natural setting." (Wikipedia). Keeler's delight in the natural world, vividly expressed in the present work, partakes very much of the era of John Muir, with whom he was friends.CONDITION: very good, early ownership inscription on front paste-down.

Suncook, Pembroke, N.H., 1878. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt title and decorative black stamping on front cover, lower cover with blind-stamped title and ornament. Frontis. portrait engraving, 63 pp., illus. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head the next morning. Following the initial arrest of innocent parties, the actual murderer was identified as French-Canadian woodcutter Joseph Lapage. Tried and found guilty, he admitted to his crime (as well as a similar murder in Vermont) on March 15th, 1878 and was hung the following day. The town of Pembroke placed a monument to the victim near the murder site, with directions to the sites where her body and head were discovered. Keeler's forty-page poetic eulogy is preceded by a brief account of… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo, dusky pink cloth with decorative title stamped in black and gilt on cover, title, author, and publisher stamped in black on spine. [x]-xiii, 210 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good, some wear at extremities and spine slightly sunned.

New York: Duffield & Company, 1909. Hardcover. 8vo (9 x 6.5"), gilt red cloth, t.e.g. 161 pp., numerous b&w plates. Inscription on front free endpaper. CONDITION: Very good, light toning to endpapers, interior clean and sound. First edition. Inscribed by the author, an important New York City art dealer and scholar, to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell (1876-1925).

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.5" x 6.5"). Frontis. photo, unpaginated, illus. throughout. CONDITION: Near fine, two small black spots (one at top edge of cover, one at head of spine), text crisp and clear; dj very good, some spotting and toning, priceclipped, otherwise fine. First edition, first printing.

New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1945. 8vo, original tan cloth. 148 pp., numerous illus. CONDITION: Good in fair dust jacket, slightly rubbed, light browning and slight stains at upper and lower edges; losses along the top edge of the dust jacket, at head and foot of spine, and bottom of front panel, with partial breaks, losses and splits at flaps and spine. First edition. A seminal book-length photo essay by one of the 20th Century's most celebrated art photographers, whose groundbreaking use of unorthodox camera angles and lighting prevented his work from gaining widespread acceptance until after his death. Contains many of Kertesz's most famous images.

New York: Published Exclusively by George W. Ketchum, [circa 1907-1908]. Folio album (36 x 56 cm), half brown leather with burgundy cloth over boards, spine sympathetically renewed. Gilt-stamped ornamental title label and gilt-stamped advertising label for New York City's Hotel Empire at front cover. 105 color postcards, 6 b&w, and 6 sepia-toned postcards (9 x 14 cm) (all postcards captioned), 7 original photographs (bromide, silver and platinum prints, approx. 7.5 x 12 cm to 17.5 x 48 cm), and 22 photomechanical images on 42 pp. Front paste-down with hand-painted lettering and mounted postcards; rear paste-down with hand-lettering and mounted photo. Hand-drawn borders around mounted postcards, etc. CONDITION: Good, corners worn, moderate scuffing, contents occasionally rubbed or soiled but good overall. A rare and impressive promotional album advertising twenty-four first-class resorts and hotels located predominately in the Northeast, featuring related postcards offered for sale by the compiler.… Read More

Savannah, Georgia" The Beehive Press, 1973. Hardcover with dj. 8vo (8.5 x 7"), brown cloth. xviii, 167 pp., [1], numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Fine in very good dj with small tears and chips at extremities. First edition.

Metuchen, N.J., & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to (9" x 5.5"), green cloth with gilt-stamped title and author on spine and cover. x, 617 pp. CONDITION: Very good, minimal wear.

Bradford, MA: 1739. 1 p. manuscript document, 9" x 7.5". An interesting marriage financial agreement between Jonathan Kimball (1673-1749) of Bradford, Massachusetts and Jane Plummer of Rowley, Mass., signed by Jane Plummer, Joseph Pearson, John Hobson and Jonathan Kimball with two seals. Both parties widowed with a large number of children, Jonathan assures Jane that she will keep use of her estate and that on her death, her children will inherit all; in the event of his death, Jane will get 40 pounds and the "Least Lower Room" in his dwelling to live in. (Kimball married his first wife Lydia Day, in 1696; she died Sept. 16, 1739). Apparently, it was not a happy union as Jonathan's will states the following: "Since my wife Jane has eloped and refuses to live with me, I give her five shillings and a pair of leather gloves." This branch of the prestigious and prolific Kimball family originated with Richard Kimball, a wheelwright who migrated from England. His son "Cornet" Benjamin Kimball,… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Small 8vo, original blue cloth. [x], [296], [8] pp. of ads., 10 illus. King's account of the Sioux campaign of 1876, originally published in pamphlet form, is here reprinted, accompanied by other sketches of Army life. Very good, moderate foxing to endpapers.

New York: The Century Co., 1899. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), gilt green cloth. t.e.g. 324 pp., with marginal illus. "Xmas 1899" gift inscription at ffep. CONDITION: Very good, spine darkened with light wear at head and foot, faint remnant of pencil drawing on one page. Later edition.

New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., 1896. 8vo., gilt-embossed blue cloth. 177pp., b&w illus. First edition. An illustrated manual presenting the educational principles of Freidrich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten. CONDITION: Good, penciled owner's inscription on fly-leaf, damp-stain on endpaper, slight wear to spine ends and corners.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1886. Small 4to (9.175" x 7"), pictorial blue cloth , map end papers. Chromolithographic frontis, [5], 505 pp., 4 pp. publisher ads, 504 b&w illus. Pencil ownership inscription dated 1873 on endpaper. First edition, in a striking publisher's binding. Harper's "Boy Travellers" adventure series. With maps of the European and Asiatic routes the Boy Travellers took through the Russian Empire and copious illustrations depicting street and work scenes, Tartars, Mujiks, Goldee children, soldiers, beggars, a Jewish burial ground, children's games, Siberian and Finnish peasants, Russian portraits, views of Moscow, Cracow, Ural Mountains and so on. The chromo frontis. portrays a perilous journey on a sledge pulled by three horses along a snow-covered ravine below a hillside town, two passengers and a driver hoping for the best. Author, adventurer, teacher Thomas W. Knox traveled three times through the Russian Empire, lending authenticity to these tales. CONDITION: Very good,… Read More

Portland: Bailey and Noyes, 1869. Hardcover. 8vo ( 9" x 6.6") blind-stamped green cloth, gilt title at spine. viii, [3], 535 pp., 22 green and pink maps ranging from 3" x 4" to several 6.5" x 8.5" fold-outs. Collections of the Maine Historical Society. Second Series. A substantial history of European exploration, mainly along the northeast coast of North America, including 22 color maps, reduced and lithographed in Bremen, produced by mapmakers such as Mercator, Cabot, and Zeni between 1400 and 1569. The explorations of the Northmen, English, French and Spanish are detailed. CONDITION: Very good, front hinge partially sprung but sound, nice copy with minimal wear.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1902. [Printed at the Chiswick Press]. Folio, original decorative blue cloth, t.e.g., decorative endpapers. Photogravure frontis., [xiv], [148] pp., 24 chromolithographic plates, and over 100 additional plates and illustrations. An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane's paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs, and a variety of decorative work. A characteristically fine production of the Chiswick Press. CONDITION: Very good, moderately worn, lightly soiled; a tight, attractive copy.

New York: Dover Publications, 1984. Paperbound. 4to (12.25 x 9.5"), pictorial front cover. 149 pp.,[1], 138 b&w illus., publ. ads inside covers. CONDITION: Near fine.

New York: Metro Books, 1998. Hardcover in dj. 4to (12" x 8.75"), gilt gray cloth. 176 pp. CONDITION: Good, closed tear at foot of spine; very good dj, tears at head and foot of spine.

New York: Scholastic, 1988. Hardcover in dj. Oblong sm. 8vo (8.25 x 10.25"), quarter red cloth over light orange paper. CONDITION: Fine in fine dj. Stated "First Scholastic Printing, October 1988." Inscribed by author on title: "For Dick and Jo, Who broaden and deepen my dedication. [?], Steven 11/15/88.