Search Results: Authors starting with K from Joe Staats, Bookseller

U.S.A.: Soho Crime, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Danish by Lene Kaaberbol. Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help-even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down. Winner of Denmark's… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L37

N: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. A kid who considers himself an epic fail discovers the transformative power of love when he deals with adoption in this novel from Cynthia Kadohata, winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he's an "epic fail.' That's why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby-to replace him, he's sure. And he gets it. He is incapable of stopping his stealing, hoarding, lighting fires, aggressive running, and obsession with electricity. He knows his parents love him, but he feels...nothing. But when they get to Kazakhstan, it turns out the infant they've travelled for has already been adopted, and literally within minutes are faced with having to choose from six other babies. While his parents agonize, Jaden is more… Read More

N: Schocken, 2008. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. This is a new translation based on the restored text/ Kafka's first and funniest novel,ANERIKA tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic… Read More

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Do the first two years of life really determine a child's future development? Are human beings, like other primates, only motivated by pleasure? And do people actually have stable traits, like intelligence, fear, anxiety, and temperament? This book, the product of a lifetime of research by one of the founders of developmental psychology, takes on the powerful assumptions behind these questions--and proves them mistaken. Ranging with impressive ease from cultural history to philosophy to psychological research literature, Jerome Kagan weaves an argument that will rock the social sciences and the foundations of public policy. Scientists, as well as lay people, tend to think of abstract processes--like intelligence or fear--as measurable entities, of which someone might have more or less. This approach, in Kagan's analysis, shows a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oliver Stone has been hailed (and reviled) as the "director of the Sixties" for his socially concerned and politically charged films on Vietnam, Latin America, Wall Street, pop music, the JFK assassination, and the intertwined nature of celebrity and violence in American culture. Giving particular attention to Stone's stormy relationship with the Establishment and his dazzling cinematic techniques, film scholar Norman Kagan examines all of the controversial director's work. THE CINEMA OF OLIVER STONE shows how the movies were inspired, how they were made, and what the critics' - and other filmmakers' - reactions have been. By including analyses of films Stone worked on as a writer but not as director (Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, and others), we get a complete look at the man and… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Threshold Editions, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, 2010 National Best Books Award-winning A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one man's decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment-but instead ruled by… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton, 1991. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In DOUBLE DOWN, Tim Waverly, the hero of Tom Kakonis' acclaimed MICHIGAN ROLL returns and is literally gambling for his life--and up against the mob--in an explosive novel of suspense set in South Florida. Waverly, ex-professor, ex-con, and professional poker player has to come up with a cool quarter of a million dollars to repay an old debt with interest, and he has just three sessions of poker with a group of fat cats and possible sharks to do it in. Add to this series of poker games enough tension to make your palms sweat, a narcissistic killer with a passion for perfection, and a hero desperately trying to beat odds ruthlessly rigged against him. Writing with a brilliant sense of pace and place, a perfect ear for dialogue, and a sardonically savvy humor, Tom Kakonis creates a crew of raffishly irresistible characters and an exquisitely… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. He is Sadat's brother, Golda's son, Chou's strolling partner. He is also a Nobel Laureate and a charming hieroglyphic whose skill, wit, and total aplomb have virtually eclipsed the presidency. The world is his stage - Peking, Moscow, Cairo, Tel Aviv - and to all these arenas of power, Marvin and Bernard Kalb have traveled with him. This is their portrait of Henry Kissinger, giant of the twentieth century. In this book the authors examine the method and meaning of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 577 pp.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BIOS1

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Crown Archetype, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of hilarious and insighful personal essays from the author of IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?. Kaling is the creator and star of "'THE MINDY pROJECT." New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L146

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2013. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Author previously of MIDWINTER BLOOD. New, mint, unread, first edition, first printing review copy with publisher's letter laid in, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M79

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mint, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L140

New York, New York, U.S.A. : HarperCollins, 2003. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and Dutch traders. At the height of its power, the Spanish Empire was a global enterprise in which non-Spaniards -- Portuguese, Basque, Aztec, Genoese, Chinese, Flemish, West African, Incan, and Neapolitan -- played an essential role. Challenging, persuasive, and unique in its thesis, Henry Kamen's EMPIRE explores Spain's complex impact on world history with admirable clarity and intelligence. Includes a section of color photographs. 609 pp, with Index. Fine, first edition, first printing, in… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M83

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Forge, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M83

Cohasset, MA,: HotHouse Press, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Roberts, Laurie (Photographs). Signed by Michael Connelly at his contribution. Kaminsky personally visited and interviewed 18 of his friends who are leading mystery writers. Laurie Roberts captures them on film at home, working, and relaxing. Interviews with James Lee, Burke, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Joseph Wambaugh, Robert B. Parker, Tony Hillerman, Mickey Spillane, Michael Connelly, Ann Rule and others. Scarce title, especially in this condition. s new, first edition, first printing, in flawless, as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUMD

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Forge, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M51

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inside the Moscow Police Department, madness regins. Inspectors Karpo and Zelach enter the underground world of post-punk rock clubs searching for clues to the disappearance of an anti-Semitic rock star who happens to be the son of one of Moscow's most powerful Jewish citizens. Then there is the young woman, dubbed the Phantom of the Underground by the media, who is randomly stabbing well-dressed men in the Moscow Metro. And Chief Inspector Rostnikov is en route to Vladivostok in a first-class carriage on the Trans-Siberian Express - the greatest train in the world. It now carries two hand-picked officials of the Moscow Police... and an extortionist who may have information that could bring down the entire Russian government. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder=marked or price-clipped} M37/M122

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, New York, U.S.A.: O'Sullivan Woodside, 1974. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in near-fine (price-clipped, else fine), mylar-protected dust jacket. R