Search Results: Authors starting with K from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine.

London: Bodley Head, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. An apparently unread copy. Toned leaves (cheap paper stock). Better than vety good in unclipped dustjacket. Author's first book and winner of the 1985 Historical Novel Prize in Memory of Georgette Heyer and of the Betty Trask Prize. NOT EX-LIB, no PON.

NY: Stein & Day, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Inscribed by director Kazan on the ffe to Jane and Bob Emerson who managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years.

NY: Stein & Day, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Inscribed by director Kazan on the ffe to Jane and Bob Emerson who managed the Drama Book Shop for many years, the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados. Book near fine, dustajcaket rubbed.

NY: Atheneum, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hall, Beverly (photographs by ). Oblong 8vo, black cloth in worn/chipped dw. Covers very good, internals near fien. Inscribed by photographer Hall on the title page by extending from the letter T in Nigh("that Night is only the background of ourselves/ To Janet and Carol/ in the foreground at last. love, pease and happiness/ Bets wishes/ Beverly/ Christmas 1969 Peace 1970

Philadelphia: E.H. Butler, 1857. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good -. Stated New Edition on title page, dated 1857. Full moroccan brown leather, elaborately decorated in gilt all around, aeg, inner dentelles, (10), 372, (16), 10 full page illustrations incl. title and frontispiebce. Minor loss head of spine, which is scruffed. Covers lightly worn, solid binding, owner inscription dated 1857 on fly.

San Fransciso: The Colt Press, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Poet Kees first book of poetry. Number 3 of the Poetry Booklets of The Colt Press. Owner label on front pastedown. Paper label slghtly tanned and with tiny loss at its corners. Internals fine. Laid-in, folded in four is Colt Press promotional broadside "1943 Christmas gifts for lover of" which then, in a single word, lists the topics or categories of16 titles in double columns, including THE LAST MAN, as the last entry with two other poetry titles. Measures 15 x 12.25", printed in red and black.

NY: French & European Pub.Inc, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sixty loose pochoir plates, bright colors, remarkably well preserved, 8 pages of text, in portfolio with stiff covers but lacking paper sides.

New York: The New York Historical Society, 1922. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine +/No Dustjacket. slight toning to endpapers, else fine, one of 300 numbered copies but this copy is unnumbered.

Sally Knee, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Squarish 8vo, printed polished covers in printed dustjacket, unpaginated (32pp), illustrated in color. Scarce 2006 catalog of works by 20 artists that used copies of James Joyce's "Ulysses" to present as gifts to gallery owner Sean Kelly on his fiftieth birthday. This version limited to 100 copies, this copy number 15 and signed by Kelly on the colophon; another 400 copies, unsigned were numbered 101to 500. (Sally Knee as publisher is a play on the artists name.) Among the contributing artists are Laurie Anderson, Christine Borland, and Gavin Turk. Our favorite is Turk's with a nail through a new copy of a Modern Libary edition of Joyce's masterpiece. Sean Kelly Gallery, founded in 1991 in New York City by British-born Sean Kelly, represents established and mid-career artists, particularly with work based in installation and performance art.

NY: Harper& Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 8vo, purplish, patterned cloth front and spine with gil titles, 111p. Inscribed with a quote from the play) by playwright on the ffe: " " 'I'll make them lsiten to me' p. 89 charles Rann Kennedy February 14, 1924" "No one knows what chance leap may come his way upon the death of (indecipherable). Charles Rann kennedy Febraury 24, 1924" The drama was a one-act stage play for four persons "to be played in the light. Spine slightly faded. Charles Rann Kennedy (18711950), was a playwright and actor who married actress Edith Wynne Matthison. Laid in is cancelled mailing envelope with Kennedy's return address in New Hartford Conn in the upper right corner.

NY: Harper& Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 8vo, red patterned cloth front and spine with gil titles, 159p, iillustrated with scenes form the play. Inscribed with a quote (presumably from the play) by playwright on the ffe: "No one knows what chance leap may come his way upon the death of (indecipherable). Charles Rann kennedy Febraury 24, 1924" The drama, whihc takes place in Iceland in 1024, was produced by The Henry Miller Associate Players and premiered at the Savoy Theatre in Manhatan on November 30, 1908.

Dublin: St. Beuno's Hand-Printed Limited Editions, 1978. First Edition Limited. Soft cover. Fine. Limited edition this #27 of 250 copies. stiff, pink printed covers, stapled spine, 20 pages. Signed by Kennelly on title page. No. 3 in a series of poetry booklets hand-printed by John F. and Barnara Deane in Dublin.

London: Printed for J. Wilkie, F. Blyth, T. Lowndes and W. Owen, Becket and De Hondt, T. Lewis, J. Walter, J. Almon, 1760. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo., vii + 83.,rebound jhalf leather porbabbly mid 19thC. Cover detached. Internals near fine.

NY: Putnam, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. An apparentky unread book, fine clean copy - no names, inscrptns or bkplts - in unclipped dw w/ just the tracest of fading to dw spine.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. Scarce juvenile title retelling tale of David and Esther. Orange cloth stamped in black in pictorial dustjacket chipped about edges, spine browned. Review copy, with slip laid-in.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, pictorial cover printed in black on light tan, linen-backed boards, decorated endpapers. xv + 184, gte. Bottom corners slightly worn , firmly bound, no PONs or inscriptions. A collectable copy.

NY: Published by Pynson Printers for Random House, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. 8vo, purple cloth stamped in gilt, with the slightest fading about edges in original dustacket with a few specks chipped at the dustjacket along the upper edge of the front panel and top of spine. SIGNED by Kent on the colophon in rear and numbered 541 of 1250 copies. Internals fine. A thoroughly presentable and collectible copy.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition, the second printing (perhaps refereed to as trade edition by some), pictorial cover printed in black on paper-back boards, decorated endpapers. xvii + 217, gte. Corners worn, incidental wear to spine edges, firmly bound, no PONs or inscriptions. A presentable copy.

NY: Harcourt Brace, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition in first state dustjacket. Ownership copy of attorney Arthur Leonard Ross (d. 1975) who was a friend of Emma Goldman and represented the literary estates of Fred Harris and the like. With Ross' printed bookplate drawn by German artist Otto Ubbelohde and engraved by Botho Schmidt. SIGNED BY KENT in the inset at bottom of bookplate. Unclipped dustjacket ($3.75) toned, more darkly at spine and edges. Blue cloth with silver pressed spine near fine, with internals quite nice. A solid copy with interesting provenance.