Search Results: Authors starting with K from Crooked House Books & Paper

London: Frederick Warne, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Watanabe, Saburo. Pictorial paper boards, 8vo, not paginated, illustrated throughout by Saburo Watanabe; previous owner's name and bookstamp on front paste down, pages are clean and bright; head of spine is worn with a 2 inch closed tear repaired on the inside by tape. An installment in the Fantasia Pictorial Series, which depicts stories from famous music.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Probable first edition--Harcourt was inconsistent with noting first editions during this period; no statement of later printing. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of boards, dust jacket has some rubbing to rear panel, but very clean & bright, presents well. "This immense novel of Russian life from 1905 to 1917 contains the stories of half a hundred Rasputins whose lives inside and outside their monasteries form a monstrous pattern of the heights and depths of human behaviour. A brutally accurate picture of the forces at work in a nation on the brink of an explosion which shook the world." (front flap)

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x7x1. Mayer, Mercer. Library binding, pictorial boards, 4to, unnumbered pages, charmingly illustrated in color by Mercer Mayer; lightly rubbed dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Emily sadly watches a moving van slowly filling with the belongings of her best friends family, and says good-bye to each while remembering something about each one. Later she says hello when a new moving van appears and starts unloading the belongings of a new family.

Pantheon Books, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Grey cloth binding with black lettering & decoration under pictorial dust jacket, brown endpapers, 11-1/4" x 9-1/2". LOC number on title page, 05/08 on front flap. A lovely copy.

Viking Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Grey cloth boards under white & pink illustrated dust jacket, 6-3/4" x 5". Promotional letter from publisher laid in; presumably a review copy though not marked as such. Bottom of front flap clipped, but price intact at top.

Forest and Stream Publishing Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition, retains the cover design from the 1887 first edition. Hardcover, full red cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, 7-5/8" tall, 159 pp. + publisher's ads, includes two plates with fly-tying materials affixed. Missing all or part of materials numbered 11, 25, 26, 29, 32, 35, and 36, slight bump to edge of front cover.

Museum of Glass / University of Washington Press, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 11x8x0. Full black cloth with silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, 4to. Minor wear to jacket, a nice copy.

Black Sparrow Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Brick red covers with black lettering & rules, stapled binding, 8-1/4" x 4-1/2". Fading to spine, else fine.

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Madsen, Eleanora. Pictorial paper backed in blue cloth, 4to, 91 pages, illustrated throughout; bookseller's stamp on rear free endpaper; small closed tear along rear crease of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Dreamily illustrated by Eleanora Madsen. An educational story of Arklio, a little Eskimo boy who lives in Greenland.

New York: Golden Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Pictorial cloth, folio, unnumbered pages, illustrated by the author. Boards lightly rubbed and edge worn, internally clean and bright in a very sound binding.

Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, under light blue typographic dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 74 pp. + bibliography. Minor toning to edges of jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated; Gray cloth, 8vo, 322 pages, pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate in preliminary blank page, shel worn dust jacket with scotch tape reinforcement at head of spine, now in protective mylar cover. A culinary memoir that tells of Mrs. Keyes' life as a hostess and world traveler, with recipes collected from around the US and beyond.

New York: Everyman's Library/ Dutton. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Olive green cloth, 7x4.5 inches, 329 pages, gilt lettering on spine, small chip in dust jacket. 0

Cloth-backed color map. Some staining to cloth, which shows lightly through to the map.> 31" x 52.5"
This map "was specifically commissioned by the War Department to provide current information about southern railroads. The map's significance for military intelligence was recorded in a note written by the cartographer's widow...She recalled that the map was displayed in Secretary Stanton's War Office, where black and red pins were used to locate the varying positions of the two armies, and that the map proved very useful to General Sherman in his march through Georgia to the sea. Mrs. Kimber concluded by stating her husband was a Quaker 'and to ease his conscience for having prepared such a map at all he declined any payment for it.'" (Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.)>

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x8x0. Friedman, Arthur. First edition stated; signed and warmly inscribed by Eric Kimmel on title page and frontispiece; 4to, 39,[1] pages, profusely illustrated in black and white by Arthur Friedman; dust jacket crinkled at bottom spine corner, now in protective mylar cover.

Skelton's Press, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Green card covers under white & green dust jacket, pages multi-colored. Limited edition of 550 copies, this is one of the 500 unsigned ones. Fun & experiment with typography.

Hardcover, sewn binding, paper by David Carruthers and Company at St. Armand Papeterie, pinned fabric samples from artist's own collection.


As a middle-aged woman, King is confronted with her lost youth one day. She digs through her closet of clothes from the 1960s and puts together a memoir in a series of brief sketches, which are illustrated, in a way, with fabric from her now-vintage clothing. A finely crafted artist's book with a distinct focus on how fashion can be integral to memory.

Small, Maynard & Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Soper, George. Blue cloth boards with black decoration; 6 color plates by George Soper, all present; 8vo; 248 pp. Light wear to edges, top corners turned in, occasional reading soil, owner's name & address in pencil, good to very good condition. A well-told introduction to some of the most popular & famous Greek myths. 0

Dodge Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, full red cloth binding with black, white, and green Oriental carpet design to both boards and spine, lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, white lettering to rear cover, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 8-1/8" tall, 750 pp., portrait frontispiece, plate illustrations by L.J. Bridgman and others. Slight rubbing.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Kredel, Fritz. Pictorial paper covered boards in matching dust jacket, 12mo, 62 pages, two color illustrations throughout; mild bump to top rear corner, price clipped dust jacket in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.