Search Results: Titles starting with K from Mike's Library

Paris: Springer-Verlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Trade Paperback. 2287595988 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; "This book was conceived from the belief that there was a need for an accessible and comprehensive approach to the properties, functions, and pharmacology of K+ channels in the heart and vascular muscle. The book is a compilation of review articles written by experts from both the medical and scientific communities. Each chapter aims to provide a clear summary of the most up-to-date concepts, avoiding jargon and over-complicated discussions. In this way we hope the book will provide the background for understanding future developments in this important and fast-changing field."; Ex-Library; 332 pages .

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Scholarly pencil notes and marginalia, light tone, owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Sanskrit and Bengali languages, with English preliminaries. Edition of 1000 copies. 1924 Epilogue sheet tipped in. Revision of Professor Pischel's 1877 First Edition, using the Prakrit grammar that appeared in 1900, then delayed by the subsequent death of Pischel, the blindness of Cappeller, and the book's sheets, printed in Germany, being held in Customs. The end result, this Second Edition, is a pioneering critical edition of Kalidasa's Sakuntala based on the Bengali Recension. ; Harvard Oriental Series; Vol. 16; xviii, 260, 16 pages .

Moscow: In-t ekonomiki RAN. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paperback. 5201032990 . Label glue residue on rear cover, light rub. Solid trade paperback. ; Bilingual: Russian and English languages. "A unique disposition of Kaliningrad inside the unified European space, to which Russia itself doesn't belong so far, makes the region a natural Russia's interface in the EU. For this very reason, and not on the ground of how typical or atypical Kaliningrad looks to the whole of Russia and to the entire Russia's North-West, this territory can be regarded as a pilot region for EU-Russian cooperation in the 21st century." - Author's Address. ; 91 pages .

New York: Maxton Publishers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1945. Paperback. 1” tear at spine tail, 1/4” tear to mother kangaroo's back, crease to one of baby kangaroo's ears, rubbed pouch edge, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid stapled paperback.; Shaped book, edges cut to follow outline of a mother Kangaroo on front and back covers; with a baby kangaroo (16 cm.) inserted in a slit between the larger kangaroo's paws on front cover. Illustrated by Charles E. Bracker; covers by Paul Kaloda. Delightful tale; Kankie grows up a bit and learns to hop. ; Mother and Baby Animal Books; [16] pages .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Toned, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light wear. Faint but legible gold spine and cover lettering. Solid hardcover. ; German language text; English preface and introduction; German-English vocabulary. "The spelling of the present edition has been modernized in accordance with Duden's Orthographisches Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache. The old spelling Carsten has been changed to Karsten in conformity with a number of writers, notably Lange in Schutze's book on Theodor Storm." - Preface by Grummann. ; Modern German Texts; Ex-Library; 147 pages .

Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 3777271179 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; German language. ; Päpste und Papsttum; Ex-Library; ix, 240 pages .

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 3447031670 . Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis Tomus IV Series Nova Pars ; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; xxv, 316 pages .

New York: Kate Spade / Lenox. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Trade Paperback. Slight wear. Crisp oblong trade paperback. ; Spring 2004 Home collection from Kate Spade for Lenox, showing designs and pricing for china, glassware and flatware. ; [56] pages .

Moscow: Charli. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1995. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 5868590236 . Toned text, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; Russian language. Reprints Kostomarov's 1903-1906 writings on Cossack history. ; Aktualnaia istoriia Rossii; 601 pages .

Syracuse NY: Kelsey Heating Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1901. Trade Paperback. Cover creasing, two check marks by one referral letter, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize trade paperback.; 164 pages plus request for quote tear-off page. Undated, circa 1901 publication, mentioning Medal from the Pan American Exposition of 1901 at Buffalo, and no referral letter with a later year. Kelsey offered a warm air heating furnace that sent heated air through pipes, without the fumes and dust of period alternatives. Referral letters, often including photos of the buildings, validate the savings and efficiency of Kelsey's product. Along with the residential heating of the pictured mansions, larger buildings, churches and schools are also mentioned. Wonderful, turn-of-the-century, marketing piece with great photographic coverage of larger period homes.; 164 pages .

Kobenhavn: Danmarks Biblioteksforening og Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 8770238200 . Library stamps/marks/labels, 2" spine edge tear at head, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; Danish language. Inhold: Forord; Introduktion til katalogen; Katalog over dankse kulturtidsskrifter; Kulturtidsskritfter indgået efter redaktionens afslutning; Emneregister; Kulturminsteriets tidsskriftstøtte. ; Ex-Library; 160 pages .

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0471492167 . Slightest wear. Crisp NEW old stock hardcover. ; "introduces students to the basic tools used by geologists to reconstruct the Earth's history, and shows how these tools can be used to chart the pattern of global environmental change since the formation of the Earth some 4600 million years ago. It tells a story of mouintain building, climate change and of the evolution of life .." Table of Contents: Preface. Illustrations. Introduction: What is Stratigraphy? PRINCIPLES. Uniformitarianism or Actualism. Establishing the Sequence of Events. Geological Time. Interpreting the Stratigraphical Record. The Evolution and Closure of Sedimentary Basins: The Role of Plate Tectonics. The Stratigraphical Tool Kit: Case Studies. Summary of Part One: The Stratigraphical Tool Kit. THE PATTERN OF EARTH HISTORY. Introduction to Part Two. The Stratigraphical Record and Global Rhythm.… Read More

Racine WI: Whitman. Good in Good dust jacket. 1921. Reprint. Hardcover. Both hinges starting, well toned, light cock, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket 1" spine head chip, 1" spine tail tear, 1/4" tears with creasing, edgeworn. Solid hardcover. ; Ad states one of four titles in Whitman's Big Game Series. Only shows 1915 copyright date, however this is 1921 reprint per E Christian Mattson & Thomas B Davis; A Collector's Guide to Hardcover Boys' Series Books 1872-1993; 63800-82. Adventure of two chums with a silver mine in South America. ; The Boys' Big Game Series; Vol. 2368; 274 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. 0824007247 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Volume One of two, ONLY. Contents: Preface; The Garland Americna Indian Ethnology Series; Background Material on the Kiowa and Commanche Indians as of 1953; The Report. In missing volume two is The Report Continued, and Commission Findings. ; American Indian Ethnohistory: Plains Indians; Ex-Library; 224 pages .

Vladivostok: Dalnauka. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1999. Trade Paperback. 5744211829 . Library stamps, spine creasing, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Russian language. China In The North-East Asia: History and Contemporaneity. Collection of essays on post-1945 history, compiled for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China by the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences Far Eastern Branch. ; Ex-Library; 170 pages .

Saint Petersburg: Centr Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1994. Trade Paperback. 5858030238 . Label peel on front cover, markings inside rear cover, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Russian language. Extra English title page and abstract. Edition of 500 copies. "Irkutsk can be called the first town in Russia (after St Petersburg) where the official teaching of the Oriental languages for interpreters began in the e3arly XVIIIth century. The most studied langauge in Irkutsk was Mongolian for the purpose of propagation Christianity among the Buriyat aborigines and to connect with the Chinese Ch'ing Empire's governors inUrga. However, the relations with Chinese officials required also Manchu and Chinese interpreters, the last ones especially from the middle of XIXth century, when the trade with China increased. Nowadays, although Irkutsk has lost its meaning as the school of the Oriental languages, the collections of old Mongolian,… Read More

New York: Kite Trust Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Both hinges started, tone and random foxing, spine head and tail wear, wear. Still solid text block in serviceable hardcover. ; "Economic theory and get-rich-quick methods, combined with science-fiction elements." - Everett F Bleiler; Science-Fiction: The Early Years; 1905. Robert Reginald; Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist 1700-1974; 12357. Quite serviceable early copy of this rather convoluted early science fiction novel by American inventor and friend of Alexander Graham Bell, Lebbeus Harding Rogers. ; vii, 475, 7 ad pages .

Vancouver BC: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Pamphlet. 0969331517 . Slight wear. Crisp oversize oblong paperback stapled pamphlet. ; Price list laid in. Exhibition of thirty striking sculptural carvings from Kitikmeot, three Inuit communities on the Boothia Peninsula, Canada. ; [24] pages .

Moscow / Smolensk: Olimp / Rusich. Good with no dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 5739005205 . Library stamps/marks/labels, cocked, toned, light wear. Solid hardcover.; Russian language. Biography of singer Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko, noted for her iconic World War II songs "The Blue Headscarf" and "Let's Smoke".; Zhenshchina-mif; Ex-Library; 411 pages .

Schwerin: Mecklenburgische Gesellschaft. Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Spine covering half gone with remainder detached at rear edge, sunned covers, light text tone, owner's signature, pencil checkmarks on bibliography, bookstore label, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover. ; German language. Limited Edition, #23 of 390 copies. SIGNED with inked signature under Griese's portrait frontispiece. Tipped in photographs. Book produced as gift from Friedrich Griese, a German author "associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich. Griese wrote mostly about peasant life in northern Germany. His most important books were written before the advent of the Nazi government in 1933, so he cannot be considered so much a proponent of Nazi ideologies as a precursor to them." - Wikipedia. Association copy, with ownership signature of George Schulz-Behrend, later professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at… Read More