Search Results: Titles starting with K from Uncommon Works

Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1982. Early printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Kentucky & Kentucky II (Two volume set) 4th and 7th printings. Near fine hardcover, both with fine dustjackets, now protected in clear, removable archival covers. Book shop label on pastedown and first free endpaper. Mild toning to edges of pages of Kentucky II. Beautiful, full color photographs throughout. 160 & 144 pp. Small folio, 10 x 13 1/2 tall. Kentucky" takes you through stately mansions and pastoral horse ranches, as well as the golden rows of tobacco fields and quiet country roads.

Santa Barbara, CA: Bench Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A near fine binder's copy (first) in a fine publisher's slipcase. Limited to 300 copies, this is unnumbered. While the book is not signed by the author, laid in is a personal photograph holiday card signed by Grafton. Grey paper boards over burgundy quartercloth. Gilt title stamping on leather spine label. Two bumped corners, otherwise unread and fine. Marbled endpapers. In a fine burgundy cloth slipcase. Octavo. In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey's origins and Sue's past.Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together, they show just how much of Kinsey is… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Bench Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine binder's copy (first) in a fine publisher's slipcase. Limited to 300 copies, this is unnumbered. While the book is not signed by the author, laid in is a personal photograph holiday card signed by Grafton. Grey paper boards over burgundy quarter leather. Gilt title stamping on spine. Marbled endpapers. In a fine marbled paper slipcase, scarce in this style slipcase. Octavo. In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey's origins and Sue's past.Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together, they show just how much of Kinsey is a distillation of her creator's… Read More

Einstedelen: Benziger & Co., 1887. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A good plus first edition. Black pebbled leather binding, short split at front lower gutter, leather split (not boards) on rear gutter, and 3/4" loss to foot of spine. Red painted edges. Endpapers toned. Full color chromolithograph frontis. Pp. 539-567 dogeared. Text in German. Fraktur type. 800 pp. including index. 5 x 6&3/4 inches tall, twelvemo. Legends of the saints.

Strassburg: Heitz & Cie, 1930. Facsimile. Wooden boards. Good +. Facsimile of the 1494 edition in wooden boards. Gorgeous woodcuts and fine letterpress printing throughout. Three quarter wood and quarter leather with metal clasp. Two raised bands with heavy rubbing. Loss to foot of spine. Missing first free endpaper and title page. The last page states "Publications of the Alsatian Bibliophile Society. Alsatian early prints No. 2 (Based on the ex. of the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire in Strasbourg). Solomon and Marcolf is a medieval narrative describing the adventures and conversations of Solomon and Marcolf, or Marolf. The adventures have some connection with those of Ashmedai, while the conversations consist chiefly of riddles similar to those put to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba. The exact extent of its indebtedness to the Haggadah is somewhat doubtful, though it is practically certain that the various versions are derived from an Eastern original. - wikipedia

Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places.Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall