Search Results: Titles starting with K from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Los Angeles: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center , 1985. SCARCE exhibition poster, 20 "w x 28 1/2"h . Near Fine, faint horizontal crease crease. Featuring a striking close-up photograph of a kabuki dancer in make-up. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20 "w x 28 1/2"h.

Hancock, Michigan: Book Concern, 1950. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR at front end page -"To Professor Stith Thompson, with the wish that some day I shall learn a great deal more about the "Kalevala" as your student. With deep appreciation, Aili Kolehmainen Johnson". Stith Thompson has been described as "America's most important folklorist". ( Roberts, Warren E. (1996). "Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)". In Brunvand, Jan H. (ed.). American Folklore an Encyclopedia. New York; London: Garland. pp.1467-8) . Also with the blindstamp of noted Indiana University folklorist John W. Johnson. Near Fine, faint rubs to cloth at edges, in a Very Good dust jacker, small chips and edge tears. The Kalevala is a tale that strongly influenced J.R.R. Tolkien. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Boston: New York Graphic Society/ Little, Brown and Co., 1983. SCARCE publisher's promotional; poster, 20" h x 14"w, featuring the front cover photograph by Karsh of Sophia Loren in red hat. Near Fine, faint corner creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20" h x 14"w.

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1983. Printed in limited number for the book publication "Kazantzakis : A Biography Based on His Letters" by Helen Kazantzakis and distributed at the ABA trade show in 1983. Fine. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Fine. 22 1/2" x 18".

New York: Grove Press, 1959. This is a 2nd Printing of his scarce 1st book of poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. An Evergreen Paperback Original. Faint age- toning at edges of wrappers Else Fine.. SIGNED. 2nd Pinting. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Teramachi Nijo, Kyoto, Japan : Yamada Unsodo (37) pages held together with 2 brads top end. 35 pages with tissue guards over multiple lovely woodblock prints, either 96 or 102 depending on how one repeated image is counted. With an additional full page black and silver woodblock print on rice paper (9" x 12 1/2") laid in. No date (in English) , circa 1902-1905. Laid into original folio black paper covered boards printed in silver Art Deco design, with title, artist and publisher printed in English front and back. Front and back pages printed in Japanese. Very Good, cloth at spine torn at top and bottom edges, rubbing to boards at edges. Some tissue guards creased or torn, the woodblock prints are all bright and Fine. Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) was aan important early 20th c. Japanese artist, known as the father of modern Japanese design and the last great master of the Rinpa traditional school of art. RARE, one copy found in current commerce ( lacking the additional woodblock print) and 8… Read More

Kalamazoo, MI, 1935. Original panoramic photograph, 5 7/8" x 32 3/4", unframed, rolled. Very Good, slight creases 1" from each end of photo, scant soiling. No photographer credit. A few hundred employees with their families in bathing suits and casual clothing pictured in a group portrait. SCARCE.. First Printing. Photograph. Very Good Plus.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. First Printing stated. Very Good Plus, prior owner name and date front end page, light soiling to edges of page block, toning at spine ends, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips and tears at spine ends, light soiling front panel, front flap shallow crease, small stain bottom edge front end page. His first book, a counter-culture classic from the '60s. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977. Near Fine, wrappers lightly soiled. Scarce. Contents are clean, tight and unmarked. A must-have for the serious Martz collector. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chicago: City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2007. Near Fine, faint corner crease top corner, Else Fine. Exhibition catalog, 32 pp. text, numerous color plates of this fantastic Chicago artist's creations. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Macmillan London, 1989. Her first Kat Colorado mystery, winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. Near Fine, pages ever-so-lightly starting to brown, in a Fine dust jacket. . First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Monotype Corporation Limited, 1958. First Printing. One of 250 unnumbered copies printed, " 250 copies of this keepsake were set and printed in Eric Gill's 'Monotype' Perpetua by the Monotype Corporation Ltd. of London, 1958". Printed on the occasion of the 1st exhibition dedicated solely to his work as a carver, engraver, and draftsman of the letters of the Alphabet. A sixteen page stapled pamphlet with text and several illustrations, and a single page photo of Gill at work that is laid in. Tiny curl at 2 corners of the front wrapper, Else Fine. An apparently unique Gill item.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. About Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1949. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, wear to cloth at spine ends, slight lean, browning to front end pages from old newspaper article laid in. With TLS from Lillian Smith to Rebecca M. Gershon of Atlanta on Smith's Old Screamer Mountain, Clayton, Georgia stationery, dated November 14, 1949 - "Dear Rebecca, I have read your beautiful letter to my brothers and sisters who were as deeply moved by it as was I. Thank you for writing it, and especially for writing it at the time that you did. Sincerely yours, Lillian- Lillian Smith". Laid in with this letter is a newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Constitution published in November 1949 that Smith had written, titled "Explaining Her Book", the browned clipping the cause of browning to the TLS and the front end pages. A significant Civil Rights association, Rebecca M. Gershon became known for her work in the Jewish community and the struggle for Civil Rights in the South.… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1981. Review Copy, with publisher's review slip laid in. His unaccountably scarce 9th mystery, featuring Detectives Dalziel and Pascoe.Black pen point top edge, else Fine in Fine.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Near Fine/Fine.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1976. 76/212. "For Christmas". The original teaser poster for the 1976 version of this classic movie story, hence no credits appear on this version, just one great graphic poster ! Near Fine, small tears at center fold and light age toning in white margins of poster. . First Printing. Original One Sheet Movie Poste. Near Fine. 27" x 41".

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1927. Stated Second Impression of the Trade Edition. Fine, small period bookstore sticker front paste down, in a Near Fine dust jacket, slight edge wear. . 2nd Printing. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1990. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and Director of the Kinsey Institute June Reinisch on the front endpage. First Printing, with complete number line 1-10. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1984. Near Fine, faint creases, 17 3/4"w x 24"h. Featuring a black and white portrait of a locomotive done by Darius Kinsey in 1926. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 17 3/4" x 24".

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2000. First Printing. Warmly SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author in October 2000- " For my dearset...with much love and friendship, kissing the bread of our mutual life in Paris, Sandra, October 2000". Near Fine, very light soiling to the edges of the page block, in a Near Fine dj that has faint rubbing at the tips.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation Copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1989. Near Fine, tiny top corner bumps, in a Fine dust jacket. His 2nd book. A rather SCARCE book.. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.