Search Results: Titles starting with K from Grampy's Bookcase

349 pp. Clean, bright, and unmarked text in tight and square covers. Slight crease along the spine. From the back cover, " Franz Kafka has been described as representative of the twentieth century in the same way that Dante was of the fourteenth. He obsessively used literature as a means of putting himself on trial and of enacting the terrible conflicts of his day-to-day existence."

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Binding has some wear at the top outside front corner. Edges of the text block are age-toned. Photo section included. DJ is intact with wear at the top corners and top of the spine. A very small chip at the back DJ by the sine. A stain is on the edge of the back outside DJ. From the back DJ flap, "With masterful command of the potential drama, Miss Cowles portrays the tragic - and sometimes absurd - circumstances of Wilhelm's career, from the child Victoria described as 'Such a little love!' to the man most of the civilized world regarded as a monster; from the youth influenced by the mighty Bismarck to the old man whose lingering popularity among the German people enraged Adolf Hitler."

112 pp. Color illustrations throughout. As new condition.

94 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Only defect is fading at the spine. Spine is not creased. Foreword by Henry Winston. From the Foreword, "Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USA, is the foremost exponent of Marxist-Leninist science in our country. For Gus Hall, as for Marx, science is 'a historically dynamic, revolutionary force'. For Gus Hall, as for Lenin, Marxism is invincible because it is true."

298 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Only defect is age-toning, especially on the outside of the text block. DJ has wear to the outside edges and smudging on the front and back. "The two major pamphlets by Marx and Engels translated in this volume...belong to the period of reaction after the revolution in Germany, with the ensuing split in the Communist League..." from the front inside flap f the DJ.

256 pp. Full page glossy color photos with several essays included. Bright, tight and clean.

Text is clean and unmarked. Volume appears unused. From the back cover, "This is the story of the creation of a Utopian community in the Giant Forest of what is now Sequoia National Park. Park historian William Tweed takes the reader on an amazing journey as he follows the opportunities, dreams, sacrifices, and remaining memories of the families of the Kaweah Colony."

272 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a slightly cocked binding. Inscription and date of 1943 written on the top of the front free end paper. DJ is smudged with a chip out of the front top and off the spine. DJ features a picture of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn from the M-G-M production of "Keeper of the Flame".

279 pp. Clean, bright , and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end paper. Volume appears unread. DJ has minor and light smudging on the back. Numerous photos throughout.

Text is clean and unmarked. Design and lettering on the front and spine binding are bight and clear. Margin at the half title page is slightly cracked but all pages are tightly attached. Illustrated throughout including tissued frontispiece.

294 pp. Black and white photos included. Enclosed is a immediate release letter from the publisher. As new condition.

272 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Top outside edge of the back cover is crimped.

Volume and glossy, price unclipped DJ are in "As New Condition." From the front DJ flap, "For more than ten years, Robert Bergmann - a brilliant artist who has purposefully withheld himself from the mainstream - has traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt...and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. Even as he used a simple 35-mm camera, amateur film, no tripod and no special lighting, his was a monumental, Whitmanesqe project: to document the physical appearance and spirit of Americans at the approach of the millenium, and to gauge the climate of our times."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume and DJ in "As New Condition". Illustrations throughout. From the front DJ flap "At the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp the Nazis created a special section for children called the 'Kinderlager'. Three young acquaintances from the town of Tomaszow Mazowiecki ended up together in the 'Kinderlager' and managed to struggle and survive that terrible place. ...Tove Friedman, Frieda Tenenbaum, and Rachel Hyams document their story in 'Kinderlager..."

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, intact, and square covers. Covers are without chips, tears, or creases. Spine is not creased. Top outside corners of the first two pages have been cut off. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the title page. Photo section is included. From the back cover, "At the turn of the century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal pundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the areas population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, 'King Leoplod's Ghost' is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proprtions.:

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ is intact with several very small, closed tears and wear around the outer edges. Back DJ is lighty smudged and faded. "6106" is written on the top outside back DJ.

119 pp. Black and white photos throughout. Book is clean, tight, and unmarked. Like new condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight, bright, and square binding. Color plates are attached to pages throughout. Faint removed label residue present on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Glossy DJ has a closed tear on the top outside front edge.

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers have slight wear at the edges of the spine but the spine is not creased. Front cover has a small narrow crease at the bottom corner. A price is written on the top outside corner of the introduction. From the Introduction, "The play has all the bite of Chaplin's 'Great Dictator,' especially in the scenes in which Kongi is building his image; Kongi's 'last supper' poses for an international photographer; the argument about which member of the Reformed Aweri community should write his book...and the decision to date the years from Kongi's Harvest."

Clean and unmarked with unblemished covers. Color plates throughout. "This catalogue was produced on the occasion of 'Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007' The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York November 14, 2007 - March 9, 2008".