Search Results: Titles starting with K from Cat's Cradle Books

Brooklyn NY: McSweeney's, 2000. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Short fiction inspired by Kafka's "The Trial." ; 9.25"; 14 pages.

New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is very lightly edge rubbed. DJ has very light edge rubbing. ; Memoir of the humanitarian founder of the Kabul Beauty School in the aftermath of the fall of the Afghan Taliban in 2001. 8.25" tall; 275 pages.

New York: Horizon Press, 1983. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear and edge rubbing. ; An insightful interpretation of Kafka's work and definitive study of the development of one of the most unique literary figures of the 20th century. 8.25" tall; 241 pages.

1950: Modern Language Association of America, 1950. Ephemera. Good. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, age-darkened. Wraps have light handling wear, general shelf wear. Author's initials with brief inscription at top front corner. ; Literary analysis of medieval legend. 10.0" tall; 22 pages.

Erevan, Teriana, Armenia: Izdatelstvo "Aiastan, 1970. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Armenian language. Exlibrary markings. Originally a softcover, this has been rebound over boards with laminated wraps as a harcover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, age-darkened text pages. General light shelf wear to exterior. Poetry by 20th century Armenian poet L. V. Mirijyanyan. Ex-Library; 6.5" (16.5 cm) tall; 81 pages.

Woodstock Vt: Lightening Up Press, 2004. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages bright, generally clean with some dog-eared pages and occasional marks toward end of book and previous owner's name on ffep. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Discussion of the spiritual teachings of Allan Kardec (1804-1869), whose philosophy inspired the founding of Kardecist Spiritual Centers in Brazil. ; 9.0" tall; 204 pages.

Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1978. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Printing. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Owner's name inside front of wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom of book. Some passages in text underlined. Dampstaining to edge of pages in last half of book. Anthology of significant exegetical passages appearing in Barth's Dogmatics, arranged by the church year and offered here to aid ministers in their sermon preparation. (from back of wrappers); Remainder; 8.0" (20 cm) tall; 279 pages.

New York: Faber & Faber, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First American Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ is clean. ; Study of literary estate management and mismanagement from Donne and Shakespeare to Plath and Larkin. ; 9.0" tall; 344 pages.

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have slight edge rubbing and wear to corner tips. ; Novel by Nigerian-British writer about Nigerian woman who resists her husband's wish that the couple return to Nigeria from London. ; African Writers Series; 7.75" tall; 160 pages.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1955. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by R. Malcolm Warner. Second Printing. Sound binding. Front hinge cracked. Endpapers illustrated with map of the Old Sydney Road. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at corner tips. Fading at spine, overall shelf wear. ; Account of the life and career of Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854-1880), an Australian bushranger of Irish descent who went on a crime spree of robberies and murders in 1878. Drawings; 9.5" tall; 362 pages.

Marietta, GA, U.S.A.: Kennesaw College, 1987. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Contributors: Lisa Koger, William Aarnes, William Lasser, Ronald N. Satz, Ann W. Ellis, Helen S. Ridley, Matthew Mancini, John T. Juricek, Lewis Turco, William J. Walsh III, Emily Ellison, Nicole Broadhurst, Edward Willey, Janet McAdams, Malcolm Glass, Henry H. Roth, Ronald Vincent Rash, R. T> Smith, Paul Rice, Rebecca Bruch King, Max Steele. ; 9.0" tall; 104 pages.

Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1974. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Bookstore stamp on ffep. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Original text in Devanagari with English translation and notes. ; Upanisad Series; 7.0" tall; 42 pages.

Moskva: Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Gumanitarnyi Universitet, 2005. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is primarily in the Russian language with several essays in French and English. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light overall handling wear and shelf wear. Essays on classical and medieval topics by various Russian scholars. 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 431 pages.

Louisville, KY: Bellarmine College, 1990. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight copy with clean pages whose original color is very light tan. Wrappers are edge rubbed with minor shelf wear. No writing or marks. Interior displays no reading wear. ; Issue dedicated to Fred Chappell, award-winning novelist and short story writer in residence at University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Includes poetry by Chappell's students, friends and admirers as well as a review article and a critical essay about his work. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 79 pages.

Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society, 1977. Hard Cover. Good in Good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on ffep. Sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, off-white. Minor damage to lower corner tips of pages toward end of book. Lower rear corner of cloth over boards is torn. Otherwise cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has overall general edge wear, shelf wear, several shallow tears on edges at back. ; The second volume in a 4-volume series that will survey the entire period of the state's history. This installment covers a period of unrest and slow progress following the Civil War. ; 9.25" tall; 553 pages; Signed by Author.

Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages (two are dogeared). Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has shelf wear, light edge rubbing. A study of the process of changing the Kentucky General Assembly from an ineffective, Governor-controlled entity into "a far more powerful, professional, and independent body."; 9.5" tall; 302 pages; Renumbered.

Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon College, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages are clean and bright. Wrappers have light shelf wear, remnants of small sticker on front. ; Contributors include Ran Arroyo, Richard Abowitz, Carol Ascher, Renée Ashley, Rafael Campo, Hayden Carruth, Cyrus Cassels, Samuel R. Delaney, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dixon, Cornelius Eady, Gary Fincke, Diana Garcia, James V. Gill, Gabrielle Glancy, Albert Goldbarth, Walter Griffin, Tiffany M. Higgins, Peyton Houston Josephine Jacobsen, Patricia Spears Jones, Judith Kroll, Maxine Kumin, Barbara Lewis, MaryJo Mahoney, Judith Moffett, Melissa Monroe, David Moolten, Stanley Plumly, Lou Robinson, Pattiann Rogers, Marc J. Straus, Stephanie Strickland, Arthur Sze, Meir Wieseltier. 10.0" tall; 227 pages; Re#.

Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon Review, 2015. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Writing on rear endpaper. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contributors: Natalie Shapero, Caitlin Chan, Gavin Murtha, Emily Zhang, Joyce Carol Oates, Linda Woolford, Keya Mitra, Amy Wright, David Wojahn, Kazim Ali, Brenda Hillman, Philip Metres, Jeffrey Skinner, Corey Van Landingham, Beth Bachmann, John Kinsella, Dave Lucas, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Miltello. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 110 pages.

Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon Review, 2014. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Writing on rear endpaper. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Lynn, Editor's notes. Oates, This I believe: five motives for writing. Short fiction contest: introduction by Katharine Weber, fiction by Amy Victoria Blakemore, Michael Capel, Frank Fucile. Fiction by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Michelle Latiolais, Lori Ostund. Nonfiction by Melissa Febos, Aja Gabel, Carl Phillilps, Ira Sadoff, Bruce Bond. Poetry by Joanna Klink, Eric Pankey, Campbell McGrath, J. Scott Brownlee, Jeffrey Harrison, Kimberly Grey, Sherod Santos, Ben Purkert, Jacque Rancourt, José González Prada, Harold Schweizer, David S. Reynolds. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 203 pages.

Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon Review, 2016. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Writing on rear endpaper. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contributors: Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Suzanne Stryk, Anrew Ladd, Anne Valente, Helen Betya Rubinstein, Hilda Johnston, Jill Sisson Quinn, Sara Talpos, Andrew Bomback, Mairead Small Staid, Leah Falk, Justin Wymer, Alice Major, Bruce Bond, Kelly Chery, Jese De Angelis, John James, Bruce Snider, Clare Rossini, Diane K. Martin, Hannah Baker, Rafael Campo. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 116 pages.