Search Results: Titles starting with K from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. The very advanced, yet seemingly jinxed, British steam-diesel-electric propulsion submarines, which served 1917-23. Twenty-two were built, with three lost on exercises and four in collisions. A very good copy, in price-clipped dust jacket with some edge wear. (206p., 25 illus., 6 line drawings, plans, maps & charts, appendix, index.)

New York: Okapi Editions, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. As New. 4to. As new, without dust jacket, as issued, signed by the photographer on the title page. An exhibition of these photographs was presented at Chartwell Booksellers in conjunction with the book’s publication.

Prague: Statni Nakladatelstvi, Krasne Literatury , 1961. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (160 plates, 42 pages of text). A very good copy in a shelfworn dust jacket that has darkened at the spine. Signed and lengthily inscribed in ink by Sudek on the half-title.

New York: Library of America, 2002. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in publisher’s shrink wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: Random House , 1988. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (112 pages, 135 illustrations). As-new copy of the First American edition in publisher’s shrinkwrap.

New York: Library of America, 2004. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: John Day Company, 1962. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (254 pages; engraved frontispiece). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First American SIGNED Limited Edition . Hardcover in Slip Case. Very Good. 8vo (230 pages). This is a mint copy of the First Signed Limited edition, one of 150 copies, slipcased, unjacketed, as issued, still in the publisher’s original shrink-wrap.

London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1954. First English Edition Intrepid. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Mountbatten's destroyer, from commission to sinking off Crete. A very good copy, without dust jacket. Somewhat shelfworn, contents fine. Owner name in ink on half-title. (219p., 19 illus., map, chrono., glossary, map eps.Sm. cov. wear.)

Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc, 1957. Limited Edition Reprint . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. Engaging, alternately serious and humorous memoir of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry. Reprint of the 1895 edition; a scarce special edition for the Civil War Book Club, signed by the editor on an extra flyleaf. The 1895 edition is very rare. A very good copy, in spotted & worn dust jacket. (281p., 41 illus., muster rolls, appendix, index.)

New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1982. First American Signed Limited Edition (1 of 150 copies) . Hardcover in Slip Case. Very Good. 8vo (385 pages). Avery good copy of the First American Signed Limited edition, in the publisher’s slipcase, without dust jacket, as issued, number 59 of 150 copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (340 pages). A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket with a few very faint scuffs and a hint of toning. The contents are fine.

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (986 pages). As-new, in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (410 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs). A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1952. First Binding [1 of 100 copies] (Cohen A262.2.a) (Woods A135b). Leatherbound. Very Good. 1 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches (27 pages, with frontis photo of the King, by Karsh). A stunning and historic miniature book that reprints Churchill’s speech on the death of King George VI. The book measures 1 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches. Of the total edition, 650 copies were leatherbound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue and approximately 100 were simultaneously bound in red crushed levant morocco, all edges gilt. This copy is one of the extremely rare red bindings. The condition is virtually mint. ACHILLE J. ST. ONGE (1913–1978) was the greatest maker of miniature books in the 20th Century. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts, he began producing them as a hobby in 1935. By the time he ceased in 1977, St. Onge had created 48 miniature masterpieces on an eclectic variety of subjects. The books all remain much-prized by collectors.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1958. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (238 pages). One of the first, and still one of the best, monographs written about the seminal New Orleans cornetist, Louis Armstrong’s “Papa Joe.” This is a virtually mint copy of the First Edition, in dust jacket. It was the property of Armstrong’s later clarinetist, Joe Muranyi, whose name is inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper.

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc., 1961. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (442 pages, many illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, black & gold marbled boards). A Virginian, Lewis Littlepage experienced nearly every aspect of European political, intellectual and social life during the last part of the 18th century. An alleged rival of Casanova, acquaintance of the founding fathers and military strategist. A very good copy, edges slightly faded, in rubbed, worn & torn dust jacket.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1972. First American Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (247 pages, 17 illustrations, notes, index). Henri de Cinq-Mars was a handsome 18 year old when he joined the king’s service. Seen by Richelieu as the perfect spy, loved and lusted after by the king and a known rake, Henri’s arrogance was his downfall as he aspired to marry a princess and involved himself in a plot with the king’s brother to assassinate Louis and Richelieu. A very good copy, edges slightly faded, in soiled & torn dust jacket.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. A biography of the prominent frontiersman and account of the 1860s campaign that ended in the Navajo “Long Walk.” A fine copy, in soiled dust jacket with light edge wear and price on front flap (277 pages, 68 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index).

Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s Inc., 2004. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (381 pages). As-new, in dust jacket.