Search Results: Titles starting with K from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

San Francisco. First edition. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Wrappers. pp. 100 , [8], [8].21, [5], 26, 13, 2, 3. Mimeographed on rectos only. Illustrated. A highly detailed internal history of the first five years of the broadcast television station in Northern California. KPIX was the first station to originate national broadcasts in Northern California; the first to originate live afternoon programming; the first to broadcast opera, and the first to make color tests. No copy in WorldCat.

Honolulu: Minister of Public Instruction, 1853. Folio, 9-1/2 in. x 11/2 inches. Very good. Representative issue of this bi-monthly newspaper, intended chiefly to inform native readers about governmental affairs. Forbes 1555.

Honolulu: Board of Education, 1856. Folio, 4 pp. Mei 28, 1856.Wear to edges and folds. A representative issue of this weekly Hawaiian-language newspaper, published 1856-1861. Forbes 2157.

Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1911. First edition. Two volumes: Quarto, and portfolio of 29 color plates. Original wrappers with small splits and edge tears, spine cracked but intact.

Honolulu, 1861. 4to, 4 pp. Newspaper. Very good. Not in Forbes (excluded, apparently).

New York: [Gillis Bros. & Turnuré, Art Age Press], 1888. First edition. A travesty of The Taming of the Shrew. First published edition, greatly enlarged from a rare 23-page pamphlet privately printed the same year, second state of the text. The first book Bangs published under his own name. Original flexible black leather, gilt, gilt edges. Slight wear to edges. Presumably a presentation binding (normal copies were bound in wrappers over boards). Inscribed by Bangs on May 21, 1888, as is a similarly bound copy at AAS. BAL 699.

Honolulu, 1835. Folio, 4 pp. Volume 1, No. 16. Scarce single issue of this newspaper. Published from 1834-1839, it was the first newspaper to be printed in Honolulu. Forbes 903.

New York: Random House, 1946. First edition. Kauffer, E. McKnight. Tan cloth, a fine copy in slightly chipped dust jacket, the jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer.

New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1900. First edition. Original green decorated cloth, spine a bit faded. A well-researched work, illustrated with photographs. Evidently the first novel to deal with surfing. [33180].

Heavenly Monkey Press, 2019. Special "written" issue. 1/20 copies.

Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Second edition. One of 500 copies, printed for the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Original hand painted wrappers; Leonard Woolf thought this paper was not from the Omega Workshops, but copied by someone else from the papers used for the first edition. Light wear to the edges. Coth case. This was the first Hogarth Press publication to be printed by a commercial printer. One of Woolf's most famous stories, and a key early work of literary impressionism Kirkpatrick A3b; Woolmer 7.

Chicago: William and Noma Copley Foundation, 1966. First edition. Pink boards, blue spine, cover label, plastic jacket. Spine faded, else near-fine. Designed by Richard Hamilton.

Boston: James Munroe, 1857. First edition. 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt and blind-stamped. Illustrated with two engravings, and woodcuts. Slight wear at the head of the spine, occasional foxing; a very good copy. The first novel with a Hawaiian setting. Forbes 2219.

London: Dennis Dobson (1976), 1976. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. A mystery novel about food professionals.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Book Club edition. Black cloth, top edge stained red. Fine, dust jacket lightly worn at extremities, otherwise nearly fine. Juliar A9.2, BCE variant "a"

Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First edition. Signed by Sennett. Black cloth, fine, near-fine dust jacket slightly faded on the spine. Gift inscription on endpaper. Viejo, Film Books, 24.9.

One page, 8-1/2 in. x 11 in., on good quality paper. Folded twice.

New York: New Directions, 1966. First edition. Blue cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Crandell A 30.1.

[Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1971. First edition. Original green printed wrappers, 16 pages. Muldoon's very rare first book. Inscribed by the publisher, poet Frank Ormsby.

New York: P.F. Collier, 1893. First edition. 12mo, 216 pp. Original salmon pink wrappers, spine chipped, slight edge wear; very good. Forbes 4414.