Authors starting with K from James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co, 1976. First Edition. Paperbound, oversized, 116 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author John M. Kaduck and his wife to actor Gene Barry. Inscribed: To Gene Barry, We hope you enjoy our book, John & Margaret Kaduck. Nov. 23, 1994.” A catalogue of black & white photos of silent film stars with prices, presented in a collage format, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Billie Burke, Richard Barthelmes... more information

Boston: Little Brown, 1971. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Pauline Kael: “For Dick & Merle & Moxie - with love, Pauline.” This is the rarest of Kael’s work. Pauline Kael’s essay claiming that Welles did not write any of the Citizen Kane screenplay has now been thoroughly disproved and discredited with research from the RKO archives, and Robert Carringer’s thorough study, ‘The Making of Citizen Kane’. Still, the book does contain as its redeeming feature the first printing ... more information

Honolulu, HI: Oscar U. Hyatt, 1925. First Edition. Sheet music with words and music for the song “When You Come Back,” by Hiram B.K. AnaHu. Very good lightly used copy with a 5” split to the center fold at the bottom and with a trace of dust soiling. The front cover is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a Hawaiian land and sea scape with two black & white photographs of Duke Kahanamoku - one of him posed with a ukulele and the other of him in a swimming outfit standing in front of his beautifully ... more information

London: Michael Joseph , 1939. First Edition. The classic memoirs by the founder of the Obelisk Press in Paris and the discover of Henry Miller and who published Tropic of Cancer. A whole chapter is devoted to Miller and his memories of Joyce, Hemingway, Stein, Ford, etc. Near fine in a dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears mended by an expert paper conservationist. ... more information

Radnor, PA: Chilton, 1974. First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author: “For Ted Berensen, Meir Kahane.” Fine in a lightly used dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears. This book was Kahane’s battle plan for the creation of a new Jewry. ... more information

New York: Newmarket Press, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author / actress / producer Salma Hayek. Oversize pictorial format. A beautifully color illustrated screenplay with forewords and introductions by Salma Hayek, Julie Taymor, and Hayden Herrera. The resulting film is the highly acclaimed motion picture biography of Mexican artist and activist, Frida Kahlo, and her artist husband, Diego Rivera. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The film was directed by Julie Taymor and starred Salma Hayek as Frida, with... more information

New York: Boni & Gaer, 1948. First Edition - Paperbound. Very good copy with some slight tanning to the pages and a touch of fading, dust soiling, and edge wear to the covers in printed wrappers. The details of the ten Hollywood screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals who were indicted and blacklisted for their political and philosophical points of view: Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Al... more information

Bahrenfeld, Germany: Cigaretten Bilderdienft, 1935. First Edition. A two volume history of German film published by a German cigarette company in an oversized photo album format with nearly 400 hand-tipped-in black and white photographs of a multitude of German film stars represented including Pola Negri, Walter Slezak, Brigette Helm, Leni Riefenstahl, Emil Jannings, Willy Fritsch, Henny Porten, and even Gary Cooper posing with Marlene Dietrich in a passionate scene from Morocco, a film directed by Josef v... more information

New York: Random House , 1936. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Harry Ruby to Dave Kapp, the former head of A&R at Victor Records. Inscribed by the author: “To Dave Kapp, On page 19 you’ll find the famous ‘Captain’ Spaulding, who, but for Groucho Marx, might have passed away an unsung hero. Sincerely, Harry Ruby.” The inscription refers to the song “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” which served as Groucho Marx’s theme song and has an amusing essay by him. Additionally, laid in is ... more information

New York: Random House , 1936. First Edition. Oversize. Signed presentation copy from Harry Ruby. Inscribed by the author: “To Norman Foster, To inscribe a book for the above kid is a pleasure. Sincerely, Harry Ruby.” Norman Foster was a film director who directed a number of the better Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan films. His stylish approach came to the attention of Orson Welles who asked him to direct the Mercury film production of Eric Ambler’s novel Journey Into Fear (1943). A collection of the team... more information

Absecon, NJ: MagicImage Filmbooks, 1993. First Edition. Signed by the author’s step daughter, Cammie King, who played Clark Gable’s and Vivien Leigh’s daughter, Bonnie Blue Butler, in the 1939 film classic ‘Gone With the Wind’ produced by David O. Selznick. Her signature reads: “Cammie King ‘Bonnie Blue Butler’ in ‘Gone With the Wind.’” King was also the voice the character Faline in the Walt Disney’s 1942 animated film classic, ‘Bambi.’ Illustrated autobiography of Dr. Herbert ... more information

1930s. Original autograph signature of author Guamundur Kamban, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Guamundur Kamban is the author of ‘We Murderers. A Play in Three Acts,’ ‘ The Virgin of Skalholt,’ ‘Hadda Padda. A Drama in Four Acts,’ etc. ... more information

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980. First Edition. Tiny bit of foxing to the top edge, else fine in a fine bright dust jacket. A Toby Peters mystery in which he takes on the challenge of clearing the name of an unlikely Hollywood screenwriter: William Faulkner, with the most famous ‘Dracula’ actor of all time, Bela Lugosi, in the story as well, as the recipient of a series of death threats. ... more information

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986. First Edition. A mystery story which begins with the detective, Toby Peters, waking beside a corpse and John Wayne pointing a .38 between his eyes. Wayne is vindicated, but later becomes the object of target practice and Peters enlists the aid of Charlie Chaplin to find the killer. Fine in dust jacket. Entertaining reading. ... more information

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Stuart Kaminsky to a friend. Mae West is in distress when her sizzling autobiography is stolen, she hires the intrepid Toby Peters to recover it, and the story comes to a climax at a lavish Cecil B. DeMille party. Fine in dust jacket. Entertaining reading. ... more information

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985. First Edition. A mystery story which finds the detective, Toby Peters, involved with his ex-wife’s recently dead husband and boxer Joe Louis, who is charged with the murder. Fine in dust jacket. Entertaining reading. ... more information

New York: Scribners, 1990. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

232 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author, Stuart M. Kaminsky. With corrections, additions, and deletions in Kaminsky’s hand throughout and his bold signature to several of the interior pages. About fine in a custom cloth clamshell box. The First Edition Review Copy was published by St. Martin’s Press in 1980, and has the publisher’s dated notice laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Toby Peters again finds himself in the company of the famous, trying to sort out their troubled lives. This time, ... more information

229 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author, Stuart M. Kaminsky. With corrections, additions, and deletions in Kaminsky’s hand throughout, as well as printer’s marks. Also laid in is a Typed Note Signed by Kaminsky: “...St. Martin’s just sent me the attached. I have three novels coming out in 1983: HE DONE HER WRONG, a Toby Peters tale for St. Martin’s; WHEN THE DARK MAN CALLS for St. Martin’s; and BLACK KNIGHT ON RED SQUARE for Charter. Stuart. I hope to get to New York at the end of the ye... more information

New York: Morrow, 2005. First Edition. Signed by the author, Susan Kandel, on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A Cece Caruso mystery. ... more information