Authors starting with K from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: The Modern Library, 1952. 19 cm; 328 p. Original cloth in dust jacket, with publisher's book list printed inside dust jacket. VG/VG-, with few scuffs and blemishes, especially on back panel of dust jacket. Edition not stated. ... more information

New York: Horizon Press, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Warmly inscribed to the author's colleague at the New School for Social Research, Issai Hosiosky. Inscribed by the author ... more information

Barre: Imprint Society, 1972. Cloth. Frontispiece plate corner creased, else fine in slipcase. ... more information

[Nagoya and Edo] : [Izumiya ichibei and Eiraku toshiro,], 1815. 32 cm; 30 folded leaves, most of them printed with woodblock illustrations by Hokusai. Original ochre wraps. Quite worn. Cover label illegible. Lower wrap torn at upper edge. Worm trail in upper margin of the second half of the book, affecting only the borderline of the last two images. Thumbed. Images still quite attractive. One volume of the pictorial encyclopedia of Japanese life with appeared in 15 volumes from 1812 to 1875. ... more information

[Nagoya and Edo] : [Izumiya ichibei and Eiraku toshiro,], 1815. 32 cm; 24 (of 30?) folded leaves, most of them printed with woodblock illustrations by Hokusai. Original ochre wraps. Disbound. Worn. Two leaves split along folds. Images still quite attractive. One volume of the pictorial encyclopedia of Japanese life with appeared in 15 volumes from 1812 to 1875. ... more information

[Nagoya and Edo] : [Izumiya ichibei and Eiraku toshiro,], 1815. 32 cm; 30 folded leaves, most of them printed with woodblock illustrations by Hokusai. Original ochre wraps. Disbound. Worn. One text leaf split along folds. Images still quite attractive. One volume of the pictorial encyclopedia of Japanese life with appeared in 15 volumes from 1812 to 1875. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. First American. Cloth. 23cm; 393 pages. Maps. Translation by F. D. Morrow of Das Alte Aegypten. ... more information

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. Two spots on front panel of jacket, else fine. ... more information

Berlin: Hyperion-Verlag, nd (1930?). 16mo (9 cm); 141 p. Printed wraps, illustrated with woodcut. Shelf wear, extremities rubbed, pulp stock browned. First and last leaves damped in margin. Printed in the Feldpostausgabe series. ... more information

London: A. and C. Black, 1909. 20 cm; viii, 87 pages, color frontispiece, and eleven other color plates, ads. Bound in blindstamped green cloth with color plate applied. Endleaves yellowed, but little other wear and no blemish to covers or text. Old bookplate. Intended for juvenile readers. ... more information

New York, March 20, 1798. 20 x 32 cm; 1 leaf docketed on verso. Horizontal fold split, repaired on verso with document tape. Edges chipped; some folds beginning to split. Marginal ghost of prior matting. Land contract between Andrew Gautier of Bergen County, New Jersey, and David Porter of New York, for land near Rutland, Vermont. Docketed on verso by Rutland town clerk Pliny Smith. Signed by James Kent (1763-1847), first professor of law at Columbia University, New York Supreme Court Justice (chief justi... more information

Cambridge: Harvard Univ Pr, 1989. Cloth. 242 pages; 24cm. Elegant literary essays. Dustjacket slightly discolored at edges. ... more information

New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1938. 29cm; [119] pages, including 9 tipped-in color plates mounted on red-clay colored paper with embossed border frame. Bound in black morocco decorated with red and gilt stamped design. Slip case. VG/G, with title slightly faded on front board, and stock lightly toned. Slip case good only, rubbed at extremities and beginning to split, yet better than usual condition. Desirable late-thirties edition of the Rubaiyat, illustrated with modern Persian miniatures. Text ... more information

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1907. Ex-Library. Cloth. 26cm; 480 pages with 100 illustrations. Condition: Good enough. Scuffed, with shelf mark on spine and pastedowns, but sound and entire. A good reference copy. ... more information

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1904. 19cm; xxxviii, 371, [1] pages, and half tone frontispiece portrait. Bound in full red polished calf prize binding, gilt with the crest of the Oxford Preparatory School and inscribed on bookplate to Maurice Jacks. Marbled endleaves and edges. ... more information

Philadelphia: P. Blackiston's son, 1926. Third edition. Cloth. 470 pages. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Shelf-worn copy of this popular textbook. ... more information

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. First edition. 23cm; xv, [1], 408 pages. Frontispiece and three full-page plates. Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Errata slip bound in at end. Bound in original green cloth. Frayed at crown and heel, joints beginning to split. Yet sound and entire. Early gift inscription. Some foxing at endleaves. ... more information

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Cloth in dust jacket. About fine. Published in Twayne's World Authors series, under the general editorship of Charles A. Moser. ... more information

New York: Society of Iconophiles, 1910. First edition. 26 cm; 63, [5] pages, engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, and four engraved half-page illustrations by Francis S. King. Bound in original 1/4 pebbled morocco over café-au-lait paper-covered boards. Title and seal of the Society of Iconophiles stamped in gilt on both boards. Title and date in gilt on spine. Slipcase not present. Covers are sound and entire, if a little smudged, especially on lower board. Spine ends expertly restore... more information

Basel: J. Decker, 1796. First Edition. 22cm; 2 volumes only (of 4). v. 1. ...Depuis la Paix de Westphalie en 1648, jusqu'aux traités d'Utrecht et de la Barriere en 1715 -- v. 2. Depuis la Triple-Alliance en 1717 jusqu'à la Paix de Fontainebleau en 1785. x, 352 [2]; [2], 301, [1] pages (last blank). Bound in original publisher's marbled stiff wraps, untrimmed, with manuscript title labels. These two volumes contain the treaties of the South and West of Europe (Spain, Portugal, ... more information