Authors starting with K from Joseph J. Felcone Inc.

1857. KANE, ELISHA KENT. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia, 1857. 2 vols. Plates, folding map. Half morocco. Edge of boards slightly gnawed, else very good. The ill-fated second Grinnell expedition. ... more information

1986. KARASIK, GARY. New Brunswick & Middlesex County. The Hub and the Wheel: An Illustrated History. [Northridge, Calif., 1986]. 4to. 223 p. Illus. Cloth. Another in the modern proliferation of formula "local histories," quite useful for the photographs but not much else. ... more information

1958. KARCHER, JOSEPH T. A Municipal History of the Borough of Sayreville, 1920- 1958. Boston, [1958]. 165 p. Plates. Cloth. Middlesex County. ... more information

1949. KARCHER, JOSEPH T. "Our Lady of Victories". [Sayreville, 1949.] 32 p. Illus. Cloth. History of Catholic church in Sayreville, Middlesex County. ... more information

1947. KARCHER, JOSEPH T. The Case for Sayreville, Middlesex County, New Jersey. [Sayreville, 1947.] 28 p. Illus. Wrappers. Title foxed. Promoting Sayreville and soliciting industry. ... more information

1977. KAY, JOHN L., and CHESTER M. SMITH. New Jersey Postal History. The Post Offices and First Postmasters, 1776-1976. Lawrence, Mass., [1977]. [14], 199 p. Cloth. Useful compilation of early New Jersey post office data. ... more information

1966. KEAN, ROBERT WINTHROP. Livingston and the Keans. An Address Presented to the Livingston Historical Society.... [Livingston], 1966. 12 p. Wrappers. History of the Kean family in Livingston. ... more information

1862. (KEARNY, PHILIP). Hand colored lithograph, General Philip Kearney. New York: Currier & Ives, [n.d., but 1862-63]. Image 12 7/8 x 9 in. plus min. 3/4 in. margins on all four sides. Very faint dampstaining in lower margin, mat burn toning on verso but not visible on recto. A very nice copy with good wide margins. Hand colored Currier & Ives lithograph depicting the one-armed Kearny, mounted on his white horse, at the front of his troops, battle rubble on the ground. Kearny was killed at Chantill... more information

1851. (KEARNY, PHILIP). Manuscript legal document concerning the estate of Kearny's father, Philip Kearny, Sr., 24 January 1851. One page, folio. Near fine. A minor legal document in the suit of Gouverneur Morris against Philip Kearny and Susan K. Macomb over the estate of their father, Philip Kearny, Sr. A note at the bottom reads "Major Kearny has gone to California...." ... more information

1860. (KEARNY, PHILIP). Carte-de-visite photograph by J. Gurney & Son, New York, depicting the distinguished Civil War general in military uniform. No date, but early 1860s. One corner very slightly bumped, but overall very good. Nice photograph of Kearny (1814-1862), who was killed at Chantilly. ... more information

1788. KEATE, GEORGE. An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his Officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked.... London: For G. Nicol, 1788. 4to. xxvii, [1], 378 p. + errata leaf. Frontis., folding map, and 15 plates. Modern full leather (neat but a trifle amateur, covers a bit warped). Unobtrusive dampstain on corner of frontispiece, else a clean, wide-margined copy. &quo... more information

1936. KEATOR, EUGENE H. Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Reformed Church of Pompton Plains, New Jersey ... 1736-1936. [Pompton Plains, 1936]. 224 p. Illus. Cloth. Morris County. ... more information

1986. KEHOE, HELEN A. Resources of Paterson History: An Annotated Bibliography. Paterson, 1986. 4to. [4], 64 p. Wrappers. A useful, annotated bibliography of resources on Paterson. ... more information

1888. KEIFER, SARAH J. (HARRIS). Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the New Jersey Branch of the Harris Family, in the United States. Madison, Wis., 1888. 350 p. Ports. Cloth. Descendants of James Harris, who came to Essex County ca. 1725. Treats almost exclusively the nineteenth century descendants who moved west. ... more information

1956. KELLEY, MARION. Rounding the Turn, 1906-1956. Rahway, [1956]. x, 101 p. Plates. Cloth. History of Quinn & Boden book manufacturers, Rahway-- successors to the Mershom Company and at one time one of the leading book manufacturing firms in America. ... more information

1940. KEMMERER, DONALD L. Path to Freedom. The Struggle for Self-Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703-1776. Princeton, 1940. xvi, 384 p. Plates. Cloth. An important scholarly study of 18th-century New Jersey up to the Revolution. ... more information

1824. THOMAS a KEMPIS. The Imitation of Christ, in Three Books. Translated from the Latin ... by John Payne. Trenton: Francis S. Wiggins, 1824. 264 p. Contemporary sheep. Endpaper torn else a sound copy. ... more information

1783. THOMAS A KEMPIS. Of the Imitation of Christ: In Three Books. Translated ... by John Payne. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1783. 44, 211 p. Contemporary sheep (spine ends worn, a few signatures pulled). Some dampstaining to preliminaries. Apparently the first printing in America. Parsons 45; Evans 17994. ... more information

1880. KEMPSHALL, EVERARD. The Centennial Anniversary of the Burning of the Church Edifice of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey. "Caldwell and the Revolution;" A Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, Prior to and During the War of the Revolution.... Elizabeth, 1880. 45, [1] p. Wrappers (one tape repair). ... more information

1985. KENNEDY, LUDOVIC. The Airman and the Carpenter. The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann. [New York, 1985]. x, 438 p. Plates. Cloth-backed boards. An interesting study with documentation arguing that the Hauptmann case was rife with perjury and that Hauptmann was framed. ... more information