Titles starting with K from Glenn Books

Tokyo: Japanese Travel Bureau., 1948. This is Tourist Library:7. 102pp. with color frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout. Color onlay front cover. . Second Edition.. Tan Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Thin Octavo. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Psychedylic dust jacket, a little chipped at corners. A very nice copy of the author's FIRST BOOK. A collection of writings, most of them about the "new American culture". 339pp.. First British Edition.. Pink Cloth.. Minor Wear and Soiling./Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Topeka, Kansas: Geo. W. Martin, 1878. Lettered and blocked in black. Vignette of ship and train in gilt on front cover. Spine rubbed and lightly faded. A series of three sketches, "A Kansan Abroad", "Pike of Pike's Peak", and "The World a School". 240pp.. Second Edition.. Salmon Cloth. Moderate Edge Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Kansas City: Historic Kansas City Corporation, 1979. Nearly 200 photos, maps, and illustrations trace the city's evolution from fur trading post to urban center. 185pp.. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Quarto. ... more information

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892. The story of the Free-State struggle by one of the principles. The author was a founder of Lawrence, was the first governor of Kansas. 487pp. Dary Kanzana 257, Rader 2799.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Kansas City: Emory Lanphear, M.D. 1889 Orange Wrappers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Monthly journals, 12 in number, for the year 1889. Tenth year, Number 109-120. Bound together with string. Covers soiled and chipped. Internally rather clean throughout. Some evidence of insect damage to some fore-edges. A number of advertisements for drugs of the day. Articles on wide variety of medical subjects, many by local and regional physicians.. ... more information

Chicago: Childrens Press, 1965. Illustrated throughout. Color pictorial cover and matching dust jacket showing a wheat field at harvest along with the State seal, flag, flower, bird, and outline of the State. One from a series called "Enchantment of America State Books". Quite nicely printed. 93pp.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Illus. by Roger Herrington. Square Octavo. ... more information

Topeka, Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society, 1931. This is Volume 1, Numbers 1-5, in the new numbering system and Volume 18 in the Kansas Historical Collections. Nice articles on pioneer printing in Kansas, military posts, early Baptist missions, Kansas frontier defense, range cattle, surveyors massacred by Indians, Santa Fe freighting, among much more. 526pp.. First Edition.. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear.. Octavo. ... more information

Topeka, Kansas: Crane and Company, 1900. TWO VOLUMES. Numbers 5 and 6 in the Crane "Twentieth Century Classics" Part 1 is Poetry, 125pp. and Part 2 is Literature, 150pp.. First Edition. Grey Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling.. Octavo. ... more information

Iola, Kansas: Laude Printing Company, 1920. Spine sunned to blue. Front cover lettered in gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout the text. A rather thorough at the Shorthorn. Information on cattle farms listed by county. See Adams Herd 1310. 647pp.. First Edition. Purple Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1856. This is Executive Document Number 10, 34th Congress, Third Session. The document is 36 pages in length. A message from the President of the United States (Franklin Pierce) referred to the Committee on Territories, and including extracts from a letter of Governor Geary, together with a copy of executive minutes of the Kansas Territory. Fascinating material on care of prisoners, dealing with local Indians, and other matters. Bound in full brown leather, rebacked a... more information

Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa Tribune Quarterly, 1893. Covers soiled, heavily chipped. Top corner of rear wrapper missing. Top free edges of last 8 pages rerpaired with tape. Paper is quite brittle. 98pp. with several pages of ads at the end. Three pages of sketches of the major players in the events during the legislative session of 1879. Subtitles, "How Civil War Was Threatened, and How It Was Averted".. First Edition. Wrappers. General Moderate Wear. Octavo. ... more information

Kansas City, Kansas: S.I. Meseraull and Son, 1915. Spine extremities slightly frayed. Short biographical sketches of 83 Kansas authoresses, many with photographic portraits. 40pp. with alphabetical index at the conclusion.. Second Edition. Tan Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling.. Octavo. ... more information

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co 1854., 1854. Spine faded to tyan. Chipping at head and tail of spine. 1"x2" paper loss at top of front free endpaper. Foldout map intact. A very nice copy. According to Dary, this was the first book written about Kansas. The author lived in Worcester, Massachusettsa and wrote the book to encourage the emigration to the Kansas Territory of northerners who were opposed to slavery. See Kanzana 1, Graff 1709, Sabin 29624, Eberstadt 230, Wagner-Camp 239a. 256pp. + adver... more information

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Company, Ltd, 1921. With an appreciation by H.M. Cundall. Front cover lettered in gilt and green, spine lettered in green. Frontispiece photograph of Kate Greenaway with captioned tissue-guard. A series of twenty mounted color plates, one per page, each with a captioned tissue-guard, only one of which had previously been published. Covers show minor corner wear, some soiling, two small spots on front cover. . First Edition. 1/4 Yellow Cloth, Green Cloth. Minor Wear and ... more information

London The Religious Tract Society nd (ca 1860).. Original purple cloth, gilt. Spine sunned and some bubbling to cloth. Lacks front free endpaper. Frontispiece by Kronheim.. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. "Being His Adventures in New Orleans, on the Texas Santa Fe Expedition, in the Mexican War, and in the Colonization of the Texas Frontier". The story of George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837. He wrote editorials championing the infant Republic of Texas, was a member of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition which tried to occupy New Mexico, was captured in Santa Fe and sent off to Mexico. He later became the first modern war corresp... more information

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. , 1821. Three volumes. Rebacked in cream paper with original spine labels, some chipped but readable over original blue paper-covered boards. Hinges repaired with binder's cloth. Two preliminary ads in Vol I and 3pp. ads in Vol III. A nice, clean, kindly restored copy. . First Edition. OriginalPaper-Covered Boards. Light Corner Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

New York: Hastings House, 1947. Map in pocket at rear. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Map endpapers. 489pp.. Fourth Edition.. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Black leather spine label. In lightly edge-worn slipcase. This is #1427/1500 copies, done by the Pynson Printers of New York. Designed by Elmer Adler. Color-plates engraved on wood by Hans Alexander Mueller, signed in the colophon by the artist. From the Tenth Series of LEC volumes. First published in 1886. See Newman and Wiche 107. 237pp.. Limited Edition. Brick Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information