Critik der reinen Vernunft
by Kant, Immanuel
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781. First edition. Very Good +. An uncut copy of one of the most influential philosophy books ever published: Kant himself (very modestly) judged the work as comparable with the Copernican heliocentric revolution. Octavo (215 x 129 mm), pp. [xxiv], 856. Wood-engraved title vignette, wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled boards rebacked and recornered in sprinkled sheep, edges uncut. Housed in custom made blue cloth solander box. Contemporary notation to foot of title... Read More
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (In Two Volumes)
by Kavanagh, Julia
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, with gilt to spine and top edges. Mild shelfwear to extremities and small split to the crown of Vol I holding well. Marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Robert Heysham Sayre, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1824-1907) and the ownership signature of the same on the front endpaper of each volume; Volume II extra-opened between the title and table of contents,... Read More
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The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue
by Kay, R.
New Castle: M. Angus & Son, 1801. First edition. Featuring eight woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Nineteenth century pebbled cloth with gilt to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Corners gently bumped and some bubbling to cloth of front board; rear hinge a bit tender and rear pastedown faintly soiled. Internally pleasing, with some offsetting to the title page and occasional light scattered foxing as is typical in imprints of this period. Some leaves unopened. A scarce work on educating both men... Read More
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Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems...with Engravings by Robert Gibbings
by Keats, John; [Golden Cockerel Press]
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First thus. Very Good. One of 500 copies, printed and illustrated by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerell Press. Bound in original quarter dark brown "sharkskin" over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed). Tall quarto. 101, [1, colophon] pp. With engraved title-page and elaborate head- and tailpieces by Gibbings and initials in red by Eric Gill. Minor soiling to lower board. With a printed illustration of Keats and a small twentieth-century newspaper... Read More
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Sonnets and Lyrical Poems
by [Kelmscott Press] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. First thus. Very Good. One of 310 copies on paper (six copies on vellum were also produced). Original full limp vellum binding. Octavo. xii, 197 pp. Printed by William Morris in red and black with a large engraved double-page title and many elaborate initials throughout. Spine titled in gilt. Rubbing and some browning to binding. Original fore-edge ties clipped. Ink ownership signature, dated 1958, to front free endpaper. A Very Good copy, bright and... Read More
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Biblia Innocentium (Edward Burne-Jones' copy)
by Kelmscott Press; Mackail, J.W.
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. From the library of Edward Burne-Jones, with his bookplate. A Very Good+ copy. Octavo. Decorative woodcut border to first page of text, six- and ten-line woodcut initials. Original stiff vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Foot of spine a little bumped, binding a little soiled, lacking silk ties, gatherings unopened, occasional light foxing. Burne-Jones designed books for the Kelmscott Press between 1892 and 1898. At the end of his... Read More
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The Strategy of Peace (Presentation copy)
by Kennedy, Senator John F. (Allan Nevins, editor)
New York: Harper Brothers, 1960. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket with some rubbing, chipping, and shelfwear to the spine ends, corners, and edges. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To James Corman with regards and best wishes, Jack Kennedy." Housed in a custom black quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. The recipient James C. Corman (1920-2000) was then-Los Angeles City... Read More
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Visions of Gerard (Presentation copy)
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1963. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Presentation copy with the publisher's bookplate, with the printed message "This book is sent with the compliments of the Author" and Kerouac's typewritten message "who says Hullo Justin." Justin Brierly had mentored Neal Cassady during his teenage years and later became acquainted with Kerouac and Ginsberg as well. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Dust jacket with some chipping to corners and... Read More
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The Town and the City (Signed first edition)
by Kerouac, Jack [John Kerouac]
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Signed "John Kerouac" to upper free endpaper - an early example of Kerouac's signature, before he began signing as Jack. The Town and the City was the only book he published under the name John Kerouac, and the only one he signed as such. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Dark blue topstain, somewhat faded. One... Read More
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On the Road
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good. A Very Good+ copy with the spine titles a bit rubbed, but internal contents generally clean. In a Very Good first issue jacket. Jacket with several small tape repairs to the verso, minor edgewear and creasing to the extremities and a small stain to the lower portion of the front flap. "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's," Bob Dylan said of On... Read More
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by [Fine Binding - Riviere] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: Macmillan, 1906. Fifth edition. Fine. Later issue. A Fine copy. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 /14 inches; 197 x 133 mm.). [iv], [1]-112 pp. Bound ca. 1906 by [Riviére] for Hatchards (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full purple morocco, covers paneled in gilt, front cover elaborately decorated in gilt in an 'art nouveau' style with fifty-six tiny inlaid red morocco circles, rear cover with four tiny inlaid red morocco circles, spine with five raised bands, decoratively... Read More
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863. First edition, second state. Near Fine. Small square octavo (8 x 6 1/8 inches; 203 x 155 mm.). [viii], [3], 4-350, [1 advertisements], 1 blank, without the 'L'Envoi' leaf which was canceled early on by Kingsley, and inserted frontispiece and full-page illustration opposite p. 145, with eight large engraved initial chapter letters. Bound in original dark green fine-grain cloth, front cover with gilt triple-rule border enclosing a pictorial gilt center device depicting Tom,... Read More
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The Shining
by King, Stephen
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First printing, with R49 gutter code on p. 447 and "First Edition" on copyright page. A Near Fine copy, presenting very well, with just a trace of foxing to closed edges of text block and minor wear to cloth at head and tail of spine. Small ink gift inscription to front free endpaper (Carol - Happy Birthday! John). First issue dust jacket (with "TS" and... Read More
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (Signed limited edition)
by King, Stephen
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Signed limited edition. Fine/Fine. One of 1,250 copies signed by Stephen King and artist Berni Wrightson. A Fine copy in like publisher's glassine dust jacket. Publisher's full black leather. Housed in the publisher's black wooden "coffin" case. When Stephen King brought his manuscript for The Stand to Doubleday in 1978, the story was over 450,000 words long (about 1,200 pages). The publisher warned that the production cost of such a long book... Read More
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Kim
by Kipling, Rudyard
London: Macmillan, 1901. First UK edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. A Near Fine example retaining its brightness and shape; internally with some foxing to title page and preliminaries. Kim stands as a separate character from the other books that had made Kipling's name -- "'Not much of a story' may perhaps be the verdict of the ruthless boy reader who revels in the Jungle... Read More
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A Song of the English
by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title... Read More
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The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First editions. Very Good+, Near Fine. A handsome set. Publisher's blue cloth bindings stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Slight wear to the spine ends and corners of The Jungle Book, a little foxing internally, otherwise very clean and fresh throughout. A Very Good+ copy. The Second Jungle Book presenting very well indeed, front hinge a little tender, bookeller's ticket to foot of front free endpaper verso. A Near Fine... Read More
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The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Signed limited edition in 35 vols.)
by Kipling, Rudyard
London: The Macmillan Co, 1937. The Sussex Edition. Very Good +. One of 575 numbered sets, signed by the author in the first volume. Leaves measuring 240 x 160 mm, with the set occupying 141 cm (55 in) of shelf space. A Very Good+ set. Bound for the publisher by James Burn & Co. in full reddish-brown Niger morocco. Double ruled in gilt. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Sunning and speckling to some... Read More
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Letters to the Family
by Kipling, Rudyard
Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1908. First edition. Original printed wraps, measuring 170 x 117mm and complete in 72 pages. Chipping, wear, and staining to spine and wrap edges; splitting to both joints near the foot of spine. Light toning internally, else unmarked. A scarce piece. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise, with mottling and wear to cloth. Written during a 1907 trip to Canada, Letters to the Family captures the author's commitment to the British Empire and those... Read More
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Songs From Books
by Kipling, Rudyard
Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good +, with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an... Read More
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China Monumentis, qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata
by Kircher, Athanasius
Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonium á Waesberge & Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. First edition. Near Fine. Folio (9 x 243 mm). [*4], [**4], 1-237, [238-248, index] pp; [*4], [**4], A4 - Gg3, index Gg4 - Hh4; 8 ff. (incl. the engraved title). Finely engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page. Twenty-three engraved plates (one of which is folding), two double-page engraved maps, and fifty-nine engravings in the text. Early vellum over boards, covers ruled in blind and with central blind-stamped device. Spine with five... Read More
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Diatribe de prodigiosi Crucibus
by Kircher, Athanasius
Rome: Vitale Mascardi, 1661. First edition. Small octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/16 inches; 164 x 103 mm). [viii], 103, [1, blank] pp., one fold-out plate. Roman and italic type. Woodcut initials, head- tailpieces. Late nineteenth century full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Slight burn mark affecting 1/4 x 1/2 inch of top blank margin of last three leaves of text and rear endleaves (not affecting any text). Later endpapers with original marbled endpapers bound in. Housed in a... Read More
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A Night in a Balloon. An Astronomer's Trip from Paris to the Sea in Observation of Leonids
by Klumpke, Dorothea
New York, 1900. First edition. Extracted from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Volume LX, Number 2), pages 276-284. Disbound but complete; dampstaining to lower third of all pages. This first-hand account of aeronautical astronomical study by a key female scientist is scarce. "Dorothea Klumpke was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy -- a feat she accomplished in 1893 at the University of Paris, with a dissertation about the rings of Saturn...She began working at the... Read More
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Cookery for English Households
by [Cookery] A French Lady
London: Macmillan, 1864. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards. Corners gently bumped; small split to cloth at top of rear joint. Blue coated endpapers. Hinges strengthened. Internally a tight, clean, copy without the typical spatter or signs of use associated with kitchen texts. Collates viii, 306, [6, adverts]: complete, including the two front plates. A scarce example of a cookery text designed for an emerging class of elegant middle class... Read More
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Fables de la Fontaine
by La Fontaine, Jean de. J.J. Grandville (illustrator)
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1854. Early printing of this illustrated edition, first published in 1838-40. Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 inches; 266 x 178 mm.). Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebbled cloth over boards. Covers ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, watered silk paper end-leaves, all edges gilt. Collating [4], xxiv, 598, [1, epitaph], [3, blank]. Inserted engraved frontispiece and 240 engraved illustrations of the fables as well... Read More
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