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New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition in this format. Quarto. Each volume is limited to 500 copies, Reproduced typescript with color and black and white photos at the rear. Titles include; The Fly with the Wings; Mental Institution, or Institute of Creative Research; The Red Wagon; We Are Leaving Here Forever! Housed in the publisher's cardboard clamshell case."Kabakov has created catalogues that reproduce the texts he has devised for the exhibitions and virtually recreate the original spectator's view. These are four of the catalogues, from 1991 exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Malmo. The texts are all in Russian and English and most are in French and German as well. Gatefolds of the plans enable readers to see how entire rooms appeared and numerous photographs offer an immediate experience of the finished installations." (Abrams).Ilya Kabakov is a Russian - American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for… Read More

Berlin: Oriental Translation Fund, 1838. First edition thus. Edited and translated by Adolph Fredericus Stenzler. Quato. iv, 139, [1] pp. Text in Sanskrit and Latin throughout. Publisher's [?] sand-grain green cloth with printed paper spine label, yellow endpapers. Label with tiny chips and some abrasion to the upper front board but a clean and tight copy."Kumarasambhava is a legendary Sanskrit poem written by Mahakavi Kalidasa. It is one of the most foremost and substantial examples of `Kavya` poetry. Kumarasambhava literally stands for “Birth of the War-god”, i.e. Kartikeya, Shiva`s first son.Kumarasambhava essentially talks about the courtship of Lord Shiva and Parvati. The bulk of chapters have enormous details about the love and romance between Shiva and Parvati. It is stated that a powerful demon named Tarakasura was blessed with the boon that only the child of Lord Shiva could vanquish him and no other. Likewise, Shiva had cut short the desire for love through passionate meditation.… Read More

New York: Wittenborn, Schultz Inc., 1947. Tall octavo. 95, [1] pp. Publisher's quarter cloth spine over decorative boards, printed paper spine label. Lower tips a but bumped, one small stamp and one small signature to front endpaper, light soiling to boards. A very good copy.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1972). First edition. One of 300 numbered copies (this copy #AA). Large square quarto. xviii, 350 pp. Well illustrated. Publisher's full reverse calf, gilt spine lettering. light gray endpapers, slipcase (slight wear). An excellent copy of this fine study of 19th-century Western artist Paul Kane.

Kansas City: (Tiernan-Havens Printing Co.), 1891. First edition. xviii, 245, [1] pp. with numerous full-page maps and charts and with 3 fold out maps of the area and one fold out chart of Kansas City manufacturies. Publisher's vertically-ribbed blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, floral endpapers. Some light wear to spine extremities but a very sharp and clean copy.Kansas' attempt at situating their city in the center of the country. Much on transportation.

N.P.: [NOT IDENTIFIED], [1925]. First edition. Octavo. [20] leaves with each leaf bearing two photographic illustrations of this great disaster. Captioned in English and Japanese and printed on versos only (Japanese read from back to front so their rectos). Publisher's string-tied orange wrappers bearing the title in Japanese and English and a blue photograph of a destroyed building. Old central crease. Spme mostly eroded but with no consequences on the book's integrity. Only two copies recorded by OCLC. Very good.

Benares/London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909. First edition. Octavo. xv, [1], 719, [1]. Complete with the 2 fold-outs at the rear (a route map and a photographic illustration of Mt. Gaurishankar) and all plates. Publisher's beveled orange cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, t.e.g. Bookplate of a Berkeley professor on the front pastedown. An excellent copy, almost flawless.Ekai Kawaguchi (1866 –1945) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who was famed for his four journeys to Nepal (in 1899, 1903, 1905 and 1913) and two to Tibet (July 4, 1900–June 15, 1902, 1913–1915). He was the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel to either country. He left Japan for India in June, 1897, without a guide or map, simply buying his way onto a cargo boat. He had a smattering of English but did not know a word of Hindi or Tibetan. Also, he had no money since he had refused the donations of his friends. Crossing over the Himalayas on an unpatrolled dirt road with an untrustworthy guide, Kawaguchi soon… Read More

Roanoke: he Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Quarto. xxxvi, 786 pp. Illustrations and maps. Publisher's green cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Blank front endpaper missing, else a very good copy.

Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1935. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait, 218 pp. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust jacket with only some very minor edge shipping. A very good copy in a very good jacket.Chief Washakie (c. 1798/1810 – February 20, 1900) was a renowned warrior first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshones by the representatives of the United States government. This book is a kind of poetic paean to him. The inscription reads; Wishing Dr. Nolie Mumey a joyous Christmas (1937) and glorious New Year. Dr. Keith is an Elder in out church in Caspar. Since you love the history of the early West we thought you would enjoy this book. We secured Dr. Keith's autograph in it for… Read More

J.P. Lippincott Co., 1903]. First edition. Two small octavo volumes. 352; 345, [1], pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume. Publishers’s yellow cloth, front covers framed in a green and gilt floral borders, gilt spine and cover lettering, t.e.g. Some rubbing (but no fraying) to spine extremities. A bright, very clean and attractive copy of this important work.Skinner was born in Victor, New York. His career in literature and journalism included editorship of the Brooklyn Eagle. His study of the paper’s famed Walt Whitman appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1903. Skinner published collections of myths, legends and folklore found inside the United States and across the world. Skinner hoped that America’s progress would transform the nation’s few legends into few but great ones – “as time goes on the figures seen against the morning twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature.” He hoped to combine folklore conventions with New England transcendentalism to keep… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1875. New edition. Quarto. 210 pp. With sixty-eight illustrations on wood; many of them full page. Publisher's brown cloth, front stamped in black and with a central design in black and gilt, gilt spine lettering, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Aside from some minor spine extremity wear, a lovely and very clean copy.

Verdi, NV: International Artist Publishing, 2004. First edition. Inscribed by Raymond Kelley to fellow Western artist William F. Reese: "For Bill and Fran Reese, thanks for many years of friendship and respect. Love to both of you, Raymond Kelley". Quarto. 155, [1] pp. Numerous color plates of Kelley paintings. Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.

Albuquerque: El Abogado Press, 1903. First edition. Small octavo. [8, including frontispiece photograph portrait], xxiii, 376, [9, index] pp. Publisher's teal cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. A bit cocked and a blank endpaper excised (likely due to an inscription), else a very clean and bright copy of this scarce title.An important pioneer record of New Mexico, printed in a small edition on the press of the New Mexico Spanish and English Mission. "In 1869 Bishop Edward R. Ames appointed [Rev. Thomas] Harwood to New Mexico, where he and his wife served together for nearly thirty-three years, until Emily’s death in 1902. In a community that was predominately Roman Catholic, the Harwoods successfully established several Methodist schools. In particular, a school for girls was opened in the early 1870s. By 1886, the Harwoods had founded six elementary schools and two academies.In 1879 Harwood founded a devotional periodical, El Abogado Cristiano, with articles in both English and Spanish.… Read More

New York: L. Riley, 1809. First edition. Three octavo volumes; xi, [1], 330; vi, 309, [1]; vi, 312 pp. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, smooth spines with gilt rules, devices and lettering. Vol. 1; front hinge cracked, lacking rear endpaper, inserted in the rear is a printed leaf of 'Catalogue No. 1, Franklin Circulating Library, 'Circulating Library' stamp to title page. Vol II; same stamp on title page, corner of last text leaf torn out (only affecting about three words, remnant of bookplate (of a circulating library. Vol III; lacks front and rear endpaper, same stamp on title and remains of bookplate. General browning to text (as usual). A good copy onlyDuring 1807 and 1808, Kendall travelled through the northern parts of the United States of America, as a result of which he published his historically important three-volume topographical dictionary. Kendall went on to become an influential writer of children's books.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1921. First edition. Twelvemo. Unpaginated. With three full page illustrations by Rockwell Kent (Hogarth Jr.). Publisher's pictorial boards in pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Some light edge wear to jacket and book. A very good copy.Tipped-in at the rear is a 1920 publication of Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932. First edition in English. Octavo. [iv], 420, [1, ad for another Keyserling publication, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, original yellow dust jacket printed in black and with a woodcut of Keyserling. Very mild edge wear to jacket but an excellent copy overall, spotlessly clean.Keyserling was born to a wealthy aristocratic family in the Könno Manor, Kreis Pernau in Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, now in Estonia. The Russian Revolution deprived him of his estate in Livonia, and with the remains of his fortune he founded the Gesellschaft für Freie Philosophie (now called "The School of Wisom)=) at Darmstadt. The mission of this school was to bring about the intellectual reorientation of Germany. He was the first to use the term Führerprinzip. One of Keyserling's central claims was that certain "gifted individuals" were "born to rule" on the basis of Social Darwinism. In 1918 his luck changed when… Read More

Austin: Madrona Press, (1973). First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Octavo. xii, [1], 104, [2, colophon] pp. Publisher's brown boards with gilt spine lettering, map endpapers, slipcase. A fine copy.No. 62 of 200 copies signed by Kilgore, with two correspondingly numbered 17.5" x 14.25" prints (frontis illustration and "Texas Ranger c. 1970") signed by Cisneros. Fine in near fine case with fine prints.

Berkeley: Heyday Books, (2002). First printing of the first edition. Oblong quarto. 128 pp. with numerous color illustrations from Killion woodblocks. Publisher's beige cloth with red spie and cover lettering, pattern endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped, else a fine copy.

Austin: Encino Press, 1965. First edition. One of 550 numbered copies, each signed by Kilpatrick in the syllabary invented by Sequoyah. Tall octavo. vii, [1], 25, [3] pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth with printed paper cover label, burgundy endpapers. In the slipcase with matching label. An excellent copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1862. Third edition in which the publisher changed the title from Undercurrents of Wall Street). Octavo. 428, 17[1], pp. Publisher's blind ruled green cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. A very good copy.Merited a 23-page review in the July 1963 issue of The North American Review. "Mr. Kimball combines in an unusual degree literary talent, and a knowledge of mercantile affairs as transacted in the daily life of city and country. He has, consequently, been able to inaugurate a new style of novel, and may fairly be considered the creator of the Romance of Business. In his hands it takes a form as distinct as the naval, military, sentimental, sensational or any other class into which the popular fictions of the day naturally fall." (Appleton's MagazinemJanuary, 1864.