Search Results: Authors starting with K from Turn and Temper Books

Gallimard, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Couverture rigide. Condition: Bien. reliure pleine toile rouge, sans rhodoïd, (140x200 cm), 286p. Exemplaire 2117. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full red cloth binding, without rhodoid, (140x200 cm), 286p. Copy 2117.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small, neat name to free front endpaper but the rest is clean with no marks. Light brown cloth binding, with title to spine on darker ground. No dust jacket. Seminal book with impact.

Princeton University Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. Very nice copy of Volume 2. Binding at front pages showing light separation, otherwise clean copy. Dust Jacket has minimal spotting on the inside. Wartime correspondence between these two leaders. All books shipped in cardboard and packaged with care.

Princeton University Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volume One Only. Hardback: Fine Condition, crisp with no markings. Feels unread. Dust Jacket: Near Fine Condition with minimal spotting on inside. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright. All books shipped in cardboard and packaged with care.

Henry Regnery Company, 1974. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition.  Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Newspaper clipping ephemera attached to inside page led to isolated fading on inner front board and first blank page.  One small tear at top and two small tears at bottom of dust jacket. 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.2 inches; 228 pages .

Princeton University Press, 2010. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Condition: New. Brand new book still in plastic wrapper from the warehouse. A work about the rich holdings of Greek manuscripts and miniatures in Princeton, New Jersey, housed in the Firestone Library and the art museum of Princeton University, in the Scheide Library, and in Princeton Theological Seminary. It features key monuments in the history of Byzantine illumination. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 544 pages, 250 color illus.

Harper & Row, Publishers, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. Condition: Fine in near-fine jacket. Inscribed first edition, later state, of the commercial and critical success that established Sendak's talent as an illustrator and Krauss's reputation for capturing child-like lyricism - an especially nice copy inscribed by Krauss. Krauss enjoyed enormous acclaim, particularly in the 1950s, as a writer on her own terms for her children's books that are now better known today as early "Sendak titles." Biographer Philip Nel argues that, because she "treated them as equals, children accepted Krauss as one of them, confiding in her, telling her stories, or just playing while she watched. She listened, wrote down what they said, and used her poet's ear to select phrases that displayed a natural, unrehearsed lyricism." Krauss, along with her husband Crockett Johnson, was a formative mentor for Sendak. While their relationship was often… Read More

Delacorte Press, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A Nice Clean Tight Book, No Marks Or Inscriptions. Purple Cloth Covered Boards In Excellent Condition With Gilt Title On Spine. Excellent condition.