Search Results: Titles starting with K from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., 1941. First limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies (and with the tipped-in publisher's note stating that this was intended to be a signed edition but as the Vicomte Gantan De Poncins was called back to his country for the war his signature was temporarily unavailable but the publisher would fulfill this goal). Octavo. xii, 339, [1] pp. plus 32 pages of photographic ilustrations in the rear. Publisher's quarter red leather over buckram boards, gilt spine lettering, t.e.g. In the publisher's red slipcase with printed paper cover label. Some aging to slipcase (one joint split). Spine extremities of volume with light wear. A very good copy of this iconic book.

Calcutta: S.P. League, Ltd., 1949. First edition in English, Tall octavo. xiii, [1], 242 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations and all ten maps called for at the rear of the book (loose as issued). Publisher's vivid moire-like green cloth with spine lettering in black. Photographic dust jacker with a large chip at the base of the spine and smaller ones elsewhere. A very clean and complete copy in the original dust jacket.This title is the only one not strictly Buddhist on the list. The sacredness of the Roof of the World has been with humanity from time immemorial. In the early 2oth century the area was given prominence in the West by Madame Blavatsky who claimed that the "Hidden Masters" were all Tibetans. But the area holds power for many religions of the area. Mount Kailash is the most sacred mountain in Asia. As the tallest amongst the surrounding mountains, it stands alone deep within the Himalayas of Tibet and is only accessible through treacherous roads and hikes. Its… Read More

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939. First edition. One of 486 copies, of which this is one of 90 with the Valenti Angelo designs illuminate in colors. Quarto. 86, [2] pp. Publisher's mauve boards with spine lettering anc cover device in white. A very clean and fine copy.Written by Marie Louise Burke, this item has become somewhat scarce in the trade. From the librray of Francis P. Farquhar.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First edition. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. One of 486 copies, of which 90 are illuminated (as with this copy). Quarto. 86, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Hand-colored vignettes throughout. Publisher's rose boards with white spine lettering and front cover design. Francis P. Farquhar's copy with his discreet pencil signature. Untrimmed and unopened. Light sunning to spine, else an excellent copy.

Portland: Binfords & Mort, (1944). Second edition (first was in 1917). Octavo. 500 pp. Publisher's red cloth with black spine and cover lettering. Index included. Spine a bit sunned else very good.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1901. First edition in English. Small octavo. 181, 3-13 pp. Complete. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in red and dark green. An excellent copy.Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical, legal political activity. Under his leadership, the SPD grew from a tiny sect to become Germany's largest political party.

Tokyo: Bisojutsu Shuppansha, 1962. First edition. Two folio volumes. 170, [16, text]; 181, trifold plate, [14, text] pp. The text sections are in Japanese. The work is almost entirely photographic illustrations of Japanese shapes [katachi]. Publisher's cream spines over black boards, gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets, original slipcases with laid-down cover labels. Bit of emulsion to top inch of dust jacket fron second volume flaked off but still an excellent copy, in dust jackets and slipcases, of this visual study of inanimate Japanese culture.

Gdansk: N.p., (1987). Original bronze medal, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches, in original box as presented by Lech Walesa according to pencil note on the back of a laid in business car. The card is for Richard Z. Chesnoff, Senior Correspondent at US New & World Report. On the back of the card is the following manuscript notation; "Received by RZC from Lech Walesa at Krakow Synagogue, Jan. 17, 1987. Maker's sticker still on inner cover. Box is burgundy cloth with a gilt Polish eagle on the front. Excellent condition.Lech Wa sa is a Polish retired politician and labour activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity (Solidarno ), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. The Katyn Forest is where 22,000 of Poland's best and brightest, the intelligentsia of Poland, were executed in a WWII massacre in the spring of 1940 carried out by NVDK, the forerunner of the KGB, Joseph Stalin's secret police. Until fairly… Read More

Kaweah: Burnette G. Haskell, April 4, 1891. First edition. Bifolio (4 pp.; 16 1/4 x 11 inches). Minor wear to edges but a very good copy."Influenced by Grodlund and other prominent writers, a group of Bay Area residents, lead by the labor activists, organized the Kaweah Co-Operative Commonwealth (the Kaweah Colony). Its purpose was to patent the newly opened timbered resources of eastern Tulare County and use the timber as the basis for a new society. Eastern Tulare was largely inaccessible and thus of little interest to commercial timber interests. The participants applied for 53 patents covering 12,000 acres of land surrounding the forks of the Kaweah River. The Land Patent Office, suspicious of recent fraudulent patent activity in Humboldt County, was slow to process the claims. Assuming success, and perhaps encouraged by the land agents to move forward, the Kaweah Commonwealth was launched without the patents. Funds were not only raised by the participants as part of a buy-in, but also from… Read More

New York: United States Rubber Co,, (1940). This production was issued for Boy Scouts only. Folio (12 x 20 inches). It is bound at the bottom so that Boy Scouts could take it and go door to door and flip the pages for their prospective customers to view the various styles available. The first leaf is a chromolithograph and the remainder are monochrome. 16 leaves showing the various types of Keds available and 4 leaves at the rear discussing the prizes available to Troops that sell the most, Publisher's yellow flexible soft front cover with the following printed message "53 Million Keds Messages to 7 Basic Markets." The rear cover is stiff cardboard. All bound by a single brad at the bottom. A few red dots on front and very minor foxing to first leaf, else a very clean and handsome copy.Some of the styles features are: Yeoman Oxford, Majestic Oxford, Bike Keds, Kes Speedway, Keds Stride, Keds Devlin. Majestic Keds, etc,n 1916, U.S. Rubber consolidated 30 different shoe brand names to create one… 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.

Detroit: Acme White Lead and Color Works, (1928). First edition. Quarto. 55, [1] pp. Color illustrations of decorated rooms throughout. Publisher's gray bards with front cover bearing red lettering, green endpapers. Very small and discrete personal stamp at upper margin of frontispiece and title, else a really lovely copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First trade edition. Inscribed by Tom Lea on the half-title of the first volume; "Inscribed for Kit and Clay Bedford / with warm regard / Tom Lea". Two octavo volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's two-tone cloth with spine lettering in silver and black, floral endpapers, original slipcase with laid-down illustrated title panels. 1958 gift inscription on front pastedowns. Very minor wear to open corners of slipcase. Very clean and attractive.

Tokyo: Sophia University, 1940. First edition. Quarto. xvii, [1], 344, [4, printer's slug, errata and publisher's ads] pp. Numerous illustrations. largely untrimmed and unopened. Beige cloth with brown morocco gilt lettering label. Original front wrapper bound in (with three bits of tape on it). A clean, complete and attractive copy.

Sturgis, MI: Kirsch Manufacturing Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo. 30 pp. with numerous illustrations of drapes and other window treatments. Eight of the pages have color illustrations for showing fabrics. Publisher's pictorial color wrappers, Mild spine rubbing else a very good copy.Laid in is a typed letter to the recipient of this catalog, Ms. Annette Weatherford, a Home Economics Instructor from Ashland, Oregon.

Essen: Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 1911. A portfolio of ten large mounted gelatin silver prints of the Krupp armament plant in Essen/Ruhr. The images measure from 11 x 9 inches (229 x 279 mm.) to 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (165 x 222 mm.). They are on stiff gray mounts, 12. 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (318 x 387 mm.), each with a red border and a printed caption in French. Original green cloth portfolio (15 1/2 X 12 3/4 inches) with gilt cover lettering. Some aging and sunning to portfolio but the prints are excellent.[together with]Donnees Statistiques. Essen/Ruhr; Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 1909. First edition. Octavo (5 14 x 8 inches; 203 x 133 mm.). 144 pp. with text in French. Profusely illustrated in half-tone, including reproductions of the photographs in the portfolio. Bound in matching green cloth with title in gilt on front cover. Aside from some spine sunning, a very attractive copy.A photograph of the original wooden structure that housed Krupp's first factory, surrounded by the huge development of… 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: American Book Company, (1913). First edition. Small octavo. 237, [3, ads] pp. plus twelve full page color illustration by Curtis. Publisher's brown cloth with pictorial representation of a Hopi Indian on the front, black spine lettering. Mild rubbing to spine extremities but a very good copy.