Rare books from KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)

A. W. Shaw Company. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. 1589 pages: 5.5 x 8.25 in.: 8.8: KB#001558: No Jacket as Issued. Series consists of six (6) volumes: "Advertising and Service"; "Accounting and Costs"; "Loans and Discounts"; "Management and Executive Control"; "Buildings, Equipment and Supplies"; and "Credits and Collections". All books have black cloth boards, with bright gold gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Some corners are bumped; most are sharp, with slightly worn edges. All pages of each volume appear to be clean, complete and tight, unless otherwise indicated. Many have several fold-out maps and layout charts. "Advertising and Service" volume has 312 pages + index. "Accounting and Costs" volume has 225 pages + index. "Loans and Discounts" volume has 264 pages + index; two pages (Part 1 and pp. 2-3) are torn, with a 1" square piece torn… Read More

Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Reference. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2008. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 1,280 pages: 8.75 x 11.25 in.: 14.6: KB#007644: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Each volume is 8.75 x 11.25 in., with a total of 1,280 pages. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Content Volumes include: Vol. 1: Acid Indigestion to Calcium * Vol. 2: Calories to Energy Drinks * Vol. 3: Enzymes to Gout * Vol. 4: Grains to Legumes * Vol. 5: Lifespan, Human to Pesticides * Vol. 6: Phytonutrients to Soul Food * Vol. 7: Soup to Yogurt * Vol. 8: Indexes. "The 225 entries cover cooking and eating, cuisines, and foods and health, and are accompanied by sidebars, recipes, tables, and well-chosen and -captioned photographs. There are also entries on cultural and social aspects such as diet fads, fashion, and religion and food. Many entries relate to the production and business of… Read More

London, England: MacMillan and Co., Limited. Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1909. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 258 pages: 5.5 x 7.5 in.: 1.4: KB#009957: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Extremely Bright Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and embossed scrollwork/drawings on spine and front board, no marks or writing found anywhere, pages are clean, bright white, tightly bound, and square cornered. Binding feels "unread", it is so tight. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. A beautiful copy of a classic novel. This is the author's first full-length novel and is considered to be "one of the best of Blackwood's studies of the peculiar horrors and ecstasies of childhood". .

New York, New York: Duffield & Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1909. First US Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 310 pages: 5.5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#009960: First US Edition, which followed the First UK Edition and a First Colonial Edition, both published in 1908. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Original Slate Blue cloth boards with orange lettering on spine and front board (bright colors on front but somewhat faded on spine) and green twin cobra snakes intertwined embossing on front board. Pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Board and spine corners are slightly rubbed. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. The novel inspired a film of the same name directed in 1926 by Rex Ingram. "Set in Bohemian Paris at the turn of the 20th century, this sinister novel was inspired by the notorious black magician, Aleister Crowley, and portrays Parisian cafe society." .

Boston, Massachusetts: L. C. Page And Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1898. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 351 pages: 5.5 x 7.5 in.: 2.2: KB#009961: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. This is the author's second book. Lettering on spine is in (both) gilt for the title and black for author. Front board has green and gilt embossed picture of a knight with sword on horse approaching a castle. Beautiful copy of a classic novel. Copy has prior owner's name (B S Nogle) stamped in very small letters on several pages, including front flyleaf, list of illustrations page and inside of back board. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "A historical novel of Renaissance Italy." Has 351 pages plus 8 pages of ads of other books published by L. C. Page at that time. : B&W Illustrations .

Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1938. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 428 pages: 6.75 x 9.5 in.: 2.8: KB#010194: Book is contained in a beautiful, fine condition, matching labeled cloth clamshell box. Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Dustjacket is price clipped and has some edge cuts and a small edge chip. Book's boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Has scarce Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Boards are original decorated beige cloth, with front and spine lettering stamped in green and a green picture of a boy with his fawn on the front board and yellow endpapers. A classic novel that was the best-selling novel in America for the year 1938, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939, and was adapted into a film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, both of whom were nominated for Oscars for their performances.:… Read More

Peter Nevill Limited. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1949. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 426 pages: 6 x 8 in.: 1.8: Signed by Author: KB#010205: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Algernon Blackwood) under his photograph frontispiece. No dustjacket included. Boards are dark green with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly bumped and spine is slightly cocked. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name at top of front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Collects twenty-two short stories: The Doll * Running Wolf * The Little Beggar * The Occupant of the Room * The Man Whom the Trees Loved * The Valley of the Beasts * The South Wind * The Man Who Was Milligan * The Trod * The Terror of the Twins * The Deferred Appointment * Accessory Before the Fact * The Glamour of the Snow *The House of the Past * The Decoy * The Tradition * The Touch of Pan *… Read More

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: A. C. McClurg & Co.. Very Good in Fine Dust Jacket. 1920. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 428 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.6: Vol. 7: KB#010261: The Seventh Book of the Famous Tarzan Series. Dustjacket is a Fine condition facsimile bookjacket / dustjacket, enclosed in a protective Mylar cover. Boards are original olive-green cloth with front and spine panels stamped in dark brown. Light wear to edges of boards with a small dent in top edge of front cover. Starting to separate at front and rear endpapers, which has been well-repaired with archival tape. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no names, bookplates or writing), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except as indicated). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Includes a beautiful frontispiece and eight additional black and white illustrations by J. Allen St. John. "The seventh book of the adventures of Tarzan. Tarzan faced his worst attack - an attack against his wife and child. With the… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: The Bookfellows. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1919. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 142 pages: 5.5 x 8 in.: 1.2: Signed by Editor: KB#010258: First edition limited to 325 copies. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. DOUBLE INSCRIBED COPY. Book is SIGNED BY EDITOR (Vincent Starrett), with inscription, "Dear P. J. J - Kind regard, and gratitude for your interest. Vincent Starrett 10 March 1920" on front flyleaf, and SIGNED BY DEDICATEE (Walter M. Hill) to whom the book was dedicated, "With best wishes from one booklover to another, Walter M. Hill March 13th 1920", on dedication page. Lastly, it has an biographical newspaper article on Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (dated 3-28-20 The Line) affixed at the bottom of the half title page. Boards are dark green with light brown spine binding, and paper author and title labels on spine and front cover. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as… Read More

Herbornae Nassaviorum: Iohannis Nicolai Andreae. Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1712. Fourth Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 750 pages: 7 x 8.5 in.: 2.8: KB#010444: No Jacket As Issued. This book is written totally in Latin, Editio quarta, cui accessit index verborum et rerum (Fourth edition, to which is added a list of words and facts). Has bookplate (of Arthur Edward Waite of Middlesex) neatly affixed on inside of front cover. Book has slight bowing of boards typical of vellum. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Herman Witsius (1636-1708) was a Dutch pastor and theologian who became Professor of Divinity at the University of Franeker in 1675 and then at the University of Utrecht in 1680. In 1698 he went to the University of Leiden, where he died. Witsius made important contributions to both pastoral practice and systematic theology, especially covenant theology." .

New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company. Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1919. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 76 pages: 5.25 x 7.75 in.: 1: KB#011171: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. No dustjacket is included. Original brown paper boards with paper label on the front board and spine, both labels are clear and complete. Boards and pages are clean (except for small darkened rectangle at bottom of inside front board where a prior bookseller's label was), unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This, Ransom's first book, was completed during his military service in the First World War, where he served as an artillery officer in France. Later in life, he was an educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor, and was considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. .

Joannes Oporinis, Basil. Good. 1555. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 333 pages: 4 x 6 in.: 1: Ex-Libris: KB#011166: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Text is in Greek and Latin Languages on facing pages, with woodcut initials on beginning pages. Boards are lightly age-darkened white vellum. Copy has ex-library stamp of "The Library of the Xavier Union" at bottom of title page, a square stamp "Case 13 Shelf" on inside front board and title page, and a small group of inked numbers at top of back flyleaf. (Addl. Title Page Content - in Latin): "Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII. Addita Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione Latina, quae Graeco erigionè respondeat. Cum annotationibus Xysti Betuleij in Graeca Sibyllina oracula, & Sebastiani Castalionis in translationem suam: quae annotationes numeris marginalibus signantur. Quae praeterea huic editioni ultra priorem accesserint, diligens lector ex praefationibus &… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: Western Publishing House. Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1879. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 600 pages: 6 x 8.75 in.: 3.2: KB#011192: Copyright 1876. Corners of boards are worn and hinge is starting to lightly separate at title page, but has been well repaired by archival tape. Early pages are slightly rippled but are complete. Edge of many pages are lightly stained, presumably due to moisture penetrating book sometime during its over 130-year life. Otherwise, hinges are tight and pages are complete. Has decorative green cloth boards, with gilt lettering and illustration on the front board and spine. Page block edges are marbled. Contains 600 pages of beautiful, historical and informative text. All seven etched black and white plates are present with tissue guards (frontispiece and facing pp. 36, 120, 238, 408, 508, and 586. "The subject-matter of this book, Success and Happiness, has been the consideration of every eminent pen, from the… Read More

Cincinnati, Ohio: Franciscan Fathers. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1909. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 428 pages: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 2.2: KB#011174: Text is all in German language. "This periodical of the secular Franciscans was published for twenty-six years between 1892 and 1917." Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for wear at corners and board edges). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "The Franciscans came to Cincinnati in 1844 from Tyrol (Austria) to minister to Germanspeakingimmigrants. In 1876 the friars began editing the German-language monthly, Der Sendbote (German-American Messenger of the Sacred Heart), as an offshoot of their popular preaching. In 1892 the Franciscans introduced a new German-language St. Franziskus Bote, and the St. Anthonys Messenger, since 1893." In 1899, Father Philip (Philip John Rothmann) began a 13-year term as editor of both the St. Franziskus Bote and the St.… Read More