Search Results: Authors starting with K from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

Washington DC: National Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First optical imaging of an extrasolar planet by the Hubble telescope. 1287-1418 pp. 4to. Magazine with mailing label and light scuffing from shelf wear.

Tokyo: The Herald Press Printers, 1933. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First English Edition. 293-296 pp. 4to. Slight darkening to covers from age and sunning.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Sixth Printing. xiii, 681 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has small tears and losses, front flap torn at turn-in hinge, original price tag on front panel, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Light underlining and marginalia notes throughout in pencil.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Garagliano, Victoria. A lavish illustrated history of the architecture, interiors, and collections of San Simeon. 340 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. x, 350 pp. 8vo. Clean and crisp copy with dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. xxx, 299 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.

Russia: Mockba, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Filled with Kent's illustrations and reproductions of color paintings that supplement the text. A stunning work when it was published in 1955 in the United States. Republished in the Soviet Union in 1965, with the new Russian text working almost seamlessly with the original illustrations [Libman 2875]. It is an extremely rare edition with none appearing in library holdings via OCLC. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges. Inscription on first free endpaper and note on rear pastedown, both in Russian.

1939. First Edition. Paper. Fine. Kent, Rockwell. One sheet of 100 stamps, 96 of which are the same repeat of image of a young woman with a single halo with the Christmas Seal cross directly behind her. Center four stamps are a different, plain design without the image of the woman. Clean, crisp sheet with no chips or tears.

Ossineke, MI: Silver Fox Enterprises, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. 242 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1973. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Originally published in Russian in Leningrad in 1959, this is the first English translation that was made available. iv, 387 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with light scuffing from shelf wear, silver embossed titling to spine. Clean and crisp within.

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. xii, 241 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

San Rafael, CA: Green Building Press, 2006. Second Edition. Wraps. Fine. xxvii, 259 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.

USA, 1950. First Edition. Readers get to fix the toys by taking the heads (missing one of the original eight) in the "shipping box" and inserting them in the page where the doll needs its head repaired/replaced. No publisher listed for this book, may have been created by a toy company. Unpag. Oblong 8vo. Spiral bound interactive children's book. Housed in its original box that is in Very Good condition.

Delray Beach, FL: Levenger Press, 2007. Limited Edition. Produced in an edition of 2,000 copies, this is copy #1532. 276 pp. 4to. Red silk cloth boards with gold embossed family crest on cover board, gold titling to spine. Red marker ribbon and clean and crisp within. 110 color plates and 29 black and white illustrations. Appears to have never been read. Red silk cloth slipcase with gold titling to front panel and in Fine condition.

Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. 373 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1961/1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. John Frank Charles Kingman's (b. 1939) first paper in this volume describes a queueing model under heavy traffic, the first paper on the performance limits of a queueing system. The second paper analyzes a queueing model in which the customers are served randomly. vi, [1]-909; vi, 716 pp. 4to. Large double volume bound as one. Black cloth with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean, crisp copy. Ex-library and barely noticeable.

Dallas, TX/New Haven, CT: Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Klee, Paul. 348 pp. Folio. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Klett, Mark. Another fascinating publication by Mark Klett and Radius Books. Starting with the text of 1870 edition of Raphael Pumpelly's "Across America and the Asia, Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China" in which the Arizona section of that original book is reproduced via photographs for the reader to read. Although the exact route Pumpelly took across the Sonoran Desert in 1861, Klett provides an approximation of the journey, much of which now lays in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range. Klett's photoraphs document the present day with large color photographs of natual wonders as well as the human impact on the desert in the form of abandoned missile casing from Air Force practice runs, clothing left behind by migrants moving through the desert, and abandoned structures. Through it all, the natural world prevails, rattle snakes and saguaro cactus remain as they did when… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Klett, Mark. Starting with Eliot Porter's engaging images of Glen Canyon taken before the Glen Canyon Dam was completed and later as it filled, this photographic reassessment visits many of these same locations and documents the fall of the impounded water as we move into record years of drought. Signed on a tipped in sheet by Klett, Solnit, and Wolfe. viii, 163 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Klett, Mark. A beautiful production of stunning photos of the Sonora region's most iconic image, the saguaro cactus. Full page, stark portraits focus on the beauty, hardiness, and decay of these mythic inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert. Printed in initial run of 1500 copies, this copy is signed by Mark Klett on the title page. Unpag. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.