Search Results: Authors starting with K from Cox and Budge Books

Thiruvananthapuram: University of Kerala, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair / Good/Fair / Good. First edition. Limited to 2000 copies, hardback in dustwrapper. 29.5 × 23cm, 199pp. The Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic from ancient India, thought to have been written between the 8th and 4th centuries BCE. It narrates the life of Rama, a legendary prince of Ayodhya in the kingdom of Kosala. The epic follows his fourteen-year exile to the forest urged by his father King Dasharatha, on the request of Rama's stepmother Kaikeyi; his travels across forests in the Indian subcontinent with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of Sita by Ravana - the king of Lanka, that resulted in war; and Rama's eventual return to Ayodhya to be crowned king amidst jubilation and celebration. This edition is reproduced from the original palm leaf manuscript entitled Citraramayana, in which the pictures were engraved with an iron stylus covering the story of Rama in full in 318 sequences. The drawings… Read More

Nairobi: The East African Standard Ltd, 1942. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition. Hardback bound in green cloth with printed titling to upper board. 21 × 14cm, 35pp. Illustrated with charts and photographs, this is a series of chapters of amateur astronomy from H K Binks, who was by turns a farmer, adventurer, photographer and big game hunter in Kenya. Condition: Good condition for age. The green cloth is bumped and rubbed. The frontispiece photograph of the author has a previous owner's inscription around it, which might suggest knowledge of the author. The contents are in strong readable condition.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1972. First Edition. . Hardback. Good Plus/Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, viii + 298pp. Inscribed and dedicated by the author to the title page, "To, Mr E P Skone-James, The Hon'ble Master of the Bench of Middle Temple, with the compliments of the author." Edmund Purcell Skone-James was a prominent legal author of the twentieth century. "This study traces the growth of the concept of divorce through the Dharmasastra, custom, case-law and legislation with special reference to the interpretation of the relevant provisions under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, pointing out how law has influenced society and vice versa. The work is comparative and presents a picture of the role played by English judicial precedent in Hindu law. For the legal profession as well as the students of modern comparative law this book should prove a valuable compact study". Condition: The book itself is in good sound condition, the dustwrapper… Read More

Chicago: Charles H Kerr, 1927. First US Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First US edition. Hardback, with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 123pp. A Marxist study of war with chapters on Savagery, Barbarism, and Civilization. From the preface ".predict that by means of Revolution the Proletariat will establish their Dictatorship, as the Russian workers have already done, and therewith suppress the bourgeoisie the world over. Then private property will be transformed into common property and socialized industry will produce for use and not profit. This latter metamorphosis, Marxian science declares, is the essential basis of peace. Only Communist society can abolish war". Condition: This copy is in very good condition. There are few inoffensive pencil annotations to the margins, and one small spot of fading to the upper board.

Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good / Fair. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 25 × 18cm, 109pp + index. Published as No 1 in the East African Monographs in Biology series, this is a biological study of reproduction in antelopes, and of use to study how the species remains active despite loss due to natural causes (old age, illness, predators) and man-made (poachers etc). Illustrated throughout. The author is a Ugandan veterinarian, academic, and academic administrator. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is quite heavily worn and rubbed but it is complete.

Printed for the Author, 2014. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 19.5 × 13cm, 268pp. Signed to the title page by Ian Keable. Charles Dickens was an unsurpassed writer; and a superb public reader of his own works; he was also a talented actor; but very few know that he was also a conjurer. Up to now this knowledge has been rather hidden away in biographies, with academics considering it of little significance. For the first time Dickens's journey to becoming a conjurer has been researched and narrated: using his own letters and other contemporary reports, the evolution of the novelist to enthusiastic performer is charted. What is particularly unique about this book is that Ian Keable brings his own experiences as a magic historian and professional magician to branch out into related subjects. Who were the conjurers that inspired Dickens? Which tricks did he do? Where did he get them from? What were his strengths and weaknesses as a conjurer? Why did he stop?… Read More

London: British Museum Press, 1995. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 28.5 × 22cm, 215pp. Mill Hill, in Kent, is one of the richest Iron Age cemeteries in England, with most of the burials dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. This volume presents the results of excavations between 1984 and 1989 by the Dover Archaeological Unit, but also includes the republication and reassessment of earlier finds, together with detailed reports on metalwork, pottery, human and animal bones, and radiocarbon dating. The most significant find was of a young man buried with sword, shield, ornaments and a bronze crown on his head; the decoration of the metalwork provided more examples of Early Celtic Art than from any other grave in England. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a few spots of foxing to the pages' top edge. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers, or decreased where… Read More

Ithaca: Cornell University, 1991. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 244pp. This copy is from the library of C H B Reynolds (1922-2015), a noted linguist of the Sinhalese and Maldivian languages, with his ownership signature to the ffep. Tracing the evolution of an ancient but ongoing Sri Lankan chronicle, Steven Kemper deepens our understanding of the complex role of the historical past in the rise of nationalist movements. Kemper focuses in particular on the Mahavamsa, a Buddhist historical narrative that has been periodically extended over the last fourteen centuries, most recently in 1977 when President Jayewardene assembled a committee of scholars, bureaucrats, and monks to bring the chronicle up to date. Kemper is concerned both with the development of Sinhala national identity and with the impact of historical consciousness on Sri Lankan culture and political life today. He discusses Sri Lankan party politics, ethnic… Read More

London: Constable, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 207pp. Signed directly to the title page by Francis King. A novel set in Castro's Cuba focusing on a seventy year old English man who becomes involved in a drug case whilst on holiday. A young policeman whom he forms a friendship with disappears on a visit to a mountain village to witness an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Condition: This copy is in good solid condition but lightly foxed to the page edges and a hint of fading to the spine.

London: Constable, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 265pp. Signed, dated and dedicated directly to the title page by Francis King. Dedicated with "Every good wish to Mort and Dick", Mort in this instance is Professor Morton Cohen, the pre-eminent Lewis Carroll scholar. Peopled with eccentric, extravagant and touching characters, this is a novel about two young English people whose year in Florence is a lesson in much more than the Italian language. Condition: This copy is in good solid condition but lightly tanned to the page edges and margins, and with some crinkling to the dustwrapper's top edge and a small closed tear by the top corner of the front panel.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 26 × 18.5cm, 852pp. This is a unique jazz reference book that covers jazz with much more range and depth than other jazz histories or reference books. Most of the major critics in jazz today have written articles for the book. The 60 entries cover jazz in all its aspects. Entries include all the historical periods of jazz - from its African and European roots, its progenitors in blues and ragtime, and its major periods and styles: New Orleans, The Swing Era, Bebop, and Modern Jazz. There are separate pieces on the major figures - from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane - and on singers, pianists, and big bands and jazz composition in each period. Each jazz instrument, from saxophone to drums, has its own history. Separate entries cover jazz around the world: Latin Jazz, Europe, Britain and the Commonwealth, Brazil, Japan, and Africa. The book ranges over… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1989. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 175pp. Signed directly to the title page by Matthew Kneale. Matthew Kneale's blackly humorous second novel, Inside Rose's Kingdom, seeks out the strangeness of todays niches and corners: a London Squat, Mr Skates bucket shop travel agency, a frenzied hall in the DHSS and, of course, Roses household itself. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Charles Knight, 1849. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardback, rebound in half-leather with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine, marbled page edges, boards and endpapers. 21.5 x14.5cm. vii, ii, 560pp. This book collects Charles Knight's critical notices from his Pictorial Edition of Shakespeare. An general introduction on drama and Shakespeare's times is followed by text on all the plays and poems as well as contemporaries of Shakespeare's and his critics. The book has a frontispiece formed of five portraits of Shakespeare. Condition: This copy is in very good condition. The rebinding has been done to a high standard. There is some foxing between the frontis and title page, but the main body of text has clean pages and secure binding. There are a few loose newspaper clippings etc at the rear of the book.

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 206pp. A study of Beethoven and his work specifically in the context of the social and political events of the very stirring times in which he lived. Frida Knight (1910-1996) was an English communist activist and author. She joined the Left Book Club, the Communist Party and drove an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War. She was in France in 1940 and was arrested after the German invasion. She escaped with author Rosemary Say in 1942 to work with the Free French in London. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little wear to the wrapper's edges.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Laing Art Gallery, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Card covers. 25.5 × 21.5cm, 52pp. An illustrated exhibition catalogue from 1990 exploring the work of Dod Procter and her husband, Ernest. She lived in Cornwall from 1912, and became President of St Ives Society of Artists. The majority of the illustrations are in black and white, with a few in colour. The catalogue has a fairly extensive essay running through it by Elizabeth Knowles. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

Sumperk: Galerie Jiriho Jilka, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 30.5 × 22cm, 221pp. Czech text. An illustrated study of the Czech painter and sculptor Jiri Jilek (1925-1981). The book, written in Czechoslovakian, is by the curator of the Jiri Jilek Gallery and artist Miroslav Korsal. Condition: Good plus condition. There is some surface abrasion to the rear of the wrapper and light edgewear to the wrapper and boards but the main body of text is in good strong condition.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition. Large folio hardback, bound in the original yellow cloth with printed titling to spine. 35 × 27cm, 471pp. Signed and dedicated by David [Kunzle] to the ffep. A comprehensive history of the early comic strip, defined in this book by David Kunzle as sequences of four or more separate images with subservient text, published for moral or topical propaganda. This definition allows straight news reporting in pictures to be omitted. The sheer breadth of this study is best illustrated by the table on contents: 1. Religious Propaganda c1450-1550, 2. France and the Netherlands c1560-1620, 3. The Thirty Years War 1618-1648, 4. The Dutch Republic 1653-1689, 5. England c1605-1710, 6. Private Crime, Public Execution, 7. Vices and Follies, 8. Marriage, 9. Rakes and Harlots, 10 Hogarth, 11. Narrative Art after Hogarth, 12. The Caricature Comic Strip 1787-1826. The book is illustrated throughout, including… Read More