Search Results: Titles starting with K from McBlain Books

Austin: Harpoon Publishing Company, 1908. Paperback. Good. 40p. Softcover. No separate wrapper. 30 cm. First leaf chipped along edges and moderately browned on recto. Significant vertical crease. Previous owner's name inked at top margin of front cover. Some penciled math calculations at top of one page. J. S. ("K. Lamity") Bonner, the white publisher behind this monthly newspaper/magazine, was a real Texas booster and a white supremicist. The letter contains a lengthy letter from A. J. McCauley, an African American attorney in Dallas. The letter is headlined "Inflexible Law of the Land" and starts on page 6 and ends on page 11. Bonner introduces the letter by saying he had solicited McCauley's ideas on the solution of the "race problem" and asks his readers to give the letter ..."a careful reading ... as this is without doubt the sentiment of the really intelligent and better educated portion of the negro race in the South. At this late date I am unable to comment thereon, but will doubtless do so… Read More

Tbilisi: Azd. Akad. Nauk Grusinskoj SSR, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. viii, 246p. Black binding. 22cm. No Jacket. Russian text. Added title-page in German.

Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1900. Hardcover. Good. frontis (portrait), 2 photos, lxxvi, 323p. Original blue cloth. 21cm. Some scuffing and wear. Scattered foxing (mostly on tissue guards and a few other leaves). A few minor stains. No Jacket.

n.p., n.d.. Paperback. Fine. 12 mounted color photos, illustrations, 44p. Softcover in original wrapper. Red comb binding. 21 cm. French text.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. illustrations, some in color and all by Poncins, xi, 339p. plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Clear plastic (acetate?) jacket and red card slipcase with a title label on the front panel. 22 cm. The jacket has modest damage at base of backstrip and some general wrinkling. The slipcase is sound with modest soiling and wear including a small heart-shaped waterspot on the back panel. The book is fresh and clean and even has the original unfaded and only minimally worn red ribbon marker. Copy No. 90 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic, mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip laid in the book explains that the book is not signed because Poncins,… Read More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations, some in color and all by Poncins, xii, 339p., plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Original red slipcase. Lower front edge of box split along one side and the top is split along the short edge. Backstrip scuffed and also rubbed at ends. Internally sound and clean. No jacket. Copy No. 199 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic, mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip, not present here, had been laid in copies of the Limited Edition explaining that the book had not been not signed because Poncins, having "... joined the colors of his country [France], disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris." The missing… Read More

Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1985. 1st printing of this revised edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis, illustrations (some color), 223p. Original cloth. dj. 30 cm. Translated.

Tokyo: Kabuki-za Co. Ltd, 1951. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 31p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Large browned area inside front cover and on title-page -- probably caused by a now-absent paper item. Cover title: Kabuki-za Theatre.

Tokyo: Dobunkan Pub, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8, 28, 1118p. Hardcover. 21 cm. Some cover fading. Japanese text with extensive summary in English (pp. 966-1118). INSCRIBED to Ralph C. Jones, the American economist whose research formed much of the basis for this book.

London: J. Murray, 1808. 1st ed. (?). Paperback. Good. xv, [1], 68p. plus 8p. publisher's advertisements. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Half-title present but no separate wrapper. 23cm. Preface mostly devoted to attacking critics of this "opera."

John B. Alden, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. xlix, 398, [399]-744p. Rebound in old maroon buckram. 20 cm. All edges marbled, perhaps when rebound. A few glue spots on endpapers. No jackets.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. xviii, [unnumbered epilogue leaf dated 1924 inserted after page viii], 260p. Original cloth. 26cm. Minor fraying at ends of backstrip. No jacket. Sanskrit text; some introductory material in English. Carl Cappeller took over the editing of this edition after the death of Pischel in 1908 and completed the revision of this Second edition before his eyesight failed. The last of the proofs were read and corrected by Professor Geldner. [Information from the Epilogue].

Boston: Meador Press, 1936. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 105p. Original red cloth. 20cm. Edges rubbed. No Jacket. SIGNED by Author on a printed bookplate mounted on the endpaper which states : "With the Compliments of the Author" and is numbered "44."

Stockholm: Atlantis, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. photos (a few color), 323p. 23cm. Corners rubbed. No Jacket. Swedish text.

Bloomington: Indiana University, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, charts (some folding), xiv, 282p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Cover faded along top. Study of an immigrant group in the United States which emigrated from the Soviet Union (with various intermediate stops).

New York: Asia Society Museum; New Haven: in Association with Yale University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis, color photos, index, xiii, 175p. Original orange cloth. dj. 30 cm.

Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1955. 3d and Rev. Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. frontis, photos, folding map, index, ii, 321p. Original green cloth. dj. 23cm. Chipping and tears along edges of the jacket which also has several waterspots and some browning on backstrip panel. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Ian Mutsu, who provided the preface to this posthumous, Post-WWII edition of his mother's book -- she died in 1930.

Hardcover. 200 plus leaves with continuity sketches on one side of each leaf for the Cattle Drive (and stampede) portion of the film. A Cartridge Paper Sketch Book from Swains in Sydney. Original brown cloth. 28 x 25 cm. Kangaroo was an American Western Film made by or for Twentieth Century Fox in 1952. It was the first Technicolor film filmed on lcation in Australia. Maureen O'Hara and Peter Lawford starred. Finlay Curie and Richard Boone had next billing. We don't know who did these continuity sketches. Wikipedia's entry for "kangaroo reports that it was remade in Africa in 1967 as "The Jackals" with a revised script and starring Vencent Price and Diana Ivarson. On the other hand, the IMDb entry for "The Jackals" says that it was a remake of a 1948 film titled "Yellow Sky." We don't know if either of those films included a cattle drive.

New York: Maxton Publishers, Inc, 1945. Paperback. Very Good. Charles E. Bracker with covers by Paul Kaloda. illustrations, (13)p. Softcover in original shaped pictorial wrapper. 30 cm. Shape book with a little removable Joey (baby kangaroo) in the pouch (just a slit in the front cover).

New York: Maxton Publishers, Inc, 1945. Paperback. Good. Charles E. Bracker with covers by Paul Kaloda. illustrations, (13)p. Softcover in original shaped pictorial wrapper. 30 cm. Cover edges visibly rubbed. Shape book with a little removable Joey (baby kangaroo) in the pouch (just a slit in the front cover). In this case, the short front legs of the Joey had become detached and have been reattached with a little glue -- probably still detachable if wiggled.