Search Results: Titles starting with K from Great Northern Books

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1994. Reprint. Pamphlet. Very Good in Wraps . Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg is a poem by Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death." [from Wikipedia] Also includes short Ginsberg bibliography. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Wall Street Journal, 2015:November. Periodical. Very Good. An issue of "WSJ. The Wall Street Journal Magazine," coffee table sized, with an article titled "Karl Ove Knausgaard," by Liesl Schillingher. Illustrated with several full page color photographs of Knausgaard playing drums in his home, in his home library, and a picture of the outside of his home.

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Lists to self. Includes 8 pages of advertisements. Frontis illustration by Russell H. Tandy. Decorative red & black cover with scene from the novel embossed on front cover panel. Spine of cover slightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy lacking the dustjacket.

New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Nichols is the author of "Sterile Cuckoo" and "The Milagro Beanfield War." He has written an autobiographical appreciation of the simple life illustrated with color photographs by the author.

New York: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. Advance Reading Copy/Advance Uncorrected Proof . Trade Paperback. Very Good . SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. McGuane's seventh novel. Two small pen lines to bottom textblock, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1845. Copyright edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in half vellum with former owner's elegant signature dated 1900 on free front endpaper. Covers rubbed else a tight, clean, unique copy.

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. An investigation into the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone, discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898. The stone, covered in runic inscriptions, detailed a voyage made by Scandinavians in 1362, from Vinland to Minnesota. Includes black and white illustrations, facsimile pages, and a bibliography by Michael Brook. Dustjacket is price clipped, else a clean, unmarked copy.

St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. A collection of humorous stories by the Minnesota author. A clean unmarked copy.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1990. Collector's edition. Leather-bound. Near fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo 8" - 10" tall bound in full black leather with four raised bands. Gilt decorated spine and front and back covers with key hole design. Satin page ribbon/marker and decorated endpapers and color frontis and black & white illustrations, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing, and concealed musling joints. This book also contains an unused blank Easton Press bookplate and publisher's letter. Slight bump to bottom textbblock.

Akron: Saalfield Publishing Comany, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Dustjacket color illustration and black and white text illustrations by Frances Brundage. Dustjacket spine has an Art Nouveau like design. Former owner's name on front free endpaper with edgewear to dustjacket.

New York: McKay, 1974. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Almost identical to first edition. Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Includes numerous maps. A clean unmarked copy.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991. Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paperback. very good +. The fourth book by the author of "Raney," Also includes a promotional postcard from the publisher. The cover design differs slightly from the final hardcover dustjacket design. A clean, unmarked copy.

Taipei: Imperial Books & Records, 1975. Pirate edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Lisa Alther's first book. A pirated edition, published in Taiwan. Taiwan was not a signatory to any of the international copyright conventions, at that time. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, [1909]. Third edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Trask developed and financed the artist retreat, Yaddo. Includes color frontis, Gilt debossed front cover image of King Alfred with border, author, title, design on spine. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting text. Still a very handsome book.

New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. A time travel novel by the author of The Dark Is Rising fantasy series. A clean unmarked copy.

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Text by John Ruskin with front cover color pictorial paper pastedown, illustrated endpapers, 22 full page color drawings, and numerous small incidental drawings, all by Elizabeth M. Fisher. Also includes a bibliographical note. Former owner's gift inscription on front endpaper, else an otherwise unmarked, bright copy.

New York: Trident Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. The fifth and final novel in the Buckskin Series. Manfred was also author of "Lord Grizzly." Dustjacket has a small closed tear on front panel else a clean unmarked copy.

Toronto: Morang and Co., 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes [3] leaves of plates : illustrations, 2 folded maps, and bibliographical references. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text.

New York: Pegasus Books, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. "An intelligent and spirited history of Charles II's dissolute life and surprising legacy." [from publisher] Includes color illustrations, bibliographical references, and index.

London: Faber and Faber, 1994. First UK edition. Paperback Original. Good. First printing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, on the title page. A collection of short stories by the two time National Book Award finalist. Small label shadows on front and back covers with rubbed edges.