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“Not Vain Hath Been the Great Endeavour”
Kaklamanos, Demetrios. [title in Greek, transliterated as] Eleutherios Benizelos [i.e. Venizelos], ho heros (eis charakterismos). Oxford: University Press, 1936. Small 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). 49, [1] pp.
$150.00
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Uncommon first edition: Tribute to the eminent Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos and his leadership while negotiating the historic Treaty of Lausanne, the peace treaty that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The poetic quotations here are given in their original languages (Italian, French, and English), with the text otherwise printed in an aesthetically pleasing Greek type. Kaklamanos (1872–1949) was a diplomat and writer who served as Second Greek Delegate at the peace conference, and signed the treaty alongside Venizelos.
WorldCat locates
only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership ( MH, CSS, OCU).
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and gilt single fillet frame; spine sunned.
A handsomely printed item not often seen on the market. (39417)
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BANYAN PRESS: Meditations on Impermanence
Kamo, Chomei; Donald Keene, trans. An account of my hut. Pawlet, VT: The Banyan Press, 1976. 8vo (26.5 cm, 10.4"). [30] pp.
$500.00
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One of the great classical Japanese essays: Kamo no Chōmei's Hōjōki, translated into English by Donald Keene and here in an elegantly minimalist fine press limited edition from Claude Fredericks of the Banyan Press.
Some describe the work as “the Walden Pond of medieval Japan.” This is the
first book-form edition of the translation, following its original appearance in Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature; three hundred copies were set by hand in Garamond and printed on Masa paper by Fredericks and David Beeken.
Original hand-stitched wrappers resembling bamboo grain, with paper label on front wrapper, in paper overlay matching the endpapers; outer overlay with minor edge wear and with small annotation (possibly from publisher) on label. A lovely and uncommon production. (35979)
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First Laws of Kansas — Full Morocco
Kansas. Laws, statutes, etc. General laws of the state of Kansas, passed at the first session of the legislature, commenced at the capital, March 26, 1861. Lawrence, KS: “Kansas State Journal” Steam Power Press Print, 1861. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). 334 pp.
$5000.00
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First edition of the first laws published by Kansas as a state. “Published by authority,” the session laws of 1861 appear here with the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, Treaty of Cession, Organic Act, Constitution of the State of Kansas, Act of Admission, and lists of state officers and members and officers of legislature appended.
Sabin 37066. Later blue morocco framed in blind double fillets, spine with gilt-stamped leather title labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; spine very slightly sunned. Scattered faint foxing, four leaves with more pronounced spotting. (24567)
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German-American CATHOLIC Personal Devotions — An EXTENDED Manuscript
Fraktur Rubrics — “Pennsylvania Dutch” Embellishments
Kary, Simon. Manuscript on paper, in German, transcribed as: [one or two words blotted and unclear, then] sich befinden in Andachtübung Gott deß Morgens, und Abends, bey den Heiligen Meß, Beicht und Kommunion Gebettern zu sprechen. Wie auch unterschiedliche Getbetter zu Christo, und Maria, auf die fürnehmsten FestTage deß Jahrs. Und auch Gebetter zu dem Heiligen Gottes zu finden sein. Zu grössern Ehr und Seelen Trost. Geschrieben worden von dem Simon Kary im Jahr 1799. [i.e., Catholic prayer book]. No place [Pennsylvania]: 1799. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.4"). [2], 136 pp.
$22,500.00
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In 1799 the German population in the U.S. is estimated to have been between 85,000 and 100,000 individuals, the vast majority being Protestants of one stripe or another. German Catholics were a very, very small minority, totalling perhaps 3,000 or so and concentrated in Pennsylvania, served in their faith by German Jesuit missionaries who established the mission of The Sacred Heart at Conewago and Father Schneider’s mission church in Goshenhoppen.
There were no German-language Catholic prayer books published in the U.S. until the 19th century, so those wishing to have one before then had to have a bookstore import it or engender one in manuscript — either by hiring a scribe or by inditing it personally.
Simon Kary chose the latter option and personally executed his personal prayer book in the style that was current in the “Pennsylvania Dutch” region.
His lovingly created, appealingly decorated late-18th-century manuscript book of German Catholic devotional prayers (i.e., Gebetsbüchlein) is in the typical German-American fraktur style in his codex, the title-page, sectional title-pages, and sub-section beginnings are written in fraktur lettering in red, green, black, and rose, with the initial line or lines of each prayer in red only, and the text is written throughout in sepia in cursive. All pages are given double-ruled borders; some of the fraktur capitals incorporate foliate and floral designs.
Kary’s personally selected, 136-page collection of devotions contains, as he described it, “appropriate prayers to God,. a intended for use in the morning and evening, for Holy Mass, for confession . . s well as various prayers to Christ, to Mary on the highest feast days of the year, and also prayers to the Saint [sic] of God. For the greater honor and comfort of the soul.”
The manuscript is written on laid paper, with vertical chain lines, gathered in eights, and its
original block-printed paper wrappers have survived with it.
German-American Catholic fraktur prayer books are rare but not unknown; for example, the renowned collection of fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia contains a “Himmlischer Palm Zweig Worinen die Auserlesene Morgen Abend Auch Beicht und Kommunion Wie auch zum H. Sakrament In Christo und seinen Leiden, wie auch zur der H. Mutter Gottes, 1787" (item no: frkm064000; https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/41639). Still, early German-American Catholic religious manuscripts are
objectively rare, especially on the market.
Manuscript additions to the manuscript: An early-19th-century owner of Kary's manuscript has added somberly appropriate matter opposite its title-page, i.e., on the inside of the front wrapper, that reads, in translation: “Forget not your father and your mother, for they have died. My most honored father died on 17th March in the year of the Lord [1]784. My beloved mother died on 6th December in the year of the Lord [1]801. The 14th November in the year of the Lord [1]803. M.S. in the sign of the fish.”
Provenance: Simon Kary in 1799; by 1803 owned by M.S. (as per inside front wrapper). Later early-19th-century ownership signature of Anna Holzinger on title-page; later 19th-century pencil signature of “Theresa” in lower margin of same with similar inscription on the outside of the front wrapper.
We thank Prof. Edward Quinter for his help in ranscribing and translating this manuscript's title-page and translating the family notes opposite it. Recent light blue paper–covered boards with printed paper spine label, original block-printed wrappers preserved inside; early inked annotations in German on inside of original front wrapper and elsewhere, as detailed above. First two leaves and several others with areas of waterstaining, with tissue-paper repair to title-page partially obscuring several lines of text; last leaves with areas darkened as with some variety of oil. Pages age-toned, with scattered spots and occasional offsetting.
A manuscript attractive, engaging, and worthy of study; an enduring testimony to piety among an important, early American religious minority. (41242)
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Victorian Illustrated Verse: A Beautiful Romp through
Late 19th-Century France
[Keary, Eliza?]; Ellen E. Houghton & Thomas Crane, illus. Abroad. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [1882]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
$150.00
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“Last year, dear friends, we met 'At Home,' / And now 'Abroad' we mean to roam,” in the even lovelier companion volume to At Home. For this outing, the poems and illustrations share a coherent theme: the experiences of an English family travelling in France. Osborne notes that “Thomas Crane, Walter's elder brother, designed the ornamental pages while his cousin, Mrs. Houghton did the figure designs.” The chromolithographed scenes include our well-dressed friends departing from Charing Cross Station (and later, sleeping on the train home), boarding the steamer to cross to Calais, walking the Rue de l'Epicerie and visiting the Creche of Sister Rosalie (a nursery for children of working women) in Rouen, observing lacemakers in Caen, and enjoying all sorts of amusements in Paris. The publisher tells us only that “the verses are by various writers,” but Opie suggests that Eliza Keary, who wrote the poems for At Home, may have been involved.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
Osborne Collection, p. 49; Opie PP 330. Publisher's color-printed paper–covered sides with teal cloth shelfback; extremities rubbed with a little loss to paper of covers at corners and front cover with an instance of abrasion affecting the “O” of “Abroad”; general light soiling and limited areas of old blue (ink?) staining. Bookplate as above; half-title with inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1882. Pages gently age-toned with a very few small spots, overall clean; sewing loosening but not broken; a children's book “read,” for sure.
One ready for more reading, and looking! (40829)
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“Our English Children's Ways to Show” — Via Chromolithographs
[Keary, Eliza]; John George Sowerby & Thomas Crane, illus. At home. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [ca. 1881]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
$195.00
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A volume of illustrated poetry for children, described as “among the loveliest books ever produced” (Roger Dixon, “The Splendid Press of Messrs Marcus Ward & Company”). Sowerby's color-printed illustrations are framed by Crane's decorative motifs, all accompanying delightful verses written by Eliza Keary (1827–1918). Keary went uncredited here — and indeed under-appreciated in her day, having all but stopped writing for adult readers following a four-sentence dismissal of her work by The Athenaeum in 1874. In the present book, her poems about childish activities (including fishing, gathering flowers, and hosting tea parties) make a perfect complement to the Greenaway-esque art.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
Osborne Collection, p. 50; Opie PP 190. Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered sides with green cloth shelfback; spine and edges rubbed, hinges (inside) tender, paper split along gutters and sewing starting to loosen, ready for ongoing comfortable handling if care is used. Pages very slightly age-toned with a handful of spots of foxing, overall clean.
An outstanding Victorian children's production. (40823)
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Keate, George. Netley Abbey. An elegy...the second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 4to ( 26.4 cm, 10.4"). 31, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking the half-title).
$250.00
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Originally published in 1764 under the title Ruins of Netley Abbey (and a different item from the anonymously printed Ruins of Netley Abbey of 1765), this poem features an engraved vignette of the titular ruins, done by C. Grignion, on the title-page; also present is a brief history of the abbey. ESTC T75210. Marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title lacking. Upper margin of title-page showing small abrasions and traces of affixed paper; title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution.

Fairies, Medieval Ladies, & Ancient Greeks
24 Color-Printed Plates by Averil Burleigh
A Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding
Keats, John; Averil Burleigh, illus. The poems of John Keats. London: Chapman & Hall, [1912]. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.63"). viii, 360 pp.; 24 col. plts.
$200.00
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From the “Burlington Library” series: Keats, here with
the first appearance of the 24 illustrations done by Averil Burleigh, color-printed in dusky, twilight shades. The fairy tale–style images incorporate Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau influences, and include
Burleigh's take on the pot of basil so beloved by the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as a stunning Belle Dame Sans Merci.
This is the first edition. While some sources offer 1910 or 1911 as the publication date, our suggested date is based on announcements in contemporary publications including The Dialand The Independent; another such notification, in The Bookseller, Newsdealer & Stationer (vol. XXXVII, 1912), lauds the “pictures of graceful imagery, of subtle, tender sentiment, charming alike in color and presentment from the brush of Averil Burleigh.”
Binding: Signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (rubber-stamped on front free endpaper): green calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets with small gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt extra, edges with gilt fillets, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; iridescent green marbled endpapers.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, somewhat rubbed; front pastedown with two small traces of paper adhesion. Occasional mild to moderate foxing, largely confined to margins, with pages mostly clean overall.
Gorgeous plates. (41210)
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A Gift Book for
Women of “Elevated Character”
Keese, John, ed. The opal: A pure gift for the holy days. New York: J.C. Riker, [1846]. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). 304 pp.; 8 engr. plts., without the added engr. title-page.
$100.00
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Collection of Christian-themed short stories, poems, and readings, most of which counsel the womanly virtues of patience, submission, and self-control. This volume, the third to appear in the Opal series, is illustrated with mezzotints by J.G. Chapman; all eight of the plates described in the list of illustrations are present, but not the added engraved title-page.
Includes two poems by Whittier: “My soul and I” and “The wife of Manoah to her husband.”
Binding: Publisher’s textured brown calf, covers with blind-stamped frame of foliate design; front cover suitably gilt-stamped with central vignette of
Jesus and the woman at the well, back cover centrally gilt-stamped with a weary-looking woman harvesting grain (Ruth?). Spine gilt-stamped with foliate (ivy?) design and ornate title; all edges gilt.
Provenance: 19th-century stencilled ownership name of H. Amelia St John (Purdy) (1838–1925) of Yates County, NY.
Faxon 622; Thompson 145; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), 167. Binding as above, gilt designs moderately rubbed, edges and corners worn, spine faded and head of spine pulled. Front free endpaper clipped to remove inscription; ownership stencil to front fly-leaf. Some pages with soiling, light foxing, or brown stains.
Mezzotints well accomplished and several quite lovely. (37280)
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A Prominent Lawyer, Skillful Orator, & Charming Family Man
Kennedy, John Pendleton. Memoirs of the life of William Wirt, attorney general of the United States. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1849. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.3"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., 417, [1], 4, [48 (adv.)] pp. II: 450, [2] pp.; 1 facs.
$300.00
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First edition: Life and letters of a lawyer and statesman who still holds the record for longest service as U.S. attorney general. In that position, Wirt was noted for organizing the office and compiling records of his official opinions for the use of his successors. The author of the present biography was a Maryland novelist and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy.
Vol. I opens with a rather nice mezzotint portrait of Wirt, engraved by A.B. Walter after Charles B. King; vol. II with an oversized, folding facsimile of a letter from John Adams.
BAL 11056; Cohen 2161; Howes K87; Sabin 37415. Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind-stamped strapwork, spines with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations; cloth lightly dust-soiled, chipped at corners and spine extremities. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-pages. Vol. II: one leaf of contents with two short tears. Pages clean. (29413)
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“From the Balkans to Persia, & from Arabia & Egypt to the Caucasus”
Keoleian, Ardashes H. The Oriental cook book. New York: Sully & Kleinteich, [1913]. 8vo (19 cm, 7.48"). Frontis., 349, [1] pp.
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First edition: “Wholesome, dainty and economical dishes of the Orient, especially adapted to American tastes and methods of preparation. The author is described as “formerly of Constantinople,” and by “Orient” he means that the recipes come from primarily Armenian, Turkish, Bulgarian, and Greek sources — with this being
the first cookbook printed in the United States to feature Armenian cuisine. Recipes are cooked over the fire.
Bitting, 257; Brown, Culinary Americana, 2689. Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, without the (uncommon) dust jacket; spine sunned, extremities slightly rubbed. Endpapers mildly spotted; final section of volume with area of light waterstaining to upper outer portions, pages otherwise clean.
A solid copy of the first edition. (41347)
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Kerouac before He Was
“Jack”
Kerouac, Jack [but writing as “John”]. The Town & the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1950). 8vo (20.5 cm; 8"). [3] ff., 499, [1] pp.
$1150.00
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First edition of Kerouac's first book. An advance review copy, this distinction being printed on its wrapper; there apparently was no distributed “proof copy” for it.
A fictionalized account of the author's life and family and friends, the novel is somewhat conventional but contains the seeds and hints of things that will mature, expand, and dominate in his later writings.
Charters A1a for the first edition, first issue; Charters notes the existence of advance reading copies, but does not give them a separate entry, nor speculate about the number bound as here. Publisher's printed salmon paper wrappers, rear cover with a slim crease to paper (in production?); a fresh, unworn copy. Cryptic pencilled characters (totalling 13) on endpapers and rear endpaper with one very short tear. Housed in a quarter green morocco clamshell box. (34815)
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Standard Bibliography — Nonesuch First Edition
Keynes, Geoffrey. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. London: Pr. for the Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., xix, 135, [3] pp.; 32 plts.(1 fold.).
$145.00
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First edition of this authoritative reference work on the essayist and literary critic, written by the great British surgeon who pioneered blood transfusions and a rational approach to breast cancer. He was also a noted book collector, bibliographer of Blake, brother of the economist Maynard Keynes, and the man who saved Virginia Woolf's life following her first (i.e., 1913) suicide attempt. The volume is illustrated with reproductions of many of Hazlitt's first edition title-pages, as well as a portrait and a folding facsimile of one of Hazlitt's letters.
This is
numbered copy 298 of 750 printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh for the Nonesuch Press, with the four collotype illustrations printed by the Chiswick Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.
Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 75. Publisher's quarter blue-grey paper with taupe paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label, in original dust wrapper with black-stamped spine label; binding very slightly cocked with corners rubbed; wrapper sunned with edge chips and short tears, and interior tape reinforcements to two tears at spine and one at back fold. Offsetting from jacket flaps to endpapers; front pastedown with previous owner's pencilled annotations. A clean, solid, and
quite pleasant copy. (33868)
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A Great Bibliographer's “Tools”
Keynes, Geoffrey. Bibliotheca bibliographici: A catalogue of the library formed by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Trianon Press, 1964. Large 8vo (28.8 cm, 11.375"). xxiii, [1], 444 pp.; 45 plts.
$225.00
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As precise and extensive a catalogue as one might expect from the great bibliographer: “[My] library is not a random collection of books, but is rather a workshop furnished with the tools needed for the fabrication of the bibliographies that bear my name” (p. vii).
This first, limited edition was printed in 500 copies at the Curwen Press and distributed by Bernard Quaritch Ltd.; it features 45 collotype plates of particularly notable title-pages and illustrations from Keynes' collection.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's quarter brown buckram and terra cotta cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative bands, in original glassine dust jacket; glassine torn with losses, spine evenly sunned, binding otherwise showing only minimal wear. Front free endpaper with short tears to fore-edge; volume's outer (closed) edges and endpapers showing faint foxing, not affecting pages proper, with pages very crisp and clean. (39584)
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In Search of a Spanish Barber's Basin
King, Clarence. The helmet of Mambrino. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). xx, [2], 21, [3] pp.
$100.00
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Originally composed as a letter to King's friend, the “Bachelor of San Francisco,” and first published in Century Magazine in 1886,
this delightful tale was inspired by Cervantes and his account of Don Quixote's encounter with the legendary helmet of the Moorish king; Francis P. Farquhar
introduces it here. The present example is
one
of 350 copies printed at the University of California Press for the Book Club
of California. Prior to this edition, the story — which
opens with a recollection of an encounter in San Francisco — had only
appeared in book form once before, in 1904.
Provenance: Front free endpaper
with inked gift inscription from historian Carl Wheat, author of Mapping
of the Trans-Mississippi West, to Joe Blumenthal (of Spiral Press fame),
a “fellow member of WOOFFB.”
Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author/title; minimal shelfwear to
outer corners. A fresh, clean copy with an interesting inscription.
(30622)
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Hypatia, in Disguise?
Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia or new foes with an old face. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.36"). Frontis., [2], xvi, 477, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$50.00
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Kingsley's best-selling tale of fifth-century religious and philosophical conflict canvassed via
the extraordinary career and sensational murder of Hypatia, a renowned and revered female philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician in ancient Hellene Alexandria.
It is illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates done by Edmund H. Garrett.
Binding: This is an intriguing example of this novel of ideas, in that the usual thematically appropriate binding has been replaced by an unrelated, innocuous color-printed scene of a cottage by a lake on a background with a repeating design of daisies, embellished with raised cornflowers (unsigned) — perhaps intended for ladies of delicate sensibilities who didn't want to be seen in public reading this controversial novel!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with pattern of daisies in white and gilt, front cover with illustration as above, robin's egg blue cloth shelfback gilt extra; very minor dust-soiling to light portion of cover illustration, traces of wear to corners and lower edges. Title-page with one tiny edge tear; pages clean. (37535)
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THE KINSEY REPORT
Kinsey, Alfred. C.; Wardell B. Pomeroy; & Clyde E. Martin. Sexual behavior in the human male. Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. 8vo. xv, [1], 804 pp.
$150.00
First edition of the revolutionary and highly influential “Kinsey Report”—a landmark in the study of human sexuality and one of the 100 most important science books in the 20th century.
Very good, in publisher's cloth. Front free endpaper torn out. Preliminary pages with a few light creases in foremargins probably created from paper clips being fastened to them at one time. (10711)
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Youthful Writing. Good Writing!
Kipling, Rudyard. The city of dreadful night and other places. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., [1891]. 8vo. 96 pp.
$150.00
First U.K. edition of Kipling's evocative description of Calcutta, printed in the style of the Railway Library series (XIV).
Stewart 94. Publisher's wrappers, front wrapper lacking, back wrapper torn and chipped. Publisher's slip detached (torn away, affecting four letters) but present. First and last few leaves lightly foxed. (13989)
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Educating
German-American Boys & Girls in 1809
Kleine Erzählungen über ein Buch mit Kupfern: oder Leicht Geschichte für Kinder. Philadelphia: Gedruckt [beyJacob Meyer] für Johnson und Warner, 1809. 24mo (14 cm; 5.5"). [22] ff., illus.
$475.00
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Sole American issue of this German-language edition of Little prattle over a book of prints. A wonderful picture book for children with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, this small volume contains short stories that deal with conduct of life, animal welfare, and accidents that befall children (like falling through the ice on a pond).
The title-page wood engraving is signed, “A” (i.e., Alexander Anderson) as are some of the other 18 wood engravings. The last two pages contain printings of the alphabet in majuscule and miniscule fraktur, the two- or three-letter vowel and consonant combinations of German, and the numerals from 1 to 0.
Shaw & Shoemaker 17875; Welch 739; Rosenbach, Children, 395; German Language Printing in the U.S. 1690; Pomeroy, Anderson, 289. Publisher's stone-pattern marbled-covered boards.
A very nice copy; remarkably, beautifully clean. (36378)
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A German
ROMANTIC Who Committed SUICIDE
Kleist, Heinrich von. Heinrich von Kleists hinterlassene Schriften, herausgegeben von L. Tieck. Berlin: Gedruckt und verlegt bei G. Reimer, 1821. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.75"). lxxviii, 290 pp.
$1000.00
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Posthumous publication for the first time of a selection of Kleist's plays and poetry (he committed suicide in 1811). Tieck, the editor, present here “Prinz Friedrich von Homburg,” “Die Herrmannsschlacht,” “Fragment aus dem Trauerspiel Robert Guiskard,” and several poems.
Kleist's life was a troubled one financially, psychologically, and creatively. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.) characterizes him as “by far the most important North German dramatist of the Romantic movement, and no other of the Romanticists approaches him in the energy with which he expresses patriotic indignation.”
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two copies in U.S. libraries, but we know of a third.
Later 19th-century blue-green marbled paper–covered boards; foxing and browning as typical of the paper with but a few odd spots additionally, and perhaps six leaves with a stain as from a spill, extending across text but not hampering reading. Very readable in both senses; a decent, solid copy of an important work of German literature. (33011)
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BIBLIO–BEDTIME READING — WOOLLY WHALE
Klinefelter, Walter. The Fortsas bibliohoax. With a reprint of the Fortsas catalogue and Bibliographical notes and comment by Weber de Vore. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1942. 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). [6], 71, [3] pp.
$80.00
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The Whale's very handsome edition of one of the most substantial treatments of this famous and elaborate auction hoax. Including bibliographical descriptions of the catalogue, its subsequent printings, and the literature on the affair, it is limited to 200 copies, printed in Centaur types on rag paper, and bears a title-page decoration by Fritz Kredel.
The Fortsas hoax is legendary for having fooled many renowned collectors and dealers near the mid-point of the 19th century (1840, to be precise) into travelling to the small town of Biche, Belgium, for an auction of
nonexistent unique books that were bibliographically unknown!
Publisher's quarter off-white cloth and rose-colored paper over boards, with map endpapers. Top edge gilt. (36339)
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A Dutch Count's Private Meditations
for 1813 New Yorkers
Kniphuysen Nienvort, George William, Count of. Prayers and meditations, composed in the French language in the year 1693 ... translated by an American. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1813. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.7"). 105, [1] pp.
$300.00
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First U.S. edition of these devotional pieces, originally published in 1694 under the title Entretiens solitaires d'une âme dévote avec son dieu, here in an English translation accomplished by an anonymous American. A reviewer of a later edition concluded that the work represented “the aspect of devotional life favored by the evangelical school in the Episcopal church” (The Literary World, no. 220, p. 317).
The original author's name appears in innumerable variations according to various transcribers' nationalities; Count Georg Wilhelm von Kniphausen (or Knyphausen) of Nienort (or Nienoort) was also known as George Willem (or Guillaume), Comte van Kniphausen, etc.
Shaw & Shoemaker 28892. Contemporary treed sheep, recently rebacked with complementary mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; original leather showing expectable rubbing/cracking. Title-page with institutional pressure- and rubber-stamp; no other marks. One leaf with old burn damage (the ash from a pipe??) to lower inner portion, margins repaired, loss of a few letters without obscuring sense; one leaf with closed tear from outer margin and no loss; one leaf with a corner taken, just touching text without loss; upper corners dust-soiled, and pages generally age-toned, with no brittleness or other “issues.” (27242)
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158 (Religious) Images from
TWO Fantastic Designers
Koch, Rudolf, & Fritz Kredel. Christian symbols. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. 4to (28.6 cm, 11.25"). [9], 158, [5] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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“One hundred and fifty-eight graphic images from the history of Christianity.” These important religious emblems drawn by Rudolf Koch with the help of Fritz Kredel are presented in a bound book from the
Arion Press for the first time. They were previously published as a folder of plates between 1932 and 1935; the reproductions here were reduced to ninety percent of the original. Koch intended for the book to be used as a reference for other artists and churches.
Typographer Koch (1876–1934) and graphic designer Kredel (1900–73) previously collaborated on their well-known Book of Signs. Koch's preface, translated to English from the original German by Kevin Ahern, is provided, as well as a foreword from Andrew Hoyem.
The prospectus is laid in.
Publisher's blue-green cloth, white spine label with blue lettering; one very faint scuff to front board. In original tan paper slipcase; light spot of sunning to one side. Interior is bright. A beautiful copy! (38304)
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Rabbi Kohn's
Samaritan Thesis
Kohn, Samuel. De Pentateucho Samaritano ejusque cum versionibus antiquis nexu. Dissertatio inauguralis quam amplissimi philosophorum ordinis auctoritate in alma litterarum universitate Viadrina ... die VII. mensis Aprilis MDCCCLXV. Lipsiae: G. Kreysing, 1865. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). [6], 68, [4] pp.
$425.00
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Sole edition of this dissertation on the Samaritan Pentateuch. Kohn (1841–1920) was a Hungarian rabbi and scholar who served as president of the Hungarian Literary Society and as a member of the Jewish Congress of Hungary; this important and still-cited thesis was written while he was a student at the University of Breslau.
Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped red leather title-label (a little darkened). Three leaves with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Some upper corners bumped; one leaf with repairs to inner margin, touching but not obscuring text. Endpapers and some edges with a little soiling; generally, quite clean. (25365)
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Miniature Designed by Bruce Rogers — About Miniatures — BEAUTIFUL Printing
Koopman, Harry Lyman. Miniature books. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Miniature (5 cm, 1.9"). [4], viii, [2], 103, [1] pp.
$250.00
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This remarkably tiny treatise on miniatures was originally conceived by Bruce Rogers as what would have been his final work. Instead, it was printed twelve years after his death by
Grabhorn-Hoyem of San Francisco from Rogers' original galleys, which had been set in letterpress type by Mackenzie and Harris.
This is one of 400 copies printed.
The paper is of an extremely high quality, and near-vellum-like in its feel; the title-page and several others are given touches of red; every page bears a beautiful border of swooping vines printed in blue.
Bradbury 32. Publisher's limp vellum, spine with blue-stamped title; slightly (and unsurprisingly) sprung. A clean, crisp copy. (35731)
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Commedia Dell'Arte & Other Expressive Figures
Kredel, Fritz. Dolls and puppets of the eighteenth century as delineated in twenty four drawings. Lexington, KY: The Gravesend Press, 1958. 12mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). [20] pp.; 24 plts.
$225.00
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Sole edition: A famed illustrator's marvelous images of 18th-century dolls and puppets from the “Mon Plaisir” doll village, the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museo Civico (Venice), and the Cooper Union Museum (New York), with a preface by Joseph C. Graves. This charming little volume was designed by Gotthard de Beauclair and printed by Ludwig Oehms at Frankfurt am Main. The 24 drawings were copper-engraved for these reproductions and
hand-colored through stencils by Schauer & Silvar.
This is numbered copy 110 of 500 printed and
signed at the colophon by the artist.
Publisher's blue linen–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in striped paste paper–covered slipcase; volume crisp and clean. (35259)
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