KLS Books - Fine Bindings -- Leather, etc.

A RUMOR OF REVOLT The “Great Negro Plot” in Colonial New York

Author: Professor Davis teaches United States constitutional, legal, and economic history at Arizona State University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham University in New York City, he earned from Columbia University in the City...

$ 30.00

A Treatise on the Varieties and Consequences of OPHTHALMIA With a Preliminary Inquiry into its Contagious Nature

Author: “Arthur Edmondston, [1776?-1841] a Scottish surgeon, published in 1802 the first account in English of Egyptian ophthalmia. That work proved to be the first of more than twenty English publications dealing with ophthalmia that...

$ 30.00

ANIMAL MAGNETISM

Author: Alfred Binet & Charles Fere Alfred Binet [1857-191] French psychologist; “Alfred Binet played an important role in the development of experimental psychology in France and made fundamental contributions to the measurement of intelligence [Binet-Simon...

$ 45.00

Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000

The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books Author: Robert Flynn Johnson Publisher/Date: Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, 2001 ISBN: 088401102X Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 302 pages Description: Occupying a...

$ 19.00

Beauties of English Poesy 1767

Selected by: Oliver Goldsmith Publisher/Date: London: printed for William Griffin, 1767. First Edition, First State . General Note: With half-titles. The titlepage to v.2 differs in having no price below the imprint and the date...

$ 400.00

BLOODY ASSIZES

Editor: J.G. Muddiman Publisher: The Notable Trials Library, Gryphon Editions (c. 2001) Facsimile; reprinted from the Edinburgh & London edition of 1929. Format/Condition: New quarter leather volume is in fine condition. 250pp; 10 illustrations; Index;...

$ 30.00

BRIEF AND TRUE REPORT FOR THE TRAVELLER CONCERNING WILLIAMSBURG IN VIRGINIA

Publisher/Date: Williamsburg, Va: Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., 1935. Description: Full Leather. Near Fine . This is a very nice example of the kind of book that might have been printed and bound in Willamsburg in the...

$ 100.00

BROTHERLY LOVE

Author: Pete Dexter Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1991 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on...

$ 50.00

Century for the Century Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999

Author: Martin Hutner & Jerry Kelly Publisher/Date: NH: David R. Godine/ Grolier Club (2004 1st of revised and expanded edition) Format/Condition: New oversized hardcover with dust jacket in fine condition. Full black cloth with gilt...

$ 30.00

Commentary on Apoplectic and Paralytic Affections And on Diseases Connected with the Subject

Author: Thomas Kirkland, M.D. [1721-1798] Publisher: The Classics of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Gryphon Editions (c. 1991 ) Facsimile reprint of the London 1792 Format/Condition: New leather book is in fine condition. 192 pages: measures 5...

$ 35.00

Confessions of Nat Turner

Author: William Styron, signed limited edition. Publisher/Date: Random House New York (1967) First Edition, first printing. Limited Edition of 500 of which this is 95. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Format/Condition: Red...

$ 120.00

CONTRACEPTION (Birth Control) Its Theory, History and Practice. A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions

Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes 1880–1958, English paleobotanist and eugenicist, b. Edinburgh, D.Sc. Univ. of London, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich. She lectured on paleobotany at the universities of London and Manchester. In 1921, with Humphrey Verdon...

$ 28.00

CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD

Author: Anatole France Translator: Lafcadio Hearn Introduction: A.S.W. Rosenbach Illustrator: Sylvain Sauvage, signed & numbered 888 of 1500 Publisher/Date: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Designed by Edward Alonzo Miller and printed in red &...

$ 75.00

ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMOUR

From the Collection at Goodrich Court HEREFORDSHIRE In 2 Volumes Drawings & Descriptions Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Joseph Skelton Publisher/Date: London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854, folio. Format/Condition: ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANTIENT ARMOUR Complete two volumes....

$ 799.00

F. Scott Fitzgerald LEDGER

Introduction: Matthew J. Bruccoli Publisher/Date: Bruccoli Clark, NCR Microcard Editions; (1972, 1st thus – fascimile edition) Limited to 1,000 copies of which this is numbered 75 PROOF. Format: Leatherette hardcover. Measures 10×15 inches. 200 pages...

$ 40.00

Fall of the House of Usher

Author: Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator: Alice Neel Publisher/Date: Limited Editions Club, 1985, #34 of 1500, SIGNED on the colophon page by Raphael Soyer Format/Condition: USED quarter leather hardcover book with black cloth, felt lined, slipcase,...

$ 600.00

Fisherman Under the Southern Cross

A Story of Adventure in New Zealand Blue Water Classics Author: Romer Grey, author of “The cruise of the “Fisherman.” Publisher/Date: Derrydale Press, Blue Water Classics (1998, facsimile; a limited edition of 500) Format/Condition: New...

$ 33.00

GRAND JURY

Author: George Edwards Jr. [1875-1946] was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who specialized in insurance law. Publisher: Legal Classics Library , Gryphon Editions (c. 2003) Facsimile of 1906 Philadelphia edition. Format/Condition: NEW leather-bound book is in...

$ 30.00

INHERITANCE OF MENTAL DISEASES

Author: Abraham Myerson’s early work was in classical neurology and physical diagnosis of neurological diseases. When he did develop an interest in psychiatry, it was in physiology rather than psychology. Myerson’s lifelong interest in the...

$ 40.00

JOHN HUNTER - MAN OF SCIENCE and SURGEON

Author: Stephen Paget’s important work on the the leading surgeon and medical scientist of eighteen-century England. Publisher: The Heirs of Hippocrates, Gryphon Editions (c. 1993) Facsimile Format/Condition: New quarter-leather bound volume is in fine condition....

$ 30.00