BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
Bookselling
Reminiscences
Kaye, Barbara. The company we kept. New
Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (1995). 8vo. 10, 224 pp. 
• Fine in original dust jacket.
Minors by Majors? Kendrick, Aschel C. Our poetical favorites. Second series. A selection from the best minor poems of the English language comprising chiefly longer poems. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1876. 12mo. vii, [1], 543, [1] pp. 
• Very good; board edges, corners, and spine extremities showing light wear, spine slightly dimmed. (1957)
English Trade BindingsKing, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. A descriptive bibliography. London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. xxiii, [3], 324 pp.; 16 double-sided color plts. 
• Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-stamped title on the front cover; as new. (11240)
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Commemorating
the
First
Anniversary of His DeathKing,
Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford:
The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
• Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
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Beautifully Illustrated in Color Kingsley, Charles. The water-babies. London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., [ca. 1930]. 8vo. 340, [4 (adv.)] pp.; 48 plts. (incl. in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements. 48 lovely chromolithographed plates by popular illustrator Harry G. Theaker.
• Bound as above with dustwrapper lacking, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Front pastedown with bookseller's small ticket. Half-title with pencilled gift inscription. Internally clean, plates bright and beautiful. (26035)
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A Novel of the
“Peculiar Institution” Kirke, Edmund [pseud. of James R. Gilmore]. Among the pines: Or, South in secession-time. New York: J.R. Gilmore & Charles T. Evans, 1862. 8vo. 310 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Wright, II, 1003. Publisher's dark green textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine slightly sunned, sides with spots of lighter discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled and inked inscription (partly) dated 1862. Light to moderate foxing throughout. (25992)
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One
Year's Worth of
Well-Spent Half Hours
Knight, Charles. Half-hours with the best authors.
[London: Charles Knight, 1847–48]. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). 4 vols. in 2. I: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [2],
312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [2], 312 pp. II: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 316 pp.
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52 weekly issues meant to be consumed in half-hour portions, with each weekly number containing seven half-hours. (Indices and quarterly title-pages are bound in here.)
Knight, who was devoted to books and to literature from the time he was a small child, was a much-admired printer and publisher, as well as an author, reformer, and would-be educator: Many of his publishing endeavors were aimed at improving and enlightening the working class.
• NSTC 2K7731. On Knight, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth, style Wav3. Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with muse motif and title, spines with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations; lightly worn overall with some fading, vol. II spine head with traces of a strip of cloth tape. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Paper slightly embrittled (more so in second volume), with a few short edge tears. Externally ordinary; internally worthwhile. (26860)
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From
Romulus
Augustulus to
Louis PhilippeKoch, Christopher William. History of the revolutions in Europe.... Middletown [Ct.]: Edwin Hunt, 1833. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). I: 280 (i.e., 276) pp.; 4 plts. II: 393, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.; 8 plts. 
24 wood-engraved illustrations on 12 plates, some of which are signed “JWB” and one of which is signed “B.”
• Contemporary publisher’s mottled sheep; spine gilt extra. Fine abrasions or chipping to leather, especially to head and foot of spine. Offsetting from turn-ins; lightly foxed throughout. A closed tear without loss in pp. 327–28. All edges marbled.
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Buy a Piano; Learn to Make Pie-Dough? Kohler & Campbell Pianos. Family cook book. [New York]: Kohler & Campbell, © 1907. 16mo. 8 pp.
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed paper wrappers with hanging loop. Soiling/staining/spotting, and original staples mostly deteriorated with spine darkened around staple sites. 
Poor condition, but a charming “period” production. (26087)
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NICE C16 Books for, oh, $65.00 — GOOD Incunables for Less than $200! Kraus, H.P., bookseller, New York. New acquisitions: Incunabula, XVI century books, Americana, etc. New York: H.P. Kraus, 1946. 8vo. 37, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Stapled in original wrappers, stained and chipped along spine; age-toned. (26155)
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KRAUS
CATALOGUES . . .
Kraus, H.P., bookseller, New York.
We have about 50 of these, at this writing, dated from the '70s through the '90s
and with a few earlier. 
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