Keeble, N. H. (ed.): John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus. Tercentenary Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 278 + plates. Hardback: navy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Spine slightly cocked, otherwise very good. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, very good. Ref: 53870
Kennedy, Gavin: Captain Bligh: The man and his mutinies. London: Duckworth, 1989. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 321 + plates. Map to endpapers. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Tiny indent to outer edge of paper, all edges a little dust-marked, but binding fine. Dust-jacket, 2.5cm tear with loss to top corner of upper cover, creasing to edges, otherwise still good. Ref: 53570
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 310. Black cloth, white title to spine and upper board, top edge red. Endcaps a little dusty, tiny 2mm hole to upper joint, lower corners mildly bumped, very good. Dust jacket a little tattered at edges and upper joint with a few chips and creases, some repaired with tape on the inside, still very good. First edition, third impression of the seminal Beat Generation novel. Based on his travels around America in the late 1940s, Kerouac wrote several unsatisfactory versions of the novel before writing the first draft of what eventually became On the Road in three weeks in April 1951, a year after the publication of his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac continued to work on the manuscript for several years, deleting some contentious passages and adding more literary sections. Its eventual publication in 1957 caused tremendous debate about the novel's content, style and the whole generation it was assumed to represent, and thrust instant fame upon Kerouac. Ref: 54976show full image..
Kerr, Philip: Field Grey London: Quercus, 2010. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, silver title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, price intact, very good. Book seven in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54681
Kerr, Philip: Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[vi], 439, [i]. Black cloth, silver title to spine. A few tiny dents to upper board, near fine. Dust jacket with scratch to upper, price intact, very good. Book eight in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54682
Kilburne, Richard: A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. With Some Chronological, Historicall, and Other Matters Touching the Same: and the Several Parishes and Places therein. London: Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson [...], 1659. First edition. Small 4to. (177 x 135mm), pp. [viii], 422, [xii] + portrait frontispiece. Numerous errors in pagination as usual, list of Contents incorrectly bound before the dedication rather than after. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light smudges and spots of foxing, a little toning along head of title-page, a smudge of red pigment to tail edge of final leaf perhaps indicating the original edge colour. Late 19th- or early 20th-century brown polished sheep neatly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt title and blind tooling to spine, blind-tooled borders to boards, edges marbled, grey endpapers. A little rubbed but a very good copy overall. Recent armorial bookplate of Robert Edmund Lloyd-Roberts to front paste-down. Two MS pencil notes to the ffep verso, the first concerning the placement of the list of Contents, the second recording that this book was 'acquired at the sale at Godmersham Park, the home of Mrs Robert Tritton. 8th June 1983.' Built in 1732 by Thomas May (later Knight), Godmersham Park was inherited by Edward Austen (brother of Jane Austen) in 1794. He was a cousin of the Knight family, who had adopted him in the early 1780s; when his adoptive mother died in 1812 he changed his name to Knight. Jane was a regular visitor to Godmersham Park and is said to have used the house as a model for Mansfield Park. The house passed through several more hands before being bought in 1935 by Robert Tritton and his wife Elsie, whose death in 1983 prompted the Christie's auction mentioned above. In his 'Epistle Dedicatory', Kilburne writes of his intention to present 'the Kent of his own day', and to depict 'the county as it was before the Civil War'. Hasted, in his 1797 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, dismisses Kilburne's work as being 'little more than a Directory'. However, 'Kent was not well served by early topographers, and Kilburne's small survey was extensively quoted on sixteen occasions by Robert Furley and, over the years in Archaeologia Cantiana, as a first source of reference, and not without some praise. The Topographie devoted disproportionate attention to Hawkhurst: 10 pages out of 422, or, in the words of one writer, 'as much space to it as to twenty other average parishes' (Archaeologia Cantiana, 5, 1863, 59). Kilburne justified this, however: "In respect I finde not any description of this Parish ? it having been the place of my habitation for above twenty eight years last past (God's Providence having also there lent me an inheritance), I thought fit to enlarge my selfe upon this place. (Kilburne, 126)"'. (ODNB) Wing K434 Ref: 50494show full image..
Kiley, Mark, et al.: Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critical Anthology. London: Routledge, 1997. 8vo., pp. xx, 332. Paperback. Light signs of use, with light pencil underlining to just a few pages, still very good. Ref: 54247
Kingsley. Jennifer P.: The Bernward Gospels: Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. 4to., pp. 228. 18 colour and 34 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53372
Kitzinger, Ernst: (Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, ed.:) The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West: Selected Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. First edition. 4to. (285 x 213mm), pp. xxii, 419. Hardback: blue cloth, edges lightly dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, two closed tears to cover of spine, one 3cm across middle and the other 0.8cm by endcap, shelf wear, otherwise very good. Ref: 53221
Knight, Dayanna: Viking Nations: The Development of Medieval North Atlantic Identities. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 271. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54435
