Timmons Bascom (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 414 pages. Ex-university library marks, shelf wear and fading to the blue spine and covers; pages toned; a solid reading copy. The frontispiece is loose. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 214586.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth covers exhibit moderate wear and fraying on corners and spine ends. Light soiling to top of spine and top edge of front cover. Light shelf wear to covers. Inside front and back covers and text are yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Light soiling and yellowing to page ends. Hinges are tight. Inscribed by author on ffep. Illustrated with b&w photos. DJ is present in back of book but in pieces. A portrait of a vital public figure before, during and after WW I. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Rubbing and fading to jacket. Chips and tears along edges of jacket. Spine creases.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. NULL.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 458 pages. Ex-university library marks; light wear to the green boards. Cracked front hinge; pages yellowed; a good book still. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; Inventory No: 215347.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Garner Of Texas - A Personal History. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (vice-presidents, united states, history ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (United States, Legislators, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full brick cloth, gilt lettering on brown panels on spine and cover. Illustrated with photographs. The story of General Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, first Director of the Budget, and Author of the post-World War I "Dawes Plan.". Former owner's small label on fep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 344 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Garner of Texas: A Personal History, Special Texas Edition, Bascom N. Timmons, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948, 294p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/price clipped/LARGE TEAR WHOLE OF BACK DJ FROM SPINE TO FLAP, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding, SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO TEXAS NEWSPAPERMAN MARSHALL MCNEIL, COMPLIMENTARY COPY FROM WRIGHT MORROW, TEXAS LAWYER AND WHEELER-DEALER---bio of John Nance Garner, FDR s veep---25.00. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ in Good+ DJ. First edition. 5 1/2 8, 294 pgs, b&w portrait as frontispiece. The story of "Cactus Jack" John Nance Garner based upon the notes of his off-the-record comments and confidences to an intimate friend over a period of 25 years. Special Texas Edition. Unclipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. STATED FIRST EDITION. closed tear to dj, nice, clean copy!

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket shows significant wear. Photograph of Jones on the front cover is fine. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover. An interesting look at the career of the Texan who became a key member of Roosevelt's administration.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. 414 p. 25 cm. Illustrations. Index. From Wikipedia: "Holman Jones (April 5, 1874 June 1, 1956) was a Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1940 to 1945. His most important role was to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), (1932 1945), a federal agency originally created in the Herbert Hoover administration that played a major role in combating the Great Depression and financing industrial expansion during World War II. Jones was in charge of spending US$50 billion, especially in financing railways and building munitions factories. Born in Robertson County, Tennessee, Jones was the son of tobacco farmer and merchant William Hasque Jones and Laura Anna Holman. His mother died when he was six years old. His father sent him to manage a tobacco factory at age 14, and at 19 he was put in charge of his uncle's lumberyards. Five years later, after his uncle, M. T. Jones, died, Jones moved to Houston to manage his uncle's estate and opened a lumberyard company, which grew quickly. During this period, Jesse opened his own business, the South Texas Lumber Company. He also began to expand into real estate, In 1908, Jones constructed a new office and plant for the rapidly growing Houston Chronicle in exchange for a half-interest in the company, which had been solely owned by Marcellus Foster." The relationship between Jones and the "Chronicle would last the rest of his life." In 1926, Jones became the sole owner of the paper and named himself as publisher. In 1937, he transferred ownership of the paper to the newly established Houston Endowment Inc. Jones retained the title of publisher until his death in 1956. Sometime after 1908, Jones organized the Texas Trust Company. By 1912, he had become president of Houston's National Bank of Commerce. This bank later merged with Texas National Bank to become the Texas National Bank of Commerce, and grew into a major regional financial institution. It became part of JP Morgan Chase & Co. in 2008. In 1911, Jones purchased the original five-story Rice Hotel from Rice University. He then razed the original buildings and constructed the present 17-story building, now formally named as the Post Rice Lofts. The new Rice Hotel building opened on May 17, 1913. Jones soon made his mark as a builder across Houston, and helped to secure federal funding for the Houston Ship Channel, which opened in 1914 and made the city a viable port. President Woodrow Wilson offered him the position of Secretary of Commerce, but Jones decided instead to focus on his businesses though he could not refuse when Wilson asked him to become director general of military relief for the American Red Cross during World War I. When the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established in 1932, President Hoover appointed Jones to the RFC's board, even though Hoover was a Republican and Jones a Democrat. In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made him the Chairman of the RFC, while also expanding the RFC's powers to make loans and bail out banks. This led some to refer to Jones as "the fourth branch of government." Roosevelt reportedly called Jones "Jesus H. Jones." According to Joseph P. Lash, the President considered Jones too conservative and shot down a strong movement to make Jones the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1940. Jones retired from the RFC on 17 July 1939, to become Federal Loan Administrator (head of the Federal Loan Agency, which supervised the RFC and some other bodies). Jones later served under Roosevelt as Secretary of Commerce in 1940 the same position he had turned down a quarter-century before and served until 1945, when he was forced out in favor of Roosevelt's outgoing Vice President, Henry A. Wallace. Fair. No dust jacket. Spine faded and parts of cover discolored. Slightly shaken. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket w/ minor tear, damp stain tail of spine. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio; Americana. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15124.