Legacy Books

Hardcover. Condition: Good. v, 151pp. Light toning throughout, book lightly cocked, else G. Includes: Rosas; The Locked Chest; The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. (1986), xiv, 337pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. G+ in G, dj which has a few small closed and practically closed tears. Remainder mark at bottom edges. Mitchell Kennerley, (1878-1950), a legendary figure in the world of books, had his successes and his failures. He was a magazine publisher at the age of twenty three, the head of his own publishing house at twenty eight, and the president of Anderson Auction Galleries at thirty seven. Probably no one else was so involved in so many aspects of literature and antiquarian books. But, in his sixties, he was an obscure figure living in poverty, and at age 71 he committed suicide.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. (1969). BCE, 375pp. G+. Historical fiction based on the life of Alexander the Great.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. (1964), xi, 302pp, index. VG in G+ dj. Frost, (1874-1963), although born in San Francisco, is best remembered for his verse dealing with New England life and character. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943, for respectively: NEW HAMPSHIRE, (in which my favorite, Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening appears); COLLECTED POEMS; A FURTHER RANGE; and A WITNESS TREE.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp141-146. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, Dec. 10-11, 1934. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp308-315. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, December 11-13, 1930. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages. A brief look at the Union Inn, on Washington Street, in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the period 1833 to 1836.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp115-118. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 65, No. 2, June, 1969. Wrps. VG. In report covers. In 1887, when James Whitcomb Riley was relatively unknown, he was invited to speak, almost by happenstance, at a program headed by James Russell Lowell. Reading last, he outshone the other speakers: Lowell, Mark Twain, Edward Eggleston, Richard Henry Stockton, and George W. Cable, and received a standing ovation and was invited back for the next day's readings. It is said that this program marked the beginning of Riley's prominence on the national stage.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1930. First Edition, x, 307pp. Covers silver-fished and/or discolored, previous owner's bookplate, contents VG. A good reading copy. From the Preface: "The word liberty which I have with some reluctance chosen to stand as the title of this book, means so many things that it often means almost nothing. I have attempted no abstract discussion or definition but have endeavored to show what those who have most thoughtfully considered the subject throughout the ages have meant by Liberty. I have also discussed the subject in the light of the general philosophy of life and of the psychological and historical facts which form the background of such discussion.".

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. (1919), x, [11]-68pp. Well worn reading copy with a section of the backstrip lacking, contents G. The author was the widow of Joyce Kilmer, celebrated for his best known poem TREES.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. (1985), 96pp, 42 full page plates with facing page of description, index of artists. Wrps. VG+. Robert Sterling Clark, (1877-1956), by virtue of a handsome inheritance, became a collector of fine art. He established the institute which bears his and his wife's names, in 1955. The collection includes works by dozens of world class artists, including 37 by Renoir, his favorite. The collection also includes sculpture, porcelains, prints, silver, and drawings from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp441-442, plus one plate. Removed from Smithsonian Institution PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME XXIX, 1906. In plastic report covers. VG. "The two new plants described below were collected by Mr. Roland M. Harper in the course of his extended study of the flora of Georgia. The new genus, which I have founded upon one of them and have named in Mr. Harper's honor, is a very peculiar one. The fruit much resembles that of Carum, while the leaves are reduced to hollow-jointed phyllodia somewhat like those of Oxypolis filiformis, but in other respects the plant is unlike both.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp17-20, map. Removed from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 54, No. 1, January, 1946. In report covers. VG. Articles from this publication may include a copied first or last page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, pp26-31, illustrated. Removed from BRITISH HISTORY LLUSTRATED, Volume One, Number Five, December, 1974. VG in report covers. "The windswept mystery of stone set on Salisbury Plain over 3,000 years ago.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp129-148. Removed from PUBLICATIONS OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE YEAR BOOK XX, 1975, edited by Robert Weltsch. VG. In report covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. (1963), 255pp, illustrated, index, bibliography, underlining in red ink at about 20 pages usually only a line or two, and occasional marginal notes. The subject was involved in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 against the British monarchy of James I.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. (1900), 373pp. TEG. Light wear and soiling, else G+. Essays relating to literary topics: Jean Valjean; Shakespeare; Caliban, Tennyson; King Arthur; Iconoclasm in Nineteenth-Centucy Literature; The Gentleman in Literature. But also includes these titles: William the Silent; The Romance of American Geography; The American Historians; The Story of the Picture; The Drama of Job.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1937, 97pp, drawings and vignettes. G+. Includes twenty four essays about historical events or personalities in Williamsburg's history, compiled by Mrs. R. B. Watts, with appropriate illustrations by Orin Bullock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1912, 12pp. Removed from SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TESTING MATERIALS HELD IN NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 3RD-7TH, 1912. SECOND SECTION: PAPERS ON CEMENTS, STONES, CONCRETE AND VARIOUS SUBJECTS. VG. In report covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp20-31, 4to, illustrated. Removed from BRITISH HISTORY ILLUSTRATED, Volume One, Number Two, June, 1974. VG in report covers. May include a copied first or last page. "This eccentric monarch wore the crown for nearly 60 years. Despite the loss of America during his reign, he earned the respect of the British people, strengthening their regard for the monarchy in the process.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp127-134. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, December 13-14, 1940. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages. Mitchell, 1837-1890, was a judge on the Indiana Supreme Court.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp171-172. Removed from Smithsonian Institution PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME XXIX, 1906. In plastic report covers. VG. "Mr. B.S. Bowdish, while collecting for the United States National Museum on Mona Island, Porto Rico, sent in three specimens (two adult males and one adult female) of a ground dove that appear to represent an undescribed form. It may be known as: Columbigallina Passerina Exigua new subspecies.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, pp1-21. Removed from PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XLI, 1947. VG in plastic report covers. Focusses primarily on the history of British imperialism.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1972, 4to, 47pp, illustrated, small inset maps. Wrps. G. Compiled from a series of articles in PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC PROGRESS. Twenty seven lakes are pictured and described.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1947, 48pp, thirty four illustrations, including twelve in color. G+ in G dj. Tiny remains of price sticker on front of dj. The Britain in Pictures Series.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1897, pp674-689, illustrated. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME XCIV, DECEMBER, 1896, TO MAY, 1897. In plastic report covers. From the article: "Some few of these philosophers - as Robert Hooke and Steno in the seventeenth century and Moro, Leibnitz, Buffon, Whitehurst, Werner, Hutton, and others in the eighteenth - had vaguely conceived the importance of fossils as records of the earth's ancient history but the wisest of them no more suspected the full import of the story written in the rocks than the average stroller in a modern museum suspects the meaning of the hieroglyphs inscribed on the case of a mummy. It was necessary that a man should appear who could see without prejudice and apply sound common-sense to what he saw. Such a man was William Smith, the English surveyor. He led the way to a science which was destined, in its later developments, to shake the structure of established thought to its foundations.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1897, pp926-933, light dampstaining at the bottom of all pages, not affecting text, else G. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME XCIV, DECEMBER, 1896, TO MAY, 1897. In plastic report covers. The author contends that one may see the great towns, the cathedrals, the universities, and the museums, of England, but will not experience what is most characteristic and delightful in English life until he has visited often in English or Scottish country houses.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp29-32, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 29, 1995, No. 1. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. The author edited and translated the diaries, letters, and other papers of emigrant Lutheran minister, Johann Friedrich Ernst, (1748-1805), who worked in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, for the purpose of writing his biography. This article is basically a progress of her work.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp17-20, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 27, 1993, No. 2. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Karl Kron, the pseudonym of LYman Hotchkiss Bagg, (1846 - 1911) wrote a book, TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE, published in 1877. This article from Chapter 26, titled Bull Run, Luray Cavern and Gettysburg, is about bicycle trips he took in 1884 and 1885 in Virginia, Maryland, and Southern Pennsylvania.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1957. Revised Edition, 63pp. Wrps. Lightly sunned, else G+. Hundreds of questions, with answers, on every aspect of the state, prepared especially for teachers and students of West Virginia Club Work. Apparently first used by the State Department of Education in 1939 as an aid in teaching school children.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp196-202. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, December 13-14, 1930. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages. LaSalle was exploring the area that later became Indiana as early as 1680. For trivia buffs, the author was the father of the author with the same name who wrote the very popular RAINTREE COUNTY which was made into a major film.