Legacy Books

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.

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.

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.".…

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: 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. (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.…

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

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. 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. 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. …

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: 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. pp437-443. Removed from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 60, No. 3, July, 1952. VG. In report covers. Articles from this publication may include a copied first or last page. To retaliate against Lord Dunmore, the Provincial Council of North Carolina ordered Colonel Howe with his regiment of Continentals to Virginia. Howe's company joined up with Colonel Woodford and the combined forces took command of Norfolk and drove the British and their Tory supporters to take refuge on the royal ships in the harbor.…

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. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp299-314. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 63, No. 4, December, 1967. Wrps. VG. In report covers. Louis Kossuth, in 1851, was revered by many as the greatest living man. He was an attorney, a student of languages, newspaper editor, finance minister, and governor of Hungary. He had led the Hungarian Revolutionh against Austria. In the United States, Kossuth's revolution had enlisted the sympathies of the people to an extent that was unprecedented.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1979, 67pp, illustrated by the author. VG+ in VG, price-clipped dust jacket. From the cover: "Gibran, who had been working on this book for some years before his death, always intended it as a companion piece to The Prophet. Here as there, mellow wisdom and a mystic sense of beauty are communicated in language that is true poetry. To read this book is like spending a day of sunlight and fresh wind at an outdoor shrine of Nature.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1936, xx, 525pp, index, numerous color and b&w drawings by the author. Corners fraying, covers faded, spine sunned, contents G. This book is not just a geography textbook but a combination of history and geography. A heavy volume; may require additional shipping charges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. (2004), 252pp, index. From the DJ: "With hundreds of entries, ranging in length from the pithy gloss to the mini-essay - this quirky, informative book will give aid and comfort to anyone who has ever been flummoxed (not hummocked) by words that don't mean what they look as though they ought to mean.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp603-607. Removed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOLUME 45, 1913. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. VG. In report covers. From the introduction: "The three specie herein described have been standing in the United States National Museum collection without names for several years, and in working over some Anthomyidae belonging to the Division of Cereal and Forage Crops I had occasion to compare them with some specimens contained therein.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. 1950, 432pp, index, light wear and soiling, else G. Includes 22 chapters on the origins of words and how they derived their meanings. A heavy book which will require additional shipping charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1966), 373pp, index, illustrated. VG in VG, very lightly worn dj. Carry Nation, forever remembered as the lady with the hatchet, was born in Garrard County, Kentucky in 1846. At the turn of the century, she was the most uninhibited reformer in the world, crusading against alcohol, tobacco, sex, the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt, and many other worldly evils.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, pp95-97. Removed from PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XLI, 1947. VG in plastic report covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1986, 36pp, illustrated. VG. The entire issue is devoted to Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, best remembered for OUT OF AFRICA.