Search Results: Authors starting with J from Legacy Books

Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne Printing Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1917, 864pp. Moderate wear and soiling, else G. Though arguably, not the most exciting book you're apt to find, it does make a great paperweight and/or door stop. Also could be used for additional ballast in the trunk of your car, and if you happen to become stranded in wintry conditions, there are enough pages to keep a small fire going for hours. But most of all it is probably the cheapest cure you'll ever find for insomnia. But wait, order in the next five minutes and I'll find another equally undesirable item and send them both for the same money. Only pay separate handling and shipping..

New York: The Macmillan Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937, x, 276pp, illustrated with sixty-four photographs by the author. Light wear, else G. The author made an extensive journey into Guatemala, and introduces us to the people, the culture, and the places of interest of the country. Joseph Henry Jackson, (1894 - 1955), born in Madison, New Jersey, was a literary critic, author, travel writer, and photographer..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp239-259. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1919. VG. In plastic report covers. From the introduction: "It was suggested to me that this lecture should have something to do with glass, and it was hoped that there might be experiments. The production of glass is difficult to illustrate efficiently in the course of a lecture. It will, therefore, only be dealt with very briefly and generally before turning to some of the problems connected with glass which I hope to make the chief part of this lecture.".

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Book. Good. Hardcover. (1949), xx, 346pp, index, illustrated. Extremities worn, spine sunned, contents G. SixGuns 1120: "One of the best books on California outlaws, this volume shows scholarly research. Many accounts of such outlaws as Murieta are revealed as legendary. It also contains good accounts of other California outlaws, such as Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick, Black Bart, Dick Fellows, and Tiburcio Vasquez.".

New York: Gramercy Publishing Company Book. Good. Hardcover. (1965), 144pp, index, illustrated with sixty seven photographs. G+ in G, lightly worn, price-clipped dj. From the dj: "Elaborate doll houses have been made for kings and queens and princes as well as for children, and magnificent specimens from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries may be seen in museums in England, Germany, and the Netherlands. Queen Anne gave a handsome one to a godchild nearly three hundred years ago which remains intact. In the United States, doll houses range from an Early American house in New York City, dated 1744, to charming nineteenth-century doll houses in museums throughout the country. One of the most delightful is a miniature Victorian mansion made for the children of President Hayes, which they played with in the White House.".

Odense: Skandinavisk Bogforlag A/S Book. Good. Hardcover. 1969, square 8vo, 80pp, illustrations on every page, including five color plates tipped in. Stiff boards. Bottom half inch of backstrip frayed, else G. Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark in 1805, which, is the largest city on the island of Funen. At one time or another, he visited some twenty nearby Funen estates, and sojourned at about half of them. This book features many of the places important in Andersen's life and/or mentioned by him in his writings..

New York: Harper & Brothers Book. Good. Soft cover. 1897, pp144-150, illustrated. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME XCIV, DECEMBER, 1896, TO MAY, 1897. In plastic report covers. This article explains the process, invented by Jacques, of converting the potential energy of carbon into electrical energy, for which he received a patent..

Boston: Plays, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. (1967), 4to, 190pp, illustrated. Ex-lib, light wear and soiling, else G. Paraphrased from the preface: It has been my experience in working with children who tried to make Marionettes and who tried to produce Marionette plays that they had to spend far too much time preparing the Puppet actors and learning how to use them. There is set forth here a much simpler method of making Marionettes and Puppets than has been taught and emphasized before. The construction of the actors and their manipulation can be done by young boys and girls entirely without the help of adults. The nine plays which are included here were written with the same purpose in mind. In short, it is an attempt to present a work of Puppetry and Puppet plays wholly for the use of young boys and girls, beginning with the age when they can read, up to an age when the Puppet Theatre has become a happy memory..

New York: Wings Books Book. Fine. Hardcover. (1995), xi, 356pp, index, illustrated, bibliography. Fine in Fine dj. The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813-1855. In 1830, the United States Congress passed a bill permitting the removal of all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi. Over the next twenty years more than fifty tribes were uprooted from their homelands and marched into the alien lands of the west - a shameful episode in American history..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp411-428, plus seven plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1932. Maps and seven plates, two figures per plate. In plastic report covers. VG. "As we look at the subsequent career of early man we find that we know very little about his rise until he enters the Historic Age, commonly regarded as beginning with European history. Between the emergence of physical man on the one hand and on the other the beginning of the historical period commonly identified with European history, there lies an enormous period of at least a million years, which is to a large extent a gap in our knowledge." This article is about the geology and earliest civilizations of northern Africa and of nine ancient cities in Western Asia. .

New York Board of Trade and Transportation Book. Good. Soft cover. (1887), 8pp. Printed wrps. Light soiling, tiny open tear at the top of the rear wrapper, else G+. In plastic report covers. A complaint lodged by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, against the Interstate Commerce Commission in behalf of their alleged one thousand small business members. Newly imposed freight classifications, apparently resulting in higher fees, were at the heart of the complaint..

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company Book. Good. Hardcover. (1901), 12mo, 260pp, one hundred thirty seven illustrations. Extremities worn, 1/4 inch snag at the head of the spine, covers moderately soiled, else G. About forty great sea battles are described..

Springfield: Illinois Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. pp13-35, portrait of George Rogers Clark. Removed from JOURNAL OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol. XIX, October, 1926-January, 1927, Nos. 3-4. In plastic report covers. Some of the articles from this volume may contain a copied first or last page. Focuses primarily on the exploits of George Rogers Clark and the winning of the West..

Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1888, 19pp. Wrps. In report covers. Light soiling. A memorial sermon preached in the Presbyterian Church Montgomery, Ohio, January 29, 1888..

N.P.: Tri-State Chisholm Trail Centennial Commission Book. Very Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1967, 52pp, illustrated. Stiff wrps. Lightly sunned, else VG. From the first page: "It was the cattleman's original interstate highway system. And a great deal more. This generally straight route of 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to central Kansas - laid out through wild, virgin territory and Indian country with such fantastic genius that engineers later followed it with roads of concrete - carried the greatest movement of cattle the world has ever known. More cattle moved over the Chisholm Tail than are handled today by both the Chicago and Kansas City Stockyards in five years." Six-Guns 1160..

New York: Schocken Books Book. Good. Hardcover. (1974), 189pp, with an appendix which includes: The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in the Town by Hans Andersen; List of authors; Index. Ex-lib with usual markings, else G. From the preface: "The French have had a reputation for rather poor children's literature. How do they manage to write so effectively and persuasively on the subject? After reading and rereading Isabelle Jan and Paul Hazard, I have come to the conclusion that we in the United States should continue with our good production of children's books and, for a time at least, leave to the French a genre in which they excel - literary criticism, even on the subject of children's literature.".

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp237-247. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, JULY, 1894. VG. In plastic report covers. From the report: "On Friday, the 22d of August, in the year 1890, about noon, a sleigh driven, or rather hoisted, by twelve men of extraordinary vigor and resolution, attained the summit of Mont Blanc. It was the first time an ascent had been accomplished in this novel style and that a traveler had reached the very top of the renowned pile hardly having set foot to the ground. A month later the traveler in question, he who has the honor of addressing you, reported to the Academy of Sciences the circumstances of the ascent and the observations he had made, calling attention to the advantages which meteorology, terrestrial physics, and astronomy would find in this incomparable station at which he proposed to establish an observatory." .

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp187-193. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. VG. In plastic report covers. The writer's subject is primarily about balloons and kites, but he does mention the aeroplane experiments of S. P. Langley..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp191-196. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, JULY, 1894. VG. In plastic report covers. From the report: "A dozen years ago I undertook to lay the foundations of a science of photographic photometry, with special reference to its application to astronomical physics. I applied the fundamental principle of my researches - a principle to be restated below - to the measurement of the comparative intensities of solar and lunar light, to that of the earth light on the moon, to the radiating activity of the sun as compared with several stars, notably Sirius, and finally to the law of decrement of the light in passing away from the head along the tail of the comet C of 1881, which had been photographed at Meudon, the first among such bodies.".

Louisville: University of Louisville Book. Good. Hardcover. (1925), 4to, 220pp, profusely illustrated. Extremities worn, else G+. The 1925 Yearbook for the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky..