Search Results: Authors starting with S from Legacy Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Book. Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. (1954), 4to, 261pp, bibliography, illustrated with two hundred sixty eight reproductions. G+ in G, lightly chipped dj. Covers the creative history of prints and drawings from the time of David, Goya, Delacroix, Daumier and Corot to the mid-twentieth century in Europe, the United States and Mexico..

Washington, D.C.,: Society for American Archaeology, Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp369-382, illustrated. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Volume 37, Number 3, July, 1972. Wrps. VG. May contain a first or last xeroxed page. Abstract: "A preliminary study of the form and fracture patterns of sheep metatarsals from Jaguar Cave is used to illustrate a method for the quantitative analysis of primitive bone fracturing techniques. Criteria of form, fracture, and function are defined and weighted, on the basis of experiments with green bone, and the aid of computers is enlisted to process the archaeological specimens via these criteria. The data is searched for: a. the definition of a technique of intentional fracture, b. the formation of classes of intentionally fractured and retouched bone fragments, and c. the identification of statistically perfect tools and not-tools, determined by higher or lower correlations of weighted sums. Conclusions are drawn… Read More

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp381-394, plus fifteen plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1921. VG. In plastic report covers. The Acacia plant and the Acacia ant seem to have developed a symbiotic relationship..

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1947, 447pp, index, illustrated. Backstrip sunned at top, else G+ in torn, chipped, Fair dj. Born into luxury in a Virginia manor, reared in poverty in the backwoods of Kentucky, Mason, 1811-1843, was catapulted into the national spotlight at the age of nineteen when President Andrew Jackson, as a practical joke directed at the Whigs, appointed him acting governor of Michigan Territory. However, over the next ten years he proved to be a boy wonder who changed Michigan from a wilderness to a settled state..

Chez les Libraires Associes. Book. Poor. Hardcover. Nouvelle Edition,. 1757, 16mo, 342pp. Volume Two only, ex-lib, had been in library storage for more than a hundred years and probably never circulated, binding copy, contents G. In French. Includes theological tracts, letters on diverse subjects and essays on philosophy, politics and morals. Saint Real, (1639-1692), a Jesuit, was born in Savoy..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1891, vi, 334pp, index, frontispiece. Extremities worn, ink notes on the half title page, else G. Famous Women of The French Court Series, translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. Joséphine de Beauharnais née Tascher de la Pagerie, (1763 - 1814), was the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French. She had previously been married to Alexandre de Beauharnais, who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Napoleon eventually divorced her because she bore him no children..

Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp820-824. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Volume 48, Number 4, October, 1983. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Synopsis: "Braun and Plog's approach to understanding change in 'tribal' networks is critiqued with respect to (1) certain bridging arguments about the social meaning of particular evidential trends, and (2) certain conceptual biases regarding the nature of 'tribal' social relations. Aspects of an alternative strategy for making sense of 'tribal' social dynamics are discussed.".

Palo Alto: The Altoan Press Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1974, 40pp. Wrps. VG. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, and with a typed letter, signed by the author, to the librarian at the University of Louisville. (Kentucky). The author states that inasmuch as some of her ancestors had lived in Louisville as far back as the War of 1812, and since some of them are included in a few of the poems, she feels it appropriate to send a copy of the book to the University of Louisville. However, the book has no library markings, and appears never to have been placed in the system..

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. (1965), xvii, 444pp, index, illustrated. Covers lightly dampstained at the bottom quarter inch else G+ in G dj with corresponding dampstain at the bottom of the rear panel. From the dj: "This biographical narrative about Mark Twain and his family focuses upon the lifetime of Susy Clemens (1872-1896), her family's happiest years. Mrs. Salsbury tells the story in dialogue form, Susy and her immediate family, their relatives, friends and servants speaking for themselves through quotations from letters, journals and manuscripts, with brief explanatory material by the 'Narrator.' The result is an immediate and moving account of a group of fascinating human beings much involved in the currents of their time.".

Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1925. First Edition in hardback after 1903 paperback, 191pp. VG+ in VG dust jacket with decorative design by Aubrey Beardsley. A collection of 9 short stories all apparently having a jaundiced view of Parisian women. From the introduction: "Subject to an ironic outlook, Saltus loves women as they are, women as he sees them. He sees them in an atmosphere of light, color, scent, as exquisite phantoms which a kiss materializes. 'Her eyes were pools of purple, her hair was a garland of flame, her mouth a scarlet thread.' It is not easy to sum up Saltus, nor is it necessary. I have lost the taste for classification and I am not concerned to know what place posterity will assign to him.".

Alphonse Pringuet Book. Good. Hardcover. 1854, xii, 443pp, folding map of Australia, taped at the center fold, with some slight loss, ex-lib, with a neat stencil and a neat stamp on the title page and a printed number on the dedication page, and no other markings. Extremities worn, original boards and endpapers, with new leather back and corners. In French. Sub-titled: TRADUITS DE L'ITALIEN EN FRANCAIS PAR L'ABBE FALCIMAGNE. AVEC DES NOTES ET UNE HISTOIRE DE LA DECOUVERTE DE L'OR, REDIGEES PAR LE TRADUCTEUR. Inscribed and signed by the translator, the Abbe Falcimagne, on the half title page..

St. Marys: West Virginia Club Concern Book. Good. Soft cover. 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..

Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1964, 32pp, illustrated. Wrps. VG. Based largely on a study prepared jointly by C. Clement Samford, bookbinder in the restored Printing Office, and John M. Hemphill II, of the Colonial Williamsburg research staff. A title in the Williamsburg Craft Series..

Philadelphia Book. Good. Soft cover. 1877, 36pp, six illustrations. Wrps. G+. A report of the finances, membership, attendance, and acquisitions of the Philadelphia Zoological Garden from March, 1876 to March, 1877. The total number of paid admissions, more than 657,000, was increased somewhat because of the ongoing Centennial Exhibition..

New York: Hastings House Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. (1955), 4to, xiii, 240pp, index, profusely illustrated, bibliography. Lightly worn, else G+. The history, legends, and lore of the Mississippi River, with chapters on DeSoto, the first steamboat race, the packet boats, the plantations, the Civil War era, famous and infamous characters, and much more. A treasure trove of Mississippi River material..

St. Louis: Union Merchants' Exchange Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1874, 19pp. Wrps, sewn. VG. A committee, on behalf of the Union Merchants' Exchange, chaired by Mr. Samuel, were petitioning Speaker Blaine to use his influence to clear the Mississippi River of rapids, sandbars, snags, and wrecks. The rear cover has the notation that at the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Union Merchants' Exchange, Jan. 12, 1874, the memorial was unanimously approved and the Committee was instructed to submit the same to the Congress..

Secaucus: Castle Book. VG+. Hardcover. (1985), 4to, xxvi, 549pp, well-illustrated. VG+ in VG DJ. From the DJ: "Here is the most comprehensive reference work on Western American Art ever published. This ambitious and unique book features over 1700 concise and detailed biographies of painters, illustrators, and sculptors who fell under the spell of the American West. The entries -- alphabetically arranged for quick reference-- range from the earliest known European Artist-Explorers, to the contemporary artists at work by 1950. Every category of Western Artist is represented: the special newspaper correspondents, the scientists and survey topographers, the genre recorders, cowboy artists, and nostalgia painters, magazine and book illustrators, print makers, modernists and many others." A heavy volume which will require additional shipping charges..

NY: Benjamin Blom Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1968), Reprint, xiv, 171pp, index, illustrated. VG+. First printed in 1931..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1936). First Trade Edition, 286pp. Light war, spine darkened, contents VG. It's difficult to describe this interesting and unusual book, so here is the author's introduction describing it: "Being several stories and psalms nobody would want to laugh at, interspersed with memoranda variations worth a second look, along with sayings and yarns traveling on grief and laughter, running sometimes as a fugitive air in the classic manner, breaking into jig time and tap dancing nohow classical, and further broken by plain and irregular sounds and echoes from, the roar and whirl of street crowds, work gangs, sidewalk clamor, with interludes of midnight cool blue and inviolable stars, over the phantom frames of skyscrapers." .

Cincinnati Book. Good. Soft cover. 1859, 4to, about 20pp per issue, illustrated, ads. Wrps. Part of one column neatly removed from one issue, (apparently a recipe), else moderate soiling and chipping, G. Includes the following: Volume 4, Numbers 5, 9, and 12, May, September, and December, 1859; Volume 6, Numbers 1, 9, and 10, January, September, and October, 1861; in all six issues. "Designed particularly for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Western Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania - but having a circulation that now extends all over the United States." A good overview of the state of agriculture in the years just prior to, and in the early days of, the Civil War..