Search Results: Authors starting with T from Legacy Books

New york: The Mentor Association, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1913, 12pp, plus six plates. Salvaged from a damaged volume containing the first 24 issues, bound without their covers, now in plastic protective covers. VG. The Mentor Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 12, May 5, 1913. Includes: The Laocoon; The Dying Gaul; Old Father Nile; The Farnese Bull; Colleoni; Perseus..

Culver Military Academy Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1948, 4to, 173pp, index, profusely illustrated. VG. The 1948 Yearbook for Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana. George (Michael) Steinbrenner, III, owner of the New York Yankees, was one of the graduates that year. In addition to his photo as a graduating senior, he is featured in photos of the football and track teams and was also a member of the band. There is also a section entitled: SWEETHEARTS OF CULVER 1948, that includes photos of seven young ladies, and a photo of actress Barbara Stanwyck, and a facsimile of her note thanking Culver for asking her to select the Sweethearts. Culver had a school for girls as well as a military academy for boys..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp47-55, illustrated with a vintage photograph of the Bank of England, with numerous people and carriages. Removed from WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS, Edited by Charles Morris and Oliver H.G. Leigh. May include a first or last copied page. VG. From the introduction: "Taine's ENGLISH LITERATURE, has in itself added a new work to the world's best literature of far more value than many of those with which it deals. In his, NOTES ON ENGLAND, he gives us thoughtful impressions of the country itself, from which we select his pen-picture of the great city on the Thames. The picture is not an inspiring one. He could not avoid comparing in his mind this fog-haunted capital with the brighter aspect of his native Paris.".

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. Book. Illus. by Henry Hutt. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1902. First edition, small 8vo, viii, 351pp, plus 10-pages of publisher's ads, illustrated with 7 drawings by Henry Hutt. Very clean and bright, top edge gilt, previous owner's name at front pastedown. VG+. First edition of author's third book..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp145-165. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 29, No. 2, April, 1955. In report covers. G. May include a first or last copied page. The title refers to the defense strategies in Kentucky during the period 1781 to 1783. After their defeat at Yorktown, the British turned their sights toward Kentucky and the West. This is an interesting article detailing the efforts of George Rogers Clark, and others, with the approval of Thomas Jefferson, to defend Kentucky from the British and the Indians. Includes notes on the Battle of Bryant's Station and the Battle of Blue Licks..

London: Andrew Dakers Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. N.D., ca 1953, large 8vo, 128pp, profusely illustrated, including several full page color plates. Light wear, else VG. Nineteen articles about various aspects of the English monarchy, including a lengthy article about the tour round the world by Queen Elizabeth in 1953-54..

Louisville: Standard Printing Company Book. Very Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1929, oblong 12mo, 32pp, many illustrations. Wrps. VG. Coleman 2581. An historical guide to Bardstown with references to Nelson County, Federal Hill, John Fitch, Nazareth, the Trappist Monastery at Gethsemani, etc..

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1854, iv, 176; 158pp, text printed in double columns. Old leather and marbled boards, leather labels at spine, covers quite worn, Fair, exlib, contents good with light toning. Two volumes in one. Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, (1795-1854), was an intimate friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb. He was a drama critic, but best known as a writer of tragedies, but found to be too wordy for the modern taste. He was also a member of Parliament. Sir James Stephen, (1789-1859), was a civil servant and under-secretary for the colonies, 1836-1847, and later a professor at Cambridge..

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1930, xvi, 543pp, index, tables, charts, maps. G in Fair, well worn, somewhat discolored, tape repaired dj, with an open half inch tear at the bottom of the spine. A scholarly study of the Mexican revolution which began in 1910 and created sweeping and fundamental changes in the economic structure of the country, and a survey of pre-revolutionary conditions and practices..

St. Paul: Published by the Committee Book. Good. Hardcover. 1909, x, 516pp, illustrated with many portraits. Extremities worn, spine somewhat darkened, lettering faded, contents G. With an account of the visitation of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, D.D., and the labors of the Rev. Ezekiel Gilbert Gear, D.D., the first Protestant Clergyman to minister to the white settlers within the Precinct of St. Peter's which then included the present city of St. Paul..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp156-170. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 19, No. 3, July, 1945. G. In report covers. May include a first or last copiedd page. Wickliffe, "the Old Duke," was the largest slave owner in Kentucky; Breckinridge was a staunch emancipationist. During the lead up to the Civil War, they engaged in a series of debates on the subject of slavery..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 76, No. 4, October, 1978, index. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Lexington's Early Amateur Actors, by Joseph M. Hayse; From Beckham to McCreary. The Progressive Record of Kentucky Governors, by Nicholas C. Burckel; William Goebel (Boone Day Address), by Bert T. Combs..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 76, No. 2, April, 1978. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: The Eighteenth Century Autobiographies of Daniel Boone, by Michael A. Lofaro; Frontier Journalism in Kentucky. Joseph Montfort Street and the Western World, 1806 - 1809, by Ronald Rayman; Alben W. Barkley. Vice President, by Polly Ann Davis; Memoir of Charles Henry Daily, edited by Melba Porter Hay; John Finley Arrives at Eskippakithiki, by Robert F. Collins..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp87-105. Removed from THE REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol 71, No. 1, January, 1973. VG. In report covers. Benjamin Rush Milam, (1788-1835), born in Frankfort, Kentucky, was a leading figure in the Texas Revolution. Milam County, Texas is named for him..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 72, No. 2, April, 1974. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Governor Magoffin and the Secession Crisis, by Lowell H. Harrison; Negro Politics and the Suffrage Question in Kentucky, 1866 - 1872, by Victor B. Howard; The Twain - Cable Lectures in Kentucky, 1884 - 1885, by Bill Weaver. [The lecture tour by Mark Twain and George Washington Cable, covered sixteen states, and included performances in Paris and Louisville, KY]. The Question of Greek Independence in Kentucky, 1821 - 1828, by Paul Papas..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 75, No. 1, January, 1977. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Kentucky's Third Constitution. A Restriction of Majority Rule, by Frank F. Mathias; Kentucky's Rebel Press. The Jackson Purchase Newspapers in 1861, by Berry F. Craig; Prohibition and Politics in Kentucky. The Gubernatorial Campaign and Election of 1915, by Thomas H. Appleton, Jr..

Hopkinsville: The Historical Record Association Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1946], 4to, volumes one, two and four only, of four, 564; 590; 579pp, index of biographies and index of history, profusely illustrated. All volumes, extremities lightly worn, else G+. Sub-Titled: A Narrative Historical Edition, Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Statehood, Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of its Prominent Families and Personages. Coleman 3251. The first volume and half of the second volume cover the history of Kentucky (1792-1942). The remainder of the work is devoted to genealogical and biographical sketches of Kentuckians, edited by Frederick A. Wallis..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 75, No. 4, October, 1977, index for 1977. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Jesse Stuart to Dayton Kohler. Selected Letters, edited by Edward L. Tucker; Joseph Rogers Underwood. Nineteenth Century Kentucky Orator, by Nancy L. Priest; Press Reaction to the Appointment of Fred M. Vinson as Chief Justice of the United States, by Philip A. Grant, Jr.; Kentucky's Tradition of Leadership. Four Exemplars of the Early Days (Boone Day Address, June 7), by Holman Hamilton..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 71, No. 3, July, 1973. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: The Early Struggle for Education of the Blacks in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by C. L. Timberlake; Victims of Circumstances. Negroes in a Southern Town, 1865 - 1880, by Herbert A. Thomas, Jr.; An Excursion to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by Hermann Zagel, translated by Richard A. Weiss; Selected Civil War Letters, from collection of William F. Hawn. [several letters to and from Captain Absalom B. Barner a member of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry, and later the East Tennessee Vol. Cav. Co. B.].

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 69, No. 4, October, 1971. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: New Thoughts on an Old Theme, by Thomas B. Jones; the Building of Liberty Hall, by Pat Watlington; Abolitionism in Kentucky, by Wallace B. Turner; Munfordville in the Civil War, by James Barnett; Robert J. Breckinridge. Kentucky Unionist, by Will D. Gilliam, Jr..