Search Results: Titles starting with D from Legacy Books

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp139-152. 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. An address on the occasion of the dedication of the Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, on October 12, 1920. In this address, the author points out five ways we use astronomy in daily life, from determining the exact time, to producing accurate maps. .

New York : Simon and Schuster Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1959), vii, 241pp. Light wear, else VG+ in VG dust jacket, with a label at front flyleaf signed in facsimile by Dorothy Carnegie. From the DJ: "The convictions that guided his course in life, the ideas that he advanced in How To Win Friends and Influence People, are really a part of the wisdom of the ages. Now, in this Scrapbook you can read the words that inspired him, words that can just as easily inspire you today.".

Chicago: McKinley Music Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1905, Sheet Music, 7pp, pictorial cover. Wrps. Light soiling, else G..

Louisville: Filson Club Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp442-466, three illustrations. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Volume 62, No. 4, October 1988. G. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. A discussion of several findings of inscriptions and artifacts that have been incorrectly attributed to Daniel Boone..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp119-138. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 27, No. 2, April, 1953. In report covers. G. May include a first or last copied page. From the opening paragraph: "The importance of Daniel Boone in the history of American heroes and symbols can hardly be overstated. He set the general pattern which later western heroes were to follow; he personified the epical move westward during colonial and Revolutionary times; he came to symbolize the frontiersman and the self-reliant hunter in American life. Boone made the mold into which Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Paul Bunyan, and the american cowboy were poured and has managed to maintain his unique importance despite the number of heroes who have seemed on the verge of eclipsing him and occupying his place in the nation's imagination.".

NY,: The Dibdin Club, Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1901, 12mo, 32 numbered pages, plus a blank leaf bound between each numbered page, (I've never seen this before, and don't know why it was done, perhaps for adding one's own notes), boards. Most of the backstrip is missing, internally clean. As is, a good working copy, or have it rebacked if desired, inner front hinge reinforced at the title page. Limited to 250 cc, this number 106. Ex-lib, non-circulating, with the bookplate of Ursuline College and Msgr. F. N. Pitt. Fr. Felix N. Pitt, who served as the superintendent of Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky, had a tremendous collection of Kentucky books. He lived at the Ursuline Motherhouse, serving as senior chaplain, and that's where his books were kept. Upon his death in 1971, the books were willed to the sisters. The archdiocese intervened on the grounds that Fr. Pitt's property was their property; but, after some legal wrangling, the nuns were successful in proving… Read More

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp122-124. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 25, No. 2, April, 1951. In report covers. G. May include a first or last copied page. G. In 1792 a series of articles ran in the London Sun newspaper, purporting to be written by Daniel Boone. Historians have determined that the articles were lifted, without attribution, either from Filson's DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, AND PRESENT STATE OF KENTUCKE, published in 1784, or from Imlay's TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN TERRITORY OF NORTH AMERICA, published in London 1792..

Cincinnati: Harvey Publishing Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1909), large 8vo, 496pp, index, illustrated. Extremities worn, couple of signatures starting, else G+. See Coleman 1562: " Biography of Dr. Drake, one of Kentucky's noted physicians of the pre-Civil War period and a seminal figure in American medicine, together with biographies of a number of physicians of his time and later. Also describes the Cincinnati medical schools and hospitals." Dr. Drake was born in New Jersey in 1785. His family moved to Mays Lick, Kentucky when he was three years old. He studied medicine in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, taught at Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky and founded the Medical College of Ohio, (now the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine). He published many books in the field of medicine and his book, PIONEER LIFE IN KENTUCKY includes a wealth of information about early Kentucky social history..

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporatio, 1929. First Edition, viii, 402pp, illustrated. G+. Very light wear and soiling, else G+.

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1954, 248pp. VG in G+, lightly chipped and soiled dj. The author, (1898-1954), was born in Calloway County, Kentucky. He was a prolific scriptwriter for the "Lone Ranger" and "Green Hornet" radio serials. He also wrote scripts for the television shows, "Studio One" and "Big Town." He didn't write his first novel, THE GABRIEL HORN, until he was 53 years old. It was very successful, selling over a million copies and was the basis for the movie, "The Kentuckian." This is his second and final novel, finished just nine days before his death. As was his first novel, it, too, is set in Kentucky, but a little later, about 1845..

Copenhagen Book. Good. Soft cover. 1953, 4to, 95pp, index, illustrated, self-wrps. Backstrip neatly reinforced, contents G. In Danish with English translation. Title in English: DANISH HISTORY TOLD IN ART..

New York: John B. Alden, Publisher Book. Good. Soft cover. (1886), 16mo, 33pp. Printed wrps. Covers lightly chipped and soiled, else G. In report cover. The Elzevir Library, Volume V, No. 196..

NY: Scribner Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1865, 413pp. Corners at the bottom badly worn, other extremities worn, paint residue on fore edge of front cover, hinges tight, contents G. A good reading copy. Approximately the first third of the book is a biography of Dante; the balance is a thorough analysis of THE DIVINE COMEDY..

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1999, xiv, 269pp, map. Fine in Fine dj. The writer follows noted orangutan researcher, Birute Galdikas, into the jungles of Borneo and encounters foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans. Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, formed the famed trio which had been encouraged by Louis Leakey to study great apes in the wild..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1944), 218pp. Lightly worn, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else VG. The author, Margaret Rosemary Norris Kutak, (1905-1999), was born in Anderson, Indiana and lived in Louisville, Kentucky, where her husband taught at the University. She wrote two murder mysteries in the 1940s which were well received, this being the first. From the publisher's notes: "The ghost of a woman whose living body haunts her former husband and his second wife, her adoring brother, her friends - is brought back to life by a miracle of modern science. Eve Minary's dark fragile beauty concealed a twisted mind - concealed too, dangerous knowledge. With an extraordinary tensity of brooding horror, the story moved rapidly to Murder; and young Doctor Marc Castleman has to act fast to save his professional reputation.".

Columbus,: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Book. Good. Soft cover. pp425-427. Removed from OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS VOLUME XIV, 1905. Edited by Fred J. Heer. In plastic report covers. Some of the articles from this volume may contain a first and/or last copied page. In 1778, a man named Darnell was with Daniel Boone and twenty six others, when they were captured by Indians and taken to Old Chillicothe. Darnell was able to escape by making a death defying leap of some thirty feet across a deep gorge, catching on to some bushes on the other side. Had he not made it, he would have died from the fall, but he chose to make the jump rather than to be retaken by the Indians and subjected to a slow and painful death. The Indians, after seeing his remarkable leap, believed that he was under the protection of the Great Spirit and spread the story of the most amazing feat they had ever witnessed..

Leipzig: Grethlein & Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. (1912), small 8vo, 500pp. Moderate wear and soiling, else G+. Text in German. Walter Julius Gustav Bloem, (1868-1951), was a popular German writer. He wrote novels that expressed his German-national attitude and made him one of the most-read authors of his time. .

Leipzig: R. Voigtlander Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1901, large 8vo, xvi, 370pp, index, profusely illustrated with portraits, cloth and marbled boards, extremities worn, contents VG. Rough translation: Two Decades of German Literature in the Post-Bismarck Era. Text in German..

New York: D. Appleton and Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1886, viii, 288pp plus fourteen page book publisher catalogue. Extremities lightly worn, else G+. Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903), was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and political theorist of the Victorian era. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology. He is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Book. Good. Hardcover. (1961), xii, 436pp, index, bibliography. G+. Hortense de Beauharnais, (1783-1837), was the step-daughter of Emperor Napoleon, daughter of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais and wife of Louis Bonaparte. She was the mother of Napoleon III..