Search Results: Titles starting with F from Legacy Books

New York: Book-of-the-Month Club Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (2000), 92pp. Wrps. VG+. Includes articles about Fitzgerald (in addition to the one by Bishop) by Amar Shah, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Kazin, John Chapin Mosher, Budd Schulberg, Frances Kroll Ring, Sheilah Graham, and John Dos Passos..

New York: Carl Fischer Book. VG. Soft cover. 1904, 4to, 136pp, illustrated, revised and enlarged by Zimmermann, in German and English. Wrps. From the preface: "Book I designed as a thorough schooling for orchestral playing contains all the positions, major and minor scales, intervals, bowings, grace notes, together with necessary and appropriate exercises, all the various styles of writing for the double bass, examples of recitative and melodramatic music, as well as extracts from prominent and well-known classic works.".

NY: Random House Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1954). First Trade Edition, 437pp. VG+ in G+ dj, which is very lightly crinkled at the top and bottom of the spine and has a half inch slit at the rear panel at the fold that looks like a rubbed spot. The 1955 Nobel Prize Winner..

New York: Privately Published Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1955, 52pp, signed (first name only), and with an inscription by the author. Extremities lightly worn, else VG. There is a clear plastic dj in G condition, that may or may not have been issued with the book. Mrs. Winthrop Palmer, (1900-1988), was an American educator, author and poet. A graduate of Columbia University, she and her husband, businessman Carleton H. Palmer, were influential in the development and growth of Long Island University's C. W. Post Campus, where Mrs. Palmer was assistant professor of literature and fine arts..

Columbus: Capitol College Press Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. (1950), xv, 206pp, illustrated. G in a Fair badly chipped dj. The story of a daring gangster and bootlegger who operated in the Ohio Valley before the turn of the century. After a meeting with Billy Sunday, he became a crusader for temperance and law enforcement..

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1947), xii, 299pp, index, illustrated. Very light wear, else VG+. At the time this was published, Professor Kain at the University of Louisville was one of the foremost authorities on Joyce's ULYSSES ..

NY: Bonanza Book. Good. Hardcover. (1961), 4to, 278pp, index, profusely illustrated with photos by Quincy Howe, Jr., and others. Lightly dampstained at bottom half inch of rear cover, else G+ in G, price clipped, lightly dampstained and chipped dj. From the dj: "In THE FACE OF TEXAS, Green Peyton, devoted citizen, expatiates on the myths and mysteries, the industrial empires and cattle magnates, the eccentricities and beauty of the Lone Star State. With a chapter for every section and major city of the state, this book reveals in words and pictures the elegance of Dallas, the prosperity of Houston, the legends of San Antonio, the hospitality of Fort Worth, the astonishing rise of El Paso, Midland, Corpus Christi, Odessa, Amarillo, Lubbock, and many other cities.".

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. (1956), 191pp. VG in VG, price-clipped, lightly chipped dust jacket. From the DJ: "As John and Barbara start the search for The Faceless Adversary, Frances and Richard Lockridge are off to another of their spellbinding mysteries." A Main Line Mystery..

Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1999), large 4to, 167pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, index, bibliography. VG+ in VG+ dj. Includes an introductory essay by John House. This book was published to accompany the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the portraits made by the impressionist masters and their immediate predecessors. Fifty nine plates are included, with descriptions for each which includes the identities of the paintings' subjects, the relationships between artists and sitters, and the social context of this circle of artists. A heavy volume; will require additional domestic shipping charges and prohibitive international shipping charges..

N.P.: N.P. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1846, 23pp. Wrps. Apparently had been hardbound, separately or as part of a larger volume, now disbound, and in plastic report cover, light soiling, and light foxing, else G. Not in Sabin.The author says it is his intent to show the following regarding the passage of the recent tariff bill: that the ad valorem is the only just principle upon which a tariff can be based; that the present bill does afford sufficient protection to all the great interests of the country; that more revenue has heretofore been collected on the ad valorem principle than by specific or minimum duties; that judging from the past, it will produce sufficient revenue; and, finally, that it is the most equal and just, and consequently the most democratic, tariff bill ever passed. James Cannon Zabriskie, (1804-1883), was born in New Jersey. He arrived in San Francisco in 1849 and opened a law practice in Sacramento, where he drafted the first charter for the city and was elected the first city… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1940), xi, 334pp. Light wear, else G. In 1937, the author accepted the post of Ambassador to Berlin. As he points out in the prologue, he had hopes for peace and a belief that Hitler's ambitions would wane or that the German people would ultimately refuse to follow Hitler. Finally, when the German army invaded Poland, Henderson realized that his hopes for world peace were not to be..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1922, 258pp,color frontispiece. Moderate wear, else G. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1961), 288pp. VG+ in G+, price-clipped dj. A story of horse breeding and racing in Kentucky set a few years after the Civil War. Although hardships abound, the novel's ending on the occasion of the first Kentucky Derby, is a portent of better days to come. Clark McMeekin is a pseudonym for the writing team of Isabel McMeekin and Dorothy Park Clark..

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky Book. VG+. Hardcover. (1980), xi, 194pp. G+ in VG+ dj. From the dust jacket: "John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a life-long search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family.".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1924, xiii, 369pp, index. Ex-lib, extremities lightly worn, else G. The author was the President of Columbia University. From the introduction: "The word Liberal has proved so attractive that it has been given many meanings, and its possession has been fought for by widely differing groups. Historically and etymologically, the true Liberal is a believer in liberty, whether that liberty be intellectual, civil, political, economic, or religious. There was a time - and that not so long since - when the antithesis to Liberalism was Conservatism." It seems as if that situation has returned since the author wrote this book..

Louisville.: The Filson Club Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp336-349. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 51, No. 4, October, 1977. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last xeroxed page. An article about Lincoln Institute, an educational facility for blacks, which opened in 1912, located about twenty miles east of Louisville. The last class graduated in 1966..

Louisville: Published by the author Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1986, oblong 4to, 200pp, profusely illustrated. VG in G+ lightly crinkled dj. From the dj: "In 1808 the primal American Catholic diocese of Baltimore that was responsible for all the Catholic churches in what was then America was subdivided into the additional dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Bardstown, Kentucky. the sheer fact that the little town of Bardstown would be included with such growing metropolitan giants was tribute to the amazing growth of Catholicism on the American Frontier. In Kentucky, the 'first American West' the ancient faith sank deep roots and produced a unique culture in the 'Holy Land' those counties surrounding the 'Catholic capital' at Bardstown. Here the growth of communities, churches and institutions was truly phenomenal. In 1841 the diocesan seat was moved to the growing city of Louisville. Now, for the first time, this venerable diocese so rich in history and… Read More

New York: Saturday Review Press Book. Good. Hardcover. (1972), xvii, 554pp, index, illustrated. Light wear and rubbing, else G. The author was on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, more commonly known as the McClellann Committee. He was a good friend of Robert F. Kennedy, the chief counsel of the committee, and an avowed enemy of Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Teamsters Union, and the main target of the Committee..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp395-414, illustrated with two plates and drawings. 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 fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is a moth in the family Erebidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates the characteristic webbed nests. .

Louisville: United States Army Engineer District Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1984, iv, 346pp, index, profusely illustrated, excellent bibliography, map endpapers. VG. Signed by the author. An update of the first history of the Corps of Engineers written in 1974. Although this update covers only a few years, it was a time of great activity by the Corps, including "four massive navigation modernization structures on the Ohio River and eight multiple purpose dams and lakes on tributary streams within the lower Ohio River basin along with many smaller though not less important civil works projects." In addition, the District contended with regional flooding, tornadoes, blizzards, and other natural or manmade disasters. From the prologue: "Established on March 15, 1886, the Louisville District of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, in 1983 had a dual mission: supporting the armed services for national defense and directing a broad water resource development… Read More