Search Results: Titles starting with G from Legacy Books

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp338-356. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol. 40, No. 4, October, 1966. Stf wrps. G. May include a first or last copied page. Gabriel Slaughter was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and settled in Mercer County, Kentucky about 1791. He had a distinguished career as a military man, leading a regiment at the Battle of New Orleans in 1814. He became Kentucky's seventh governor in 1816 upon the death of the sitting governor, and had a rather difficult administration. He then served a term in the Kentucky House of Representatives and retired from politics, living out his life as a Baptist lay minister..

Devon,: Pennsylvania German Society, Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp25-27, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), The Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 27, 1993, No. 1. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. The author, who learned the game at the age of six, explains how the game is played..

Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa Book. Fair. Hardcover. (ca 1950). Limited Edition, xiv, [33]pp, index, folding map. Both covers are dampstained, leaving the boards warped, but the interior is VG with no staining to the pages or the map. The dj is still G, though chipped and lightly dampstained. Limited to 3500cc, printed by the Prairie Press. First published in 1840. Isaac Galland was a true pioneer, eminently qualified to write of early Iowa. He was born in 1792 near present day Chillicothe, Ohio. After a series of youthful adventures, including searching for gold in Mexico and being imprisoned there, and allegedly carrying on a counterfeiting operation in Edgar County, Illinois, he arrived in what is now Lee County, Iowa in 1829. During the next thirty years, until his death at Fort Madison in 1858, he continued his adventurous lifestyle, participating in the fur trade, speculating in land, acting for a time as the personal secretary to Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, executing several… Read More

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Illus. by Charles Dana Gibson. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1904, 238pp, illustrated with six full-page plates by Charles Dana Gibson, previous owner's name and date at front flyleaf. Light wear, else G+. Includes ten short stories..

Louisville: J.B. Speed Art Museum Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1948, 40pp, 28 paintings described and pictured. Wrps. VG. The Speed Art Museum is located in Louisville, Kentucky..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1927, 283pp, illustrated. Moderate wear, else G. The author, who wrote primarily novels about the sea, was born in London in 1873. His youth was spent among the docks and clipper ships, and at the age of twelve, he started work as a junior clerk for a shipping company. He traveled extensively, taking a 2,000 mile voyage up the Amazon in 1912, and a nine month voyage in the East Indies in 1923. With the publication of this book, which received the Femina-Vie Heurese Prize for 1927, he was able to devote all his time to writing..

Louisville: The Filson Club. Book. Good. Soft cover. pp353-356. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol. 35, No. 4, October, 1961. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. G. The Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, was built around 1834 and named after Dr. William C. Galt, a physician, whose residence had occupied the site. One of the famous early visitors was Charles Dickens who praised his lodgings, contending that they were as fine as those he had enjoyed in Paris. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1865 and reopened in 1869. It closed in 1921, and the third Galt House was opened in 1973 at Fourth Street and River Road..

New York: Outdoor Life Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. (1976), large 8vo, x, 490pp, index, numerous illustrations, several in color, maps. VG in G, lightly chipped and torn dj. The details on seventy-five species of American game birds for the hunter with gun, camera, or binoculars..

Endicott: Castalio Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1987, xvi, 658pp, indices, illustrated. VG+ in G+ dj, but for a two inch closed tear at the front hinge area and very minor crinkling at the top and bottom of the spine. An exhaustive bibliography which includes some 4700 entries and divides the work into four historical eras: The Featherie Era 1620-1850; The Gutta Percha Era 1851-1900; The Rubber Core Era 1901-1960; The Hard Core Era 1961-1985..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp567-590. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899. VG. In plastic report covers. The writer was rector of the University of Rostock. He bemoans the fact that his institution does not have a botanical garden. He says it is striking because for a long time the botanical garden has been considered as evidence that botany is properly pursued in a university. He continues: "Today I would rather discourse to you of the generally understood, practical side of my department and relate in brief the development of the garden with reference to style and architecture." He then describes the elements of gardens from the time of the Egyptians..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1979, 67pp, illustrated by the author. VG+ in VG, price-clipped dust jacket. From the cover: "Gibran, who had been working on this book for some years before his death, always intended it as a companion piece to The Prophet. Here as there, mellow wisdom and a mystic sense of beauty are communicated in language that is true poetry. To read this book is like spending a day of sunlight and fresh wind at an outdoor shrine of Nature.".

New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1909. Sheet Music, 5pp. Tape repair to spine, light soiling, else G. Also has the arrangement for four part male, or mixed, voices..

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1924. First Edition, xi, 282pp. Extremities lightly worn, else VG. From the Preface: "I do not claim that this Preface has anything in particular to do with the book that follows. I admit that the Preface is merely inserted to give me a chance to expound certain views on the general nature of humour and on the general aspects of the person called the humourist.".

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp64-74. 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: "Kew Gardens stand pre-eminent among conservatories, and a description of the treasures of botany there gathered cannot fail to prove of interest to our readers. Julian Hawthorne, son of the celebrated novelist, and himself a writer of rich, imaginative power, thus describes these famous gardens con amore.".

Boston: Little Brown Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1964). First American Edition, 4to, 192pp, index, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Extremities lightly worn, endpapers lightly foxed, else VG in Fair dj, which has several large open tears at the top and bottom of the front and rear panels. The delights of gardens as recorded and illuminated by poets and philosophers, essayists, diarists, and travellers, and as illustrated by painters and potters, draughtsmen and sculptors..

Indiianapolis: Heritage House Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1986), 4to, 47pp, printed on recto, index. Wrps. Top one inch of plastic binding strip missing, else VG. From the foreword: "The will abstracts in this book are taken from the Will Books A, B, C and D as found in the Clerk's Office of Garrard County, Kentucky. Abstracts of 114 wills are to be found, with a supplement of estates that listed as inventories or administrator's reports to indicate the names of deceased persons, but not always identifying heirs. Garrard County, Kentucky was formed 1 June, 1797. The county seat is Lancaster.".

F. Tennyson Neely Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1896. First Edtion, 280pp. Well worn reading copy..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp257-265. 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:"Among the skilled horsemen of the earth the gaucho of the plains of Argentina bears pre-eminence. The cow-boy or our Western plains somewhat nearly approaches him, but the cow-boy is only a passing accident not an institution like the gaucho, who will still flourish on his native soil when the cow-boy has ceased to be. Hutchbinson's BUENOS AYRES AND ARGENTINE GLEANINGS gives us a well-limned picture of this interesting individual to which we owe the following selection.".

Chicago: The Chicago Music Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1881, Sheet Music, 6pp. Wrps. Unobtrusive tape repair to spine, light soiling, else G..

New York: Julian Messner, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. (1942), 260pp, five full page drawings by Robert S. Robison, bibliography. Spine faded, light dampstaining at bottom of covers, else G. The title is a perfect example of how the meaning of words can change over time. Field, (1850-1890), expelled from three colleges because of his pranks, turned to journalism, writing a daily column for the Chicago Daily News. But he is best remembered for his many popular and sentimental poems for children, including LITTLE BOY BLUE, 1889..