Search Results: Titles starting with L from Legacy Books

George Willig & Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1885), Sheet Music, large 4to, 9pp. Printed wrps. Tape repair to spine, light soiling, else G..

Paris: Bizarre Magazine Book. Good. Soft cover. 1961, 88pp, profusely illustrated. The February, 1961, issue of Bizarre Magazine, numbers XVII and XVIII. Includes conjoined twins, giants, little people, and all sorts of human anomalies that often appear in sideshows and carnivals. In French. .

Chicago: National Music Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1890's, Sheet Music large 4to, 10pp. Wrps. Very light soiling to covers, else G+..

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1967, pp119-122. Removed from THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA. SELECTED PAPERS OF THE XXIXth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. Edited by Sol Tax. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. In Spanish. Approximate translation: THE HISTORY OF THE MAYANS OF YUCATAN THROUGH THEIR OWN CHRONICLES..

Cincinnati: John Church Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1895), Sheet Music, large 4to, 10pp. Printed wrps. Minor tape repairs, else G..

Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to, pp49-54. Removed from PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XLI, 1947. VG in plastic report covers. In French. If my first year French doesn't fail me, this seems to be an article about differences among the Canadian humanists of the 19th century, whoever they were. But I took French at night school, so can't be expected to translate it during the day. .

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1967, pp181-189, illustrated. Removed from THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA. SELECTED PAPERS OF THE XXIXth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. Edited by Sol Tax. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. In Spanish..

Kunkel Bros. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1892), Sheet Music, large 4to, 11pp. Printed wrps. Covers ltly soiled, else G+..

Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to, pp63-68, plus two plates. Removed from PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XLI, 1947. In French. VG in plastic report covers. In French. An article about precious metal drinking cups of a few hundred years ago..

New York: Beech Tree Books Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1985). First American Edition, 197pp, index, illustrated. VG in G+, lightly soiled dj. Sub-titled: When Jazzmen under Hitler Achieved a Music that Defied the Savagery of War. From the dj: When the Nazis banned jazz outright as entartete - decadent - musicians responded by changing the titles of American songs - St. Louis Blues became La Tristesse de Saint Louis - setting the stage for a confrontation that endured through the war and liberated the spirit of a conquered Europe..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1910, x, 2875pp, largely unopened. Light wear and soiling, else G+. Sub-titled: Personal Observations from an American Viewpoint of Life and Conditions of Working Men in Great Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, etc. Samuel Gompers, (1850-1924), was born in England and came to the United States in 1863. He became president of the Cigarmakers' Union in 1877, and played an important part in the formation of the American Federation of Labor, (AFL) which he headed almost continuously from 1886 until his death..

New York : Charles Wells Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1836. First American Stereotype Edition, complete in one volume, 12mo, xvi, [17]-493pp, all edges gilt, includes an engraved title-page. Rebound in black buckram, lightly toned at text, else G+. Charles Caleb Colton, (1780-1832), poet and essayist, was an eccentric from the beginning, being more interested in hunting and fishing than in his clerical duties; he eventually went to London and became a wine merchant while living in a half-miserly style, spending most of his substance on gambling. Harassed by debt and frightened by his association with a convicted murderer, he left England in 1823, going first to the United States, then to Paris. He eventually settled in France and ultimately committed suicide in terror of a threatened surgical operation. His poems are of no interest, and he is best known for the present title, a collection of aphorisms, sayings, and short essays, mostly gathered from others. See British Authors of the… Read More

New York: The Century Co. ,1912. First Edition, 12mo, 225pp, frontispiece, decorative cover. Corners bumped, covers lightly soiled, else G+. A sequel to THE LADY OF THE DECORATION. The author's full name was Frances Caldwell Macaulay. She was an aunt to Alice Hegan Rice, who was the author of MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH. Macaulay spent five years in Japan as a kindergarten teacher in a mission school..

Cincinnati: C. J. Krehbiel Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1958, 16mo, 36pp, four illustrations. Several numbers are written in ink on the front cover, and a few on the front pastedown, else G. Mrs. Frances Trollope, the mother of novelist Anthony Trollope, went to America in 1828, where she and her husband failed in a business venture in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a result of that experience and her other travels in America, she wrote the book DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, which was a scathing account of American life. This little book is an account of her experiences in Cincinnati..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1954), xiv, 402pp, index. VG in G, lightly chipped dj. Anna Cora Mowatt, (1819-1870), born in Bordeaux, France, was an actress, playwright, novelist, and biographer. When she was six years old, the family moved back to America. She was the first American woman of society to make the stage a profession. She is best remembered for her play - "Fashion; or Life in New York" written in 1845..

Chicago: The Black Archer Press Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1935, 52pp, index. Limited to 550 copies. Fair only. Backstgrip missing, extremities worn, contents VG. From the introduction: "This little book is issued to serve as a handy pocket guide to collectors of Hearn; it is intended as a practical aid in buying and selling his first editions; but in no manner does it presume to be a complete bibliography. For complete collations, and for a detailed record of all printed material relevant to the subject, we refer you to that admirable work, LAFCADIO HEARN, A BIBLIOGRPAHY, by P. D. and Ione Perkins, issued last year by Houghton Mifflin & Co.".

Chessington: The Director General of the Ordnance Survey Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1963, folding color map, 33x42 inches, in printed wrps. The Lake District is a mountainous region in North-West England, noted for its lakes, forests, and mountains. It is popular tourist attraction. It gave its name to a school of poetry, the so-called Lake Poets, a group of English writers, all of whom lived there at the turn of the nineteenth century. The group included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey..

New York: Harper & Brothers Book. Good. Soft cover. pp161-170, double columns, illustrated. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME VIII, JULY, 1853. G in report covers. May include a first or last copied page. An interesting article about Lake George in New York state..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp26-37, illustrated (generally only 1 or 2). 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: "The lakes of Northern Italy have a world wide fame, alike for their natural beauty and for the charms of architecture and scenic art which surround them. We give here a brief description of these renowned places of pilgrimage for lovers of the beautiful.".

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp68-78. 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: "To Rev. A. H. Tevis, author of BEYOND THE SIERRAS; OR OBSERVATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST, we owe the following description of a most charming example of American lake scenery, one of the varied and striking regions of beauty which California offers to the tourist.".