Search Results: Titles starting with M from Legacy Books

University of Texas Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1967), ix, 183pp, index, illustrated, folding map. Very lightly Soiled. From the preface: Three little pencilled notebooks (averaging about 4 x 6.5 inches each) constitute the journal of Miner K Kellogg's trip to Texas. The notebooks, entitled by Kellogg "M. K. Kellogg's Mems: Exploring Expedition to Texas, 1872," were left in library custody at the University of Texas, where they eventually were read and found to be worthy of publication..

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1969). Revised Edition, square 8vo, 188pp, index, illustrated, bibliography. Ex-lib, with minimal markings, else VG in VG dj. From the dj: "The medieval and Renaissance brasses, that are still to be found in England's older churches, are of interest and value because they provide a series of splendid illustrations of manners, customs, and costumes of the English from the reign of Edward I to the Restoration. All classes of the community are represented in great detail and by their own contemporaries." Extensively revised and rewritten by John Page-Phillips from the Reverend Herbert Macklin's first edition of 1890..

Bowie: Heritage Books, Inc., Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1996), v, 152pp, index. Wrps. VG+. From the publisher's notes: "This order book covers the time period from 1787 to 1791. At this time Madison County included all of present day Clay, Jackson, and Owsley Counties, and parts of Breathittt, Estil, Garrard, Lee, Leslie, and Rockcastle Counties. This collection of abstracts is largely but not solely based on the Minute Book, which was the record used to take notes while court was in session. The Order Book, which is a clerk's copy of the Minute Book and is kept in the vault room at the courthouse, contains some information which the Minute Book does not. To be sure that no detail was overlooked Mrs. Couture used both sources. Examples of the matters found within these records are the exchange of deeds in property sales, lawsuits, road surveys, establishing care for orphans and the marking of livestock, among others.".

New york: The Mentor Association, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1917. The Mentor Magazine for April 2, 1917, Serial No. 128, Volume 5, Number 4, 12pp, illustrated, plus six plates laid-in. Wrps. VG..

NY: Harper Collins Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (2003), 290pp, illustrated. Fine in Fine dj. The author was the wife of Louie Milito, a Capo in the New York Gambino family. In 1988 Louie Milito disappeared and his body was never found. But, hey, it was nothing personal, only business..

New York: D. Appleton and Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1917. First Edition, small 8vo, 357pp. Lightly worn and soiled, else G+. Bettina Riddle (1874 - 1957), also known as Betsey Riddle, and later as Baroness von Hutten, was born in Erie, PA. She was a prolific novelist, specializing in historical fiction. During WWI, she lived in England as an enemy alien, because her ex-husband was German. She regained her American citizenship in 1938, and lived in California during World War II. She died in London..

Toronto: The Canadian Institute Book. Good. Soft cover. 1899, 4to, pp345-358, diagrams. Removed from TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME VI. SEMI-CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL VOLUME 1849-1899. VG in report covers..

Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1912, 303pp, index, illustrated. TEG. Light wear, else G+. Inscribed and signed by the author. Gilbert, of the Protestant Episcopal faith, was born in Morris, New York, March 23, 1848. Because of health problems he was forced to curtail his education and spent two years in Florida attempting to recuperate from pulmonary problems. He worked in Minnesota and Montana for a number of years, and in 1881 was called to the rectorship of Christ Church in St. Paul. He also established missions in White Bear, Fort Snelling, Merriam Park, and Randolph Street. He was deputy to the general convention in 1886 and elected assistant bishop of Minnesota the same year. He died in 1900..

Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1912, 303pp, index, illustrated. TEG. Light wear, else G+. Gilbert, of the Protestant Episcopal faith, was born in Morris, New York, March 23, 1848. Because of health problems he was forced to curtail his education and spent two years in Florida attempting to recuperate from pulmonary problems. He worked in Minnesota and Montana for a number of years, and in 1881 was called to the rectorship of Christ Church in St. Paul. He also established missions in White Bear, Fort Snelling, Merriam Park, and Randolph Street. He was deputy to the general convention in 1886 and elected assistant bishop of Minnesota the same year. He died in 1900..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1971. First edition, 362pp, spine faded, well worn, else a good reading copy. John Galsworthy, (1867-1933), was a prolific English novelist and playwright, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book is the first novel in the third volume of THE FORSYTE CHRONICLES, the seventh of the nine novels in the series. Galsworthy is noted for the many thought-provoking quotes scattered throughout his writings. .

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1950, 319pp. Extremities worn, covers somewhat soiled, else G. A fictional account of an English professor's first voyage to England aboard the ship Maiden Monarch, and his adventures upon arriving..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp248-251, two illustrations. Removed from The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol 22, No. 4, October, 1948. G. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, a descendant of the Brown and Preston families. The family moved to Louisville in 1873. Brown had a distinguished career in the Army, fighting the Cheyenne Indians in 1897, and serving in the Spanish American War and World War I. He served as commanding general of the third Division. For his accomplishments, he was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal by General Pershing..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp33-50, one portrait. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 25, No. 1, January, 1951. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. G. Turner, 1793-1871, born in the area that would become Madison County, Kentucky, was a prominent lawyer and politician..

NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1959), xii, 291pp, index. VG in G+ dj. From the dj: "This is the story of the second oldest congregation of Dominican Sisters in the United States. The Columbus community sprang from the first American Dominican foundation in St. Cahtherine, Kentucky, when the Kentucky foundation was only eight years old. It was American in all its aspects. The Dominican bishop who sponsored the Sisters was the American Fenwick; the entire first band of eight women was American born, this in a day when most teaching religious in the United States had come from France or Ireland or Belgium.".

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. 2, February 24, 1913. The plates include: William Cullen Bryant; John Greenleaf Whittier; James Russell Lowell; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Walt Whitman..

Louisville.: The Filson Club Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp35-56. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Volume 68, No. 1, January, 1994. In report covers. VG. A study of the Italian and Jewish populations in Louisville from about 1890..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1887, xii, 339pp, index, profusely illustrated, maps. Covers faded, extremities worn, else G. Deals primarily with the area west of the Mississippi. Written primarily for the juvenile reader..

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. (1949), 4to, 20 numbered pages, plus about 20 pages, printed on recto, showing decorations and initials for the World Bible. Limited to 1875 copies of which 500 are for sale, this #973..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp645-656. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. VG. In plastic report covers. From the report: "It is my intention at the present time to speak of malaria in a more general way, and of the recent experimental evidence in support of Manson's suggestion, first made in 1894, that the mosquito serves as an intermediate host for the parasite. The discovery of this parasite may justly be considered one of the greatest achievements of scientific research during the nineteenth century.".

Urbana: University of Illinois Press Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1964, about 300pp, variously paginated. NF in NF, price clipped dj. Edited by Norman D. Levine. An excerpt from: A SYSTEMATIC TREATISE, HISTORICAL, ETIOLOGICAL, AND PRACTICAL, ON THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF THE INTERIOR VALLEY OF NORTH AMERICA AS THEY APPEAR IN THE CAUCASIAN, AFRICAN, INDIAN, AND ESQUIMAUX VARIETIES OF ITS POPULATION, first published in 1850. Coleman 2486..