Search Results: Titles starting with P from Legacy Books

New York: The Rutledge Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1981). First American Edition, 256pp, index, illustrated. VG in G+ dj. Also contains a short bibliography of the works of Wodehouse. From the dj: "Loved throughout the world as the creator of the inimitable Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, and other unforgettable characters, P. G. Wodehouse [1881-1975] was a very private man. Although his highly imaginative and successful novels and his careers as a Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway lyricist kept him very much in the public eye, he managed to avoid most of the personal publicity his popularity attracted.".

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp357-367. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol. 40, No. 4, October, 1966. Stf wrps. G. May include a first or last copied page. A nostalgic look at the romantic era of the great steamboats, particularly on the Ohio River, including some famous races..

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1929), 329pp, eighteen full page illustrations, three in color, and many other drawings by Manning DeV. Lee and Lyle Justis. Backstrip faded, extremities worn, else G. Many episodes of American history having to do with the Mississippi River..

London: The Leadenhall Press Ltd. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1898-9, 510pp, index, four hundred illustrations, 20 page publisher's list at the rear. TEG, gilt decorative cover. Inner hinges neatly reinforced, previous owner's stamp on endpapers, extremities worn, top of spine badly chipped, the bottom lightly, the book is a little shaky, contents G. Definitely a treasure trove for the collector of vintage children's books..

NY: Atheneum Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1981, 270pp. VG in VG dj. From the dj: "Shelby Hearon is at her flawless best in this pointed, funny, touching novel about a love that almost comes too late.".

Baltimore: Penguin Books Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1962), large 8vo, xv, 275pp, index, plus one hundred ninety two pages of plates. Ex-lib, institutional, dj flaps taped to covers in library fashion, else G+ in G+ dj. Volume 1 in THE PELICAN HISTORY OF ART series..

Baltimore,: Penguin Books, Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1960). First Edition, large 8vo, xxii, 288pp, index, plus one hundred ninety two pages of plates. Ex-lib, institutional, dj flaps taped to covers in library fashion, else G+ in G+ dj. Volume 20 in THE PELICAN HISTORY OF ART series..

NYC: Harper & Brothers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1901, 368pp, portrait of the author, cloth and marbled boards. Very light wear, else VG. There is an autograph of the author, on a 3x2 in. paper, tipped in on the title page. The Harper's Portrait Collection of Short Stories, Volume 1. Includes: A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS; THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO; A DIFFICULT CASE; THE MAGIC OF A VOICE; A CIRCLE IN THE WATER..

New York: D. Appleton and Company Book. Good. Soft cover. 1887, pp181-217, removed from a disbound copy of CRITIQUES AND ADDRESSES. G. In plastic covers. Some of the articles from this book might include a copied last page..

New York: Harper & Brothers Book. Good. Soft cover. 1897, pp674-689, illustrated. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME XCIV, DECEMBER, 1896, TO MAY, 1897. In plastic report covers. From the article: "Some few of these philosophers - as Robert Hooke and Steno in the seventeenth century and Moro, Leibnitz, Buffon, Whitehurst, Werner, Hutton, and others in the eighteenth - had vaguely conceived the importance of fossils as records of the earth's ancient history but the wisest of them no more suspected the full import of the story written in the rocks than the average stroller in a modern museum suspects the meaning of the hieroglyphs inscribed on the case of a mummy. It was necessary that a man should appear who could see without prejudice and apply sound common-sense to what he saw. Such a man was William Smith, the English surveyor. He led the way to a science which was destined, in its later developments, to shake the structure of established thought to its foundations.".

New York: Delacorte Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1981), xviii, 330pp. VG. .

Washington, D.C.: GPO Book. Good. Soft cover. 1902, pp289-351, profusely illustrated with about 20 plates, including two double page plates and four fold out plans. Removed from UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES, GEORGE M. BOWERS, COMMISSIONER. PART XXVII. REP0RT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1901. In report covers. G. The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held at Buffalo, NY, in 1901. By an act of Congress, the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries was provided funds for the purpose of illustrating its functions. Its exhibit was in the south pavilion of the Government building and contained about 10,000 square feet. Today, the Pan-American Exposition is remembered principally because President McKinley was fatally wounded there, dying eight days later..

Book. As New. Soft cover. N.D. Modern Reprint, 21pp, map. Wrps..

Richmond: Virginia Historical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp106-118. Removed from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 54, No. 2, April, 1946. VG. In report covers. Articles from this publication may include a copied first or last page. Thomas Bolling Byrd, the great grandson of Richard Evelyn Byrd I, (1800-1872), gave a collection of letters and papers of his great grandfather to the Virginia Historical Society. The documents pertain to the Byrd and Harrison families and include some genealogical information..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. 1909, pp117-123. Removed from the 1909 Smithsonian Institution Annual Report. In report covers. VG. William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898, British statesman, orator, and author, served four terms as prime minister..

Austin: University of Texas Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1979), 4to, xviii, 503pp, index, twenty page bibliography, one hundred sixteen plates, plus tables and figures. VG in G, lightly chipped dj. A heavy volume; will require the shipping charges for two books..

New York: Samuel Wood & Sons Book. Fair. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1829, 12mo, viii, 430pp, index. Old leather, pastedowns and first and last endpapers have been replaced, and the front and rear inner hinges have been neatly reinforced, covers are scuffed and worn, moderate foxing throughout, still a good reading copy. In three parts: Part I. Showing by Many Examples Drawn From Real Life, the Happy Effects of Religious Education, in Leading to Early Piety, to Great Usefulness, and to Final Salvation; Part II. Showing, by Examples, Also From Real Life, the Blessing Which has Finally Attended the Patient Labours and Fervent Prayers of Christian Instructers, After Great Anxiety, Fear, and Disappointment; Part III. Showing How a Christian Education Ought to be Conducted. Here the Sentiments and Directions of the Best Writers on this Interesting Subject May be Found. The Rules are Given Which Were Adopted by Wise and Holy Parents in the Instruction and Government of Their Families, and a Variety of… Read More

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1999), 4to, xxii, 232pp, index, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Wrps. VG+. From the cover: "The display of American painting at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 reflected the cosmopolitan course that American art had taken since the Civil War and reacted against that course in light of new desires for national expression. Reconstructing the display and probing its significance, Fischer and her associates illuminate our nation's cultural aspirations - as well as some of our political and economic achievements and ambitions - at the dawn of the American Century. "Among the artists represented are Winslow Homer, George Inness, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Eakins, and Henry O. Tanner..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp178-188, 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: "From the city of Paris, the cynosure of European eyes, and the paradise of good Americans, calls loudly for a description at our hands. It is a call which can readily be answered. We suffer indeed, from a superfluity of riches. Descriptions of every sort, shape, and complexion are so numerous that it is not easy to select with discretion. We take one that has the quality of enthusiastic admiration from the SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGH LANDS, of the author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. It begins with her entrance into the city, after passing the easy ordeal of the custom-house officials.".

Paris: Editions L'Indispensable Book. Good. Soft cover. 1948, 4to, 66pp, photos on every page. Self wrps. Bits of the backstrip coming loose, else G..