Search Results: Titles starting with T from Legacy Books

Lexington Book. Good. Soft cover. 1937, 24mo, (5.25x3.5 in.), 94pp, ads for local businesses. Wrps. G. A student's guide to the university. Student Privilege Card of previous owner laid in..

Philadelphia Book. Good. Hardcover. (1906), square small 8vo, 144pp, profusely illustrated. Clippings glued to front pastedown, covers lightly speckled, contents VG..

Paris: Recueil Sirey Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1958, 4to, xii, 210pp, errata slip. Wrps. Ex-lib, with one small stamp on front flyleaf and no other markings. The covers, a soft white paper, not glossy, are dogeared and soiled and discolored and the book is cocked. Surprisingly, the contents are Good. A good working copy in spite of its looks. Text in French. Publications de l'Institut de Droit Romain de l'Universite de Paris XVI. Machine Translation: LEGAL TABLETS OF THE 1st DYNASTY OF BABYLON PRESERVED IN THE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY OF GENEVA. PART TWO. TRANSCRIPTION - TRANSLATION - COMMENTARY..

NY: Macmillan Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1943, 333pp. Previous owner's bookplate on the first free endpaper, with an eight line inscription, signed, by the author to him, thanking him for, in effect, grasping the meaning of the book. Extremities lightly worn, else G+. The author was born in Cincinnati in 1898. In 1935, she and her husband moved to a farm in Boone County, in northern Kentucky. This, like her first novel, is a story of the relationship between the land and the humans who inhabit it..

NY: Simon & Schuster Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. (1999). First Touchstone Edition, 336pp, index, extensive bibliography, illustrated. Wrps. Fine. "Hailed as the First Bird, Archaeopteryx has remained the subject of heated debates for the last 140 years. Are birds actually living dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record really lead? Did flight originate from the ground up or trees down"?.

NY: Greenwich Book Publ. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1959). First Edition, 160pp, illustrated. The rear cover has been pierced, leaving a hardly noticeable pin point sized hole, extending to several pages. The dust jacket is crinkled at the top of the front cover and has a 1/4 by 2 inch open tear on the spine. The author tells of her life on Texas farms, describing everyday activities. There is much attention paid to the great variety of animal and insect life native to Texas and to other phases of natural history..

Allentown: The Story Classics Book. Illus. by Jan Balet. Good. Hardcover. 1948, 228pp, illustrated by Jan Balet. Light wear, else G+. Text in English. Includes 8 stories. The author, (1833-1891), was primarily a Spanish novelist..

New York: Hastings House Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. (1955), 4to, xiii, 240pp, index, profusely illustrated, bibliography. Lightly worn, else G+. The history, legends, and lore of the Mississippi River, with chapters on DeSoto, the first steamboat race, the packet boats, the plantations, the Civil War era, famous and infamous characters, and much more. A treasure trove of Mississippi River material..

Boston: D. C. Heath and Company Book. VG. Soft cover. (1945), 12mo, v, 60pp, vocabulary of Russian words. Wrps. VG. Book I in the Graded Russian Readers Series, edited by Otto F. Bond and George V. Bobrinskoy. Also includes Book II. TWO SHORT STORIES, by A. S. Pushkin; Book III. BELA, by M. I. Lermontov; and Book IV. THREE SHORT STORIES, by I. S. Turgenev. In Volume I someone has written neatly in pencil the English translation below the Russian text, on about ten pages, else all volumes VG. .

Wm. A. Pond & Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1897), Sheet Music, large 4to, 13pp. Printed wrps. Minor tape repairs, light soiling, else G..

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1951), 253pp. Moderate wear to extremities, spine faded, else G reading copy. The third novel in the so-called Piney Woods trilogy, this is the story of Dr. Tara Cochrane formerly of Texas, who has had a nervous breakdown and is recovering in a veteran's hospital in Kentucky. By coincidence, one of his old Army buddies comes in one day for treatment. They renew their friendship and Cochrane, having no family ties, is persuaded to stay and recuperate with his friend's family in the Piney Woods community..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Book. Good. Soft cover. 1892, 78pp. Wrps. Ex-lib, light foxing, lacking the front wrapper, else G. From The Congressional Record, July 28, 1892. In report covers. "The Senate, having under consideration the resolution submitted by Mr. Hale, June 27, 1892 directing the Committee on Finance to inquire into the effect of a policy of 'tariff for revenue only' upon the labors and industries of the United States - Mr. Aldrich said:".

New York: American Geographical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp177-187, two maps. Removed from PROBLEMS OF POLAR RESEARCH, AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 7, 1928. In report covers..

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1986), oblong 8vo, xii, 98pp, index, illustrated. VG in VG dj. If you have a hankering for some buttermilk pie, persimmon pudding, burgoo, jam cake, pork sausage, corncob wine, or dozens of other old timey dishes, this book could be your answer. The recipes, anecdotes, and sayings all come from Kentucky, specifically the Western Kentucky University Folklife Archives..

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas Book. Fair. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1904, 487pp, fifty eight illustrations by John T. McCutcheon. TEG. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, covers discolored and/or soiled, extremities worn. Limited to an unspecified number, signed by the author. Sub-Titled: "Being the Letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and Former Veteran of Practical Politics, Written to His Friend and Protege Ned, Who is Still Busy Carving a Career Back in the Old State." These letters of an imaginary retired Governor and Senator reflect the spirit of the practical politician and reveal his motives, methods and characteristics. The author, born in Stockton, New York in 1864, was a journalist with the Saturday Evening Post..

New York: The John Day Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1927, xii, 234pp, 24 illustrations by Alan Gill. Very light foxing on perhaps 20 pp, moderate wear and fading, else G. Many of these taverns are hundreds of years old. From the foreword: "Mr. Maskell is concerned to tell us something of the Inn where men should sit with their glass or their pewter pot in pleasant comradeship, enjoying the leisure that comes at the end of the well-filled day." .

NY: Harper & Brothers, Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1955), 183pp. G+ in G, lightly chipped and worn dj. Jim Hollis is the pen name for the team of Kentucky born author Hollis Summers and James Rourke. This crime novel, which was well received, is about Celeste Aubin, the femme fatale French teacher at Rainey High, who is found murdered and stuffed into a basement locker..

American Historical Association Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp 103-114. Removed from the American Historical Association Annual Report 1909. In report covers..

Colorado Springs: The Western Horseman, Inc. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1982), 4to, 144pp, profusely illustrated. Wrps. G. From the introduction: "Team roping, one of the oldest events in rodeo, simply evolved from an efficient method of handling livestock on open range. For that matter, the practice of heading and heeling cattle, temporarily immobilizing them between two ropes for doctoring, branding, or whatever the need may be, is still used on many ranches in the course of a day's work. Naturally, the cowboys speeded it up for the arena to make a game of it, just as they made a sport of saddle bronc riding, another contest born of necessity." Camarillo won the world championship in team roping in 1972, 1973, and 1975, the same year he won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world all-around title..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1977, xxiv, 197pp, illustrated by author. Very light wear, else VG+ in VG+ dust jacket. From the Introduction: " A Tear and a Smile includes much of Kahlil Gibran's earliest work, and, with the interesting prose poem written in Paris on his 25th birthday, marks the beginning of a more mature and affirmative response to life.".