Legacy Books

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1930. First Edition, x, 307pp. Covers silver-fished and/or discolored, previous owner's bookplate, contents VG. A good reading copy. From the Preface: "The word liberty which I have with some reluctance chosen to stand as the title of this book, means so many things that it often means al…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. (1985), 96pp, 42 full page plates with facing page of description, index of artists. Wrps. VG+. Robert Sterling Clark, (1877-1956), by virtue of a handsome inheritance, became a collector of fine art. He established the institute which bears his and his wife's names, in 1955. The collection incl…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp441-442, plus one plate. Removed from Smithsonian Institution PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME XXIX, 1906. In plastic report covers. VG. "The two new plants described below were collected by Mr. Roland M. Harper in the course of his extended study of the flora of Georgia. Th…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp308-315. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, December 11-13, 1930. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages. A brief look at the Union Inn, on Washington Street, in I…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp115-118. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 65, No. 2, June, 1969. Wrps. VG. In report covers. In 1887, when James Whitcomb Riley was relatively unknown, he was invited to speak, almost by happenstance, at a program headed by James Russell Lowell. Reading last, he outshone the ot…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp299-314. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 63, No. 4, December, 1967. Wrps. VG. In report covers. Louis Kossuth, in 1851, was revered by many as the greatest living man. He was an attorney, a student of languages, newspaper editor, finance minister, and governor of Hungary. He had le…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1897, pp926-933, light dampstaining at the bottom of all pages, not affecting text, else G. Removed from HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME XCIV, DECEMBER, 1896, TO MAY, 1897. In plastic report covers. The author contends that one may see the great towns, the cathedrals, the universities, and the…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp29-32, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 29, 1995, No. 1. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. The author edited and translated the diaries, letters, and other papers of emigrant…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1957. Revised Edition, 63pp. Wrps. Lightly sunned, else G+. Hundreds of questions, with answers, on every aspect of the state, prepared especially for teachers and students of West Virginia Club Work. Apparently first used by the State Department of Education in 1939 as an aid in teaching school chil…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp17-20, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 27, 1993, No. 2. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Karl Kron, the pseudonym of LYman Hotchkiss Bagg, (1846 - 1911) wrote a book, TEN T…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp437-443. Removed from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 60, No. 3, July, 1952. VG. In report covers. Articles from this publication may include a copied first or last page. To retaliate against Lord Dunmore, the Provincial Council of North Carolina ordered Colonel Howe with…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp171-172. Removed from Smithsonian Institution PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME XXIX, 1906. In plastic report covers. VG. "Mr. B.S. Bowdish, while collecting for the United States National Museum on Mona Island, Porto Rico, sent in three specimens (two adult males and one adu…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 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, Hutto…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4pp. Removed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOLUME 64, 1925. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. VG. In report covers. From the report: "The writer saw his first and only living Helocordulia selysii (Hagen) one brightMarch day, when Prof. Simon M…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp133-139. Removed from INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE, Dec. 10-11, 1934. In plastic report covers. VG. Some of the reports from this bulletin may contain first or last xeroxed pages. The author examines the situation in Europe, in the afterma…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp16-23, 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. A detailed description of a typical Pennsylvania German farmhouse and its furnishin…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp459-462, illustrations in the text. Removed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUME 59. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. VG. In plastic report covers. "The writer collected in Lake Valencia and its tributaries during July, 1918. The following l…