Search Results: Authors starting with T from Legacy Books

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. 12, May 5, 1913. Includes: The Laocoon; The Dying Gaul; Old Father Nile; The Farnese Bull; Colleoni; Perseus..

Culver Military Academy Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1948, 4to, 173pp, index, profusely illustrated. VG. The 1948 Yearbook for Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana. George (Michael) Steinbrenner, III, owner of the New York Yankees, was one of the graduates that year. In addition to his photo as a graduating senior, he is featured in photos of the football and track teams and was also a member of the band. There is also a section entitled: SWEETHEARTS OF CULVER 1948, that includes photos of seven young ladies, and a photo of actress Barbara Stanwyck, and a facsimile of her note thanking Culver for asking her to select the Sweethearts. Culver had a school for girls as well as a military academy for boys..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp47-55, illustrated with a vintage photograph of the Bank of England, with numerous people and carriages. 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: "Taine's ENGLISH LITERATURE, has in itself added a new work to the world's best literature of far more value than many of those with which it deals. In his, NOTES ON ENGLAND, he gives us thoughtful impressions of the country itself, from which we select his pen-picture of the great city on the Thames. The picture is not an inspiring one. He could not avoid comparing in his mind this fog-haunted capital with the brighter aspect of his native Paris.".

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. Book. Illus. by Henry Hutt. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1902. First edition, small 8vo, viii, 351pp, plus 10-pages of publisher's ads, illustrated with 7 drawings by Henry Hutt. Very clean and bright, top edge gilt, previous owner's name at front pastedown. VG+. First edition of author's third book..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp145-165. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 29, No. 2, April, 1955. In report covers. G. May include a first or last copied page. The title refers to the defense strategies in Kentucky during the period 1781 to 1783. After their defeat at Yorktown, the British turned their sights toward Kentucky and the West. This is an interesting article detailing the efforts of George Rogers Clark, and others, with the approval of Thomas Jefferson, to defend Kentucky from the British and the Indians. Includes notes on the Battle of Bryant's Station and the Battle of Blue Licks..

London: Andrew Dakers Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. N.D., ca 1953, large 8vo, 128pp, profusely illustrated, including several full page color plates. Light wear, else VG. Nineteen articles about various aspects of the English monarchy, including a lengthy article about the tour round the world by Queen Elizabeth in 1953-54..

Louisville: Standard Printing Company Book. Very Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1929, oblong 12mo, 32pp, many illustrations. Wrps. VG. Coleman 2581. An historical guide to Bardstown with references to Nelson County, Federal Hill, John Fitch, Nazareth, the Trappist Monastery at Gethsemani, etc..

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1854, iv, 176; 158pp, text printed in double columns. Old leather and marbled boards, leather labels at spine, covers quite worn, Fair, exlib, contents good with light toning. Two volumes in one. Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, (1795-1854), was an intimate friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb. He was a drama critic, but best known as a writer of tragedies, but found to be too wordy for the modern taste. He was also a member of Parliament. Sir James Stephen, (1789-1859), was a civil servant and under-secretary for the colonies, 1836-1847, and later a professor at Cambridge..

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1930, xvi, 543pp, index, tables, charts, maps. G in Fair, well worn, somewhat discolored, tape repaired dj, with an open half inch tear at the bottom of the spine. A scholarly study of the Mexican revolution which began in 1910 and created sweeping and fundamental changes in the economic structure of the country, and a survey of pre-revolutionary conditions and practices..

St. Paul: Published by the Committee Book. Good. Hardcover. 1909, x, 516pp, illustrated with many portraits. Extremities worn, spine somewhat darkened, lettering faded, contents G. With an account of the visitation of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, D.D., and the labors of the Rev. Ezekiel Gilbert Gear, D.D., the first Protestant Clergyman to minister to the white settlers within the Precinct of St. Peter's which then included the present city of St. Paul..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp120-144. Removed from Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol 11, No. 2, April, 1937. G. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Robert J. Breckinridge, born 1800, near Lexington, Kentucky, was the leader of the Union Cause in Kentucky, an emancipationist, the father of Kentucky's public school system, and one of the outstanding leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America. Before the Civil War, he was involved in a famous series of debates about the slavery question, with Robert Wickliffe, the largest slave owner in the state..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 72, No. 3, July, 1974. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, 1800 - 1871 (Part I), by Will D. Gilliam; Captain Harrod's Company, 1774. A Reappraisal, by Neal O. Hammon [the names of thirty men who were certainly in Captain Harrod's company in 1774, along with proof to establish their presence]; Fred Vinson. Boyhood and Education in the Big Sandy Valley, by John Henry Hatcher; Civil War Letters, submitted by, Mrs. W. H. Whitley, Clarence E. Mitcham, Harry Forrest Lupold..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp82-99. Removed from Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol 10, No. 2, April, 1936. G. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Frank Wolford was born in Adair County, Kentucky in 1817. He was admitted to the bar in Casey County, Kentucky. He served as a private in the famous Second Kentucky Regiment during the Mexican War. At the outbreak of the Civil War he recruited the First Kentucky Union Regiment and served as its Colonel. The article relates many of the Civil War engagements in which he took part. In 1864 he was dishonorably discharged from the army for criticizing President Lincoln in a public address. That year, he supported General George B. McClellan in his race for the Presidency. He later served as a Congressman representing the Old Eleventh District, which had been carved out by the Democrats for him. He died in 1895 at Columbia where he was buried..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 70, No. 1, January, 1972. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Slavery, the Solvent of Kentucky Politics, by Frank F. Mathias; Richard H. Collins and His History of Kentucky, by Stuart S. Sprague; Southern Reaction to the XYZ Affair. An Incident in the Emergence of American Nationalism, by John W. Kuehl; One Effort in Life Was Not Enough, by Jesse Stuart; And Oblige Your Friend, by Howard D. Doll; In Memorial to W. A. Wentworth..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society, Vol 77, No. 1, Winter, 1979. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Between the Hawk and Buzzard. Owensboro During the Civil War, by Aloma Williams Dew; Mary Beck and the Female Mind, by Edna Talbott Whitley; Steamboat 'Round Kentucky Bend. A Golden Era, by Allen Anthony; Curbing Leviathan. The Social Philosophy of Louis D. Brandeis, by Nelson L. Dawson.

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 72, No. 4, October, 1974. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: The Turbulent Years of Kentucky Politics, 1820 - 1850, by Frank F. Mathias; Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, 1800 - 1871 (Part II), by Will D. Gilliam, Jr.; Town Making in the Era of Good Feelings. Kentucky 1814 - 1820, by Stuart S. Sprague; Madeline McDowell Breckinridge. Her Role in the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Movement, 1908 - 1920, by Melba Dean Porter; The Recruitment of Negro Soldiers in Kentucky, 1863 - 1865, by John David Smith; Boone Day Speech, June 7, 1974. Boonesborough. Outpost of the American Westward Movement, by Thomas D. Clark; A Letter from James McBride Regarding the Earthquake of 1811-1812, to his Aunt Miss Mary M. Roberts, April 1, 1812..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 75, No. 2, April, 1977. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: Skirmish at Sacramento. Battle of Future Generals, by John K. Ward; Did Southern Colonizationists Oppose Slavery? Kentucky 1816 - 1850 as a Test Case, by Jeffrey Brooke Allen; Adlai Stevenson's Campaign Visits to Kentucky in 1892, by Leonard Schlup; A Sketch of the Early Life and Service in the Confederate Army of Dr. John A. Lewis of Georgetown, KY, edited by Hambleton Tapp..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 70, No. 2, April, 1972. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: James Proctor Knott and the Duluth Speech, by Hambleton Tapp; Religious Ministry at the Lexington, Kentucky State Asylum, 1844 - 1869, by Ray N. Cooley; The Historic Marshall - Brown Controversy and Its Impact Upon the Filson Club, 1885 - 1891, by Stuart Seely Sprague; Kentucky Justices on the U. S. Supreme Court, by Woodford L. Gardner, Jr..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 73, No. 1, January, 1975. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: James Prentiss and the Failure of the Kentucky Insurance Company, 1813 - 1818, by Dale Royalty; Northern Conquerors and Southern Deliverers. The Civil War Comes to the Jackson Purchase, by Berry F. Craig; American Nationalism in the Image of Henry Clay. Abraham Lincoln's Eulogy on Henry Clay in Context, by Mark E. Neely, Jr.; An Unusual Map of the Early West, by Elizabeth Fraas..

Frankfort.: Kentucky Historical Society Book. Good. Soft cover. Vol 78, No. 1, Winter, 1980. Stf Wrps. G. Includes: John Rowan and the Demise of Jeffersonian Republicanism in Kentucky, 1819 - 1831, by Stephen W. Fackler; Only For Great Attractions. Louisville's Amphitheatre Auditorium, by John Spalding Gatton; The NAACP and Residential Segregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1914 - 1917, by George C. Wright; "Dear Mr. Hopkins." A New Dealer Reports from Eastern Kentucky, by Thomas H. Coode and John F. Bauman..