Search Results: Authors starting with F from Legacy Books II

NY: The Century Company, 1913. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 1 full-page color portrait of the author, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume 87, No. 1, November, 1913. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Louisville: The Standard Printing Co., 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo. 283pp, bibliography, index, illustrated with 8 full-page plates, mostly historical photographs, green buckram with gilt titles at cover and spine, moderate general wear and soiling, gilt faded at spine, contents very bright and clean. Signed, dated, and numbered by author at copyright page, and inscribed / signed again by author at front fly to a Dr. Henry H. Sweets, July 21, 1941, and by a Dr. Robert Stuart Sanders to a Maurice Derby Leach, June 28, 1968; also includes two typed letters signed by the author, both to Rev. Robert Stuart Sanders, Versailles, KY, dated May 29, 1946, and July 4, 1947, respectively. Rev. Sanders authored several books including Presbyterianism In Paris And Bourbon County Kentucky 1786-1961 , and histories of several churches. In one of the letters, the present author wonders about Sanders' progress on his history of the Lexington-Ebenezer Presbytery, which… Read More

Print. VG. No Binding. Circa 1930, sized 9 x 12 inches, on glossy paper, very clean and bright..

NY: The Century Company, 1893. Book. Illus. by Kenyon Cox, Harry Fenn, W. J. Baer, Malcolm Fraser. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 15 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLV, #4, February, 1893. From the opening paragraph, "As a very young man, with no great knowledge of the world, I life London on May 24, 1882, for the Singapore Straits Settlement to engage in coffee-planting in the Malay Peninsula. With me was my partner, who was acting as agent to his highness the Maharajah of Johore." Illustrations include Ceylon surf-boats at Singapore, the Palace of the Maharajah, the marble hall of the palace, the portico of the harem, a tree with Durian fruit, a coffee tree, tea-sorters, a view of the village of Johore, an East Indian banker, Malay houses built over the water, a view of the jungle between Johore and Singapore, a native woman, a European bungalow, a view on the road to Johore, and… Read More

Print. VG. No Binding. Circa 1930, sized 9 x 12 inches, with facsimile signature, very sharp, clean, and bright..

The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, 1894. Print. VG. No Binding. Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, by Photographische Gesellschaft, unrelated illustration on verso..

NY: The Century Company, 1903. Book. Illus. by Charlotte Harding. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXVI, #4, August, 1903. New York City's push for and ultimate success in gaining quality control and regulation of the milk industry. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

Print. VG. No Binding. Circa 1930, sized 9 x 12 inches, with facsimile signature, very sharp, clean, and bright. Subject was an American clergyman and bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was born in England, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1859, and served with the Union army during the American Civil War. After the war, Fallows held Methodist pastorates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but in 1875 joined the Reformed Episcopal Church, a dissident sect that had broken away from the Episcopal Church. He became a bishop in 1876. He was known as a leader who directed public improvement in education, in prison reform, and in the fight for temperance..

NY: The Century Company, 1898. Book. Illus. by Walter Appleton Clark. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 22pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 17 drawings including 4 full-page plates, shallow closed tear noted at top margins, not affecting text, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 1, July, 1898. Illustrations include a view of Assembly Hall, the Candy Man, a house dance in the Gymnasium, the entrance to the Alumnae Gymnasium, Blue Prints, the interior of a girl's room, senior dramatics, impromptu theatricals in college parlors, the Botanical Ponds and Observatory, inside the Reading Room, a scene on Ivy Day, the tennis courts, and others of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: The Century Company, 1901. Book. Illus. by Charlotte Harding. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 17 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXII, No. 3, July, 1901. Suggestions include housework such as laundry, filling oil-lamps, tutoring, blue-pring-making, polishing boots, teaching dance, postmistress duties, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1901. Book. Illus. by Clifford Carleton. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXII, No. 2, June, 1901. Various suggestions for male college students to earn money such as hanging paper, carrying books, waiting tables, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: Scribner & Co., 1871. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume II, No. 6, October, 1871. The question of biblical Adam beginning the human race reviewed from a scientific and religious perspective. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: F. M. Lupton, 1884. Magazine. Good. Soft cover. 4to. Entire issue, April 8, 1884, in original wraps, 32pp, printed in double columns, illustrated with a half-page engraving at the Vanedene page, water-staining noted at bottom margin, spine separating in a few places. Please note: issues were printed on cheap paper, and are prone to chipping and tearing. The Vanedene is here published anonymously, by the author of Stainless, and Sweet Dorothy Capel. Scarce..

Boston: O. Everett, 1824. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp extract, salvaged from a damaged issue of The North American Review, Volume XVIII, No. 42, January, 1824. A contemporary review of the very scarce title published by Hill & Moore, Concord, 1822. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Pittsburgh: The Scholastic Publishing Company, 1931. Magazine. VG. Soft cover. 4to. Entire issue, Volume 18, Number 7, May 2, 1931, in original printed wraps, generally bright and clean with very light wear-only, and a bit of dust soiling at top and fore edge. In 1931, while yet a senior at West Seattle High School, Seattle, Washington, the author -- who would go on to fame, and tragedy, in Hollywood and the theater -- entered and won $100 from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a writing contest for high school students sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, with the present, controversial essay. In her autobiography, Will There Really Be A Morning?, Farmer wrote that the essay was influenced by her reading of Friedrich Nietzsche: "He expressed the same doubts, only he said it in German: Gott ist tot. God is dead. This I could understand. I was not to assume that there was no God, but I could find no evidence in my life that He existed or that He had ever shown any particular interest in me. I… Read More

Amherst: Printed by R. Boylston, 1816. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 86pp, printed blue wraps with black titles, string-tied at spine as issued, light general wear-only, spine chipped away, wraps detached but present, pamphlet now housed in protective mylar report cover, small ink stamp noted at bottom margin of final page. See Sabin 23825..

NY: The Cosmopolitan Magazine Company, 1893. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. pp387 - 398, illus with numerous photos, printed in double columns, salvaged from a ruined copy of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XIV, #4, February, 1893. Monte Carlo and Monaco. Illus include the Casino, a view from Monaco, the Palace of Monaco, the Casino Garden, a view of Monaco, the Church of Sainte Devote, Theatre of the Casino, Terraces of the Casino Garden, and the Ravine of Sainte Devote. Very scarce..

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1883. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXVII, No. 399, August, 1883. The author's travel account of Bay St. Paul, or Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada, on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Illustrations include a view of the village, an old mill, a crowded scene outside the church, a view within the church, the interior of a typical dwelling, a wooden plow of early days, a barn-yard scene, scenes of plowing and reaping and gleaning, and scenes of swingling and dressing flax. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: Scribner & Co., 1879. Book. Illus. by H. Muhrman and C. A. Vanderhoof. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 characteristic Scribner's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XVIII, No. 1, May, 1879. The docks of New York City. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: Scribner & Co., 1881. Book. Illus. by Will H. Low, M. J. Burns, and others. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 14pp extract, printed in double columns, 8 illustrations, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XXI, #6, April, 1881. White water canoing on the Upper Hudson. Illustrations include the Camp at Night, an outline and cross-section of the Shadow Canoe, several actions scenes in the rapids, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Very scarce..