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Minutes Of The Twenty-second Constitutional General Convention Of The Industrial Workers Of The World, November 9-16, 1936
by Industrial Workers Of The World
Kentucky Books & Ephemera
A New Map of Kentucky with its Roads and Distances from place to place along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes
by TANNER, H.S
Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1839. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 11 1/4" x 13 1/2"<br/> <br/> Beautiful map of Tennessee divided into counties and townships. Shows towns, waterways, major routes and geographic features. Includes insets showing the Falls of Ohio, the city of Lexington and vicinity, and of Mason and Lewish counties along the Ohio River. A table in the upper right shows steam boat routes from Louisville to Pittsburgh, and Louisville to New...
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Generations: An American Family
by Egerton, John
University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$19.26
THE VOICE OF THE FRONTIER. JOHN BRADFORD'S NOTES ON KENTUCKY.
by Clark, Thomas D
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, (1993), xxxvi, 386pp, index. VG+ in VG+ dj. From the dj: "From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's "Notes on Kentucky" - the primary historical source for Kentucky's early years - are made available in a single volume edited by the state's most...
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OLD KENTUCKY ARCHITECTURE - THIRD SERIES
by Rexford Newcomb
New York: Bonanza Books. Hardcover. Good/good +. 10 x 13 in. Cloth bards. Condition is GOOD ; white water stains around spine head and along upper edge, doesn't affect the text. Binding tight. DJ is GOOD+ ' rubbed, some wear at spine head. Arch. Stax.
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Segregation versus Integration.
by NEVINS, William Manlius
Publisher's stapled wrappers, octavo, pp. vi, 121 + [1]. "An exhaustive study of the racial question, presenting facts and implications." Some creasing on front wrap; foxing and soiling on both wrappers; staples rusty. Interior clean and unmarked. Withal, about GOOD and still serviceable. This [Lexington] edition scarce in commerce and institutional holdings, with a September 2019 OCLC search returning no copies in the United States (Switzerland and British Library only).
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HOUSE OF DREAMS. THE BINGHAM FAMILY OF LOUISVILLE.
by Brenner, Marie
New York: Fandom House Book. VG+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. (1988). First Edition, 452pp, index, illustrated, voluminous notes. VG+ in VG dj. Signed and dated by the author on the first free endpaper. From the dj: "House of Dreams is a masterpiece of sensitive, deep reportage and skillful story-telling that grips the reader to the last page. Marie Brenner's narrative weaves exceptionally intimate portraits of the Bingham family (portraits that don't stop at the bedroom...
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Out of Kentucky Kitchens
by Flexner, Marion
University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Cover shows light edgewear and scuffing; Binding is sound; Interior pages are unmarked; Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$43.38
Letter to the Honorable Mr. Hawes, in reply to His Strictures on the Graduates of the Military Academy
by By a graduate, late an officer in the United States Army [Albert Gallatin Hawes]
New York: Wiley and Long, 1836. 30pp., stitched and gathered. Octavo self-titled wraps with stains, dust-soiling and small edge-losses to plain, unprinted rear wrap; about good. bjcb 352253 Signed in type at its conclusion as "Justitia" e.g., the author Albert Gallatin Hawes (1804-1849) who was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. This copy was owned by West Point cadet William Henry "Bill" Fowler, Jr. (1817-1901) -"U.S. Corps Cadet." According to family stories, Fowler, Jr. was the son of William...
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Kentucky Bluegrass Country
by Alvey, R. Gerald
Jackson, Miss.University Press of Mississippi, 1992 Large paperback, (8vo. softcover), 322pp. Photo illustrated throughout. No names or other markings. Fine.
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Boone: A Biography
by Morgan, Robert
Algonquin, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Dust Jacket is in near-fine condition, without tears or chips. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Kentucky; ISBN/EAN: 9781565124554. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 734. . 9781565124554
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A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF H. HULBERT EATON, A.M. LATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. (DELIVERED NOV. 10TH, AS AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS TO THE MEDICAL CLASS, AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION OF 1832-3
by Short, Charles W., M.D
[Lexington?, 1832. 15pp, [1 blank] pp. Disbound with stitching. Scattered foxing and light to moderate wear. Good to Good+, with the ownership signature 'Prof. D.C. Eaton, New Haven, Conn.' "Short sketch of a professor of chemistry in the medical department of Transylvania University during the early 1830's." Coleman. It opens a window on the life of a young scientist in the early 19th century. FIRST EDITION. Coleman 603. Pierson 402 [2]. AI 14703 [5].
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![POWER OF ATTORNEY OF SAMPSON MATHEWS OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SIGNED AND DATED JANUARY 19, 1786, APPOINTING SAMUEL MCDOWELL AND CALEB WALLACE OF LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, HIS "TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNIES" CHARGED WITH THE SALE OF "ALL MY LANDS IN KENTUCKY, EACH... PARCEL OF LAND FOR THREE EQUAL YEARLY PAYMENTS... TO BEAR INTEREST IF NOT PUNCTUALLY PAID, BOND AND GOOD SECURITY TO BE TAKEN & THE TITLE TO BE MADE AT THE LAST PAYMENT OF EACH SALE, PROVIDED THAT THE SALES MADE BY MY FORMER INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BE MADE GOOD AGREEABLE TO THE CONTRACT MADE BY MY SAID ATTORNIES...." SIGNED BY SAMPSON MATHEWS AND WITNESSED BY GEORGE WINTER, BENJAMIN LOGAN, JOHN CAMPBELL, AND CHRISTOPHER GREENUP, WITH THEIR SIGNATURES. [Docketed on verso: AT A COURT HELD FOR LINCOLN COUNTY THE 18TH DAY OF JULY 1786/ THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS PROVED BY THE OATHS OF BENJAMIN LOGAN AND CHRISTOPHER GREENUP, WITNESSES THERETO AND ORDERED TO BE CERTIFIED.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/489/892/854892489.0.b.jpg)
POWER OF ATTORNEY OF SAMPSON MATHEWS OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SIGNED AND DATED JANUARY 19, 1786, APPOINTING SAMUEL MCDOWELL AND CALEB WALLACE OF LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, HIS "TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNIES" CHARGED WITH THE SALE OF "ALL MY LANDS IN KENTUCKY, EACH... PARCEL OF LAND FOR THREE EQUAL YEARLY PAYMENTS... TO BEAR INTEREST IF NOT PUNCTUALLY PAID, BOND AND GOOD SECURITY TO BE TAKEN & THE TITLE TO BE MADE AT THE LAST PAYMENT OF EACH SALE, PROVIDED THAT THE SALES MADE BY MY FORMER INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BE MADE GOOD AGREEABLE TO THE CONTRACT MADE BY MY SAID ATTORNIES...." SIGNED BY SAMPSON MATHEWS AND WITNESSED BY GEORGE WINTER, BENJAMIN LOGAN, JOHN CAMPBELL, AND CHRISTOPHER GREENUP, WITH THEIR SIGNATURES. [Docketed on verso: AT A COURT HELD FOR LINCOLN COUNTY THE 18TH DAY OF JULY 1786/ THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS PROVED BY THE OATHS OF BENJAMIN LOGAN AND CHRISTOPHER GREENUP, WITNESSES THERETO AND ORDERED TO BE CERTIFIED.]
by [Mathews, Samson]
[Lincoln County, Kentucky, 1786. Single sheet, 8.75" x 10". Completely in manuscript, approximately 20 lines, signed and sealed on January 19, 1786, by Sampson Mathews, George Winter, Benjamin Logan, John Campbell and Christopher Greenup. Paper seal attached with wax near Mathews' signature. Old folds, two short fold splits with a few letters affected but not lost, minor toning and wear at folds. Good+. Sampson Mathews [1737-1807] served as commissary of Col. Charles Lewis' regiment in the Point...
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Out of Kentucky Kitchens
by Flexner, Marion
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$15.00
Tennessee & Kentucky
by BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel
Boston: Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel, 1835. unbound. Boynton, G.W.. Map. Engraving with hand-colored outline. Image measures 7 7/8" x 10 1/8"<br/> <br/> Early map of Tennessee and Kentucky divided into counties. Shows towns, waterways, railroads and topographical details. Published after the passage of the Indian Removal Act 1830, but before Cherokee Removal in 1838, this map includes Cherokee Territory (and Brainerd mission) in the southeast corner. Minor wear expected with age,...
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Oh Stephy C. Foster
by SMITH, Earl Hobson
Publisher's blue wrappers with maroon upper wrap lettering, 12mo, pp. 65 plus ads. A Comedy in Three Acts Telling the Charming Life Story of Stephen C. Foster. First presented on January 19, 1926, at Woodland Park Auditorium, Lexington, Kentucky. Wrappers with some toning and old creases. GOOD condition with a few random nicks on wrapper and page edges. Protected from further wear now in a clear new Ultra-Pro sleeve.
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A$23.16
Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1839
by [Henry Clay (1777-1852)]
Washington [D.C.]: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1839. 16pp. 8vo. Pamphlet; removed; foxing, else Very Good. Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the broader role of ultra-abolitionists. "The liberty of the descendants of Africa in the United States is incompatible with the safety and liberty of the European descendants. Their slavery forms an exception...to the general liberty in the...
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The Military Memoirs of General John Pope.
by COZZENS, Peter, and John Y. SIMON, editors
Gray cloth with red spine lettering, octavo, pp. xxviii, 287. Three maps and two illustrations of Pope.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED "J. BRECKINRIDGE," TO ARTHUR FOX, ESQUIRE, OF WASHINGTON, MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, CONCERNING THE "MILLER'S HEIRS" LITIGATION, 15 NOVEMBER 1793
by Breckinridge, John [1760-1806]
[4] pp bifolium, folded. Letter written on recto of first leaf, inner pages blank, last page addressed to Fox. Old mailing folds, light margin spotting, paper loss on the blank leaf from a seal tear has been replaced with period paper. Very Good. Kentucky Revolutionary War veteran Breckinridge became Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson but died of tuberculosis soon after his appointment. A prominent Virginia, and then Kentucky, lawyer and politician, he was the grandfather of future Vice President...
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Johnson's Kentucky and Tennessee
by JOHNSON AND WARD
New York: Johnson and Browning, 1862. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 17 1/2" x 24".<br/> <br/> Beautifully colored double-page map of Kentucky and Tennessee. Delineates counties, towns, major routes, waterways and railroads. Includes vignettes "State House Nashville", "Navy Yard Memphis", and "Entrance to the Mammoth Cave". <Br> <br> Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884) is one of the most prolific American...
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Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered)
by Boyd, Douglas A
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/4 h x 6 1/4w. A real nce clean unmarked 240 page first edition hardcover with 1 low in number line. From dust jacket flap: A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced...
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JOURNAL OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 6TH, 1790. AND IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SAID UNITED STATES
by First Congress, Third Session
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. 203pp. Folio. Original blind-ruled calf [lightly rubbed, rehinged]. Light scattered foxing, Very Good. This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan for a national Bank." The Journal records the legislative history of the Bank's creation, commencing with the introduction and reading of the 'Bill to incorporate the subscribers to...
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FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY.
by Dawson, Nelson L., Editor
Louisville.: The Filson Club. Vol 68, No. 4, October, 1994. Stiff wrps. G. Includes: To Hear Their Beefs and Squawks. A Kentucky Congressman Visits Postwar Europe, by Nancy Disher Baird; The Home Front. The Women of Lexington, Kentucky During World War II, by Teresa Cecilia Sharkey; Brief Moments of Glory. Weaver's Warriors. The 192nd Kentucky Tank Battalion in the Philippines, by H. Lew Wallace and James C. Claypool; Prich, by Philip Ardery.
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Henry Strater; New Paintings Together with Earlier Works
by Exhibition Catalog
New York: Frank Rehn Gallery, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/Paperback. 8vo. 64pp.Illus. Color and b&w photos. Text by Edgar Thorne.
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BELL COUNTY KENTUCKY A Brief History
by Cornett, Tim
The History Press. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages .
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Charlotte
by Landrum, Grace Warren
NY: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 95pp, illustrated with 4 photographs of Charlotte at different ages, green buckram with blue lettering and decoration at front cover, extremities worn, covers show general wear and sunning, spine faded, contents tight and clean. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, "BETTY BARBEE / WITH LOVE FROM / CHARLOTTE'S MOTHER." A biographical celebration by long-time English Professor (1927 - 1947), and Dean of Women at William and...
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