Monday, September 22, 2014

Things I Adore: Vintage Books




Seed of the Serpent (1947) by: Esme Davis

To Struggle, To Laugh (1946) by Samuel Marko

A Pocketful of Canada (1946) by Collins

Forever Amber (1945) by Kathleen Winsor

Humoresque (1926) by Humbert Wolfe

This Freedom (1922) by A. S. M. Hutchinson

The Kentuckians A Knight of the Cumberland (1909) by John Fox Jr.

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser Vol. I  (1855) (the text carefully revised and illustrated with notes, original and selected) by Francis J. Child (Five volumes in three...I only have this one.)

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Things I Adore: Vintage Military Books




Glory Road The bloody route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg (1952) by Bruce Catton

The Struggle for Europe (1952) by: Chester Wilmot

Victory Through Air Power (1942) by Major Alexander P. De Seversky

A History of France From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Versailles (1919) by William Stearns Davis, Ph. D.

History of the World War. An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War (1919) By Francis A. March Ph. D.  in collaboration with Richard J. Beamish, Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst  and with an introduction by General Peyton C. March Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

World's War Events Volume III Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April 1917, and closing with the treaties of Peace in 1919 (1919) Recorded by statemen - Commanders Historians and by men who fought or saw the great campaigns.  Compiled and Edited by: Francis J. Reynolds and Allen L. Churchill

World's War Events Volume II Beginning with the attack at Verdun early in 1916 the story of the war and of American aid is carried to the close of 1917 (1919) Recorded by statemen - Commanders Historians and by men who fought or saw the great campaigns.  Compiled and Edited by: Francis J. Reynolds and Allen L. Churchill

World's War Events Volume I Beginning with the causes of the war and the invasion of Belgium in 1914 and carrying the history of the war to the close of 1915 (1919) Recorded by statemen - Commanders Historians and by men who fought or saw the great campaigns.  Compiled and Edited by: Francis J. Reynolds and Allen L. Churchill

Life of WM. Tecumseh Sherman, Late Retired General, U.S.A. (A graphic history of his career in war and peace; his romantic youth; his stern and patriotic manhood; his calm and beautiful old age; a marvellous march from the mountains of time to the sea of eternity.) (1891) by W. Fletcher Johnson and carefully reviewed, chapter by chapter and with an introduction by Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, U.S.A.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Things I Adore: Vintage Gardening Books




10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 15 Experts (1951) F. F. Rockwell

The New Garden Encyclopedia A Complete, Practical and Convenient Guide to Every Detail of Gardening (1936) Written by a group of Horticultural Experts and Edited by E. L. D. Seymour, B.S.A.

The Complete Book of Garden Magic (1935) by: Roy E. Biles

Flowers and Flowering Plants An Introduction to the Nature and Work of Flowers and the Classification of Flowering Plants (1929) by: Raymond J. Pool, Ph. D.

Spring Flowering Bulbs (1928) by Clark L. Thayer

Home Garden Handbooks Gladiolus (1927) by F. F. Rockwell

Gray's New Manual of Botany (Seventh Edition-Illustrated) A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (1908) Rearranged and Extensively revised by: Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Things I Adore: Vintage Educational Books




The Story of America In Pictures  (1953) by Alan C. Collins

Knulp (1946) Edited with Introduction, Exercises, Notes and Vocabular by William Diamond and Christel B. Schomaker (Oxford University Library of German Texts)

The Oceans. Their physics, chemistry and general biology (1942) by: H. U. Sverdrup, Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming

Engineering Drawing (1941) by: Thomas E. French

Our Earth and Sky (1940) by: Gerald S. Craig and Sara E. Baldwin (a third grade book)

Premiere Etape Basica French Readings Books One to Five (1936) Retold and Edited by Otto F. Bond.

Drei Manner im Schnee (1934) By Erich Kastner and Edited by Clair Hayden Bell.

Leicht und New (1934) Edited with Notes, Exercies and Vocabulary by: Lilian L. Stroebe and Ruth J. Hofrichter

Der Blinde Geronimo und sein Bruder (1929) by: Arthut Schnitzler and Edited with notes and vocabulary by Lawrence M. Price (University of Chicago)

Beginners' Latin by the Direct Method (1914) by Edward C. Chickering, Ph.D. and Harwood Hoadley, Ph. D.

Three French Comedies (1905)
          L'ete de la Saint-Martin Par Meilhac et Halevy
          La Lettre Chargee Par Eugene Labiche
          Vent D'ouest Par Ernest D'Hervilly
                    With Notes, Vocabulary and Exercises by Roy Temple House, Ph. D.

Contes Et Legendes IIieme Partie (1895) Par H. A. Guerber Auteur de "Myths of Greece and Rome"

The First French Book. Grammar, Conversation and Translation  (1893) Edited by Henri Bue