Category: Kentucky

Louisville. [Images of America Series].

By: Anderson, James C. and Dorina M. Neary.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston; Arcadia, (2003). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 261fd

Octavo, softbound, 218 pp. Photos. Former-owner gift inscription; otherwise, Fine.
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Bluegrass Boy in Florida.

By: Brookshire, Paul.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Miami, Florida: E. A. Seeman Publishing Inc., (1973).

Seller ID: 71572bd

Signed by the Author. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 117 pp. Fine in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Stories from three decades are collected in ÒBluegrass Boy in FloridaÓ -- tales hilarious and earnest, of human frailty, and one man's (or boy's) adventures. They are often autobiographical, nostalgic, and presonal, yes, even sentimental, but the author never succumbs to the easy temptation to paint the Ògood old daysÓ with a rosy brush. The stories are recalled from the often imagined landscapes of memory of a time when life...
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Looking in Louisville: An Introduction to Art Based on the Architecture, Sculpture, & Painting in Louisville, Kentucky, With a Careful Consideration of the Collection of the J. B. Speed Art Museum.

By: Buser, Thomas.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Louisville: Thomas Buser, Allen R. Hite Institute, (1987).

Seller ID: 2555qms

The course for which this book was designed won the H. Charles Grawemeyer Award for Instructional Development. Quarto, paperbound, 132 pp. Fine.
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A Hearty Welcome and Genuine Hospitality Await You at Bardstown, ÒMecca for Tourists.Ó

By: Chamber of Commerce, Bardstown, Kentucky.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bardstown, KY: Chamber of Commerce, n.d.

Seller ID: 2522qms

Octavo, paperbound (stapled, b&w photo illus. white wrappers), 15 pp. Includes ads for Wickland, T. W. Samuels Distillery, Inc., Baldwin's Tourist Court, Komfy Tourist Rooms, The Old Talbott Tavern. Very Good+, with light soiling to wrappers.
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The Springs of Kentucky: An Account of the Famed Watering-Places of the Bluegrass State, 1800-1935.

By: Coleman, J. Winston, Jr.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Lexington, KY: Winburn Press, 1955. First Edition. One of 400.

Seller ID: 3203bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 117 pp. Frontis. Near-Fine, with slightly bumped corners.
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The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1976.

By: Dawson, Nelson L.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky: The Filson Club, 1976.

Seller ID: ess4600

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, grey wrappers), 103 pp. Soiling & former-owner signature to upper cover; otherwise, clean and tight. Contents: Louisville's French Past (Robert A. Burnett); A Great Purging -- Cholera or Calomel? (Frederick Eberson); Politics and Scandal in the Progressive Era: Alben W. Barkely and the McCracken County Campaign of 1909 (Gerald S. Grinde); The New School Synod of Kentucky (Harold M. Parker); Book Reviews; News and Comment; Filsonians; Editor's Page.
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Let There Be Light: The Story of Rural Electrification in Kentucky.

By: Dick, David..

Price: $15.00

Publisher: North Middletown, KY: Plum Lick Publishing, Incorporated, 2008. First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 61141bd

Stamped presentation copy, ÒCompliments of Shelby Energy Cooperative,Ó with a laid-in note with the following message, ÒMadelyn, / Wayne Stratton wanted to make sure you received one of these. / Merry Christmas / Gay Owens Tennill.Ó Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 314 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Until the mid-1930s, much of rural Kentucky -- like much of rural America -- lay in darkness as soon as the sun set. Farmers and their families labored much as their forebears had for centuries. While most city and town dwellers enjoyed the blessings...
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History of Jessamine County, Kentucky.

By: Fain, Robin; Editor.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dallas, Texas: Jessamine County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., 1993.

Seller ID: 50493bd

Quarto, brown leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, photograph illustrated endpapers, 220 pp. With letters containing genealogical information about the Hatcher, Isom/Isham/Ison family laid-in.
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The Kentucky Geological Survey. Series VI. Volume XVI. Wild Life in Kentucky: The Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of the Commonwealth, with a discussion of their appearance, habits and economic importance. Illustrated with Ninety Photographs, Maps and Diagrams.

By: Funkhouser, W. D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Frankfort, Kentucky: The Kentucky Geological Society, 1925. First Edition (One of 1000).

Seller ID: 61341bd

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 385 pp. Very Good, with lightly sunned spine and light edgewear, neat former-owner signature. Illustrated. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Illustrations; Natural Conditions Affecting Animals: Geography, Physiography, Climate, Soils, Drainage, Bodies of Water, Caves; Faunal History of Kentucky: Ancient Marine Life, Beginnings of Land Life, Prehistoric Animals, Pre-Colonial Times, Animals Found by the First Settlers; Present Fauna of the State: Animals Represented, Preservation of Wild Life, Faunal Areas, Animal Groups, ...
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Historic Images of Frankfort. Text by Nicky Hughes and Russell Hatter. Photo Restoration by Gene Burch. Introduction by Richard Taylor.

By: Hughes, Nicky and Russell Hatter.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Frankfort Hertiage Press, 2004. First Edition.

Seller ID: 200fd

Signed by the Photo Restorer. Square quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), 144 pp. Near-Fine, with gift inscription; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This collection of photographs, most of them previously unpublished, depicts Kentucky's capital as a bustling community during the exapansive era following the Civil War through the middle of the twentieth century. Presenting the faces and structures of a Frankfort that has both changed and remained the same during the last century or so, it seeks to give the Kentucky River's largest town and one of the nation's smallest capitals a local ...
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Hail Kentucky! A Pictorial History of the University of Kentucky. With an Introduction by Holman Hamilton.

By: Irvin, Hlen Deiss.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Kentucky Press: University of Kentucky Centennial Committee, [1965].

Seller ID: 00709scs

Quarto, illustrated cloth (hardcover), 102 pp. Illustrated with photos. Very Good+, with former-owner signature and bumped corners ÒFrom the splendid collection of old photographs and glass negatives in the University of Kentucky archives gathered by the late Ezra Gillis, and from many other sources, has come a vivid and nostalgic picture of the University's first century....This pictorial record of 250 striking photographs recaptures the colorful atmosphere and events from the history of a university emerging from a pioneer culture. Recalled here are the early struggles of the faculty a...
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Josephine Clay: Pioneer Horsewoman of the Bluegrass.

By: Simpson, Henry Clay Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Louisville: Harmony House, (2005). First Edition.

Seller ID: 50636fd

Octavo, gilt-stamped green boards (hardcover), xv, 125 pp. Portraits, illus. Fine dust jacket.
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Historic Bardstown and My Old Kentucky Home.

By: Talbott, J. Dan.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bardstown, KY: J. Dan Talbott, n.d.

Seller ID: 2531qms

Oblong octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled wrappers), 32 pp. Near-Fine.
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Constitutions of Kentucky and Their History: History and Texts of the Three Constitutions of Kentucky, with Illustrative State History Prefacing Them and Marginal Notes Showing All Alterations in the Fundamental Law, to Which is Added the Act Calling the Convention of 1890, the Magna Charta, the Compact with Virgina and the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments and Annotation.

By: Young, Bennett H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1890.

Seller ID: 61194bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 129 pp. Fair, with wear to edges and detached ffep., cracked hinge, contents tight and solid, however.
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Category: Kentucky