Murray janette stevenson (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Stratford House, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition / no additional printings listed. Red cloth over boards with gold lettering to spine and front board. Sown binding. Very Good book / no jacket. Signed by both authors on FFEP. Prior owner's name on FFEP. Short note regarding prior owner's grandfather at p. 62, otherwise text is clean. Bookplate ghost to front pastedown. Sound binding. Spine faded. Light fading on top 1.5 inch of front cover. Spine ends bumped and frayed. Rubbing to corners. 284 pages.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 284 pp. including index; HB dark red w/gilt; rubbed w/wear on edges & corners; spine sunned; bleed through tan on front paste down & endpaper; bookplate; clean, tight pgs. History of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. b/w photos.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. pages age toned, cloth dj has tags with book information neatly sewn on.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good +. First Edition. 284 pages with index, appendix and bibliography. Very Good plus condition. Photos supplied upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. RARE First Edition. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: self-published, printed by Traer Star-Clipper and Hudson Printing Company, December 1953. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards with gold titles. Very Good+ / no jacket. Traer Star-Clipper article with photo of author signing books taped to front pastedown. Ink highlights to two pages, otherwise text pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 319 pages, illus., bibliography. CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE OLD BUCKINGHAM CHAPTER 1. TWO MEN AND THEIR QUEST 2. A CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR SPONSORS OLD BUCKINGHAM Life in Old Buckingham Village 3. HANGING THE HORSETHIEVES The Ridge Road The Bunker Boys What Kind of a Man Was Klingaman? An Unsolved Mystery 4. TIMES OF DISASTER AND STRAIN On the Roads in Early Days Pioneer Doctoring 5. OLD BUCKINGHAM BECOMES A GHOST TOWN The First Train Arrives in Traer The Czechs Crystal Postoffice The Peddlers 6. A THREAD OF ROMANCE Robert Gunn and Adelaide Mott 7. THE PIONEERS CARRY ON Jonas P. Wood-"The Head of the House" At the "Larches" May Clark and Her Husband, Fletcher McCornack Wolves and Hogs on the Jaqua Farm The Mistress of "Chehalis" "God Bless the Stoakeses" Geneseo Is a Rich Township 8. ENTERTAINMENTS AND CELEBRATIONS Agness Law and Ralph Dennis 9. THE TRAER FAIR AND 'HORSEMEN'S CIRCLE' A Day at the Traer Fair "Horsemen's Circle" 10. CHURCHES IN OLD BUCKINGHAM AND TRAER The Methodist Church The Ripley Congregational Church The United Presbyterian Church St. Paul's Catholic Church St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church 11. 'EL' TAYLOR AND THE TRAER STAR-CLIPPER 12. THE LITTLE WHITE SCHOOLHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Baker's Grove School Academies and High Schools for North Tama TRANQUILLITY FOLK 1. COMMUNITY LIFE CENTERED IN TRANQUILLITY CHURCH There Was No Ladies Aid Before the Church Session "The Even Tenor of Their Way" Salem Church of Crystal Township 2. ON THE PRAIRIES Preacher and Doctor Too From Ayrshire's "Bonnie Doon" to North Tama's Wolf Creek Henry at the Herding "An Unco Thrifty Scot" Breaking Even 3. SOCIAL LIFE ALONG WOLF CREEK "Just a Wheen o' Us Kisns" "For Better, for Worse" Visiting at the Whannels We Went to Amity 4. A COVENANTER OF THE OLD SCHOOL The Courting of Elder Taylor A Mind o' His Ain Praising the Lord The Passing of a Strong Man 5. TRAER-BUSINESS CENTER FOR TRANQUILLITY PEOPLE When the Grist Mill Burned Mrs. S. P. Smith Behind the Counter Mrs. Peter Wilson--Successful Woman Farmer 6. 'TAMA JIM' NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good to very good condition. Name on front fly leaf. Laid in newspaper article has browned front endpaper and fly leaf. Spine is heavily faded. A little fading on front cover. Spine tips are bumped. Cover corners are lightly rubbed. 284 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

(IOWA). (CEDAR RAPIDS). MURRAY, Janette Stevenson, and MURRAY, Frederick Gray. The Story of Cedar Rapids. N.Y., 1950. Illus. xiii, 284pp. Orig. cloth. Very good.

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Iowa, Pioneer Life, Scottish Americans, History) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.