cummins kent (27 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1931. 189 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed.Tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. immigrants ed. edition. 282 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, xii, xiii, xv, 189 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth bearing white lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including sunning to the spine, rubbing to the edges and slight cocking to the spine. Text block has modest wear including slight age toning to the edges and foxing to few first pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. 1406606. FP New Rockville Stock.

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CUMMINS, Virginia Kent. ON WIND OF CHANCE. Illustrated by Ruth Reeves. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1931]. 8vo., boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Cummins on front endpaper: "May you who read this book find there some song to stir the heart; A haunting air where memories start, or a merry measure to impart a moment`s pleasure. For lovely Alice Rising and her brother Herbert, from Virginia Kent Cummins. 1st part serious, 2nd part frivolous, (corrections by V.C.). With several corrections by the author in the text. Fine in d/j. $50.00.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Fantastic Kent Cummins' has loved magic for more than 75 years, and now he shares some amazing stories based on the greatest magician of all time, Harry Houdini! These are true stories from a professional magician that provide a fascinating peak behind the curtain.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnKent McGrew, born at the end of WWII and raised by immigrant grandparents in the Sacramento Valley, began his mining career by accident at the age of fourteen. His father, the mechanical genius, was drawn into mining par.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnKent McGrew has taken a refreshing break from years of technical writing to bring his readers Dragon Tooth Gold an epic historical fiction of gold mining in the American West. Born during WWII, McGrew was raised by immig.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume 1 of Dragon Tooth Gold begins the story of Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier; two landed immigrants. They met while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. The year is 1841. The young Dr. Callahan woos and wins the heart of the smart and beautiful Anna. Their courtship isn't easy. Anna's abusive and dominating father doesn't approve and works through his connections as an investment banker to have Aaden fired from the University. Their relationship turns deadly when Anna's father challenges Aaden to a duel to settle the matter with deadly force. Aaden embarrasses Anna's father beyond repair in front of thousands of spectators in Faculty Park, across the street from the front gate of the University. Losing the duel and missing an earlobe, the banker's world crumbles around him. He takes his life in a drunken stupor when he finds his accounts frozen and receives divorce papers from his wife's lawyers.Aaden and Anna are spirited away from New York on his younger brother's whiskey schooner Blessed by the Wind. The Blessed is no ordinary schooner. Armed and deadly they fight off pirates in Pamlico Sound and take aboard a blacksmith and his apprentice slave who is his adopted son. They encounter a clairvoyant in Jamaica encounter more troubles having to fight an Argentine frigate on their way to New Orleans.Anna's mother settles in St. Louis and establishes The Black Freedom League. Aaden though is eager to homestead further west. He takes his wife and the servant family from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, where there is land to homestead and a future to carve out of the wilderness. There, he establishes an empire partnering with blacks he buys and frees to take up homesteads around his holdings. Aaden spends his years building his lumber and brewery business. Anna founds a school in Independence for children of all colors and creeds. The abolitionist culture they create causes many problems the pro-slavery dominated state resulting in conflicts with slavers and even an assassination attempt.Aaden and Anna raise four children. Eli, the first, and twin boys, Jacques and Roland, and then finally a girl, Suzette. As the nation looms toward civil war, Anna yields to pressure from her mother and allows her boys to join the Army Supply Service. The post commander at Fort Leavenworth promises to keep the boys close to home. After a tornado sweeps through the lumber mill and brewery, however, the boys take a contract to join a wagon train all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Suzette defies her grandmother who wants to take her on a clipper ship around the horn to Los Angeles and runs away to join her brothers on the trail west.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 344 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.

CUMMINS, Virginia Kent. ON WIND OF CHANCE. Illustrated by Ruth Reeves. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. 8vo, decorative boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Cummins on front endpaper, to a well-known financier: "Frank and Narcissa- dear and true, I give this book To you- dear you, with more than thirty years affection, To invite a kind inspection By you, who write in every way, Your lovely lyric poetry on human hearts and destiny- Your vision, which imparts Beauty, Splendor, Charity, Greater than all forms be!' To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanderlip, from Virginia Kent Cummins. Christmas. Christmas, 1931." Frank A. Vanderlip was a well-known author and financier and president of the National Bank of New York from 1909 to 1919. Very Good (some spotting binding); nice (spine bit browned) d/j. $85.00.