Search Results: Authors starting with K from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[Texas] Mrs. J. K. Bivins. Memoirs. [Texas?]: [No publication information] 1946. Red boards. 23 cm. Illustrated. 138 [4] pp. Very good.
Adams, Six-Guns 216 "Scarce." Signed by the author. Privately printed memoir of East Texas, includes biographies of East Texas pioneers. Has a chapter on the outlaw Cullen Baker. He also served with the 7th Texas Infantry, not listed by Dornbusch, Military Bibliography of the Civil War. Baker "was a Tennessee-born Texas and Arkansas desperado whose gang is alleged to have killed hundreds of people including former slaves during the early days of the American Old West, in the years following the Civil War. However, these numbers are probably inaccurate, and the actual number is between fifty and sixty." – Wikipedia. Viola Bee Cobb Bivins (1863-1951) was President, Texas Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy. "Includes biographical information on two early East Texas pioneer families and their experiences in the Civil War and Reconstruction." – World Cat.

[Slavery] Kemble, Frances Anne. Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. [Philadelphia?]: [No publication information.] [1863]. Illustrated wraps. Disbound. 32 pp. Scattered foxing. Has been folded.
With woodcut to front cover depicting a slave with badly scarred back. Captioned as a "True Picture," the man depicted was the former slave, Private Gordon, who essayed a daring escape from a plantation to join the Union forces. He had received a nearly fatal beating on Christmas Day, 1862. The text of this pamphlet is drawn from Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble's noted work, Residence on a Georgia Plantation. Frances Kemble moved from Britain to Georgia after having inherited several plantations. Her shock at the poor treatment of the slaves ended her marriage and prompted her to write her account.

1880s SMALL POCKET MAP OF BOSTON
[Boston][Moses King] Map of the City of Boston and Suburbs Designed & Engraved Expressly for the Hoosac Tunnel Route. Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham. [Circa 1880s.] Red leather covers with gilt titles. 16.5 x 25 on sheet 13 x 27.5 cm, folded to approximately 8 x 5 cm. Cover title: Boston. Endorsements surround the map including that King's Hand-Book of Boston is "The most satisfactory work of its kind that has ever come under our notice" according to the Boston Post. Period ownership stamp to back panel of map. Light wear to cover, darkening along fold lines of the map, else very good with no splits.
OCLC shows no holdings for this variant edition, but three holdings for similar King folding maps (Mass. Hist. Soc.; AAS & Harvard). Below the map are the following lists: Noteworthy Institutions; Historical Places; Public Buildings and Offices; Prominent Churches; Places of Amusement; Prominent Hotels; Railroad Depots & Daily Newspapers, all with addresses. The prior owner… Read More

[Hate][KKK][Texas] Ku Klux Klan -- Exposed. [Albany, N.Y.]: [Ku Klux Klan], 1930. White pictorial wraps. 25 cm. One folded sheet [8 pages] One inch tear to bottom margin, else very good.
OCLC shows three holdings (Indiana Hist. Soc.; Harvard & Mich. St. Univ.) Pro-Klan tract under the guide of an exposure. Cover shows a hooded Klansman on horseback holding a fiery cross.

Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not An Option. Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2000. First edition, first issue. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. Index. 415 [3] pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Signed by Kranz and five other flight directors: Chris Kraft, Glynn Lunney, Milton Windler, Pete Frank and Gerry Griffin on 4/24/2000. Kraft and Frank are now deceased. Kranz served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He is best known for directing the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13 and bring them safely back to earth. Very scarce signed by these flight directors who are all discussed in the book. This is gift quality for the Space flight enthusiast.