Kenney Charles Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Printing. Small 4to, 241 pages, cloth. With CD in rear pocket Introduction by Michael Beschloss. This is the first in a series of books on Presidential Libraries.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Collection of nine plays with an introduction by the editor and ten illustrations. The plays are Raising the Wind by James Kenney, Mr. Paul Pry by Douglas William Jerrold, Patter versus Clatter by Charles Mathews, Diamond Cut Diamond by William Henry Murray, How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress by Joseph Stirling Coyne, Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton, The Area Belle by William Brough and Andrew Halliday, Tom Cobb by William Schwenck Gilbert and The Magistrate by Arthur Wing Pinero. Light corner bumping to the boards. Page edges are lightly browned with some brown spotting to the top edges and a few light marks to the fore edges and a little dark marking to the bottom corners. The pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Price clipped jacket has some discolouration and browning and fading to the front panel and the spine. There is some chipping to the edges, a half inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel and a one inch square section missing from the base of the spine. First printing. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. xiv, 434pp, index, illustrated with historical photographs, very clean and bright, unmarked inside and out, signed at title-page by author below printed name; as-issued without a dust jacket. Greenup County, Kentucky, home of KY author and educator Jesse Stuart. Chapter / sections include Native Americans, by Nicholls, Establishment of state and county government, by Nicholls, Transportation, by Nicholls, Aviation History of Greenup County, by Martin, The African-American Experience, by Nicholls, History of Religion, Communities: Oldtown, North Fork, Laurel, Frasure, by Kathleen Virgin-Kenney, History of the City of Greenup, by Nicholls, Weddings in Greenup, by Dunn & Roe, History of Argillite, by Harris, The History of Hunnewell, by Thomas, City of Russell History, by Nicholls, History of South Shore, Nicholls, Raceland / Worthington, Sammons, History of Wurtland, by Stafford & Nicholls, Camp Swigert, by Stafford, The City of Flatwoods, by Byrne, War, by Piatt, Byrne, and Nicholls, Industrial Development, by Peterson, Whitt, and Penkava, Education, by Webb, Sports, by Piatt, Fish and Wildlife, by Soc Clay, and Greenup County Authors, by Gifford. Signed by Author(s).…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

See his entry, and those of his brother and Kenney, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Twenty-two lines of text, addressed to 'C. L. Kenney Esq' and signed 'Aug: Mayhew'. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Begins: 'Dear Charlie/ Of course, we have to act under legal guidance. I will submit your letter to Mr Clare, for his opinion, but do not make yourself too sure of receiving the legacy, as your son's guardian.' He will submit Kenney's letter to Clare, but the matter having been discussed, 'the opinion was rather plainly stated, that the legacy must be invested for the benefit of the infant, & kept at interest until he reached his 21st year, the legacy being intended for the benefit of the infant, & the non-carrying out of that intention being at the risk of the Trustees of the will.'.…