Baird Books : Old and New

Spencer Baird: of the Smithsonian. A naturalist, zoologist, and scientific administrator at the center of 19th-century science, Baird (1823-1887) was the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, initiator of what became the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and director of the US National Museum. His life and achievements are recounted here.

John Logie Baird: A Life This balanced, thoroughly documented and splendidly readable account throws new light not only on Baird himself, but on many of those associated with him. Truth is separated from legend, and the facts are uncovered behind Baird's auto-biographical memoir, published in 1988 as Sermons, Soap and Television, the text of which can now be compared with a recently discovered manuscript containing his own corrections.

John Logie Baird: TV Pioneer: Biography, published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Baird's first public demonstration of television. The book is based on many personal recollections. Baird's business in the early 1920s and comparing Baird's technical strategy with the work undertaken in industrial laboratories.

John Lennon My Brother: by Julia Baird, For over twenty years John Lennon's Liverpool family has been inundated with requests for interviews, which they have never granted. Now Julia Baird, John's younger sister, tells their story, a personal, deeply moving testament to the loving brother behind the superstar. It is also a tribute to their mother.

A World Overturned: by Maureen Baird-Murray. The autobiography of a childhood spent in Burma - by the daughter of an Irish colonial administrator and his Burmese wife..

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Andrew Baird of Manitoba College.
author: Edwards, John A.M. "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Theology of United College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.". Biography of Andrew Baird. Locale: Winnipeg (Manitoba, Indian Missions, Manitoba College, Missionaries, Presbyterian Church, University of Winnipeg).

Robber Rocks: Letters & Memories of Hart Crane, 1923-1932.
Author:Brown, Susan J. Wesleyan Univ. Press Middletown, CT: 1969 1st edition. Letters of Hart Crane to Susan Brown, Slater Brown, Malcolm Cowley and Peggy Baird.

Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography.
Author: Dall, William Healey Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1915. First Edition. SoftCover.

My Beloved Zebulon:
Author: Vance, Zebulon And Harriett Newell Espy. Introduction By Frances Gray Patton. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. [1971]. First edition. Perhaps in all of North Carolina's history no name has been more revered by North Carolinians than that of their Civil War governor and postwar U. S. Senator, Zebulon Baird Vance. The 121 letters published here for the first time comprise the existing prenuptial correspondence.

The Successors.
Author: Irving, Laurence.1967. Rupert-Hart Davis. The Successors is a natural sequel to the author's well known biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. It is partly a family history which traces the Irving and Baird families back some centuries, and then moves on to its beautifully contrived climax when the writer's father and mother meet on the stage in a rehearsal for The Winter's Tale.

The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan.
Authors: Bryan, William Jennings and Mary Baird. 1925 Cloth. signed by Mary Baird Bryan, Life of the great orator and his influence on American Politics.

The First Battle, A Story of the Campaign of 1896
Author: Bryan, William J. 1896 Hardback.. Includes Collection of Bryan's Speeches and a Biographical Sketch by His Wife, Mary Baird Bryan. Decorative cover portrait and signature of Bryan. Frontispiece portrait of Bryan. Illustrated with portraits and photographs.

The Squire: George Alexander Baird Gentleman Rider 1861-1893.
Author: Onslow, Richard Harrap, London 1980, amateur jockey, racehorse owner, prize-fighter and financier.

The Treasure Of Auchinleck
Author: Buchanan, David. The Story Of The Boswell Papers. Photos and illustrations. "one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled."

Memorials of the Rev. Charles W. Baird, D.D.
Author: Baird, Charles Washington 1888. American cleric (1828-87), pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Rye, NY for 26 years; includes engraved frontispiece portrait plus photographic view of the church. 1st edition.

The Life of Sir David Baird.
Author: [Baird (Sir David)] Wilkin (Capt. W. H.) 1912. Portrait frontispiece and four coloured maps. Captured by Hyder Ali in 1780 and held in irons for nearly four years, Baird returned to lead the storming party in the successful siege of Seringapatam in 1799. Led the force from India to Egypt in 1801 and commanded the expedition that recaptured the Cape in 1805. Wounded at Copenhagen 1807..

Property of the Estate of the Late Martha Baird Rockefeller.
Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971 soft cover black and white illustrations throughout; Furniture, rugs, decorative arts, porcelain, etc.. 142 pages.

The Mysteries of Christianity being the Baird Lecture for 1874
Author: Crawford, T.J Wm. Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh, Scotland 1874.

McClure: the China Years.
Author: Scott, Munroe First Edition: Second Printing, A biography signed by McClure, a Canadian spent 25 years of his adult life caring for the sick in China, and ran a field hospital work during the China - Japan War."

Old Reminiscences Of Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
Author: Peter Mackenzie, 1890. Description: The Trial Of Thomas Muir; The Bute Election; The Trial of Wilson, Hardie and Baird; The Old Guards of Glasgow; Robert Carrick and The Old Ship Bank of Glasgow; Bloody Riot in Glasgow; etc.

Scenes and sounds of old Renfrew
Author: Baird, Maisie privately published 1980 32pp, illustrated, card covers, VG, signed by the author.

The Bard Family a history and genealogy of the Bards of "Carroll's Delight"
Author: Seilhamer, G. O. Chambersburg (1908) A Scottish culture and general Scotland Ireland American Clan family history- Bard Baird.

Seventy Years of New Brunswick Life
Author: Baird, Lt. Col. William T. Fredericton, NB: St. Anne's Point Press, 1978. Very good maroon cloth. Gift inscription on ffep and name printed on front paste-down. No. 409 of 500 copies of this reprint of the 1890 edition. Frontispiece of Lt. Col Baird. 358 pp plus one page of errata.

Sir Robert Baird
Author: Ervine, St. John Privately printed at Belfast 1934. First Edition. Black full leather bound book with full gilt edges. Portraits tipped in. Some freemasonry interest, as Baird was a mason. A brochure of a selection from tributes inspired by the memory of Sir Robert Baird, Managing director of the Belfast Telegraph.

Annals Of A Scots Family 1691-1936.
Author: Baird, A.F. 1936, Glasgow. Privately published. 8vo, 152pp + 14 photographic plates. Presentation inscription by author. A History of the Baird family.

The McDonald-Milne Family
Jean R. McDonald And James Russell Milne, And Their McDonald-Crerar And Milne-Baird Forebears. Author: Bedford, Frances Murray, Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1997.

Finding My Way:
The Autobiography of an Optimist, by Evelyn Schwartz Baird Stefansson. Born in 1913 Brooklyn, Nef was raised by Hungarian-Jewish immigrants. Over the course of her life, she had three husbands: master puppeteer Bil Baird; polar explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; and John Nef, All opened new worlds to her. Photos.