271 pages; tables, folding signs & symbols; publisher's gray cloth with title on the cover in black. Manual for state military personnel of Massachusetts during the beginning of the 20th century. Fine clean copy internally fresh. View More...
8 pages; paper wrapper (5 3/8 x 6 5/8 inch) with title on the cover. A brief account of the best methods for teaching mathematics at the high school level. Fine clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 8." 283 pages, complete. Twenty-seven additional page in back advertising other books. The last additional page is an illustrated announcement of D. Appleton and Company's new location. Prospectus for "Herbert Spencer's Philosophical Works" printed in front. Former owner's signature in black ink in a margin on title page: "Wm. [William] M. Pierson." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Lacks front free endpaper. Slight rubbing to covers. A Very Good copy. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English... View More...
Original broadside printed in black and red ink on light beige paper. 14" x 10." One page, complete. "Designed by Ward Ritchie '28." Broadside is very clean and intact except for some wrinkling, especially at top edge and lower-right corner. A Very Good copy. A fine-press broadside with a brief statement reaffirming the intellectual freedoms guaranteed to patrons of the Stanford University Libraries. The broadside begins with summarizing the importance of libraries and protecting intellectual freedom and then proceeds to explain the two freedoms "that are essential to the creation, func... View More...
125 copies printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. [9] pages; illustrations, facsimiles; green stiff paper wrapper (7 x 9 inch) with title on the cover. "Published on the occasion of the Robert Frost Centennial Exhibit, April 28 - August 31, 1974". Story of there friendship and later breakup. Fine clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth wrappers with staple binding. 7" x 8 1/2." Forty-six pages, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight fraying along the edges and a small bump to the lower-right corner of front cover. Binding is tight. Staples not rusted. According to a short caption on the title page, F. G. Stevens was a missionary who did mission work for fifty years in Northern Manitoba. A beginning primer book aimed toward English speakers on how to read, write, and speak the Cree language. Cree is a dialect of the Algonquian languages and is an... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. Gilt lettering on front cover. 7" x 10 1/4." Sixty-five pages, complete. Black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations, complete. Twelve pages of eighty-six local advertisements included in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Staples are undamaged and have not rusted. An annual publication written by students of Nevada City High School (NCHS). Includes portraits of the senior class of 1923 and other students and faculty. Group portraits of the freshmen, sophomore, and junior classes also included. Th... View More...
Original publisher's green-gray paper wrappers with blue mottling and gilt lettering on front cover. 7 3/4" x 10 1/2." Fifty-eight pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, including printed photographs of students and staff, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, a few small wrinkles, light blue dampstains limited to edges of front and back flyleaves, and an upward bend throughout the publication. Covers are clean and intact overall but have a split measuring 1" at tail of spine, slight fading or discoloration, a light blue crayon or colored pencil m... View More...
Published in a small edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 6" x 9 1/4." 246 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for occasional foxing (most of the foxing is limited to the endpapers). Covers are very clean and intact but have slight chipping at head and tail of spine, slight bumping and wear to corners, a small bump at top edge of back cover, minuscule fading to spine, and some wrinkling or rippling on back cover. A Near Fine copy. Excerpt from Preface: "This history contains ... View More...
FIRST EDITION. 320 pages; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Inscribed by the author "To the John Swett Grammer School with the compliments of the author, John Swett." John Swett (1830-1913) was a noted school reformer and early founder of the public education system for the state. He was Superintendent of Education (1863-1867) and taught in the Bay Area. He received an honorary degree from the University of California at the same time as John Muir in 1913. The book has a 'John Swett Grammar School' in ink. Otherwise a very good clean copy. View More...
210 pages; index; wine red cloth binding, gilt lettering ( some fading to the cover, minor water drop spots on the cover). An account of various versions of stories and tales gathered by man. Very good clean copy. View More...
'Reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol 35, No. 4 October-December, 1933. Pages 745-751; stapled (some discoloration). Signed by the author "To Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Skinner Cordially. Paul S. Taylor" on the cover in ink. The article is concerned with Jalisco Pottery making methods. Good copy of one of Taylor's early articles. View More...
Original orange wrapper with black lettering on front cover. 6 X 9 inches. 134 pages. Some of the topics discussed are, objectives for dancing in the elementary schools, methods of teaching dancing in the elementary schools, a survey of dance activities and their basic movements, the correlation of dancing with other activities, dancing for boys in the elementary school, rhythm, an analysis of accompaniment for the dance, dancing in the major course in physical education and dancing in the preparation of the classroom teacher. Pages are very clean and complete. Binding is tight. View More...
title plus 20 cards with sayings; in stiff paper folding case (6 x 4 inch). Thoughts and sayings relating to women. Slight tear on one of the folding flaps on folding case. Clean copy. View More...
'Teacher's Library, No. 118'. 32 pages; music scores; publisher's board binding (evidence of water stain on the front and back cover not effecting the text); size is 6 x 9 1/4 inch. Inscribed by the author "To Albert Cotsworth, With affectionate regard - John Winter Thompson. Dec 14, 1935." Series of lessons on the proper use of counterpoint. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title and imprint of "Toro Photo" are printed to the right of the image in a side margin. Postcard is unused. Postcard is clean and intact overall but has some wrinkling at the center. A Good copy. This postcard shows Colegio San Jose in San German, Puerto Rico. A few people are shown in the foreground. Other buildings are nearby. Colegio San Jose was founded in 1930 by the Sisters of St. Joseph as a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic college preparatory school. It was located at the top of the highest hill in San German, Loma... View More...
105-page booklet. "This Bibliography on Professional Literature in Secondary Education is one of the studies undertaken by the Committee of Fifteen of the California High School Teachers' Association during the school year 1922-23." Contents include: Books for Principals and Supervisors; Books for Teachers of the Major Subjects; Magazines for Principals -- and Teachers; Supplementary Educational Monographs; Standardized Educational Tests; Finding lists of Books, Magazines, Tests, and Addresses of Publishers; etc. View More...
(1900). Original printed wrappers, small crease back cover, otherwise a fine copy. Bibliography of American Literature number 3465. Second state, with corrected word on page 16. 28 pages, plus one page of advertising for other books by the publisher. View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 6" x 9." 256 pages, complete. One black-and-white illustration (university map), complete. Index in back. Former owner's signature ("S. P. Maslin") in black ink on a front flyleaf and in the margins of title page. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning throughout and some offsetting on front endpaper. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wear to corners and head and tail of spine. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. The University of California Regent's Manual containing laws, rul... View More...
Collection of two original typescripts (black ink on beige paper), namely, two mock legal briefs for the Moot Court Competition at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the documents is affixed to blue paper by brass brads; this one is a carbon typescript. The other document has brown paper backing but no fasteners; this one is an original, non-carbon typescript. The documents are signed by the participants as "Kenneth Lloyd Williams," "Wm. [Nankervis?]," "W. R. Burke," "D. M. Scott," and "J. M. Child." No date, circa 1924. Document with blue backing: 9" x 14 1/2." Document with... View More...
