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By: Welch, A. S.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, E. L. Kellogg & and Co.: 1890
Seller ID: 4342
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
The Reading Circle Library, No. 6. 136 pages with numerous pages of publisher's advertising. From the Preface: "This little book on the elements of applied Psychology has been written for the sole purpose of helping the teacher in preparing for more effective work in the school-room". Chapters include: Mind-Growth and Its Helps; The Feelings; The Will and the Spontaneities; Memory and Conception; Imagination and Classification; Reading, Writing, Spelling; Composition, Elementary Grammar, Abstract Arithmetic; etc. View more info
By: Wheat, Carl I.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of America: 1956
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 14258
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Separated from the PAPERS of the Bibliographical Society of America, 50 (First Quarter 1956). Inscribed by the author inside the front cover "To William Maxwell Wood who discovered California (in a mode of saying) Yours Carl I. Wheat, June 18, '56". in blue ink. 16 pages; tan paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 9 1/8 inch). Evidence of a crease in the back cover. Carl Wheat was the leading expert on cartography for the American West and this is an early article which became his 6 volume 'Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West'. Very good copy, signed. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Salem, Mass, Newcomb & Gauss: 1926
Seller ID: 14219
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
35 pages (unopened); illustration; brown paper wrapper (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inch). Contains Judge Alden White's introductory essay; Presentation of the Memorial by Harlan P. Kelsey; and acceptance of Memorial by the Mayor George J. Bates. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Cincinnati, Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.:
Seller ID: 2847
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Illustrated cloth. Small stains to front and back end papers. Red ink notation on front end paper. Offsetting to pages ii and iii. Contents include: Elements of Psychology (The Human Soul, The Sensibility, The Intellect, etc.); Principles of Teaching; Methods of Teaching (1886). (Instruction, Drill, Testing, Oral Teaching and Book Study, Written Examinations, etc.); Methods of Teaching Special Branches (Reading, Language, English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, etc.); Moral Training (School Incentives , Religious Sanctions in Moral Training, Religion in the Public School, etc.). View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 1882
Seller ID: 8916
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Dated October 28, 1882. 10 1/2 x 8 inch autograph letter, signed, with a Purdue University Letterhead across the top. Addressed to Edwin T. Freedley. In the letter White agrees to be in the biographical dictionary proposed by Freedley, though he declines to write the entry himself. Emerson White (1829-1902) was an influential educator and author in the Ohio and Indiana area during the latter part of the 19th century. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, New York, The A.S. Barnes Company: 1915
Seller ID: 11275
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
x, 100 pages; illustrations, ad in the back; bound in green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Former owner's signature on front flyleaf "R. Watrous July 16, 1919". Manual for teaching methods using socialized recitation version where the student participates in the lesson with actual lessons as illustrations of method. Part of the reform movement to teach students to think, not just recite the facts. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Wilde, Oscar
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, England, 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14483
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
12 pages; drawings; paper wrapper (4 3/8 x 5 3/4 inch), some soiling to the cover, minor tears along the spine and missing chips to the back cover along the edges. Head-piece and tail-piece by Aubrey Beardsley. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet who became a leading critic of English literature and society. 'Phrases and Philosophies', a collection by Wilde of aphorisms was first published in the CHAMELEON (December 1894) and later printed separately in 1903. A very good clean copy of this unusual first edition. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Warwick, Rhode Island, 1849
Seller ID: 11780
Condition: Collectible-Fine
One page letter (7 3/4 x 10 inch), of a two part document. A. H. Bardwell of Oxford writes Pastor George A. Willard, recommending a 'Mr White (Dr. Jacob Butler White, 1824-1869)' for a teaching position. At the bottom of the letter, Pastor Willard (b.1810) adds a note that he has confidence in Mr. Bardwell's recommendation. Pastor Willard was active in Warwick area churches from the 1840s to the 1860s. Some tears on the page not effecting the text. View more info
