Three page letter (5 x 8 inch) on Rutgers College stationary dated July 9, 1873, and signed by G.W. Atherton. Addressed to Mr. Parsons by Atherton on the behalf of Rutgers urging him to accept a Professorship of Mathematics at the college. He goes into the decision that lead to a unanimous decision and explains the various advantages to agreeing to the offer and requests a quick response from Parsons. View More...
119 pages; light green cloth binding with silver color lettering on the spine and cover with floral pattern in dark green (4 5/8 x 7 inch). Chapters on - Money and Morals; What is a Gentleman?; How to be Insignificant; The Philosophy of Pleasure; Christ and Commerce; About Holidays; Shams; and The Lost Christ. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original Cabinet Card Photograph (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch) of Jeremiah Ayers (1831-1922) who was born in New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1858. He married Anna Rae (1841-1923). For a while he was Professor of Latin and Greek at Western University of Pennsylvania (University of Pittsburg). He also established the Ayers Latin School in Pittsburg. Later moving to Colorado in the 1870s, he took up realestate development and ranching and also served as a Trustee of Colorado College. Fine clean copy. View More...
xvi, 57 pages; red cloth binding with dust jacket (chipped and worn edges, some soiling). "The purpose of this book is to aid the beginner to a quick and painless mastery of the phonetic alphabet." - dust jacket cover. Very good condition. View More...
Limited edition. One of 1000 copies printed. This copy not signed or numbered. Original publisher's gray boards backed with white cloth. Gilt decoration and lettering on corner of front cover and spine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." (i)-(xxix) 1-234 pages, complete. Black and white plates, illustrations, and decorated letters, complete. Index in back. Former ownership stamp in black ink on front free endpaper: "From the library of Truett B. Marshall." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Corners are a little worn. From "A Gentle Warning to Solemn Readers": "... 'Twas w... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrappers with staple binding. 6" x 9 3/4." Twenty-nine pages, complete. Blank order form laid in from the Beltane Book Bureau. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall except for some wrinkling and general wear. Information about the publisher or printer: "Wellington. By Authority: W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer. 1923." Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnographer who is best-known for his studies of the Maori people. Best worked extensively with the Tuhoe, a Maori iwi (tribe), and published several works about the cultures of the Tuhoe and Ma... View More...
H. W. Blair (1834 -- 1920). One page autograph letter signed. Ruled letterhead stationery from United States Senate, Washington, D. C., January 1, 1890. Blair was a Senator from New Hampshire (1879--91). This letter is about the rough treatment his public education bill is getting in the press. View More...
Original publisher's gray wrapper. No date, circa 1923. 8" x 10." Sixty-four pages, complete. Map of Illinois in color in the front. Many black and white illustrations, diagrams, and reprinted photographs. Covers are clean and intact. Pages are clean and intact except for a few pages in the front; of these pages, the tearing is mostly in the margins and only affects a few words of text on Pages 3-5. This is an instructional booklet that provides information on the settlement, geography, and industries of Illinois, among other parts of the state's history. Questions appear throughout t... View More...
Disbound pamphlet of 14 pages. Sermon given by the Pastor of the First Church, in South Hadley, which was delivered in the chapel of Amherst College. Internally clean with very slight chipping along the spine. View More...
80, [16] pages; illustrations, ads in back; blue cloth with design on the cover in gilt, gilt edging to pages (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inch). Former owner's bookplate 'Trout - Fear Shame Love Loyalty'. History of the pianoforte from ancient times to what was then the present (1870). Very good clean copy. View More...
12 pages; blue paper wrapper (6 x 9 inch) with some soiling to the cover. Reprinting of a speech given by Pearl S. Buck on learning and education. Very good clean copy. View More...
Dated October 14, 1900 this letter (6 x 9 1/2 inch) with the University of Minnesota letterhead was sent by Mr. Burton to his publisher inquiring about the safe arrival of his manuscript "Whittier" which was published in 1900. Also mentions royalties due him of $10.68. Richard Burton (1861-1940) was a poet, critic, and college professor. Several times he served as head of the English Department for the University of Minnesota. View More...
Original blue wrappers printed in black. Burton's writing was originally published in 1833 under the title "The District School as It Was by One Who Went to It." Two page introductory note by Foster original to this edition. Foster, who also printed this booklet, was director of fine printing at Scripps College. Published in a very small edition, but with not limitation noted. 28 pages. View More...
Collection of two original letters handwritten and signed on beige paper in black ink. One letter is datelined January 29, 1894 in Iowa City and is on "State University of Iowa, Geology, and Animal Biology" stationery. The other letter is undated (c. 1890s) with the location being the New Willard hotel in Washington, D.C.; this letter is on "State of Iowa, Iowa Geological Survey" stationery. 8 1/2" x 11." Two pages (one page per letter). Each letter is very clean and intact overall except for horizontal and vertical fold lines (perhaps original), age toning, a few small wrinkles, and a fe... View More...
Original blue wrappers printed in black. Two page introductory note by Foster original to this edition. The original title for this children's novel is: "Story of Jack Halyard,the sailor boy, or the virtous family, designed for American children, in families and schools." It was first published in the 1820's. The booklet was also printed by Foster, who was director of the fine printing department of Scripps College. Printed in a small edition. 26 pages. View More...
Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering Introduction by C.L. Goodell, pastor of the Pilgrim Church, St. Louis, Mo. Clark was paostor of the Williston Church, Portland, Me. Discussion of the role children play in the church, from pre-Christian times to what was then the present. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 108 pages. View More...
44-page booklet. The author highlights his system of caring for children: Care of His Own Person and Needs; Care of the Home; Observance of Customs for the General Good; Discipline; Morals; Uses of Money; etc. The author also provides a set of questions for the parents to ask of themselves daily: Have you raised your voice or hand in anger toward your child"? Have you exposed your child to coarse and evil companions"? Etc. View More...
Publisher's cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Personal inscription in pencil on flyleaf. Advertisement for 11th edition of author's previous work "Sex in Education; or, a Fair Chance for Girls" opposite title page. 153 pages. Slight tear in back flyleaf. The author was a prominent professor at Harvard Medical School, and his theories about the relationship of female physiology and education set forth in the aforementioned "Sex in Education" were controversial at the time. In this volume, the author further supports his assertion that educators must take into consideration the "period... View More...
14 pages; portrait; gray paper wrapper (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inch). Includes a brief biography of Cooper (1823-1910) along with a bibliography of his publications. Very good clean copy. View More...
"Third American Edition from the Third London Edition, Revised and Corrected, With Practical Notes and Observations by a Fellow of the Mass. Medical Society." Contemporary full leather binding with red title label. Some splitting at outer joints but strong and holding. Some staining to binding and text pages. All nine plates present. 447 pages of text, plus the nine unnumbered plates. Former owner's names on front end paper. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. View More...
