Showing 101-120 of 188
By: Holst, Bernhart P., Editor in Chief, and Ruric Neval Roark, Associate Editor
Price: $100.00
Publisher: The Holst Publishing Company. 1911. Chicago.: 1911
Seller ID: 2859
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
3/4 leather with cloth. Illustrations with many colored plates. Physiological manikins show lifelike colors and the relative size of the organs of the human body. Vol. II has spotting to front cover. Volumes have some wear at corners. Volumes I thro ugh V are the Cyclopaedia; the sixth volume is titled "Practical Home and School Methods of Study and Instruction in the Fundamental Elements of Education with Outlines and Page References Based on The New Teachers' and Pupils' Cyclopaedia", View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: 0
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 10493
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Collections of eleven autograph letters signed from the period of 1850 to 1869. Total of 41 pages: from Cleveland, Ohio (6 letters); Lemington, Maine (4 letters); and Hanover, New Hampshire (1 letter). Alanson G. Hopkinson (1823-1896) was an influential figure in public education in Cleveland in the 1850s and 1860s. From South Lemington, Maine, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1851 and began to work in public education and was named superintendent of Ohio City Grammar Schools in 1852. In 1854 when Ohio City and Cleveland merged along with their school system Hopkinson became the principal of Bra... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers: 1851
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14155
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
344 pages; plates; full leather binding (spine repaired) with gilt design and embossed on the covers and spine, gilt edging to the pages. Assembled for the lovers of flowers with a bouquet of fashionable literature. Among the articles are "The Anglo-Saxon Race" Martin F. Tupper; "The Angel Watcher" E.P. Howard; "The Esmeralda" J.F. Cooper; "The Chanting Cherubs" Richard H. Dana; "To the Sun Dial" John Quincy Adams; "Wayside Flowers" Sarah Roberts; "Death of the Flowers" Wm C. Bryant; "A Mother's Counsels" L.H. Sigorney; among othe... View more info
By: Hughes, Thomas; Bradby, H. C. (Editor; Preface)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Boston, MA, LeRoy Phillips: 1920
Seller ID: 020804
Condition: Fine
Contemporary 3/4 brown leather binding with beautiful marble boards and marbled endpapers. Gilt decorative lines on front and back covers. Gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Top edge gilt. 6" x 8 1/4." 412 pages, complete. Plates in black and white and color, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel about a boy who learns many life lessons at Rugby School, a boarding school in Britain. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, The Better-Speech Institute of America.: 1935
Seller ID: 9588
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Fifteen pamphlets [28 to 32 pages each] boxed with cover sheet discussing the home course, complete. Title band across the cover of the box. Deals with the correct standard-english version usage in conversation and correspondence along with lessons to achieve it. In very good condition. Complete sets are uncommon. View more info
By: Hutton, Laurence
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10011
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
xi, 200 pages; frontispiece, illustrations; index; in Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt illustration on the cover and title, author & publisher on the spine. Bookplate of Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont inside the cover. Account of the universities in Scotland and their history. Nice, clean copy. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Manchester, England, The Technical Publishing Company Limited.: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14721
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
viii, 178 pages; diagrams, equations; [2] pages ads in back; blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (5 x 7 3/8). "The matter comprising this book may be divided into five parts; the first deals with general principles, the second with pressure engines producing rotary motion, the third with turbines whose power is obtained by altering the direction and motion and velocity of the water, the fourth with the centrifugal pump, and the last treats very shortly upon the subject of hydraulic buffer stops." - Preface. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: San Francisco, Harr Wagner Publishing Company: 1916
Seller ID: 4201
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
13-page booklet. Frontispiece of the author. The speaker comments on education: "An education which takes but little time and less effort, and leads at once to a paying situation, is not practical. It is not good, because it will never lead to anything better". "Only by doing some one thing better than any one else, can a man find a worthy place in our complex social fabric". Catalog typed note from Cal. State Library affixed to inside front cover. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Yonkers on Hudson, New York, World Book Company: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8424
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Two volumes. Volume One 1851-1899; Volume Two 1900-1921. Jordan (b. 1851--d. 1931) was the first president of Stanford University (1891-1913) after serving in the same capacity at Indiana University (1885-1891). He was a man of many interests and wide experience in ichthyology, education, pacifism, medicine, politics, eugenics, etc. These two massive volumes reflect all of those interests. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. The dust wrappers have a few pin holes here and there (mostly caused by stress from the large size of the books) but are remarkably unworn or chipped. 719 an... View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: San Francisco, Harr Wagner Publishing Company: 1916
Seller ID: 4200
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
13-page booklet. Frontispiece of the author. The text is a graduation address given by the author to the Class of 1908 at Stanford University. He begins his remarks: "In a recent address, Professor William James has told us that the best result of a college education should be that you should 'know a good man when you see him'." He believes that although athletics and a healthy body are very important, that too much emphasis is placed on college sports programs rather then on academic standards. "The alumnus who does things worth while, who lives a gentle and a sturdy life, is the ... View more info
By: Kawai, Michi
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Japan, The Author: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10968
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
230 pages; illustrations, drawings; bound in publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt title on the cover and spine. Inscribed by the author "Michi Kawai, Keison Girl's School, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan [vertical Japanese characters]" Very good clean copy. Ms Kawai, graduate of Bryn Mawr, wrote this autobiography after returning to Japan in 1927. Includes accounts of her overseas travels and education, working for the YMCA, running a all-girls school in Japan, the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, among other events. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Frederick Keppel & Co.: 1904
Seller ID: 14147
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
"Reprinted from 'The Reader' of January 1904."23 pages; facsimile; green paper wrapper (3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inch). An account of the activity between Frederick Keppel (art dealer) and Whistler before the artist's death. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office: 1912
Seller ID: 015786
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
United State Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1912, No. 12, Whole Number 483. Gray paper binding, some chipping and staining, tear at spine, "J. F. Nuner" written in pencil on front cover. 239 pages with index, notes in margin in pencil. A history of education in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherlands and Colonial New York. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: California Private Academic Libraries: 1988
Seller ID: 14225
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Edition of 1000 copies by Peter Rutledge Koch, Oakland. 32, [3] pages; index; white stiff paper wrapper (5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inch). A brief introduction is provided by Lawrence Clark Powell. This is followed by a survey of the holdings of private colleges in California from the Azusa Pacific University to Whittier College. It includes the large Stanford University collections and the University of Southern California holdings. An important introduction to the private holdings of books and manuscripts in California. Fine clean copy. View more info
By: Kumler, John M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, National Stunt Exchange: 1922
Seller ID: 14402
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
48 pages; drawings; tan paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inch). A collection of various humorous jokes or stunts played on other people as a group joke. Among them fake membership, speeches, awards, contests, and so on. Very good copy of the amusing pamphlet. View more info
By: Leavitt, Dudley
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Concord, Mass, Edson C. Eastman: 1888
Seller ID: 11389
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
(title cont.) " . for all the New England States. Containing with the more than useful Astronomical Calculations, a larger quantity and greater variety than are to be found in any other Almanack of Matter, Useful, Curious and Entertaining. . Calculations According to Clock Time." 45 pages; tables; paper wrapper with title on the cover, advertisement (BLUE 4 1/4 X 2 1/2 inch) sown in to the binding on the outside. Designed for use in the New England states. View more info
By: Lily, William
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Scholars' Fascimilies & Reprints: 1945
Seller ID: 8534
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Publisher's black cloth with gold lettering. A fascimile of the 1567 edition that is housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. 12 page introduction by Flynn. Fascimile text unpaginated. View more info
By: Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $47.50
Publisher: New York, New York, Viking Press - The Library of America.: 1989
Seller ID: 14723
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Privately printed for the members of The Classics of Liberty Library. 2 volumes; quarter leather binding with all edges gilt , blue boards with gilt decoration; (5 x 8 inch). Fine clean set of the two volumes. View more info
By: Lyttelton, Lord Geroge William
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 0
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 8089
Condition: Collectible-Fine
One page. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. On stationery of the Schools Inquiry Commission. No date, but circa 1868. Lyttelton (1817-76) sat on the Commission, which in the 1860's established the need for secondary education for young women in England. This note, to an unnamed correspondent, sets up an appointment "at 11 tomorrow." View more info
By: Mather, W.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company: 1939
Seller ID: 15298
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Title from cover and spine. "Christmas 1939" on title page. Publisher's paper covered binding. 36 pages of excerpts from the original "Young Man's Companion" published in 1775. This appears to have been published as a promotional book to give to customers at Christmastime 1939. View more info
