Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, minor rubbing on edges and corners, some spotting on cover. Dimensions 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 205 pages with list of sources. Approval signatures of Major Professor Blair Rouse and the thesis committee. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an influential American realist novelist and literary critic. He was at one time the editor of "Atlantic Monthly" and encouraged many other American authors with his reviews. This dissertation examines the comic elements in Howells' novels. View More...
Collection of 19 letters addressed to Thomas A. Rommel (c. 1917-1982), an engineering student at Washington State College (WSC), which was renamed as Washington State University (WSU) in 1959 and is still open to this day. 1938-1942. 3 1/4" x 5" to 8 1/2" x 11." 40 pages from seven correspondents. Most of the letters have original envelopes. Each of the letters is clean and intact overall except for a few wrinkles. Each letter and entire collection are Near Fine. Summary follows. George Ogawa, Bob McClure, and Roy Nesbitt are Rommel's friends and fellow students. George Ogawa has written him e... View More...
Signature on beige paper in black by John B. Gough. No date, circa 1880. 4 1/2" x 7 3/4." Paper reads: "Most truly yours, John B. Gough." Paper and signature are very clean and intact. John B. Gough (1817-1886) was an English American temperance lecturer and author. He was said to have natural eloquence and addressed thousands of audiences in his lifetime. View More...
Circa.1885. [14] pages; respined with original covers (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) of title and illustration in color. Color illustration around each letter and of a small child. Clean copy inside and out. View More...
Original leather backed illustrated boards. Signatures of Nathan Newton, Lime Road, Smithfield, Rhode Island, dated 1858 on front end paper and pastedown. 192 pages. View More...
An early printing in dust jacket. xiv, 297 pages; illustrations; red cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar (chipping along the edges). Former owner's bookplate inside the front cover 'Barbara C. Winans'. 'A twelve month journey around the world - the book is a log of that journey through Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, India, China, and Japan. Photographs were taken during the travels. Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940) was an English missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador establishing a medical service for the people of the area along with educational support. He was knighted in 1927 for the serv... View More...
35 pages; music scores; paper wrapper with title on the front cover and ads on the back (5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch). Collection of songs for school instruction and entertainment. Clean copy. View More...
Circa1870. Cabinet card portrait (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch) of Ephraim W. Gurney who was a Professor at Harvard and was the first Dean of the Faculty under the reforms of its new college President Eliot during 1870-76. Image of Gurney facing left, upper body view, within a oval image. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with black lettering on front. No lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 8." Unpaginated, c. sixty pages. Some of the pages are removed, but this may have been by the teacher as they have perforations. Sticker of "Mr. Ballou" tipped in on front cover. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for age toning and there are minuscule rust marks and a slight indentation on first several pages from a paper clip. Covers pristine and intact except for minuscule wear to extremities. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. A class record book kept by Herbert F. ... View More...
25 pages; illustrations; gray paper wrapper with title on the cover. Evidence of a fold on the back cover. Instructional manual on how to make lantern slides using Keystone crayons and ink to aid in the student education. Fine clean copy. View More...
xvi, 110 pages; facsimiles; index; publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. History of the journalism practiced in Japan before 1920. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's blue wrapper. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Twenty-two pages, complete. Pamphlet pages and covers are neat and clean overall. Slight foxing on a front cover and a few pages and minimal wear on back cover. "Vine Hill Dist." is written in pencil on the front cover. On the back cover are a list of ten names (first names only) written in pencil. The first four names are listed numerically. The rest have numbers next to them ranging from 80-100. Also printed on back in a Typographical Union Label for Richmond. "Standard Print" and "Martinez" appear on either side of the label. T... View More...
Contemporary 3/4 black morocco binding and dark blue pebbled cloth boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Raised bands. 9 1/2" x 11 3/4." Sixty-six unnumbered pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Slight foxing on a few of the pages. Pages are age-toned. Covers are clean and intact overall. Covers have some edge and corner wear and a couple spots of dampstaining on the front and back covers. A Very Good copy. Frederick White Haskell (1877-1978) was an art student at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1901. He went on to work as a ... View More...
Original advertisement on blue cardstock for Heald's Business College and Secretarial School in Sacramento, California. Front is printed in blue and white. Small calendars are featured at the top for the months of July, August, and September of 1926. Paper measures 3 3/4" x 8 1/2." Paper is very clean and intact but has marks on the back. The illustration on front has been added to with some lines in ink pen. The printed text includes ten witty saying with the title, "A Few Shakes of the Pepper Box," at the top. Also printed is a side note about receiving help through the Employment Dep... View More...
'Report of the New York State Agricultural experiment station for the year ending June 30, 1931.' iii, 110 pages; color plates; bibliography, index; stiff gray paper wrapper. An account of the history and culture of beans since introduced after the discovery of the Americas in 1492. Centered on New York and the United States early production. Fine clean copy of the volume. View More...
First edition. Cloth. Frontispiece. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Contents include: The Early Years; The Years at Teachers College; The Closing Years; Characteristics; Some Attitudes and Beliefs; Favorite Poems; Memorial Service; etc. From the F oreword: "She never taught to entertain; she made no pretense of calling hard things easy or crooked things straight". View More...
Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Front cover shows a black-and-white photographic portrait of Daniel Alexander McDonald. 3 1/2" x 6 1/4." Twenty-four pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Light age toning to pages. Moderate age toning and slight rubbing to covers. Some corner and edge wear. Tiny surface chips to front cover and its portrait illustration of McDonald. A Very Good copy. A eulogy to Daniel A. McDonald (1885-1903), one of the boys who lived at Good Will Farm. Written by the founder of Good Will Farm, George Wal... View More...
347 pages; 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards. Former owner's bookplate - "Private Library of H. Scofield #18025". and an inscription "Stephen S. Shapps from his brother Will, Christmas 1875". Josiah gilbert Holland (1819-1881) was an American writer, novelist and poet. He wrote under the pseudonym 'Timothy Titcomb'. and was one of the founder's of Scribner's Monthly which became the Century Magazine. During the second half of the 19th century he sold over a half million copies of his works. The volume is composed of a series of letters giving advice to young people and families. View More...
Frist Edition, binding 1. 80 pages; brown cloth binding with gilt lettering. Missing chips from the top of the spine. On the spine is also the number series 1529. Endpapers glued. Holmes medical lecture for the introduction to the medical course at Harvard Univesity. Very good clean copy. View More...
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...
