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Price: $10.00
Publisher: (Pasadena), California Institute of Technology: 1926
Seller ID: 4072
Commencement Address at the Institute, June 10, 1926. The speaker reminds the graduating class of the "similarity between the way people lived and talked and thought two thousand years ago and the way they live, talk and think now. The jokes and horse-play of Plautus are amazingly like the humor of Puck or Judge or Life". He then asks, and answers, the question, "can we be truthfully said to have made, or to be making, any real progress?" View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: The Sewanee Review. 1908. No City.: 1908
Seller ID: 3146
Illustrated wrappers. This paper was read before the Irving Club, Knoxville, Tennessee. The author provides information about compulsory education in various European countries. He states: "The fact that in Germany elementary education has been gene rally compulsory and, to a large extent, also gratuitous, for more than one hundred and fifty years, is recognized to be an essential element in recent political, industrial and commercial successes of the nation. Nothing... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner & Co.: 1867
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14106
First Edition, first state. vi, 295, [3] pages; illustrations, plans; ads in back; green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Evidence of minor water damage to the front cover. Donald G. Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American author who wrote on rural subjects. See = Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #13944 "1 - the final page of the preface is paged iv". Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner & Co.: 1864
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14114
viii, 314 pages; 1 page ad in back; purple cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Wear to the top and bottom of the spine, fading. Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #13941 "Binding C." View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New Haven, Conn, 1897
Seller ID: 14668
Three page autograph letter signed by Donald G. Mitchell from his estate 'Edgewood' (4 1/2 x 7 inch). Donald G. Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American writer (sometimes writing as Ik Marvel), agriculturist, and landscape gardner. This letter is to a Mr. Bridgeman and is in regard to Mitchell's knowledge of Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass (founded by George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell and operated from 1823 to 1834). Mitchell requests Bridgeman to send him some mate... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New Haven, Conn, 1904
Seller ID: 14669
One page letter (4 1/4 x 7 inch) in ink signed by Mitchell. Donald G. Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American author (sometimes writing as Ik Marvell), agriculturalist, and landscape gardener. Among his accomplishments was developing his estate "Edgewater" as an example of park planning. He wrote often about work on the estate. For these achievements he was given an award of recognition by the New England Association of Park Superintendents in 1904. In this letter t... View more info
By: More, Hannah
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Charleston, S.C., Printed By Samuel Etheridhge: 1800
Seller ID: 12909
Two volumes bound as one. Half leather binding with marbled boards (4 x 6 3/4 inch). I: 146 pages. II: 136 pages.This title was first published in London in 1799. There were two editions printed in America the next year, one by Etheridge and another by Budd & Bartrom for Dobson, Philadelphia. Either one could be the first American edition. See Evans, National Index of American Imprints numbers 37996 and 37997. Hannah More (1745-1833) was an English religious writer and a... View more info
By: Mrak, Emil M.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Davis, California, University of California: 1972
Seller ID: 10083
Library Associates of the University Library, Keepsake Number 5. 700 copies printed. 17 pages in green paper wrapper with title on the cover. Emil M. Mrak was Chancellor Emeritus at UC-Davis and served on the Finch Commission dealing with food safety under President Johnson. Mrak was an expert on pesticides with industry leanings. He also played a major role at the Davis campus during its growth in the 1960s. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ginn and Company. 1908. Boston.: 1908
Seller ID: 2848
Cloth. Illustrations. Wenckebach was a Wellesley professor of German. Printed by D. B. Updike. Signed by author on half-title. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. From the Foreword: "Among the hundreds, or shall I say thousands, of brave, restless German women who during the latter half of the last century left the Fatherland in order to seek larger, freer fields of activity in foreign countries, none perhaps has done more for her own people or won ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. 1921.: 1921
Seller ID: 1086
A flawless copy in flawless dust wrapper. Unread previously. Stebbins was a Unitarian Minister who came to California in 1864. after the death of Thomas Starr King. He came to head the Unitarian Church of San Francisco, where he also participated in educational matters (founding of the University of California and a trustee of Stanford University and the California School for Mechanical Arts. 269 pages. View more info
By: Murray, Lindley
Price: $25.00
Publisher: William Williams: 1835
Seller ID: 016122
Publisher's 1/4 leather binding with cloth covered boards, rubbing and chipping. Splitting at front hinge, foxing throughout. Personal inscription on front fly leaf, "To Thomas H. Goodwin Esq. from C. H. Stone Sandusky 1883". 252 pages with table of contents in back, a collection of stories and poems with instructions on proper reading aloud. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Inland-American Printing Company. 1924. Spokane, Washington.: 1924
Seller ID: 2850
First edition. In the Preface the author notes that the school's early history had to be gathered from a variety of souces because the official school records were all destroyed by fire in 1912. The author has reassembled the early history using for mer faculty, newspaper accounts, public records, etc. The first State Normal School was located at Cheney in 1890. Contents include: Antecedent Conditions; Establishing the State Normal School; Period of Early Growth; Period ... View more info
By: Orbeck, Anders
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan, George Wahr: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14360
x, 148 pages; tables, folding map (loose); bibliography; dark chocolate cloth with gilt lettering on cover. A revised version of Orbeck's important Master's written at Columbia University in 1925. Ann Frensinger Sen (Journal of English Linguistics 1974) - "Of foremost importance is Anders Orbeck's 'Early New England Pronunciation', an examination and analysis of seventeenth century town records of Massachusetts. The work stimulated a number of derivative studies .... View more info
By: Ordway, Edith B.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, George Sully and Company, Publishers: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14162
xvii, 198 pages; bound in red cloth, dust jacket chipped along the edges under mylar. Collection of conundrums, witty sayings taken from current sayings, and from historical and mythological sources. The author has divided the conundrums into sections - early English wit; mythological; biblical; historical; civil war period; geographical; literary; alphabet; and general. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., Yale Publishing Association: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12945
49 pages; boards with paper label on the cover (3 3/8 x 5 3/8 inch). 'Reprinted from the Yale Alumni Weekly' in an edition of 1000 copies. First edition in book form of this history. The Moriartys ran an ale house on Wooster Street in New Haven and later Court Street known as 'The Quiet House', later to Temple Street under the name 'Temple Bar'. Fine clean copy about a favorite 'bar' near Yale University. View more info
By: Osborne, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, T.S. Denison & Company: 1919
Seller ID: 14505
48 pages; figures; color paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inch). Pamphlet on how to stage a play among amateurs and local groups by someone who is planning to be the director. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8002
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Bookplate or pocket neatly removed from front pastedown. Details his early life in New England, voyage around the horn to California, his teaching career at Oakland High School (1871-74) and the University of California (1874-82), his poetry, etc. 307 pages, including index. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: San Francisco, The Bancroft Company: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7605
Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering, somewhat dulled on spine. Kurutz, California Gold Rush Bibliography number 491: "A;;endix A consists of Pelton's recollections of his life in California at the time of the Gold Rush. He was principal of the Phillips' Free School in Andover, Massachusetts, when he received news of the gold discovery. He determined to go to California to establish public schools, and 'there be a schoolmaster without interference, and employ my ... View more info
Price: $375.00
Publisher: Frankfurt, Germany, Joh. Wilh. Ronnagel: 1738
Seller ID: 14050
[12], 282, [14] pages; 26 leaves of plates, many hand colored, some folding (complete); full leather binding (4 x 6 1/2 inch). Jesuit Francois Pomey (1619-1673) wrote this for Classical instruction of 'studious youths' basing the information on Boccaccio, Giraldi & Conti. For two centuries the work served as the mythological handbook for students of Classical religion and mythology. The English translation became known as Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustri... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13567
"The Modern Student's Library." xxxvi, 266 pages; [10] pages ads in back; notes, index; blue cloth binding. Includes: English and Scottish Ballads in America; Other Imported Ballads and Songs; Native Ballads and Songs; Ballads of Criminals and Outlaws; Western Ballads and Songs; Miscellaneous Ballads and Songs; Dialogue, Nursery and Game Songs. Very useful and informative introduction. Very good clean copy. View more info
