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Jack's Stunt Book, 1923. Published Annually .

By: Kumler, John M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, National Stunt Exchange: 1922

Seller ID: 14402

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Leavitt's Farmer's Almanack, Improved, and Miscellaneous Year Book, for the Year of Our Lord 1889; Being Until July Fourth, the Hundred and Thirteenth of America's Independence. Calculations as to the Latitude and Longitude, So as to Answer (cont.) .

By: Leavitt, Dudley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Concord, Mass, Edson C. Eastman: 1888

Seller ID: 11389

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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A Shorte Introduction of Grammar . With an Introduction By Vincent J. Flynn, President, College of St. Thomas

By: Lily, William

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Scholars' Fascimilies & Reprints: 1945

Seller ID: 8534

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858. Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. [II: Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865: Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Proclamations]

By: Lincoln, Abraham

Price: $47.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Viking Press - The Library of America.: 1989

Seller ID: 14723

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Autograph Letter Signed - George William Lyttelton

By: Lyttelton, Lord Geroge William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 0

Seller ID: 8089

Binding: No Binding

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."
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Talks About Common Things: Giving Source, Preparation and Value of Cotton, Wool, Flax, Silk, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Chocolate, Spices, Paper, Glass, India Rubber, Cork, Furs, and Many Other Commericial Products in Daily Use.

By: MacLeod, M. N.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, A. Flanagan Company: 1920

Seller ID: 021262

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's brown wrappers. 5 1/8" x 7." Ninety-six pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Former ownership signature of "Edna Rouvenac" handwritten in faint black ink in the top margin of the front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight wrinkling on the front cover. A Fine copy. A lesson plan book for teachers with curricula to teach students. Each commercial material is represented by an article. The article features an outline of subtopics, such as what the material is, where it comes from, how it is made, and its prac...
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The Young Man's Companion

By: Mather, W.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company: 1939

Seller ID: 15298

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Report of the Joint Library Committee to the General Assembly.

By: McDonald, Jas. (or James)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: 1875

Seller ID: 8895

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Sewn pamphlet of 16 pages. Senate Doc. No. XXVI (1876), State of Virginia. Report of the Librarian with letters from Mr. Sainsbury, William Palmer, and Sherwin McRae. Clean copy with duplicate stamp on the lower right corner of the back page.
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Original Portrait Photograph

By: Merritt, Ralph Palmer

Price: $37.50

Publisher: San Francisco, California, Bushnell:

Seller ID: 10027

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original photograph, circa 1900, mounted on board (3 3/4 x 7 3/4 inch) in an oval shape. Ralph Merritt (b.1883- ) served as a Regent of the University of California (1924-28) and was President of the Sun Maid Raisin Company (1923- ). The photograph shows Merritt as a eighteen year old boy. Bushnell had shops in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, and Portland.
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New Truth and Old : Bulletin of the California Institute of Technology, Volume XXXV, Number 111

By: Millikan, Robert A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: (Pasadena), California Institute of Technology: 1926

Seller ID: 4072

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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?"
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Bradley's School Materials and Books, 70th Year, 1930

By: Milton Bradley Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley Company: 1930

Seller ID: 020596

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green, black, and white wrapper with an illustration of a ship on the front cover. 7" x 9 3/4." 120 pages, complete. Original advertisement in both black and white and color laid in for The Bradley Block Printing Press and a book, Linoleum Block Printing, by artist Ernest W. Watson (1884-1969). Pages and covers are very clean and intact but front cover has a small closed tear at the top and the lower-right corner is creased. This catalog advertises a vast array of Milton Bradley school products. Just to name a few, there are Embeco Perception Cards for Number...
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Compulsory Education and the Southern States

By: Milton, George F.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: The Sewanee Review. 1908. No City.: 1908

Seller ID: 3146

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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 short of a general upliftin g of the mass of the people will raise a nation to a higher level in all respects".
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Rural Studies with Hints for Country Places

By: Mitchell, Donald G.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner & Co.: 1867

Seller ID: 14106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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.
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Seven Stories, with Basement and Attic

By: Mitchell, Donald G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner & Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 14114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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."
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Autograph Letter Signed - Donald G. Mitchell

By: Mitchell, Donald G.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Haven, Conn, 1897

Seller ID: 14668

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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 materials on the school to refresh his memory.
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Autograph Letter Signed - Donald G. Mitchell

By: Mitchell, Donald G.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New Haven, Conn, 1904

Seller ID: 14669

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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 to Christopher Clark of the Association, Mitchell thanks him for the award, saying he will 'treasure' it. Fine clean copy of t...
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Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune.

By: More, Hannah

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Charleston, S.C., Printed By Samuel Etheridhge: 1800

Seller ID: 12909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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 advocate of female education in England. Se was very active in literary circles in London, knowing David Garrick, Samuel Johns...
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Environment, Food, and Safety

By: Mrak, Emil M.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Davis, California, University of California: 1972

Seller ID: 10083

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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.
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Carla Wenckebach, Pioneer

By: Muller, Margarethe

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ginn and Company. 1908. Boston.: 1908

Seller ID: 2848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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 more distinction in her new home than Carla Wenckebach".
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Horatio Stebbins : His Ministry and His Personality.

By: Murdock, Charles A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. 1921.: 1921

Seller ID: 1086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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.
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Category: Education