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...
Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. No date, circa 1920s ("1920" inscribed in pencil in top margin on front). 3 1/2" x 6." Unpaginated, twelve pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pamphlet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning. A Near Fine copy. A promotional booklet for the Beach School at Hotel del Coronado, California. The school is aimed toward children staying at the hotel with their parents so they can continue their academic studies. The pamphlet briefly lists grade levels and subjects offered by the school. The l... View More...
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 others. Very good clean copy. View More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Four volumes (parts), complete. Signed in black ink by Oliver Peebles Jenkins on front free endpaper and title page of Vols. I and IV as "O. P. Jenkins." Hubert Oliver Jenkins's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown of each volume: "A Memorial Gift, From the Library of Hubert Oliver Jenkins." Each bookplate has a black-and-white printed portrait photograph of Hubert. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Vols. 1-4 published 1896, 1898, 1898, and 1900, respectively. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." All pages of all volumes, complete. Vol. I: lx, 1-1240. Vol. II: xxx, ... View More...
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 man who give... View More...
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...
"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...
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...
First American Edition. Translated from the Second German Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Impressed border decorations on the covers. Gilt lettering on front cover. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." Sixty-four pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Frontispiece is an illustration showing the proper "position of the hand." Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Staining on front and back covers. Slight rippling to the pages. Pages are foxed. Gilt lettering is slightly faded. Excerpt from Julius Knorr's Preface: "Having published a complete Method of... View More...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
