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The English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Verse; Selected from the Best Writers

By: Murray, Lindley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: William Williams: 1835

Seller ID: 016122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Hired Hands vs. Hired Brains

By: Nearing, Scott

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Monthly Review?: 1946

Seller ID: 022035

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's article printed on beige paper. June 1946. 7" x 10 1/2." Two pages, complete. One leaf printed on front and back. Paper is very clean and intact. Two horizontal fold lines and a few wrinkles. A Very Good copy. Reprinted from the "World Events" column from the Monthly Review, a publication featuring news analysis and political commentary. Scott Nearing (1883-1983) was an American economist, professor, and political activist. He openly advocated for peace and opposed the United States' involvement in wars including World War I and World War II. Nea...
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History of the State Normal School at Cheney, Washington

By: Oliphant, J. Orin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Inland-American Printing Company. 1924. Spokane, Washington.: 1924

Seller ID: 2850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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 of Hard Times and Hard F eelings; Period of Revival and New Growth; Rebuilding the Normal School; etc.
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The Handbook of Conundrums

By: Ordway, Edith B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, George Sully and Company, Publishers: 1915

Seller ID: 14162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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.
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The Moriartys of Yale.

By: Osborn, Norris G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven, Conn., Yale Publishing Association: 1912

Seller ID: 12945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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.
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How to Stage a Play : A Manual for the Amateur Stage Director

By: Osborne, Harry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, T.S. Denison & Company: 1919

Seller ID: 14505

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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.
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Edward Rowland Sill: His Life and Work.With Illustrations

By: Parker, William Belmost

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1915

Seller ID: 8002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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.
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Record of Mr. Alcott's School, Exemplifying Principles and Methods of Moral Culture.

By: Peabody, E. P.

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, Roberts Brothers: 1874

Seller ID: 022229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"Third Edition, Revised." Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 5" x 7." 297 pages, complete. One black and white illustrated frontispiece showing Alcott's schoolroom, complete. Former owner's inscription in pencil on the blank verso of the frontispiece and in the top margin, not affecting text, of the title page. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Spine has been repaired (most visible at the head and tail). Slight corner wear. Pages are age-toned. Small closed tear on Pages 3-4 measuring about 1 1/...
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Life's Sunbeams and Shadows: Poems and Prose with Appendix Including Biographical and Historical Notes in Prose.Volume One.Introduction By Frank M. Pixley

By: Pelton, John Cotter

Price: $60.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Bancroft Company: 1893

Seller ID: 7605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

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 own methods in my own way.' He srote, 'I was bountifully supplied with books, maps, globes, some school furniture.' With his ...
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American Ballads and Songs.

By: Pound, Louise [editor]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1922

Seller ID: 13567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"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.
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Report of the Second Decade, 1945-1955. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

By: Powell, Lawrence Clark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, California, University of California: 1956

Seller ID: 11526

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

25 pages; illustrations; blue paper wrapper with title on the cover (6 x 9 inch) stapled. Also included is the 'Director's Compliments' card for Lawrence C. Powell. A report on the Clark Library and its activities during the decade covered. Fine clean copy.
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The Old University of Mexico (Cover Title)

By: Priestley, Herbert Ingram

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of California Chronicle:

Seller ID: 3925

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1935. Reprint from the University of California Chronicle, Vol XXI, No. 4). Rubber stamp lettering, very small letters, on front cover above the author's name, "With the Compliments of the Author". From the first paragraph: "Enthusiasm for education characterized the earliest establishment of the Spanish colonies in America. Wherever the priests went, a school was soon established for the instruction of the natives or a college for the clericals who were already at work as well as for those who were soon to take holy orders. From the colleges sprang the universities." ...
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Speech of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University, Before the Board of Overseers of That Institution, February 25, 1845, on the Minority Report of the Committee of Visitation, Presented to That Board by George Bancroft, Esq., February 6, 1845

By: Quincy, Josiah

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown: 1845

Seller ID: 016748

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cover title : "President Quincy's Speech on the Minority Report of Mr. Bancroft". Paper wrapper, string bound. Moderate rubbing and chipping, some minor soiling on cover. Intact and readable. 64 pages. Inscription on title page, "Hon. Edward Everett with the respects of Josiah Quincy." Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864) was a prominent educator and politician. He was President of Harvard from 1829-1845. This booklet contains the text of a speech he gave in response to a critical report submitted by George Bancroft (1800-1891), historian and statesman who was serving on the Harvard B...
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Intellectual and Political Currents in the Far East

By: Reinsch, Paul S.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1911

Seller ID: 019538

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." 395 pages, complete. Index in back. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Pages are clean; binding is tight. A clean, fine copy. Paul S. Reinsch (1869-1923) was an American political scientist and diplomat. He served as U.S. Minister to China from 1913-1919. In this book, Reinsch writes his observations on the changing politics of Eastern culture during the early twentieth century. Chapters in this book include: "Asiatic Unit," "Energism in the Orient," "Intellectual Leadership in Contemporary In...
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In Our Covent Days

By: Repplier, Agnes

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1905

Seller ID: 8416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's slate green cloth with gilt lettering. Autograph quotation signed by author on dedication page: "Angles Repplier. Philadelphia. Dec. 1905. 'In the dark ages when we went to school, no one had yet discovered that play is more instructive than work.'" Non-authorial inscription on front end paper: "Florence Bascom from Helen J. Robbins. December 25, 1905." Charming essays on the author's early years, with much on her Catholic school years. Some rubbins, tip and bottom of spine. 257 pages.
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Domestic Portraiture; or, the Successful Application of Religious Principle in the Education of a Family, Exemplified in the Memoirs of Three of the Deceased Children of the Rev. Legh Richmond

By: Richmond, Legh; Bickersteth, E. (Introduction)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, England, R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside: 1835

Seller ID: 019763

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original 3/4 brown leather binding with brown cloth boards. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2." 327 pages, complete. Gilt lettering and raised bands on spine. Leather is a bit worn. Pages are clean and intact except for some foxing on the pages. Covers are intact. Rev. Legh Richmond (1772-1827) was a Church of England clergyman and author. This book discusses proper moral living and how to raise children with Christian values. Reprinted correspondence of the Richmond family included. Introductory remarks by Rev. E. Bickersteth.
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Believe it or Not!

By: Ripley

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Simon and Schuster: 1929

Seller ID: 14494

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

63 pages; drawings; color stiff paper illustrated wrapper (5 x 8 inch). Small tear (1/2 inch) at the top of the cover.Small chhip front right hand bottom corner. The 1929 issue in a series of books issued by Simon and Schuster from the famed comic strip. This issue's cover is a 'Lindbergh' facto with an illustration of the 'Spirit of St. Louis'. Very good clean copy.
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John Erskine : a Modern Actaeon

By: Robinson, Henry Morton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company:

Seller ID: 016711

Binding: Audio Book (Cassette)

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1927. Staple bound, cardstock cover with illustration of bookplate with a knight on horseback on front. Some chipping along edges, not affecting text. 31 pages. 2 x 3 black and white photograph of John Erskine glued inside front cover. From title page, "Together with Mr. Erskine's Radio Speech of September 18, 1927, a short biography, and a bibliography". John Erskine (1879-1951) was an educator and prolific author. He was an English professor at Amherst College and Columbia University, and was one of the influences leading to the "Great Books" movement.
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Typed Letter Signed - L. S. Rowe

By: Rowe, L. S.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, 1913

Seller ID: 021527

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original letter handwritten in black ink on one leaf of beige stationery of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Signed by L. S. Rowe: "Sincerely yours, L. S. Rowe." Datelined December 15, 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 6 3/4" x 9 1/4" folded. 13 1/2" x 9 1/4" unfolded. One page, complete. Paper and handwriting are very clean and intact except for a couple horizontal and vertical fold lines. A Fine copy. Leo Stanton Rowe (1871-1946) was a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1896-1917, the U.S. Assistant Sec...
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Autograph Letter Signed By G.W. Atherton on Rutgers College Stationery

By: Rutgers College; Atherson, G. W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., 1873

Seller ID: 6364

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 page letter, 5 x 8", to a Dr. Parsons telling him of the College's unanimous decision to offer him the Professorship of Mathematics, describing the selection process, hoping "it may prove that your life work is here", extending "open hands and hearts" of Atherton and his wife to Parsons and his wife, offering any help, and stressing that "time is very important for us now, and if you do not come, or do, I hope you will be able to decide early."
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Category: Education