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. View More...
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. View More...
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...
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 Work, E... View More...
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". View More...
Collection of eight original manuscript documents, namely, college notes and papers, by R. B. Minton. Circa 1840s (some documents have later dates). Document measurements range between about 6" x 7 3/4" and 8" x 11 1/2." Circa seventy-two pages. As an entire collection, the documents are clean and intact overall but have age toning, occasional marks or small stains, and slight soiling. A Very Good collection. R. B. Minton (c. 1822-?) graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1845. He had earlier attended Ohio University and may have been originally from Morris County... View More...
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 the lette... View More...
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...
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...
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... View More...
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...
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". View More...
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...
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...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. 1929-1930. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. The style of "AZO" stamp box printed on back was used from 1924-1949. Postcard is used but was never formally sent with postage. Postcard is clean and intact overall but has some discoloration and dampstaining which is mostly limited to the back. A Very Good copy. This postcard possibly shows students from a high school English class in the Philippines. There is handwriting on the back that is addressed to "Polly." The writer says, "Dear Polly, Just a token of forget me not ... View More...
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. Nearing's views had... View More...
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. View More...
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...
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...
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...
