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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: $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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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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