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Letter to the Teachers of San Francisco; Introducing the Bill Prepared by the Pension Committee of Fifteen, Together with the Bill; Read the Letter, Read the Bill; Bring This Pamphlet with You to the Meeting

By: San Francisco Teachers' Pension Committee

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Neal Publishing Company: 0

Seller ID: 020021

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Beige pamphlet with black text. No date, circa 1913. 6" x 8 3/4." Ten pages, complete. A bit of tearing at the spine. Pages are otherwise very clean and intact. A pamphlet that teachers are encouraged to read before they attend a meeting about a bill that would address teachers' pensions and a pension bill. The pamphlet includes a letter by Agnes Regan, Chairman of the Pension Committee of Fifteen, which summarizes the pension bill. The pages that follow describe the main points of the bill in more detail.
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The Music Teacher's Assistant, Being a Few Friendly Words to Young Teachers Supplemented with a New Pronouncing Dictionary of Nearly 30,000 Musical Terms and a Table of the Principal Abbreviations Used in Music.

By: Sawyer, Henry S. (Editor and Compiler)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The McKinley Music Company: 1900

Seller ID: 021751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover. 4" x 6." 107 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight fading on the spine and lower-left corner of front cover. Crease on back cover. A concise music book aimed at those who are beginning to teach music.
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Powdered Vegetable Drugs

By: Schneider, Albert

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Pittsburg, Pa, Calumet Publishing Company: 1902

Seller ID: 14514

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

323 pages; figures; red cloth binding, gilt lettering. Wear and fading to the cover, former owner's name in ink on the front flyleaf. Preface - "This work is primarily intended as a text-book for the use of students in colleges of pharmacy." Contents: Chapter 1 - General suggestions on the examination of vegetable powders; Chapter 2 - Causes modifying the characteristics of powdered vegetable drugs; Chapter 3 - Powdering of vegetable drugs; Chapter 4 - Adulteration or Sophistication of vegetable drugs; Chapter 5 - Microscopical examination of powdered vegetable drugs; Chapter 6 - Keys ...
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A General Dictionary of the English Language. One Main Object of Which, is , to Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To Which is Prefixed a Thetorical Grammar,

By: Sheridan, Thomas

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, England, Printed for J. Dodsley: 1780

Seller ID: 12294

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Two volumes; 3/4 leather modern binding. I: [16], unnumbered pages (A through knuckled). II: unnumbered pages.(Lab through zotomy). Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was a Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the 'elocution' movement. This dictionary, known as the 'Respelled Dictionary' was his major publication. Handsome two volume set.
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The Golden Book of California : A Record of the First Seventy-Five Years in the Life of the University of California

By: Sibley, Robert [editor]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, California Alumni Association: 1937

Seller ID: 14661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

1294 pages; illustrations; indexes; blue cloth binding (7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inch). Contents: University of Today, of Yesterday; scholarly Standing; California Almanac; index of educational and financial announcements. Series of indexes; Sponsors of the Golden Book; California Songs. Issued upon the University's seventy-fifth annual.
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Past Meridian

By: Sigourney, Mrs. L. H.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1854

Seller ID: 14363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Good

iv, 239 pages; blue cloth binding, wear to the exterior (4 5/8 x 7 1/8 inch). Ruminations on the problems of life after the age of 50. Good clean copy.
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The Service School Manual, M.V.M.[Massachusetts Volunteer Militia]. Extracts of Military Law, Government, Administration, Customs and Essentials, Map Reading, Aid to Civil Power and Sanitation.

By: Simmons, William S. [compiler]

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, Mass., Wright & Potter Printing Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 10320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

271 pages; tables, folding signs & symbols; publisher's gray cloth with title on the cover in black. Manual for state military personnel of Massachusetts during the beginning of the 20th century. Fine clean copy internally fresh.
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Extract from an Address on the Training of the Teacher of Mathematics.

By: Slaught, H.E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Allyn and Bacon, Publishers: 1908

Seller ID: 11900

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

8 pages; paper wrapper (5 3/8 x 6 5/8 inch) with title on the cover. A brief account of the best methods for teaching mathematics at the high school level. Fine clean copy.
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Robert Frost & Bernard DeVoto

By: Stegner, Wallace

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Stanford, California, The Associates of the Stanford University Libraries: 1974

Seller ID: 14220

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

125 copies printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. [9] pages; illustrations, facsimiles; green stiff paper wrapper (7 x 9 inch) with title on the cover. "Published on the occasion of the Robert Frost Centennial Exhibit, April 28 - August 31, 1974". Story of there friendship and later breakup. Fine clean copy.
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The Quill: Published Annually by the Student Body, Nevada City High School, Nevada City, California. Volume XX. June 1923.

By: Student Body of Nevada City High School

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Nevada City, CA, Nevada City High School: 1923

Seller ID: 020823

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. Gilt lettering on front cover. 7" x 10 1/4." Sixty-five pages, complete. Black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations, complete. Twelve pages of eighty-six local advertisements included in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Staples are undamaged and have not rusted. An annual publication written by students of Nevada City High School (NCHS). Includes portraits of the senior class of 1923 and other students and faculty. Group portraits of the freshmen, sophomore, and junior classes also inclu...
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Public Education in California : Its Origin and Development, with Personal Reminiscences of Half a Century

By: Swett, John

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, New York, American Book Company: 1911

Seller ID: 11356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

FIRST EDITION. 320 pages; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Inscribed by the author "To the John Swett Grammer School with the compliments of the author, John Swett." John Swett (1830-1913) was a noted school reformer and early founder of the public education system for the state. He was Superintendent of Education (1863-1867) and taught in the Bay Area. He received an honorary degree from the University of California at the same time as John Muir in 1913. The book has a 'John Swett Grammar School' in ink. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
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Storyology : Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore

By: Taylor, Benjamin F.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, England, Elliot Stock: 1900

Seller ID: 14405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

210 pages; index; wine red cloth binding, gilt lettering ( some fading to the cover, minor water drop spots on the cover). An account of various versions of stories and tales gathered by man. Very good clean copy.
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Making Cantaros at San Jose Tateposco, Jalisco, Mexico

By: Taylor, Paul

Price: $25.00

Publisher: American Anthropologist: 1933

Seller ID: 14588

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

'Reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol 35, No. 4 October-December, 1933. Pages 745-751; stapled (some discoloration). Signed by the author "To Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Skinner Cordially. Paul S. Taylor" on the cover in ink. The article is concerned with Jalisco Pottery making methods. Good copy of one of Taylor's early articles.
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Dancing in the Elementary Schools

By: The Committees on Dancing of the American Physical Education Association for the Years 1931 and1932

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes and Company: 1933

Seller ID: 017504

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original orange wrapper with black lettering on front cover. 6 X 9 inches. 134 pages. Some of the topics discussed are, objectives for dancing in the elementary schools, methods of teaching dancing in the elementary schools, a survey of dance activities and their basic movements, the correlation of dancing with other activities, dancing for boys in the elementary school, rhythm, an analysis of accompaniment for the dance, dancing in the major course in physical education and dancing in the preparation of the classroom teacher. Pages are very clean and complete. Binding is tight.
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Effemera

By: Thomajan, P.K.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: 1952

Seller ID: 10569

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

title plus 20 cards with sayings; in stiff paper folding case (6 x 4 inch). Thoughts and sayings relating to women. Slight tear on one of the folding flaps on folding case. Clean copy.
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A Course in Counterpoint.

By: Thompson, John Winter

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, Mass, White-Smith Music Publishing co.:

Seller ID: 13555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'Teacher's Library, No. 118'. 32 pages; music scores; publisher's board binding (evidence of water stain on the front and back cover not effecting the text); size is 6 x 9 1/4 inch. Inscribed by the author "To Albert Cotsworth, With affectionate regard - John Winter Thompson. Dec 14, 1935." Series of lessons on the proper use of counterpoint. Very good clean copy.
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A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on Professional Literature in Education : For Principals and Teachers of Secondary Schools

By: Touton, Frank C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (San Francisco), California High School Teachers' Association: 1924

Seller ID: 4208

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

105-page booklet. "This Bibliography on Professional Literature in Secondary Education is one of the studies undertaken by the Committee of Fifteen of the California High School Teachers' Association during the school year 1922-23." Contents include: Books for Principals and Supervisors; Books for Teachers of the Major Subjects; Magazines for Principals -- and Teachers; Supplementary Educational Monographs; Standardized Educational Tests; Finding lists of Books, Magazines, Tests, and Addresses of Publishers; etc.
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English as She is Taught By Mark Twain With a Biographical Sketch of Author By Matthew Irving Lans

By: Twain, Mark Pseud. Of Samuel Langhorn Clemens

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Mass, Mutual Book Company: 1900

Seller ID: 12654

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

(1900). Original printed wrappers, small crease back cover, otherwise a fine copy. Bibliography of American Literature number 3465. Second state, with corrected word on page 16. 28 pages, plus one page of advertising for other books by the publisher.
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Manual for Indian Schools: A Brief Discussion of Principles and Methods of Education with Reference to a Few Changes Found Desirable in the Present System of Indian Education

By: Valentine, Robert G.; Office of Indian Affairs

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1910

Seller ID: 020451

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's beige wrapper with staple binding. 5 7/8" x 9 1/8." Fifteen pages, complete. Former ownership inscription of "JHD" written in pencil in upper-right corner of front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Minimal age wear. A fine copy.
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Conyers Read, 1881-1959; Scholar, Teacher, Public Servant

By: Various

Price: $50.00

Publisher: (Printed by Mallette Dean). (1963). (Fairfax, California).: 1963

Seller ID: 2858

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. 245 copies printed by Mallette Dean. Frontispiece. Page edges are uncut. From page 3: "This book is a tribute to Conyers Read. The articles in it are from old friends and colleagues. The book itself, the format and printing, comes from a clos e friend who wishes to remain anonymous, who feels, and many will agree with him, that a beautifully printed book is a most fitting tribute to one who wrote, used and loved books all his life". Born in 1881, Conyers Read was a history instructor, ra n the family textile business from 1920-33, became a Professor of English History, was appoi...
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Category: Education