Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill, (1973). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxxvii, 442. Chronology, bibliography, reading list, index. Paper wraps. Cover and edges slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Material from primary sources, annotated and interpreted. More about THEORIES OF EDUCATION IN EARLY AMERICA; 1655-1819
London: Associated Television, (1959). 8vo, pages not numbered. Paper. VG. An interview by William Clark on the Independent Television Network. More about EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN AGE
Boston: Beacon, (1972). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 206. Notes, bibliography, index. Foreword by Ivan Illich. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj. The author sees the school system as primarily an instrument of social control for a corporate state. More about EDUCATION AND THE RISE OF THE CORPORATE STATE
London: Burrow, 1931. First Edition. 4to, pp. 194. Illustrated. Cover, especially spine, quite worn, inside solid. VG. A history of the Cheltenham Ladies' College. More about IN THE DAYS OF MISS BEALE;; A study of her work and influence
Cambridge, MA: John Wilson, 1894. Large 8vo, pp. 330. Includes index and list of persons registered to attend. Illustrated. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover slightly worn at edges, o/w a VG tight copy. Program, orations, addresses, etc. More about A RECORD OF THE COMMEMORATION, October Eighth to Tenth, 1893,; On the Centennial Anniversary of...
South Hadley MA: Mt. Holyoke, 1887. Second edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 377. Illustrated, with an extra picture laid in. Dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Cover quite worn and held together at spine with transparent tape. Interior OK. Fair. More about HISTORY OF MOUNT HOLYOKE SEMINARY,; South Hadley, Mass. during its first half century, 1837-1887
NY: Norton, (1990). First printing. 8vo, pp. x, 278. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Crandall opened the first private boarding school for Black girls in New England. More about A WHOLE-SOULED WOMAN; Prudence Crandall and the education of Black women
NY: Norton, (1990). First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 278. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges faintly spotted, o/w a nice copy in dj. In 1833, Crandall opened the first private boarding school for Black girls in New England. Vigilante violence forced its closing in 1834... More about A WHOLE-SOULED WOMAN; Prudence Crandall and the education of Black women
New Haven CT: Philip Sarrel, (1970). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 64. Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed at edges, o/w a nice copy. More about SEX AND THE YALE STUDENT
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 479. Appendix, index. Dark blue cloth. Owner's name on flyleaf. A VG tight copy in well worn dj. More about THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN; 1881-1931
NY: Scribner, Armstrong, 1875. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 503. Illustrated with 750 wood engravings. Author's presentation on flyleaf. Rust cloth, stamped in black. Cover little faded, and scuffed at edges, but a nice tight copy. Tenney taught at Williams College. More about ELEMENTS OF ZOOLOGY; A text-book
Boston: Little, Brown, (1953). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 367. Illustrated. Cover little worn and stained, o/w a VG tight copy. A biography of the educators. More about UNTIL VICTORY;; Horace Mann and Mary Peabody
Boston: Gould and LIncoln, 1859. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xvii, 353. Brown cloth, blind-stamped and printed in gilt on the spine. Cover faded and somewhat worn at corners and ends of spine, endpapers stained, some foxed, o/w good. Advice about filling woman's "proper sphere." More about THE POOR GIRL AND TRUE WOMAN;; Or, elements of woman's success drawn from the life of Mary Lyon...
New Haven: Yale, (1996). First printing. 8vo, pp. xiv, 248. Notes, index. Illustrated. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in lightly scuffed dj. More about HANDWRITING IN MERICA; A cultural history
NY: Norton, (1996). First printing. 8vo, pp. 318. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. Training boys to be men in the decades after the Civil War. More about MANHOOD AT HARVARD; William James and others
NY: Mutual Book Co, (1900). First Edition, second state with the correction of the word "five" on p 16. 12mo, pp. 28 (1). Bound in green cloth stamped in black and red, little stained on the cover and rubbed at the extremities of the spine, a very good copy, untrimmed... More about ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT,; with a biographical sketch of the author by Matthew Lans
Springfield, MA: Clark Bryan, 1877. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 28. Illustrated with one plate showing architectural floor plans of each of the 4 levels of this museum/science building. Removed. More about OPENING OF LYMAN WILLISTON HALL [Mt Holyoke Female Seminary]; Address of ... and Exercises of...
(Madison, WI): University of Wisconsin, 1911. 8vo, pp. 52. Paper wraps tied with cord. Cover chipped, interior VG. More about MEMORIAL SERVICE IN HONOR OF JOHN BASCOM; At the University of Wisconsin
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. First edn. 8vo, pp. 344. Translated from the Russian by Rose Prokofieva, illustrated by B. Vinokuru. Green cloth, very good. Reflections and narratives of the experience of of a Soviet teacher. More about DIARY OF A SCHOOL-TEACHER
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. First Edition. 8vo, pp. vii, 280. Illustrated. Blue cloth. Owner's name on flyleaf. Cover somewhat scuffed, front hinge tender, o/w VG. Reminiscences about Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley MA. More about ON A NEW ENGLAND CAMPUS
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin, 1963. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xv, 181. Biographical directory, index. Illustrated with two photographs. A nice copy in price-clipped and slightly chipped dj. In 1808, the British Webb, with husband Sidney, visited the U.S., with a particular interest in its city governments. Sidney Webb was... More about AMERICAN DIARY
Amherst NY: Prometheus, (2000). First printing. 8vo, pp. 233. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and a cartoon. Top outer corners of several leaves very slightly bumped, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj. Russell was appointed to a position on the faculty of New York's City College, but... More about APPOINTMENT DENIED; The inquisition of Bertrand Russell
Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society, 2004. 8vo, pp. 173. Resources, index. Author's presentation on title; "To Leslie, | With warmest wishes, ZW" Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed at edges, o/w a nice copy. More about THE POWER AND PROMISE; Of humane education
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First printing. 8vo, pp. 268. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in somewhat soiled and faded dj. A portrait of the relationship of Emma Woolley, president of Mt. Holyoke College for 36 years, and Jeannette Marks, an author and English professor at the college. Their relationship... More about MISS MARKS AND MISS WOOLLEY
NY: Macmillan, 1924. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 176. Illustrated with three photographs. Cover little worn, o/w VG. More about THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER
