MARK HOPKINS
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. 8vo, pp. 365, plus catalog. [American relligious leaders.] Blue cloth. Cover slightly worn at edges, o/w VG. Hopkins was a president of Williams College in Western Massachusetts from 1836 to 1872. More
Education
LETTERS TO HETTY HEEDLESS AND OTHERS.
Hollywood: 1939. Facsimile reprint of 1880 work. 12mo., pp. 73. Wraps, VG. A teacher writes to her female pupils of schoolroom manners and dreams. More
LES PLANS ET LES STATUTS,; des differents etablissements ordonnes par sa Majest, Imperiale Catherine II.Pour L'education de la jeunesse, et L'utilit, Generale de son Empire. Translated by Mr. Clerc.
Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. First continental edition after the first edition in Russian of 1766. 8vo, Two volumes, pp. 408, 110; 375. Bound in full calf that shows some light rubbing to head bands and edges, free endpaper loose in volume one. A nice clean copy. Illustrated with 4..... More
FAIR HARVARD
NY: Hastings House, (1948). Samuel Chamberlain. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 104.Map. With text by Donald Moffat. Pictorial cloth. Cover yellowed and little scuffed on edges, endpapers little stained, o/w a VG tight copy in little chipped and soiled dj. More
PRINCETON IN SPRING; Camera impressions by...
Princeton NJ: Princeton University, (1950). Special edition. Large 8vo, pp. not numbered. Green cloth with gray spine stamped in green. Cover little rubbed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat worn dj. More
COSTS OF SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION; Testimony on House Bill 3576, Joint Committee on Education, March 22, 1971
(Massachusetts): NOW, Eastern Mass. Chapter, 1971. Eight 8-1/2x11 sheets, one side, plus cover sheet, stapled at upper left. (It is not clear whether this is the Massachusetts House, or the U.S. House.). More
KINFOLKS; Kentucky mountain rhymes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 82. Patterned paper over boards. cover slightly worn, o/w VG. A note on the flyleaf says: Ann Cobb is "Virginia" in the series of stories called The Quare Woman, which ran in the Atlantic Monthly in 1922. These are true stories of..... More
MEMOIR OF REV. JOHN WILEY FAIRES, A.M., D.D.; Founder and principal of the Classical Institute Philadelphia. A teacher from 1831 to 1888...
Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1926. No. 107 of an edition of 1200. Large 8vo, pp. viii, 850. Author's signature on pastedown. With biographic sketches and portrait photographs of 500 of Faires' former pupils and a fold-out classroom plan. Paper over boards, three-quarter cloth. Rear hinge tender, front just beginning at bottom..... More
CONVERSATIONS WITH ROBERT COLES
Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1992). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 249. Index. About as new in slightly scuffed dj. More
JOHN TILESTON'S SCHOOL.; Boston, 1778-1789; 1761-1766. Also his diary from 1761 to 1766.
Boston: Antiquarian Book Store, 1887. First edn. 12mo, pp. 80. Brown cloth, fine. A sketch of early education. More
CHANTONS UN PEU; A collection of French songs, with games, dances, and costumes, grammar drill and vocabulary
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Edition. 4to, pp. xvi, 148. Index. Includes diagrams and instructions for simple costumes. Blue cloth, stamped in orange. Review slip glued to pastedown. Cover little faded, o/w a nice copy. More
CONNECTICUT November 1980; Women at work Satus 1980
Fairfield CT: Connecticut Circle, Inc., 1980. Periodical. Small 4to, pp. 136. A little foxing on edges of leaves, cover lightly spotted, o/w a VG tight copy. Articles on women at work; four portraits of relationships between mothers and daughter; and college programs designed for preparing women for satisfying, lucrative careers..... More
THE STORY OF WELLESLEY
Boston: Little, Brown, 1919. Black, Norman Irving. 8vo, pp. xiii, 284. Index. Illustrated by Norman Irving Black. Blue cloth with pictorial stamping in ivory and gilt, TEG. Cover a bit scuffed, and little worn at edges, front hinge near tender, o/w VG. More
A WOMAN'S EDUCATION
NY: Knopf, 2001. First Edition. 8vo, pp. vii, 143. Paper over boards. About as new in dj. The third book in the autobiography of the first woman president of Smith College. More
THE PLOUGHBOY'S HARROW; number three by ... the author of The Neriah For The Metrical Apocalypse, Chestnut Street, Fremont. The Telegraph, or, Star Banner Song, The Ploughboy. Hope. Olive Grove, etc.
Salem (MA): William Cook, January, 1860. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 9-16, Bound in original pictorial wrappers, stitched as issued. With two plates (included in the pagination) of a view of Broad Street, Salem and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers, Mass. Images finished in pencil as usual. Little chipped..... More
BECAUSE THE NIGHT BELONGS TO US; In: Politics & Education Volume 2, No. 1 Fall 1978
Middletown CT: Center for the Study of Education and Politics, 1979. Periodical. 4to, pp. 40. Illustrated with several photographs. Paper wraps. Cover little scuffed, o/w a nice coppy. Also contains, among other pieces, The Science of Sexism, by Eileen Van Tassel, and New Morning, by Monte Leach and Mary Tappel..... More
THE SCHOOL GARDEN
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1921. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 41. Paper wraps. [Farmers' Bulletin 218.] Illustrated. Paper somewhat browned, binder holes punched at left side, a few stains on cover, o/w VG. More
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT AND MODERN GEOGRAPHY; on the plan of Goldsmith and Guy, Comprising rules for projecting maps. With an atlas (lacking)
Boston: Cummings and Hillard, 1818. Sixth edition. 12mo, pp. xx, 316, with several pages of textural illustrations and two full page engraved plates showing map projections. Bound in original leather backed board (some internal staining) but a better than very good copy. Imprints 43784. Originally published in 1813, this contains..... More
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT AND MODERN GEOGRAPHY; on the plan of Goldsmith and Guy, Comprising rules for projecting maps. With an atlas (lacking)
Boston: Cummings and Hillard, 1818. Sixth edition. 12mo, pp. xx, 316, with several pages of textural illustrations and two full page engraved plates showing map projections.Bound in original leather backed board (internal staining, lacks a front flyleaf) a good copy. Imprints 43784. Originally published in 1813, this contains a 20..... More
STACKING THE DECK; The streaming of working-class kids in Ontario schools
Toronto: Our Schools/Our Selves Education Foundation, (1992). 8vo, pp. 142. Bibliography. Paper wraps. [Our schools/our selves monograph series; No. 10.] Cover slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy. Explores the way social class is perpetuated in Canadian schools and suggests correctives. More
DE L'INFLUENCE DES FEMMES SUR LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE; comme protectrices des letters et comme auteurs; ou precis de l'histoire des femmes Francaises les plus celebres.
Paris: Maradan, 1811. First edition. 8vo, pp. [iv], lx, 374. Two letters in the word "comme" partially obscured on the title page. Bound in contemporary calf, backed boards, spine gilt, some modest stains to the half-title, a very good tight copy. DeGenlis (1746-1830) was a French writer, educator and governess..... More
MARK HOPKINS; A biography
NY: Scribner's, 1935. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 327. Illustrated with photographs. Blue cloth. VG tight copy. A biography of one of the presidents of Williams College (1836-1872). It focuses on many anecdotes about life at the college and in the Berkshires of the time, including the information that trying to..... More
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF NEW ENGLAND
Boston: Bellman, (1946). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Indices, index of courses, schools listed by state. Ex library, with stamps. Light green cloth stamped in gilt. Hinges tender, cover worn at edges and spine. VG. Contains information about the educational institutions in New England. More
THE SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
Chicago: University of Chicago, (1915). Revised edition. 8vo, pp. xv, 164. Yellow cloth with pictorial stamping in blue and black. With several illustrations. Owner's bookplate on pastedown. Edges and cover little soiled, cover rubbed at corners and ends of spine, a very few penciled notes in margins, o/w VG. More