Boston: Published by the Home Market Club, 1894. Self wraps (lacks the rear), first edn, 8vo, 8pp. Some chipped and worn. This reprints a speech delivered before the Wellesley debating society about the Wilson tariff bill. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xix, 278.Notes, bibliographic notes, index. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice cipy in little faded dj. The changing role of schools: assimilation of masses of widely differing immigrants, and preparation of students for a complex industrial economy. More
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press, (1933). Large 8vo, pp. 398. Copiously illustrated. Some pages slightly bumped, cover slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. A book for art education. More
NY: Columbia University, 1919. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 92. Bibliography. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with charts and graphs. Fold-out map opposite title. Ex library, with bookplate and stamps. A few leaves loose, map little torn, o/w VG. More
NY: Boni and Liveright, (1922). Second printing. 8vo, pp. 248. Dark blue cloth stamped in yellow. TEG. Cover darkened, and somewhat worn at edges and ends of spine, owner's name on half-title, a little foxing, o/w VG. Memoir and social critique by a German Jewish immigrant to the U.S. Lewisohn..... More
Toronto: Our Schools/Our Selves Education Foundation, (1992). 8vo, pp. 152. Paper wraps. [Our schools/our selves monograph series: No. 9.] Cover little faded, soiled and chipped, but a VG tight copy. More
NY: Viking, 1948. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 373. Appendix, index. Rust cloth. A VG tight copy in scuffed and chipped dj. Lovett was an English teacher and participant in most of the liberal and progressive movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 291, hinge little tender, 1969 news clipping tipped to end paper. A good copy. The story of a dynamic and seemingly tireless woman, devoted ahead of her time (the early 1800s) to the cause of higher education for women. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 291, A very good copy. The story of a dynamic and seemingly tireless woman, devoted ahead of her time (the early 1800s) to the cause of higher education for women. More
Paris: de L'Imprimerie Royale, 1733. First Edition. 4to, pp. [8], 281 + 15 engraved folding plates of aurora examples by Ph Simonneau. Bound in contemporary full calf (lacks the spine label), lacks a couple of small pieces at the extremities of the spine. Gilt coat of arms on the covers..... More
Boston: New England Free Press, 1967. 4to, pp. 8. Paper. An article reprinted from the August 1967 Liberation, with several photographs. Some of the print a little indistinct, but readable, o/w a nice clean copy. Plans for a school in an all-Black section of Newark NJ. More
Philadelphia: J. Y. Humphreys, 1820. First American edn. Small 8vo, pp. [xii], 312. Bound in contemporary calf, lacks small piece at the foot of the spine), some foxing and staining, a very good copy. Housed in a cardboard case. Issued in London the previous year. Imprints 2100. Marcet (1769-1858) wrote..... More
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1839-40. First Continental Edition. Series one and two. 8vo, pp. vi, 345; iv, 353. Uncut and unopened and bound in original printed wraps with two folding maps. Volumes CCLII and CCLXI of the "Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors." Four pages of adv. in the..... More
NY: Harper, 1905. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 214. Illustrated with charming marginal figures of young children. Untrimmed, a nice copy. A series of essays about children and their upbringing. Includes chapters on parents, strong points of infancy, girls and their education, women, etc. More
Dyfed, Wales: St. David's University College, 1989. 8vo, pp. 75. Illustrated, several in color. Paper wraps. Cover slightly chipped, o/w a VG tight copy. A collection of short articles, list of dissertations, student profiles, etc. Publicity for the MA program at the University. More
Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University, (1978). Reprint, with new introduction, of 1892 U.S. Printing Office edition. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 309. Long appendix, notes, index. Pastedowns seem to have been torn and neatly mended, o/w a VG tight copy. Mayo was an exponent of the "new education," which was built..... More
Darmouth College: Dartmouth College Mansucript Series, number one, 1932. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 327. Illustrated with photo reproductions of several of the letters. A fine copy in worn and stretched dj. This prints letters of 18th century Indians who attended Moor's Charity School during the lifetime of Eleazar Wheelock... More
Boston: Boston PUblic Library, 1966. One of 1000 copies. 8vo, pp. 47. Index. Paper over boards. A nice copy. Other contributors are David B. Little, and Sinclair H. Hitchings. More
Nashville TN: American Assoc. for State and Local History, (1982). First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 284. Appendices, notes, index. Illustrated. Red cloth. Owner's name on first leaf, o/w a nice copy in scuffed and little chipped dj. A how-to manual for secondary and college teachers. More
Boston: Beacon press, 1951. 12mo, pp. 151. Edges of cover slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy in little worn dj. Milton's statement against censorship of books, and other writings. More
NY: Modern Language Association. Periodical. Large 8vo, paper wraps. Fine. Four issues: 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994. Articles on language and literature, as well as on the job market in education. More
Northampton: Bridgman & Childs, 1862. First Edition. Small 4to, 108. Bound some stained printed wraps (bumped), a good copy. Scarce. In 1838, not yet one full year after the founding of the Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mary Lyon founded the Memorandum Society for graduates of the seminary. The Memorandum Society, foremother..... More
Northampton: Samuel Bowles, 1862. First Edition. 4to, [pp. 80]. Bound some stained printed wraps (bumped and separate), first 12 pages water stained on the upper corner, a good copy. Scarce. In 1838, not yet one full year after the founding of the Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mary Lyon founded the Memorandum..... More
Guilford, CT: by the author, 1902. New edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo, pp. 288. Bound in green cloth, uncut and unopened, illustrated, both hinges loose, a good clean copy. Scarce. Murray wrote a number books about the Adirondack mountains, etc. More
Rockford IL: Rockford College, (1980). 4to, pp. 280. Bibliography, index. Black paper over boards, printed in silver. Copiously illustrated. Cover slightly scuffed, o/w a very nice copy. More
