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The Young Man's Guide
Boston Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden 1833 Hard Cover Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Guide to social and business behavior for the young man of the early nineteenth century. Full black calf with gilt spine lettering, 320 pages. A worn copy with edgewar and chipping, small tear near spine head, rear cover partially detached, free endpapers absent, text block sound with no loosened pages, pages clean with occasional foxing, fairly faint dampstain to the lower portion of the first several pages and to the upper portion of the last several pages.
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35.00 USD
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Adams, Daniel (1773-1864) Geography; or A Description of the World. In Three Parts. Part I - Geographical Orthography; Part II - A Grammar of Geography; Part III - A Description of the Earth
Boston West & Blake 1814 Hard Cover Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Without the accompanying, separate atlas, illustrated with an engraved plate illustrated map construction. Full calf with red spine label, 360 pages plus publisher's ads. Covers quite worn and rubbed, spine label chipped, covers securely attached, text block sound, pages foxed and a bit edgworn, with some short margin chips and tears with no loss of text. Names on front free endpaepr in pencil, no other markings.
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85.00 USD
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Adams, Randolph G. Pilgrims, Indians and Patriots : The Pictorial History of America from the Colonial Age to the Revolution
Boston Little, Brown and Company 1928 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fair 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
First edition. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Bright navy cloth with eggshell cover lettering and publisher's blindstamp, frontispiece, 207 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, very lightly worn with only gently rubbed extreme spine ends, a tiny pinhole pierced through rear cover (not obstructing inside text block), a narrow three-inch moisture shadow running vertically midcenter along crevice between frontis and title page, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in fair condition with a quarter of spine missing at lower end, an evenly darkened background mostly apparent due to its white coloring, negligible additional edgewear.
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30.00 USD
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Adler, Grace The Seasons
Columbus, Ohio Educational Publishing House 1941 Later Printing Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No. 353 in the Unit Study Book series, illustrated with photographs in black and white. Printed wraps, 36 pages. Previous owner stamp. Clean copy with brightly colored cover, light edgewear.
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8.00 USD
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Aesop. Translated By Geo. Fyler Townsend. Illustrated By Harrison Weir Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
London George Routledge & Sons 1880 Hard Cover Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Undated, ca. 1880. Clean and attractively bound copy of this selection of 300 of Aesop's fables, illustrated with fifty engravings by Harrison Weir. Decorative Victorian binding in emerald green cloth with lettering and extensive decoration in gilt and black, two small color illustrations mounted on the front cover, 188 pages plus index. Light rubbing and wear to the corners and spine ends, light rubbing to a small section of the spine gilt, good hinges, sound text block, notation on front free endpaper that the book was given to "Etta J. Jackson for excellence in spelling. By her teacher F. Edna Hayes". Pages otherwise unmarked and clean with just a few instances of light foxing.
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45.00 USD
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Alberta Walker and Ethel Summy. Illustrated By Grace P. Smith The Study Readers : First Year
New York Charles E. Merrill Co. 1928 Hard Cover Very Good None 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Series of short stories and exercises designed for reading instruction and comprehension, illustrated in color. Tan pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers, 144 pages. Some light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, mainly clean pages with a bit of occasional light soil, name on front pastedown, no other markings.
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14.00 USD
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Alberta Walker and Ethel Summy. Illustrated By Mabel Betsy Hill The Study Readers : Second Year
New York Charles E. Merrill Co. 1928 Hard Cover Very Good None 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Series of short stories and exercises designed for reading instruction and comprehension, illustrated in black and white plus tan and orange. Tan pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers, 224 pages. Some light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, mainly clean pages with a bit of occasional light soil, name on front pastedown, no other markings.
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14.00 USD
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Alfred Kazin, Laurence M. Gould, Peter L. Marks, Roy McMullen, Oscar Handlin, Charles Thomas Samuels, Others The American Scholar: A Quarterly for the Independent Thinker, Summer 1971, Vol. 40, No. 3
Richmond, Virginia USA Phi Beta Kappa 1971 Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Articles include: Richard Hofstadter, 1916-1970, Antarctica: The World's Greatest Laboratory, A Vision of Environment, Painters Painting: Cubism, History: A Discipline in Crisis, Talking with Truffaut, Celebration: Harlow Shapley, and a poem by Elliot Abhau titled Getting Religion. Grey softcover, 170 pages. The periodical is in very good condition and has clean pages with no names or other markings.
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12.00 USD
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American Association of School Administrators Education and the General Welfare : Official Report - The American Administration of School Administrators - Regional Conventions 1949
Washington, DC American Association of School Administrators 1949 First Edition Soft Cover Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Reports and proceedings from the annual meetings of this division of the National Education Association. Includes papers by Ellis Arnall, James Bryant Conant, Willard E. Goslin, William F. Russell and Norman Vincent Peale, as well as other addresses by H. B. Bruner, Bert Chilet, Stewart G. Cole, Allison Davis, L. G. Derthick, Roy E. Larsen, Paul Rehmus, Mabel Studebaker, Gill Robb Wilson. Printed softcover, 224 pages. Covers worn and rubbed wtih some soil, internally better with no noted chips, tears or markings but with some light finger soil to some margins. An externally worn but sound copy overall.
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15.00 USD
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Anderson, William Gilbert Methods of Teaching Gymnastics [Cover Title: Best Methods of Teaching Gymnastics]
New York Hinds & Noble 1896 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Scarce first edition of this influential book in physical education and gymnastics, published by Hinds & Noble (which preceded Hinds, Noble & Eldredge). Illustrated throughout in black and white. Golden tan cloth with dark brown spine lettering, front cover illustration of gymnast printed in dark brown and off-white, 269 pages plus three pages of publisher's ads. Some external wear, mainly rubbing to the extremities, very minor fraying to lower corners, good hinges, sound text block, name and 1906 date on front free endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
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225.00 USD
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Andover Academy Student Yearbook Board Pot Pourri : 1929
New Haven, Connecticut USA Andover Print Shop 1929 Hard Cover Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Includes full page black and white plates of all fraternity houses present upon publication. Black and white illustrated throughout the rest of the book. Black leather-look cloth with embossed school tower illustration, gilt embossed cover title, illustrated endpapers, 200 pages, plus advertisements. The book is in good condition with foxed introductory pages, some shelf soil including tiny white specks on the front cover, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings.
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35.00 USD
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Angell, Oliver The Union, Number Five. Containing Lessons for Reading and Spelling... Angell's Union Series
Philadelphia W. Marshall & Co. 1839 Hard Cover Fair 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Selections of prose and poetry designed to improve reading and spelling skills. Many of the stories have an adventurous theme: Wild Horses on the Prairies near the Rocky Mountains; The Fisherman of Casco Bay; The Young Rebel; The Laplander and his Rein-deer; Salt Mine in Poland; Capture of a Snake; The Banditti, etc. Full calf, 296 pages. Covers heavily worn and rubbed, spine covering nearly chipped away, joints cracked but covers securely attached, text block sound, pages foxed but generally clean with some minor dampstaining to the last few, name stamp on front free endpaper.
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45.00 USD
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Angelo, Ruth V. Eskimos
Columbus, Ohio Educational Publishing House 1934 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No. 209 in the Unit Study Book series, illustrated with photographs in black and white. Printed wraps, 36 pages. Previous owner stamp. Pages a bit age-toned but very good overall with some cover fading.
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10.00 USD
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Angelo, Ruth V. Eskimos
Columbus, Ohio Educational Publishing House 1942 Later Printing Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No. 209 in the Unit Study Book series, illustrated with photographs in black and white. Printed wraps, 36 pages. Previous owner stamp. Nice clean copy with bright cover.
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10.00 USD
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Anonymous A Whisper to a Newly-Married Pair, from a Widowed Wife
London Houlston & Son 1832 Sixth Edition Hard Cover Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Early 19th century marital advice on topics such as general conduct, fidelity, expenditures, family size, domestic economy, dress, conduct toward in-laws, treatment of servants, management of education of children, etc., with one section for men, another for women. Dark blue textured boards wtih gilt spine lettering, uncut edges, frontis engraving, 138 pages. Some edgewear and minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, front hinge cracked, text block sound, pages clean with only a trace of occasional foxing, man's name on verso of title page, no other markings.
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85.00 USD
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Arnold, M., Editor The Banner : Commencement 1934 - Rockville High School [Connecticut]: June 1934, Vol. XXI, NO. 4
Rockville [Vernon], Connecticut Rockville High School 1934 Soft Cover Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Black and white illustrated, featuring portraits, specifics and quotations, of the graduating senior class. Golden yellow softcover, thirty-nine pages, plus advertisements. The book is in good condition with minimal edgewear, clean contents.
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25.00 USD
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