Cincinnati, Ohio: Wrightson & Co, Printers, 1861. Single leaf printed to recto only on yellow paper, almost completely filled out with manuscript to verso. A broadside program for a musical performance held during the graduation ceremony at Walnut Hill Academy, a school in Cold Spring, Campbell County, Kentucky. The broadside.....
Alabama: 1930s to 1940s. A collection of letters, plans, certificates, and books belonging to Carrie Love Jones (Davis), a Birmingham, Alabama schoolteacher. The items relate to educational materials, including a school desk for teaching music, and two music books, all designed by Jones for use in the classroom. Includes 23.....
Charleston, South Carolina: 1848. Bifolium, 10 x 8", with text printed to first page only, filled out in manuscript. A monthly report sent to the parents of Arthur Middleton, a sophomore at the College of Charleston, in July, 1848. The upper portion records the student's absences, while the lower half.....
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke. Roberts & Burr, Printers. 1822. 5.75 x 3", illustrated wrappers, engraved frontispiece, 32 pp, engravings within text. Illustrated moral chapbook telling the story of a schoolmaster and his wicked nephew, who becomes gravely ill before finding God, which leads to his recovery. Toning and.....
[Rhode Island]: Franklin Printing House, Ca 1870s. Octavo, leaflet, [4] pp. Promotional leaflet for a "Family School For Boys" run by George A. Willard in Old Warwick, Rhode Island. Advertises the "rural" location of the school, with adjoining farm, as well as the "family" style environment, as beneficial to the.....
Two Rivers, Wisconsin: Hamilton Manufacturing Co, 1939. Quarto, stapled booklet, 27, [1] pp, illustrated. A catalog of classroom layouts making use of furniture and equipment manufactured by a Wisconsin company specializing in laboratory equipment and furniture. The catalog features science, homemaking, and shop classroom layouts. Wear to covers, owner inscription.....
Raleigh, North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton, Printers and Binders, 1903-1913. Fourteen issues of the Wake Forest student newspaper. Includes ten issues from 1903-1905 including an "Athletic Number," plus four issues from 1911-1913. Pencil name to front cover, wear and staining, foxing, good.
Chicago: 1970. Quarto, 13 x 9.75", red boards with white crescent moon and star to front cover and date "1970", 71 pp, numerous photographic illustrations. The 1970 yearbook of the Muhammad University of Islam No. 2, a Nation of Islam preschool through 12th grade school founded by Elijah Muhammad and.....
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1838. 12mo, green leather, gilt titling to covers, 320 pp. A 19th century letter writing manual intended to teach young men and women how to compose polished, formal correspondence in various social and professional situations. Toning and foxing to pages, mild wear to covers, a......
Jubbulpore/Calcutta: Burma Christian Literature Society/Baptist Mission Press, 1945. Second Edition. Octavo, quarter bound in green cloth with grey boards and black lettering; [2], 64pp. Language textbook intended to help students navigate the challenges of learning Burmese structures and tones. The author is rather sympathetic to the challenges faced by new.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Octavo, 7.5 x 5.25", green cloth with gilt and black lettering and illustration, 244 pp, b/w illustrations. A collection of science lectures for children by Arabella Buckley, an English writer, science edutor, and proponent of Darwin's theories. A bright copy in a lovely.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo, gray cloth boards with light green lettering to cover and spine, 274 pp, with the original dust jacket. "A delightful book that shows you how to make life richer and more enjoyable through the arts of conversation, reading, loafing, going places.....
Anderson IN: Gospel Trumpet Co, 1922. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth, dark blue titling to cover and spine, 224 pp. Hale's evangelical conduct and character building book for adolescent girls, emphasizing purity, piety, industry, and “womanly” Christian virtues as they enter adulthood. Owner inscription to front endpaper, mild soiling and.....
Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1851. First Edition. 12mo, red cloth, gilt titling to spine, 301 pp. A guide to the education of women and conduct manual, by the editor of the Northern Christian Advocate. Foxing to pages, damp stain to one are of margin of first 30 or so.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Ca 1880s. Octavo, green cloth with gilt, 344 pp, illustrated. A story about the mechanical work of a group of boy engineers, a sort of how to manual for boys. A good copy with wear and staining to covers.
Philadelphia: From the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1868. Octavo, quarter cloth with marbled boards, printed paper spine label, 112, 3, [1] pp, 3 illustration plates. A scarce volume by prominent American physicist Alfred M. Mayer, who studied in Paris before chairing departments at Pennsylvania College and Lehigh University, and.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1893. Octavo, xii, 194 pp, contemporary blue cloth with gilt lettering. A guide intended to "give prospective students and parents a glimpse into the private world of women's college", written when the American College Girl was fast becoming a cultural icon (Tarbox, The Clubwomen's.....
New Haven: Charles C. Chatfield & Co, 1870. Octavo, green cloth, 285 pp. A survey of American colleges by a Yale professor. Bookplate of prominent American educator Samuel Gilman Brown to front pastedown. Very good with mild wear to covers.
Philadelphia: E.L. Raub & Co, 1889. Octavo, green cloth with black and gilt lettering, 415 pp. A treatise on education by Albert Newton Raub, American educator who was principal of the Central State Normal School in Lock Haven, Pa, and the president of Delaware College (today the University of Delaware).....
S. Miami, Florida: Whittenberg Publishing Company, 1977. Small quarto, green wrappers, 170, [2] pp. A guide to marriage intended to help women decide whether to marry or stay single, written by a Miami family and marriage counselor. The booklet includes questionnaires and chapters on interracial marriage and sex. Fading to.....