Shelburne Falls, MA: Arms Academy, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. (8)pp. Topics include: Foundation of the four-year school, Location, Grounds & Building, Instruction, Courses of Study, Text-books, Expenses, Music, Drawing & Painting, Calendar for 1882-1883, Students (separate listings for Ladies & Gentlemen), Teachers, Board of Trustees. Bound in decorated, pictorial wrappers..... More
Boston: William Collier and Lincoln & Edmands, 1829. First Edition. Softcover. 24pp, including Appendix. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" Babcock was associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salem. The Appendix here comprises the Constitution of the Education Society..... More
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1850. First Edition. 66pp. Contents: Constitution of the American Association for the Advancement of Education; Report of the committee on evening schools; Report by Samuel M . Hamill, A.M., of Lawrenceville, New Jersey; Report by R. L. Cooke, of New Jersey; A report by the..... More
Philadelphia: Bennett & Walton, (1824). First Edition. Full Calf. 208pp; spotty foxing throughout. Original calf, gilt-ruled spine, leather label; spine ends chipped. 7" x 4.25" [Shoemaker, American Imprints, 15320. WorldCat finds six holdings of this title. Not seen in Nietz, 19th Century Schoolbooks.]. More
Kansas City, MO: Beta Sigma Phi, 1946. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. 32pp; illus from photographs. Reports on "rush parties" at 32 chapters, conventions at St. Augustine and Vancouver, sorority memorabilia for sale, etc. 10.75" x 8.25" More
New York: Association of American University Presses, 1968. First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: 25, colophon. Bound in printed yellow wrappers. 8.5" x 5.5" Inscribed inside the cover: "For Jerry, with my best / Julian." The editor of the Jefferson Papers talks of revolutionary America and intellectual rebels today... More
(New York): American Historical Review, 1965. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: 329-349. Bound in printed blue wrappers. 9.5" x 6.5" Inscribed at top of cover: "For Jerry Farrington / with my best wishes / Julian." Boyd here discusses the history of scholarship and the importance of historians... More
Boston: Brimmer School, 1921. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: 56+16(ads); many illus from photos and drawings. 6.75" x 9.5" Nice memento of this small school for young women, with group portraits of hockey, baseball, basketball and tennis teams, &c. Includes portraits and biographical sketches of the 13 graduates along with..... More
NY: Samuel S. & William Wood, 1861. Early edition. Hardcover. 108pp. Printed green boards, backed in red morocco; light foxing to first few leaves. 7.5" x 4.5" [Nietz, 19th Century Schoolbooks, 5004453]. More
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1895. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 8pp, piano music, 3/4-time in five flats. Four small piercings along spine. 13.75" x 10.5" "Dedicated to Alma Mater, `Old Amherst the True.'" The decorative cover includes a photographic view of The Old Chapel Tower from across the Amherst College campus..... More
Cambridge, MA: Metcalf, 1858. First Edition. Original Wraps. 44pp. 8.75" x 5.75" More
Portland: Printed at the Argus Office, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. 34pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 711]. More
Boston: James Munroe, 1853. First Edition. Softcover. 100pp; tied signatures. Printed self-wrappers; light edge-chipping. 9.25" x 5.75" Choate, attorney-general of Massachusetts at the time, here recalls the life and accomplishments of his fellow lawyer and Dartmouth grad, Daniel Webster. More
Hanover: Published by Vote of the Class, August 1861. First Edition. Original Wraps. 44pp. 9.5" x 5.75" Contents: Oration by William W. Colburn; Poem by Henry J. Crippen; Class Chronicles by Joseph V. Chase; Prophecies by Ned Davis; Ode by George W. Estabrook; Address to the President by John P...... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, (1910). First Edition. Original Wrappers. 25pp. Printed cream wrappers, lower edge sunned. 9.25" x 6" Concerns the Graduate College of Princeton University, then proposed under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. More
NY: Clarke & Leslie Songs, 1924. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 6pp, words and music, in part: "I used to find sunshine in your loving eyes, We parted then clouds came to darken the skies...." 12" x 9.25" "Featured with Tremendous Success by Waring's Pennsylvanians," with a photo of the band..... More
various places: EAIA, 1944. First Editions. Softcover. The 16 items, dated 1944-1973, are: 6 issues of "The Chronicle," an illustrated journal, 1944-1972 passim; 6 membership directories, 1965-1973; four memorabilia from annual meetings at Monroe (NY), Old Sturbridge, and the Essex Institute. "The Chronicle" averages 16 pages per issue and contains..... More
Boston: C.W. Thompson, 1903. B. Fisher. First Edition. Original Wraps. 6pp, words and music, in part: "Of all the institutions, Fair Harvard takes the lead: In games or education, In ev'ry worthy deed; In baseball or in football, In earnest or in fun...." Light wear to edges. 13.75" x 10.5"..... More
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Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1858. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp. Original wrappers; old vertical crease. 9.5" x 5.75" This prospectus centers on the need for an ag school in Massachusetts in order to prepare young men for careers in farming, much as other colleges prepare them for other careers. "...It is..... More
1893. Photograph mounted on cabinet card, 6" x 8", titled in ink: Friends' Select School - June 16, 1893. Below the photo are two rows of numbers, corresponding to the 14 young women and one young man in the group. On the verso, each graduate is identified by name, with..... More
Washington DC: GW University, 1920. First Edition. Full Leather. 16pp; two views from photographs. The programme lists graduates, officers, etc. 6.25" x 4" A two-page Dance Card has men's and women's names written in for all the dances. At the top of the dance pages is written "B.G. Quickshanks" with..... More
London: Printed by John Hasler, 1846. First Edition. Softcover. 31pp. Contains the texts of eight papers, including: On the Separation of the Literary and the Theological Course, by Rev. F.W. Gotch; The Practicability and Expediency of Requiring All Students to Pay, at Least, for Their Board, by Rev. B. Davies;..... More
Hamilton, (O.): Printed by James B. Camron, opposite the Court House, 1825. First Edition. Softcover. 25pp, errata on final page. Begins: "Today, we are assembled, as the patrons and friends of literature, to aid an infant seminary, whose birth has been involved in a long night of numerous and almost..... More
Canal Dover, Ohio: Seibert Printing, 1907. Original document. Softcover. (8)pp. printed in sepia ink; vignette illustrations. Bound in pictorial, embossed card covers, tied, 5" x 3.5". On the front is a photo of the teacher, with an American flag, books, globe, and lamp of learning. The memento of the 1907..... More
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1844. First Edition. Softcover. 48pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" The author admonishes seminary graduates and new ministers to pay attention to classical studies and philosophy, refers to the "at last successful battle for the..... More