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By: (Anonymous)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Unknown, Self: ca. 1880
Seller ID: 16360
This is a single, handwritten sheet with writing on recto only. There seems to be a title at the top, but it is not readable (at least not by me). The sheet has some wear and aging with two corners torn, some other small chips. There is general age-toning to the paper and some old vertical and horizontal creasing, mostly flattened. When I acquired this sheet, I was told it dated from 1830, based on other material that the former owner had. However, I suspect it is from later in the 19th century probably from 1880 to 1900. The essay is essentially a teacher's lament about the diffculties of dea... View more info
By: Berliner, David C. and Bruce J. Biddle
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Perseus Books: 1995
Edition: Sixth Printing
Seller ID: 6996
Condition: Near Fine
Book has only very light shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 414 pages; Antidote to the prevalent notion that American public education is no good. View more info
By: Bernstein, Cynthia, Thomas Nunnally and Robin Sabino (eds.)
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 12984
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Book has minor corner wear; light bump, front lower right. Square and securely bound. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 641 pages; Large collection of scholarly essays by numerous writers on various Southern dialects, accents and usages. View more info
By: Booth, Wayne C.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1970
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 9472
Book is square and securely bound with only a hint of edge and corner wear. Small sunned line across front near bottom edge. VG to VG+. Jacket has some edge and corner wear with small chips and tears across top edge. Some tonig on both front and back. G+ to VG-; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages; Collection of essays by the noted University of Chicago literature professor, author of The Rhetoric of Fiction. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Brooklyn, The Institute: 1900
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 12673
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Dull red cloth with black titles. Old diagonal crease on front that is flattened and firm, maybe a publishing blemish. Some edge, corner and surface wear with a sunned spine. Interior pages are quite attractive, though advertisements which precede and succeed the text are on an acidic paper that is somewhat browned. Despite problems this is a square, secuely bound and solid copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 476 +ads pages; Annual review book of this well-known Brooklyn Institute with lists of members, plus articles, programs, essays and photographs. Of some interest is t... View more info
Price: $225.00
Publisher: New York, Brooklyn Institute: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12778
Condition: Very Good+
Stapled tan wraps with illustrations in and titles in a deeper brown. Some toning and foxing along spine, with light damage at top of spine. Very light wear on edges. This copy came from a collection that was in storage for many years and is in exceptional condition. The interior is near fine except for very minor aging. ; Volume XI. No. 13. November 29, 1913; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 301-328 pages; Especially interesting issue of The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Besides the articles there are two-page spreads on upcoming events that include a l... View more info
By: Bryson, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1994
Edition: Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 13055
Condition: Fine
Book appears is as new and unread. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 417 pages; Informal history of American Englsih by the always witty Bryson. View more info
By: Cushing Academy
Price: $15.00
Publisher: 1889
Seller ID: 11392
Condition: Good+
Wear to edges, paper toned. Has original string. ; Thin 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 10 pages; Cushing Academy graduated 15 students in 1889, and is still in operation. Ashburnham, MA is about 50 miles NW of Boston. View more info
By: Davis, John Rev. (Revisor)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Belfast, Sims and M'Intyre: 1838
Edition: Stereotype Edition
Seller ID: 9064
Condition: Very Good-
Leather covered boards with no titles but small gilt bands on spine. Some edge and corner wear. Book is square and securely bound. Interior pages have some old staining around the edges of the first two endpapers, front and rear but no problems after those pages. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages; This is the revised version of a popular word book and simple dictionary first published in 1796. This edition is labelled the Stereotype Edition and it was revised and prepared by Rev. John Davis, a Corresponding Member of the Grammatical Society of Paris. Books such as this helped codify En... View more info
By: Gardner, Howard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, BasicBooks: 1991
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13444
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book and jacket have only very light shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 303 pages; Noted Harvard educator and researcher presents his studies on how children's minds develop and the implications of his findings for education. View more info
By: Hicks, Warren E.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, American Book Company: 1909
Edition: First Edition (?)
Seller ID: 14453
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Tan cloth with black titles and illustration. Some corner and edge wear but square and securely bound. An attractive copy. Some pages show evidence of dogears. There are stamps of the front pastedown and the ffep indicating that this book was used in the Canal Zone. One of the stamps is signed by "W. H. Maxcy" who is listed as "Storekeeper." ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 238 pages View more info
By: Mace, William
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, Rand Mcnally: 1922
Edition: Edition of 1922
Seller ID: 14489
Brown cloth with black titles and illustration. Some edge and corner wear with boards showing at corners. Book is square and binding secure. There are a number of small scuffs and/or stains on both the back and front. Some school child writing and marks on the interior, typical of old textbooks. G+ to VG-. This is an early 20th century history text. It is instructive to read these "Stories of Heroism" and consider how those "heroes have held up in this century. The Spanish Conquistadors, John C. Calhoun, Woodrow Wilson and several others have certainly found their hero status questioned recent... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Something Else Press Inc.: 1967
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15931
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Book has only light wear and aging with a small stain in the bottom margin of page 60. Square and securely bound, an about near fine copy. The dust wrapper is price clipped and has some minor wear along the bottom edge; still an attractive VG to VG+ wrapper. With Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan became a voice for the changes in communication that began to take place in the 1960's. Often misunderstood, he, nonetheless, suggested ways of adapting to and dealing with the rapid changes that were taking place. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations is not a typical book on technology but it certainly... View more info
By: Michaels, Leonard & Christopher Ricks (eds.)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 10133
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Straw colored cloth with black backstrip and gilt lettering on spine. Book has only very light shelf wear. Jacket has mild edge and corner wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 609 pages; Collection of thoughtful essays on English ca. 1980. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1920
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 13449
Condition: Very Good
Olive cloth with black titles. General edge, corner and surface wear. Still square and securely bound. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 529 pages; Education textbook from 1920. Interesting to see how things have and have not changed. View more info
By: Perdue, H. Avis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Rand McNally: 1927
Edition: First Edition (?)
Seller ID: 13461
Old geography textbook with signs of use and much wear, though this copy is still square. The binding is somewhat loose, but there is no parting. No marking that indicates official school use, but "Grade 3" is written in pencil on the ffep. G-. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 216 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1970
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 10823
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book has only light shelf wear, appears to be unread. Jacket has some age-toning on edges and light, general wear otherwise. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 553 pages; Classic study from the 1960's. Interesting to compare Silverman's complaints then with the continuing complaints of the present. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes and Company: 1872
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 11127
Beige, pictorial covers with brown backstrip. Much of brown paper making up the backstrip has flaked off on the back near the spine. The book has much edge, corner and surface wear including an old dampstain on the back that affects about the last thirty pages. A former owner, Alice Reeder ofCleveland Tennessee, has signed her name in pencil on several pages. For all its problems the book is still square and the binding seems solid with no tears or parting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 132 pages; This is a textbook-speller. This is the 1872 edition or printing. The first edition seems to date ... View more info
By: Spafford, Justin and Lucien Esty (revised by Lewis Copeland)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books, Inc.: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 15461
Dark blue cloth with black titles. Edge, corner and surface wear with some soiling/aging. Still square and securely bound; no parting or tears. Some internal toning, mostly on endpapers. Overall G+ to VG-. This is a trivia quiz book with a Preface by Robert Benchley. This book was originally published in 1928 by Viking, then reprinted in 1937. This copy is by Blue Ribbon in 1940 and says Completely Revised. This is fun to read if you enjoy Jeopardy and other trivia contests. The trivia in 1940 was somewhat different from today. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Paine and Burgess: 1845
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 14346
Condition: Good
Original tan paper over boards with black titles and illustration of a scale. Black leather or leather-like spine. Much edge, corner and surface wear, but book is still square and securely bound. Interior exhibit a good bit of foxing and some, and a few pages near the end have evidence of an old dampstain. Gift inscription on ffep with other owner's names on the back of ffep and second free endpaper. This is a pre-Civil War algebra textbook. First Edition. First Printing. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 194 pages View more info
By: Town, Salem
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, Sanborn, Carter and Bazin: 1856
Seller ID: 9260
Black cloth with gilt lettering and embossed decoration on spine. Boards have been reglued and were either loose or possibly detached. Book is square with wear on edges and corners. Overall F to G. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 408 pages; One of many alsmost yearly editions of this popular work. View more info
By: Wells, W. H.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company: 1881
Seller ID: 9259
Condition: Good+
Tan cloth with black lettering on front and spine. Aging, toning and soiling on covers. Some edge and corner wear. Erased pencil writing on endpapers along with former owner's name. Some interior toning. Book is square and securely bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 189 pages; First printing of this grammar was in 1880. View more info
