210 pages. "This little book is offered to the reader in the hope that it will help him/her to liberate the beautiful self which is him/herself; and also to see that everyone has a beautiful self waiting to be let out." Early printing of this classic home schooling work. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to blue boards. Yellowing to endpapers. Nice copy. Book
252 pages including index. "The point of view taken in this volume is, that all beautiful and noble possibilities are present in everyone; but that each person is subject to assault and hindrance in various ways of which he should be aware in order that he may watch and pray." - from preface. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Minor warp to blue boards. Moderate to average wear. Nice early copy of this classic home-learning work. Book
xxxii, 360 pp. Index. 1931 reprint of the 1925 first edition. "Miss Mason saw and in this volume has explained that the natural and only quite wholesome way of teaching is to let the child's desire for knowledge operate in the schoolboy and guide the teacher. In this volume there is a rare combination of intuitive insight and practical sagacity. [Miss Mason] refused to believe that the collapse of the desire for knowledge between seven and seventeen years of age is inevitable. So must we." - Foreword. Unmarked with average wear and moderate foxing. Some fading to publisher's green cloth, mostly to backstrip. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A sound copy of this marvelous and inspiring treatise. Book
Boston: Mass Sabbath School Society 1868. Hardcover. Good Used. Green cloth with gilt. Wear to cover and spine. Harboards weak at spine. Inscription. Mass Sabbath School Society hardcover
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1845. Second from the London Edition. Hardcover. Good. Revised by the committee of publication. 162 p. 16 cm. B&w line drawings. Cloth hardcover with blank impressing gilt trim on spine. Boards a little warped corners bumped. Ink inscription on front free endpaper: "Presented to Mary Ann McLean by her pastor John Scott for writing a report of the Anniversary Meeting of St. Andrew's Sabbath School Dec. 29th 1857. London C.W. Mar. 31st 1858." Some foxing. <br/><br/>Prose and poetry on the Christian life. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society hardcover
Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1850. Soft cover. Near Fine. A based-on-fact account of early live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Good in green cloth original. 198 pages third edition. <br/> <br/> Massachusetts Sabbath School Society paperback