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1998rif. 9031140New York: Viking 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated and with preface by Neugroschel. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth with red paper boards and spine stamped in scarlet. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 366 pages. Viking hardcover books
1844rif. 56150Boston 1844-45. 1. MANN Horace Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education; Together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1844. First edition. Octavo 25cm. Original brown paper wrappers with printed title on front untrimmed; 1991pp. Inscribed "J. F. Bumstead Esq. / with best regards from / Horace Mann" on front wrapper. With a few contemporary pencil annotations. A fresh copy edges gently rubbed one or two small stains to wraps: Very Good or better. This copy presented by Mann to J. F. Bumstead-plausibly Josiah Freeman Bumstead 1797-1868 who authored primary school primers readers and spellers published by Ticknor and other Boston firms in the 1840s. 2. MANN Horace. The Common School Journal vol. VI no. 5; March 1 1844. Containing the "Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education to the Board of Education." PRESENTATION COPY FROM SAMUEL MAY TO ADIN BALLOU. Octavo 26cm. Original paper wrappers printed on front; 64-200pp. Inscribed to "Rev. Adin Ballou / with the best regards of / Sam J. May - / Let all that have eyes read / or all that have ears hear this / admirable document -" With one or two minor marginal pencil marks. Ex libris and discard stamp of Swarthmore College to final leaf. Textblock sound though rubbed but front cover detached rear cover lacking; some staining to outer leaves minor foxing: Good. Presentation copy from Samuel Joseph May 1797-1871 to Adin Ballou 1803-1890 founder of the Hopedale Community. May was one of Mann's allies in establishing the Massachusetts state school system and both he and Ballou were members of the New England Non-Resistance Society a peace organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison. 3. Association of Masters of the Boston Public Schools. Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original brown paper wrappers printed in black on front; 144pp. Inscribed "B. A. Gould" to front upper cover--possibly pioneering Boston astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896. With occasional marginal pencil marks. A fresh copy with one or two tiny chips to spine: Very Good or better. 4. MANN Horace. Reply to the "Remarks" of Thirty-One Boston Schoolmasters on the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Wm B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original dark beige paper wrappers printed in black on front; 176pp. A sound copy with losses at head and tail of spine joints partly split but holding internally clean: Very Good. 5. ASSOCIATION OF THE MASTERS OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Barnum Field; Wm A. Shepard; S. S. Greene; Joseph Hale. Rejoinder to the "Reply" of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education to the "Remarks" of the Association of Boston Masters Upon His Seventh Annual Report. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1845. First edition. Octavo 22cm. Original beige wrappers printed in black on front; 55 1 56 40 64pp. Inscribed "The Misses Adams / 1 May 1922" on verso of title page. A sound fresh copy with split at front upper joint chip at tail minor dirt to wraps but internally clean: Very Good. Five pamphlets on Horace Mann's 1844 annual report to the Board of Education including two presentation copies of different editions of the report itself and three responses. Mann had toured Europe with his new wife Mary Peabody and friend Samuel Gridley Howe and studied schools in eight countries with special interest in the Prussian school system. His 1844 annual report comparing American and European school systems was received with great offense by Boston schoolteachers. "A group of thirty-one schoolmasters. . . published a sharply worded critique of his seventh Annual Report" targeting "Mann's recommendations for teacher training as well as his opposition to corporal punishment." However this group "soon faced Mann's wrath in the form of written rejoinders" and were ultimately vanquished when "Mann's allies were elected to the Boston School Committee." Despite the controversy Mann's efforts to "merge the best that he found in European educational systems with the principles of the growing American common school movement" saw remarkable success. Under his direction the Board of Education spent over $2 million on improved school buildings increased teacher salaries by over 50% opened fifty new high schools commissioned uniform school textbooks from Boston publishers and alotted time for student exercise-shaping the public school system as we know it ANB. All the titles in this collection are uncommon in the book trade. unknown books
2003rif. 9027648New York: St martin's Press/ Thomas Dunne Books 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Includes maps bibliography and index as well as many photographs in black and white. St martin's Press/ Thomas Dunne Books hardcover books
1960rif. 9026313Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1960. 1st. Hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by Herbert Wegener. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
1947rif. 32320New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First American Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; original black cloth gilt-stamped spine; 2vii5472pp.; photographic frontispiece. Cloth a bit rubbed along extremities faint soil spot to upper cover spine gilt quite dulled. About Very Good albeit lacking jacket. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with the former's ownership inscription dated May 1947 to front free endpaper and their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Shahn would design the cover of the Vintage edition of Mann's Buddenbrooks in 1952. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1973rif. 9023867New York: Praeger 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards spine stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed edges and extremities of dust jacket. Praeger hardcover books
1942rif. 28976New York: Common Council for American Unity 1942. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm; yellow and black printed wrappers stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine issued from 1940-49 which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial 13pp short story by Woody Guthrie "Ear Players" which marked his debut as a published writer in the mainstream media. The issue includes contributions by Langston Hughes Waldo Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Also includes a pictorial insert 4pp of photomontage by Alexander Alland. REUSS 30 p.9. Common Council for American Unity unknown books
1982rif. 9015419New York: H.N. Abrams 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Includes bibliographical references. H.N. Abrams hardcover books
2000rif. 9014141Dulles Virginia: Brassey's Inc 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Brassey's Inc hardcover books
2001rif. 9009032New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover books
1977rif. 9002354Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1977. Hardcover. Fine condition. Robert Borja. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Illustrated by Robert Borja. Bound in the publisher's original black composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. Franklin Library hardcover books
1930rif. 4443New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Translated by Herman George Scheffauer. 1st American edition. Decorated cloth. Publisher's notice tipped-in. Very good condition. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1935rif. 5757London: A. & C. Black 1935. Hardcover. Fine condition in very good dust jackets. Book 1 is a reprint edition; book 2 is 1st edition. Blind-stamped cloth with gilt letters on the spines. 16 color illustrations and 128 in black-&-white. Fine in lightly soiled jackets with minor chipping at the head of book 1 and closed tears to the top edge of book's 2 back cover. A. & C. Black hardcover books
1941rif. UMANTRA00ajsKnopf 1941. Good. Mann Thomas. The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India. Lowe-Porter translator H.T. NY: Knopf 1941. 196pp. 8vo. 1/4 Black and decorated cloth. Book condition: Good with fading soiling and yellowing. Rubbed and bumped edges with short tear in head of spine. Clipped front free endsheet. Previous owner's mailing sticker on front pastedown. Paste residue on rear free endsheet. Knopf hardcover books
1988rif. 13933New York: Aperture 1988. First printing. Near Fine. First printing. At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a classic 1988 photography book by Sally Mann featuring large-format black-and-white portraits of twelve-year-old girls from her native Rockbridge County Virginia capturing the complex transition between childhood and adolescence with unflinching honesty often paired with the subjects' own words. Near fine. Cardstock paper. Black and white inkjet. Approx. 20x30 Aperture unknown books
rif. 2353707New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. 6th printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly soiled slipcase toned with split along top seam ink name and date on front flyleaf of each volume. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1939 Hard Cover. Two hardcover volumes. vi 369; 370-664 4 pp. Joseph and His Brothers reinterprets the biblical story as told in the Book of Genesis employing psychological insight and wide-ranging knowledge of myth history and geography. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
rif. 2353706New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. 6th printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly soiled slipcase toned with split along top seam a couple ink marks and small stickers on slipcase. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1939 Hard Cover. Two hardcover volumes. vi 369; 370-664 4 pp. Joseph and His Brothers reinterprets the biblical story as told in the Book of Genesis employing psychological insight and wide-ranging knowledge of myth history and geography. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2015rif. 626558New York: Little Brown and Company 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 482pp. Illustrated from photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Sally Mann on the title page. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2005rif. UMAN14901acmfAlfred A. Knopf 2005. Fine. Mann Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Beofre Columbus. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. 465pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped edges. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1910rif. 55955Berlin: Fischer 1910. Jubilaumsausgabe. Hardcover. fair. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. 499pp. 477pp. Gilt decorated full-maroon leather with embossed gilt lettering to spines. Top edges gilt. Ribbon markers to both volumes. Title vignette. A classic of German literature see below. This copy is the anniversary issue celebrating the fiftieth edition of the Thomas Mann's masterpiece the family sage "The Buddenbrooks" originally published in 1901. Printed on high quality cotton-rag paper. The "Buddenbrooks" is a transition novel involving both 19th-century realistic style and 20th-century symbolism. Written by acclaimed German writer essayist social critic intellectual and Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann 1875-1955 when he was just 26 years old. Chipping tears scuffing rubbing and staining to spines with lower left corner missing on vol. 1 and upper right corner on vol. 2. Spine of vol. 2 is cracking on both hinges. Half of spine of vol. 1 is cracked in half. Gilt of top edges faded with slight staining. Ribbon markers 2 stained. Pages clear and clean. In German. Good- condition. Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel published in 1901 when he was 26. It portrays the downfall of a wealthy mercantile family of the German city of Lubeck over four generations. The book is generally understood as a portrait of the German bourgeois society from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It displays Mann's characteristic ironic and detailed style and it was mainly this novel which won Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Fischer hardcover books
1960rif. RVONMAR00ajsCriterion 1960. Very Good. Von Kleist Heinrich. The Marquise of O-- And Other Stories. Greenberg translator Martin; Mann Thomas. NY: Criterion 1960. 318pp. 8vo. Grey cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and soiling. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with short tears and chipping. Criterion hardcover books
2022rif. 233893Tor Books 2022-07-12. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations hb. LF Tor Books hardcover books
1959rif. 339002New York: Knopf 1959. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Frontis portrait of Mann. 211 pages. 8vo black cloth d.w. small areas of edgewear; price-clipped. New York: Knopf 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Knopf unknown books
1953rif. UMANMAG04acmfVintage 1953. Very Good. Mann Thomas. The Magic Mountain. NY: Vintage 1953. 727pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and yellowing. Vintage paperback books
2013rif. 234201Titan Books 2013-11-05. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations light shelf wear to the edges remainder mark on bottom edge tpb. LF Titan Books paperback books
