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1838rif. 35636Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1838. Stitched 75pp. Untrimmed scattered foxing Good. 'Senate.No. 26' at head of title. When Mann took office as Secretary the free public school system was characterized by "short school terms dilapidated and unsanitary school-houses untrained and underpaid teachers and irrational methods of teaching. He brought to his new duties such a degree of courage vision and wisdom that during the brief twelve years in which he held office the Massachusetts school system was almost completely transformed" DAB. This first Report was significant for its "presentation and discussion of school problems of crucial importance. The needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer" Id. Edward Everett was President of the Board of Education whose membership included Mann Jared Sparks and Robert Rantoul Jr. FIRST EDITION. AI 51561 5. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown
1843rif. 56149Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 25cm. In original tan paper wrappers printed on front; 160pp. Largely sound though front wrapper partially detached some losses to paper over spine minor staining to wraps scattered foxing: Very Good. Mann was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education from 1837-1848. Though his only power as secretary was "to collect and disseminate information" he nontheless worked hard to improve the lacklustre public school system. "As a mean of informing the public . . . his twelve annual reports 1837-1848. . . were unsurpassed. Chock full of statistical data the reports-which were widely read and circulated-presented the problems of the common schools as well as possible solutions" ANB. Approximately 7 copies recorded in OCLC; not common in the trade. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Dutton and Wentworth unknown
1850rif. 62509Boston: Redding and Company 1850. Opposing the Extension of Slavery in the Territories with Interesting Provenance Boston edition of a speech by Horace Mann before the United States House of Representatives in which Mann declares his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an education reformer politician and abolitionist from Massachusetts. In 1848 following the death of John Quincy Adams Mann was elected to the U.S. House to serve out the remainder of Adams's term. For more than a decade Mann had fought for education reform as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and he hoped his seat in Congress would give him the opportunity to bring about reform at the national level. Instead however Mann found himself preoccupied with what was perhaps the most pressing political issue of the day: slavery and its extension in the territories. This is the subject of the present speech given on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 15 1850. In it Mann states his opposition to slavery and its extension on moral and legal grounds. Embracing "the epithet 'Free-Soiler'" Mann insists that he "will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new Territories" and "resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery." Mann goes on to adopt the rallying cry "No more slave Territories no more slave States." Given the South's ultimatum of extension or secession Mann closes with what turned out to be his most forceful – and most controversial – statement: "In conclusion I have only to add that such is my solemn and abiding conviction of the character of slavery that under a full sense of my responsibility to my country and my God I deliberately say better disunion - better a civil or a servile war - better any thing that God in his providence shall send than an extension of the bounds of slavery." Much to Mann's disappointment later that year saw the passage of the Compromise of 1850 which not only failed to prohibit slavery's extension in the territories but worse still Mann thought included the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners while denying them the rights of habeas corpus and a trial by jury. Mann's outspoken opposition to the act as well as his criticism of fellow Whig Daniel Webster who helped broker the compromise cost Mann the party's nomination for his congressional seat in 1850. However in a turn of events that in retrospect made his comments from the previous February about being a "Free-Soiler" seem prophetic Mann managed to secure the Free Soil nomination before going on to win reelection by a landslide. This copy bears the bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer 1914-2003 a lawyer intelligence officer and book collector. Pforzheimer was one of the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency having served as an Army Air Force intelligence officer and worked on a number of operations for the Office of Strategic Services - the forerunner to the C.I.A. - during World War II. Among these was an operation called the "Yale Library Project" a mission for which Pforzheimer as a member of the Yale Library Associates used his role as a cover to launder money for the O.S.S. In 1956 Pforzheimer founded the C.I.A.'s Historical Intelligence Collection and went on to serve as the collection's first curator. The rear wrapper of this Boston edition notes other speeches on slavery published by Redding and Company including by Henry Clay John C. Calhoun and William Seward. Another edition of Mann's speech appeared the same year in Washington D.C. and the speech was reprinted the following year as part of a collection of Mann's speeches on the subject. A powerful speech attacking slavery from one of the most contentious legislative sessions in the history of the United States Congress. Original printed brown wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Wrappers chipped tanned and soiled. Text lightly soiled with some handwritten textual corrections in ink. Small blue bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer on rear of front wrapper see below. Good. LIBRARY COMPANY AFRO-AMERICANA 6323. DUMOND p.77. ANB 14 pp.424-27. Ernest Cassara "Reformer as Politician: Horace Mann and the Anti-Slavery Struggle in Congress 1848–1853" in Journal of American Studies Vol. 5 no. 3 December 1971 pp.247-63. Robin W. Winks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War 1939–1961 2nd ed. New Haven 1996 pp.116-51. unknown
1841rif. 56092Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1841. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 328; original cloth-backed tan paper-covered boards; title printed in black on front cover; gilt lettering on spine; ex-Massachusetts Historical Society pressure stamp on title page boards rubbed; corners bumped; some dampstaining; otherwise very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown noting a donation by Rev. S. C. Jackson 1859. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by Horace Mann to the Boston Unitarian minister Rev. Ezra S. Gannett. Compiled by Horace Mann the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown books
1838rif. 35636Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1838. Stitched 75pp. Untrimmed scattered foxing Good. 'Senate.No. 26' at head of title. When Mann took office as Secretary the free public school system was characterized by "short school terms dilapidated and unsanitary school-houses untrained and underpaid teachers and irrational methods of teaching. He brought to his new duties such a degree of courage vision and wisdom that during the brief twelve years in which he held office the Massachusetts school system was almost completely transformed" DAB. This first Report was significant for its "presentation and discussion of school problems of crucial importance. The needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer" Id. Edward Everett was President of the Board of Education whose membership included Mann Jared Sparks and Robert Rantoul Jr. FIRST EDITION. AI 51561 5. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown books
1843rif. 56149Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 25cm. In original tan paper wrappers printed on front; 160pp. Largely sound though front wrapper partially detached some losses to paper over spine minor staining to wraps scattered foxing: Very Good. Mann was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education from 1837-1848. Though his only power as secretary was "to collect and disseminate information" he nontheless worked hard to improve the lacklustre public school system. "As a mean of informing the public . . . his twelve annual reports 1837-1848. . . were unsurpassed. Chock full of statistical data the reports-which were widely read and circulated-presented the problems of the common schools as well as possible solutions" ANB. Approximately 7 copies recorded in OCLC; not common in the trade. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Dutton and Wentworth unknown books
1850rif. 62509Boston: Redding and Company 1850. Opposing the Extension of Slavery in the Territories with Interesting Provenance Boston edition of a speech by Horace Mann before the United States House of Representatives in which Mann declares his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an education reformer politician and abolitionist from Massachusetts. In 1848 following the death of John Quincy Adams Mann was elected to the U.S. House to serve out the remainder of Adams's term. For more than a decade Mann had fought for education reform as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and he hoped his seat in Congress would give him the opportunity to bring about reform at the national level. Instead however Mann found himself preoccupied with what was perhaps the most pressing political issue of the day: slavery and its extension in the territories. This is the subject of the present speech given on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 15 1850. In it Mann states his opposition to slavery and its extension on moral and legal grounds. Embracing "the epithet 'Free-Soiler'" Mann insists that he "will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new Territories" and "resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery." Mann goes on to adopt the rallying cry "No more slave Territories no more slave States." Given the South's ultimatum of extension or secession Mann closes with what turned out to be his most forceful – and most controversial – statement: "In conclusion I have only to add that such is my solemn and abiding conviction of the character of slavery that under a full sense of my responsibility to my country and my God I deliberately say better disunion - better a civil or a servile war - better any thing that God in his providence shall send than an extension of the bounds of slavery." Much to Mann's disappointment later that year saw the passage of the Compromise of 1850 which not only failed to prohibit slavery's extension in the territories but worse still Mann thought included the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners while denying them the rights of habeas corpus and a trial by jury. Mann's outspoken opposition to the act as well as his criticism of fellow Whig Daniel Webster who helped broker the compromise cost Mann the party's nomination for his congressional seat in 1850. However in a turn of events that in retrospect made his comments from the previous February about being a "Free-Soiler" seem prophetic Mann managed to secure the Free Soil nomination before going on to win reelection by a landslide. This copy bears the bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer 1914-2003 a lawyer intelligence officer and book collector. Pforzheimer was one of the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency having served as an Army Air Force intelligence officer and worked on a number of operations for the Office of Strategic Services - the forerunner to the C.I.A. - during World War II. Among these was an operation called the "Yale Library Project" a mission for which Pforzheimer as a member of the Yale Library Associates used his role as a cover to launder money for the O.S.S. In 1956 Pforzheimer founded the C.I.A.'s Historical Intelligence Collection and went on to serve as the collection's first curator. The rear wrapper of this Boston edition notes other speeches on slavery published by Redding and Company including by Henry Clay John C. Calhoun and William Seward. Another edition of Mann's speech appeared the same year in Washington D.C. and the speech was reprinted the following year as part of a collection of Mann's speeches on the subject. A powerful speech attacking slavery from one of the most contentious legislative sessions in the history of the United States Congress. Original printed brown wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Wrappers chipped tanned and soiled. Text lightly soiled with some handwritten textual corrections in ink. Small blue bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer on rear of front wrapper see below. Good. LIBRARY COMPANY AFRO-AMERICANA 6323. DUMOND p.77. ANB 14 pp.424-27. Ernest Cassara "Reformer as Politician: Horace Mann and the Anti-Slavery Struggle in Congress 1848–1853" in Journal of American Studies Vol. 5 no. 3 December 1971 pp.247-63. Robin W. Winks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War 1939–1961 2nd ed. New Haven 1996 pp.116-51. unknown books
1817rif. 66865London: published by Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1817. First edition 12mo pp. 4 224 8 ads; original blue paper-covered boards brown paper shelfback printed paper label on spine; a stain or two on the covers but this copy is near fine. With notes by J. Adam. Also attributed to David Carey. Jaggard p. 384. OCLC locates copies at the National Library of Scotland Nottingham two at the BL Folger Michigan Penn and UCal.-Davis. published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown
1817rif. 66865London: published by Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1817. First edition 12mo pp. 4 224 8 ads; original blue paper-covered boards brown paper shelfback printed paper label on spine; a stain or two on the covers but this copy is near fine. With notes by J. Adam. Also attributed to David Carey. Jaggard p. 384. OCLC locates copies at the National Library of Scotland Nottingham two at the BL Folger Michigan Penn and UCal.-Davis. published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown books
1846rif. 16563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown
1846rif. 16563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown books
1959rif. 14184Hinsdale Illinois: Christian Patriots Crusade 1959. A large handbill accusing the Jews of subverting Christianity through “many long years of insidious infiltration.” The Jews are described as the “SPIRITUAL DESCENDANTS” of the Pharisees although racially they are mongrelized Asiatic KHAZARS making them PROSELYTE Pharisees ‘twice the sons of Hell’.” Issued by the Christian Patriots Crusade CPC which was essentially a one-man paper organization founded by Forrest Allen Mann Jr. in 1956 as the American Christian Patriots Party. Mann published a newsletter "The Revere" that was racist anti-Semitic and pro-Arab and maintained close ties with many prominent nationalist organizations such as the National States Rights Party the Ku Klux Klan We the Mothers Mobilize for America and the National Renaissance Party. He was under FBI surveillance until 1960 when the CPC appears to have disbanded. Printed on one side of an 8 ½” x 6 ½” sheet one illustration. A fine copy. Copies at Michigan State and the Univ. of Chicago. Christian Patriots Crusade unknown
1988rif. 27673Clifton Forge VA: Alleghany Highlands Arts and Craffs Center Inc. 1988. Staplebound. Very good condition. Sally Mann is an American photographer. A catalogue of 15 of the 37 prints in the exhibition that took place at the Allegheny Highlands Arts and Crafts Center from September 6 through October 8 1988. Square 8vo 31pp photographic covers white with black titles b&w photographic ills. Spine dusty very clean internally. Alleghany Highlands Arts and Craffs Center, Inc. unknown
1944rif. 39423No place: no publisher no date circa 1944. First edition thus: presumably published as a reading or study guide for Mann's book which retells the biblical story of Joseph. The production quality of this slender volume would seem to indicate it was published by a large U.S. publishing house -- presumably Knopf or perhaps the Book-of-the-Month club. Slender 8vo off-white stapled paperwraps printed in deep blue; lettered and ruled in black on front; no title page nor indication of publisher or date of publication; inside rear cover states "Printed in U.S.A."; unpaginated. About very good with light rubs and creasing few small tears front corners nicked and narrow chip to lower rear corner. Scarce to rare with OCLC locating only 4 other copies. AN INTERESTING ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR'S BOOK. no publisher unknown
1956rif. 2508BB1956. Erste Auflage. Berlin Aufbau Verlag 1956. 13 x 20 cm. 135 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe im originalen Schutzumschlag. In Mylar. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. hardcover
rif. 3406527302.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. EL172Harry N. Abrams 1982 . hbk 4to 471pp b/w photos ISBN: 0810913046 dj sl shelf worn now in protective sleeve text is excellent as new Harry N. Abrams, 1982, unknown
1965rif. 12325Bonn: Inter Nationes 1965. Paperback. 61p. 4 plates wraps mild edgewear cover and half-title bear a couple neat small ownership signatures. Inter Nationes paperback books
1989rif. 293853Wuppertal: Raabe-Verlag 1989. Paperback. 110p. text in German very good first edition stated paperback in pictorial wraps. Raabe-Verlag paperback books
1981rif. 293619New York: Knopf 1981. Hardcover. vi 325p.notes afterword index light foxing at bottom edges of boards else good first edition stated in cloth boards and price-clipped dj. "From his childhood to the writing of "Death in Venice. Knopf hardcover books
1912rif. 18862Dresden-Leipzig, E. Piersons Verlag, 1912. 8°. 22 S., 1 weißes Bl., OKart.
1982rif. 304409London Constable 1982 1981. 1982. First English edition so stated. 8vo. Frontispiece b/w portrait halftone photograph. Afterword by Clara Winston. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 325 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London, Constable [1982, 1981]. 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
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
2006rif. 169869Paris: Taschen 2006. Hardcover. First French Edition. Text in French. An in-depth overview of the work of noted auteur Michael Mann illustrated with numerous black-and-white and color photographs. Rear board slightly bowed else about Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Taschen unknown
