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1844réf. 38801Boston: John H. Eastburn City Printer 1844. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy. 13 pp. 8vo. The Primary School committee was much agitated by the Secretary of the Board of Education Horace Mann's Seventh Annual Report which complained that there was no real system of education in Boston specifically that the teachers in the higher grades were forced to teacher the basic elements that should have been covered earlier: "The elements must be taught somewhere. If neglected in the primary schools they must be taught in the grammar schools. And thus the order of things is reversed and disarrangement introduced into the whole school system. The teacher who is employed and paid for instructing in the higher branches is compelled to devote time and attention to the studies appropriately belonging to schools of a lower grade. This is found to be the case to too great an extent in the schools of our city. We do not say this to the disparagement of the primary school teachers or from the belief that there is a want of fidelity on their part. We believe it to be in part at least owing to the system of teaching or rather want of system in the primary schools." The Primary School committee attempted to rebut his criticism point by point. Over 175 years later this problem remains as intractable as ever. Not at AAS. OCLC locates 8 printed copies. American Imprints 44882. John H. Eastburn, City Printer unknown books
1897réf. 41634Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Company 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Tall thin octavo 25 cm Dark green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and decorative borders on the front cover. Very good. There is a 2" split in the cloth along the rear joint and a thin layer of glue has been applied to the spine from the head to the foot. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. There are a handful of very minor stains on the covers. This copy once belonged to the Deseret Sunday School Union and has several library markings on the endpapers and title page and a handwritten notation at the foot of the spine. There is a small loss from the top fore edge corner of the front free endsheet. Flake 1551. Lessons include Jesus as a Boy Jesus and the Woman of Samaria The Parable of the Sower The Last Supper The Visit of Jesus to the Nephites Cain and Abel The Necessity of a Latter-day Prophet Joseph Smith's First Vision and more. Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Company hardcover books
1946réf. 5393Millers Falls Mass 1946. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. 38 pages. Cover title: Cook Book: Highland P.T.A. 1946. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook then its one hundred thirty attributed recipes known to but a few dozen families. Alma M. Lapointe Cuff 1920-2009 was a newcomer recently arrived from distant Greenfield about seven miles away after her marriage to a metal worker and settling to raise a family in Millers Falls. Two intriguing aspects of the Cook Book she oversaw are the number of recipes identified as "sugarless"--among them Gingerbread Cream Pudding Devil's Food Cake and Alma Cuff's own Fudge and a few experimental ventures such as New Way to Prepare Stringbeans and - a Committee project - Pineapple Chicken Sandwich. Once a mill village amidst the farming communities of Franklin County in northwestern Massachusetts Millers Falls took its name in the 1860s from Millers Falls Manufacturing makers of fine tools founded in Greenfield but with factories in Millers Falls. The village is now a constituent neighborhood of Montague. Children of several generations past attended the Highland School a one-story six-room brick schoolhouse on Millers Falls Road built circa 1920. In stapled blue-titled wrapper. Lower front corner of wrapper chipped otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy; in neither Brown nor Cagle. unknown books
réf. 2512Rochester Kent: The School 1940. . 8vo tan cloth-covered boards spine orange cloth; printed paper spine label somewhat soiled COPAC and OCLC showing only one holding with this imprint--Cambridge University Library. Interesting piece produced by the students of the school. The whole was produced "in the clawses of the Typography Department of the Medway School.during the session 1939-40. Layout and arrangement in type by P. J. Reynolds .Set by students of the "Monotype Composition classes. Head of the Dpartment Charles L. Pickering under whose direction this book was made and finished in July 1940" Rochester, Kent: [The School], 1940. hardcover books
1968réf. 51521bdVineland NJ: American Institute for Mental Studies The Training School Unit Wednesday May 22 1968. Signed by Pearl S. Buck and James A. Michener. Octavo paperbound stapled printed wrappers 8 pp. Very Good with foxing age darkened spotting and shadowed edges. Program for Vineland Day has had its upper cover signed by both James A. Michener and Pearl S. Buck. As noted on underside of upper cover: We are fotunate to again have with us on Vineland Day the distinguished President of the Board of Trustees of the AMerican Institute for Mental Studies Pearl S. Buck. She has long been active in work for retarded children. In 1950 she published a small book entitled The Child Who Never Grew -- the story of her own experience with her eldest daughter whose mental growth was retarded. This was written first as an article for the Ladies Home Journal to help parents of other retarded cihldren. It was reprinted in the Reader’s Digest and was subsequently published in more than a dozen languages. This personal narrative has done much to educate the public in the cause of the mentally handicapped. And later in the publication: Today’s Guest of Honor and featured speaker is a person whose talents reflect a great love and understanding of his fellow man. His reputation as a celebrated Pulitzer prize winning author is universally recognized. His deep concern for those deprived in any respect is known as well. A teacher author historian world traveler and humanitarian Mr. Michener attributes his greatest motivation to his boyhood years in Bucks County Pennsylvania. No matter how far his travels have taken him he still refers to this picturesque Quaker setting as “Home Country” and resides there presently. Mr. Michener’s literary works include Sayonara The Bridge at Toko-Ri Hawaii The Source and others. His Return to Paradise was the basis for the long running TV series Adventures in Paradise. Perhaps his best known book is Tales of the South Pacific which was transformed into one of the greatest Broadway musicals ever produced. Mr. Michener’s latest effort Iberia was released by Random House earlier this month. His writings reflect his great perceptiveness which is never obscured by the culture that provides the background for his stories. We of the NJSFWC and AIMS welcome him and are honored by his presence today. American Institute for Mental Studies, The Training School Unit, Wednesday, May 22, 1968. unknown books
1917réf. 8043Boston Mass: Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery 1917. Stapled booklet 20 x 13 cm. 29 pages. Stated "Third printing May 21 1917"; originally published in April of that year and with a "Second Edition" early in the month of May. The lessons in this booklet cover "Food as an Energy Producer" and were “first arranged for lessons in Canteen Cooking from the Massachusetts Branch of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness”. Alice Bradley had been the head of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery since 1915 when she rose to the position upon the death of the school's namesake. She ran the school through the mid-1940s publishing numerous books along the way. This was one of her earliest published works though I've been unable to establish priority of the first few as she was prolific in 1917 issuing The Candy Book a series of Demonstration Lectures and this book of Lessons. A few early and neat ink corrections to tables at rear; in publisher’s printed brown wrappers; fine. OCLC locates six copies of all printings; Cagle 99. Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery unknown books
1939réf. 008103Boston: D C Heath and Company 1939 Beige cloth pictorially stamped in maroon and blue light cover soil and surface rubbing internally clean. Easy reading stories featuring Disney characters including Pluto. Illustrated in color throughout. Very Good /No Jacket. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio. 8vo. D C Heath and Company hardcover books
1971réf. 54804Ann Arbor: CHIPS 1971. Mimeograph. 22cm; yellow stock illustrated in red and blue titled in black; 12pp. including covers; illustrated Near Fine copy. 15 point program explaining the wants of the organization. Includes full page order sheet for Youth Liberation materials such as pamphlets buttons posters back issues and t-shirts ect. "The purpose of CHIPS is to provide help for students who have started or want to start independent papers in their schools. The symbol on the cover is a combination of the Greek letter "Theta" and the red and blue of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam." from the text. CHIPS unknown books
1899réf. 271407Richmond VA: Whittet & Shepperson 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A Latin primer prepared by E. W. Bosworth of the McGuire's School in Richmond presumably for the use of the students at the school. An uncommon Richmond item. Very Good binding. Whittet & Shepperson unknown books
1911réf. 007397Boston: Silver Burdett 1911 Tan cloth pictorially stamped in brown bump to bottom edge else near fine. Retelling of fables in reader format with wonderful part color illustrations by Harry Wood. Scarce. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry E Wood. 12mo. Silver Burdett hardcover books
1939réf. 529101939. 1941-42 Harvard Law School Yearbook Harvard Law School. The Harvard Law School Year Book 1941-1942. Dedicated to Those Students of the School Now in the Armed Forces and Containing a Tribute to the Late Mr. Justice Brandeis. Volume Five. Cambridge: The Law School Year Book Committee of Phillips Brooks House Association of Harvard University 1942. 216 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original gilt-stamped dark maroon textured cloth. Some rubbing with light wear to extremities internally clean. $75. The fifth volume of the Harvard Law School yearbook which began publication in 1937. As one would expect there are several essays and photographs relating to military service. There is also a brief tribute to Louis D. Brandeis who died in October 1941. unknown books
1947réf. 775131947. Cambridge: Harvard Law School c.1947. Cambridge: Harvard Law School c.1947. Raising Funds to Construct Harvard Law Library's Treasure Room Harvard Law School. The Treasure Room to be Built in Langdell Hall. Cambridge: Harvard Law School c.1947. 26 pp. Illustrations. Stapled pictorial stiff wrappers. Light soiling edgewear and a few tiny stains brief early owner inscription and signature to head of front cover moderate toning to interior. $75. This pamphlet was issued to raise funds for Harvard Law Library's Treasure Room known today as the Casperson Room. It is an interesting snapshot of the state of the library's special collections department in the late 1940s. unknown books
1951réf. 108943Cambridge:: Harvard School of Public Health. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. Gift inscription to author John Marquand on front free endpaper. Black and white photographs. First edition. Foxing on edges else very good in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. . Harvard School of Public Health, hardcover books
1889réf. 4121Mississippi: Mississippi Industrial Institute & College 1889. Sewn binding. Brown wraps. Very good. 16 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Commencement speech delivered for the graduating class of the first state-supported college for women in America. This university was originally called Mississippi Industrial Institute Institute and College for the Education of White Girls and was exclusively all white for 82 years. The name changed to Mississippi State College for Women in 1920 and then to Mississippi University for Women in 1974. Owner's inscription on title page annotated in pencil throughout. One copy in OCLC as of 2/4/24. Covers rubbed at edges. Mississippi Industrial Institute & College paperback books
2001réf. 28062Bel Air MD: John Carroll School 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio. Very good in black cloth boards with brown leatherette spine and gilt title to spine and front cover. Light soiling and smudging to covers but clean overall. Clean bright interior. Tears to edges of a few pages. Unpaginated. Each issue is 12 to 16 pages in length. MD/031115. John Carroll School hardcover books
1940réf. 46921940. MODERN SCHOOL OF STELTON. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary 1915-1940. Stelton 1940. 4to. 32 4 p. Wrappers. Libertarian school and colony at Stelton Middlesex County popular with Jewish immigrants. Much on Francisco Ferrer. unknown books
1828réf. 49341New-York: J. Seymour 1828. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; stitched brown wrappers printed within decorative border; 18pp. Lacking rear wrapper upper wrapper separated and heavily chipped along extremities with some loss of border though not affecting text textblock a bit foxed and toned along extremities. Good only though internally sound. List of Officers on p. 19 name DeWitt Clinton as President of the Society though he died early that year on February 11. SABIN 54615; SHOEMAKER 34939. J. Seymour unknown books
1938réf. 335464qsWadsworth Ohio: The Wadsworth Banner-Press 1938. First Edition. Octavo green cloth hardcover 203 pp iv pp. Near Fine with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: Foreword; Pioneers; Center to City; Churches; Education; Industry and Business; Transportation; Hotels; Publications; Recreation; Library and Federation; Radical Groups; Cemetery; Houses; Soldiers; Physicians; Personalities; Bibliography; Contributors. The Wadsworth Banner-Press, 1938. First Edition. hardcover books
1977réf. 5185Malvern PA c. 1977. Cards. Illustrated cards aluminum rings. Very good. Unpaginated. 15 x 22 cm. Featuring a pen-and-ink line drawing by local artist E.L. Malberti of the Green Tree School locally known as the Little Red Schoolhouse. This drawing of the school is laminated to the front cover displaying the true handcrafted approach to this community endeavor. Recipes are attributed to community members and the final pages feature hand drawn local advertisements. Colored cards separate the five chapters: Appetizers Vegetables Meat & Seafood Desserts & Miscellaneous - the final recipe for adults only - Something 'special' for tired 'Mom's tea bourbon frozen lemonade & limeade "just keep in the freezer hidden from the kids!". Interior clean boards lightly toned. books
1903réf. 180101903. Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1903 and 1905 records the geographic extent of secondary schooling available to girls in Britain during the early twentieth-century expansion of women's education. Founded in 1874 by Frances Mary Buss and other headmistresses of endowed and proprietary schools the Association developed from efforts to improve the standards and institutional position of girls' secondary education. These two successive lists arrange schools by county providing contemporary evidence of where public secondary education for girls was available and allowing comparison across localities and between the two publication years. Their dates follow three decades in which girls gained broader access to academically oriented schools and universities although educational equality remained contested; in 1897 Cambridge rejected a proposal granting women the titles of degrees followed by riotous celebrations by male undergraduates. Women were not admitted to full membership of Cambridge until 1948. Two pamphlets issued by the Association of Head Mistresses dated 1903 and 1905 each measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Soft blue covers are printed "One Shilling Published by the Educational Supply Association 42 Holborn Viaduct E.C." Entries within each pamphlet are organized by county and identify public secondary schools open to girls at the time of publication. The format turns the changing institutional landscape of girls' education into a contemporary directory recording individual schools by place rather than describing educational reform retrospectively. Both front covers bear stamps reading "Board of Education Library" and "Supplied Public Service" each incorporating the royal crown; the back covers retain red "Board of Education Reference Library" stickers. These official library markings document their presence within a government educational reference collection. 1 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1903. Arranged geographically by county the pamphlet enumerates secondary schools then available to girls and provides a contemporary reference point for the distribution of female secondary education at the beginning of the Edwardian period. Its Board of Education Library markings also preserve evidence of institutional reference use. 2 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1905. Issued two years after the first pamphlet this updated county-by-county listing permits direct comparison of the provision of girls' secondary schools between 1903 and 1905. The directory appeared during the continuing expansion of educational opportunities that connected secondary schooling with women's increasing access to higher education; the University of London had begun awarding degrees to women on equal terms with men in 1878 while access elsewhere remained uneven. Textblocks tight bright and clean. Both pamphlets overall very good condition. The consecutive editions preserve a measurable record of girls' secondary education by county at a time when women educators and school leaders were establishing institutions capable of preparing girls for examinations professional training and higher education. unknown books
1893réf. List1712Nagasaki: Ikuta 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount with the imprint of Ikuta Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan taken at the Kwassui Girls' School later Kwassui Women's University in Nagasaki. At the time Taylor was representing the Women's Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and serving perhaps as principal of the school which had been started in 1879. Callahan began his work as a teacher in Japan shortly after graduating from Emory in 1890. The two would spend over forty-five years in Japan as missionaries. Ikuta unknown books
1932réf. 25388Hartford Connecticut: Hartford Public High School 1932. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 168 pages. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Burgundy leatherette binding with embossed gilt lettering. Stamped name of Martin A. Gilman on front cover. Laid in is a sheet noting the 16 members who attended the October 11 2002 reunion Gilman among them and one of his report cards from 1931. Boards. Includes many many signatures. Gilman whose yearbook this was was voted most industrious. Judging by the number of signatures this wasn't far off. Includes the signature of MLB pitcher Peter Ernest Naktenis on the autographs page. Hartford Public High School unknown books
1927réf. NF3895The Viking 1927 The Semi-Annual of the June Class of Northern High School Detroit MICH. Northern High School 1927 first edition some wear to the spine and fold-over flap ends one leaf with long tear pages 83/84 else a near vg copy in flexible leatherette wraps. Profusely illustrated of course. Northern High School paperback books
1920réf. 388632Fontainebleau France: Ecole Militaire de l'Artillerie 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 525pp. Half cloth and marbled paper-covered boards gilt-stamped spine label. Text in French. Pages are toned a few light color pencil markings hinges are cracked but still snug about very good. A detailed battle history of World War I for soldiers in training at the French Military Academy at Fontainebleau. Contemporary owner's inscription on front fly: "R. Heard Ecole Militaire de L'Artillerie Fountainebleau May 1921." Very scarce in the trade. (Ecole Militaire de l'Artillerie) hardcover books
1967réf. 171271967. Black Power School photograph 1967 documents community education for Black children in Nashville during the city's transition from the integration campaigns of the early Civil Rights Movement toward Black Power programs emphasizing Black history political education and community self-determination. Nashville had begun gradual public-school desegregation in 1957 but integration remained incomplete a decade later. During the summer of 1967 the North Nashville Student Summer Project operated a "liberation school" whose Black teachers offered instruction in mathematics science humanities civics and Black history; after controversy over its Black Power curriculum led to its removal from St. Anselm's Episcopal Chapel and suspension of the larger summer project in August classes continued for a time on Saturdays in nearby Watkins Park. The photograph's August 16 1967 filing date and press caption recording a "Black Power School" meeting in a Nashville park place the image within this specific period of conflict over Black-controlled education in the city. Original silver gelatin press photograph 8 x 10 in. Nashville Tennessee 1967. Twelve African American children and youths sit together on a park bench while several adults stand behind them; white reporters and members of the press gather nearby recording the outdoor class as a news event. Typed press caption pasted to the verso reads: "Black Power School holds classes in a park in Nashville Tenn." An original press filing stamp on the verso is dated August 16 1967. The presence of reporters is particularly relevant to the photograph's immediate context: earlier that month testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that Nashville's liberation school taught racial hatred had generated national press coverage while its organizers defended Black Power education as an assertion of Black self-determination rather than racial hostility. The image records children receiving instruction outside a conventional school building while journalists observe preserving both the educational activity itself and the intense press attention directed toward Black Power organizing in Nashville in 1967. That year also saw Stokely Carmichael speak at Tennessee State University in April followed the next day by a confrontation between Black students and police that resulted in injuries and more than forty arrests placing debates over Black Power policing and racial inequality at the center of Nashville public life. Original press caption filing stamp and pencil annotations on verso. Approximately 1 x 1½ in. area of surface damage and loss at lower left corner; otherwise very good condition. unknown books
