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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
1931réf. 14390Minden LA 1931. Very Good. Minden LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph 15.5x25.5cm. depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso identifying the team in "Shreveport LA / Circa 1947 / Washington ". The label is a red herring misdating and misplacing the photograph sixteen years late and thirty miles west. The center player holds a basketball dated '31 nineteen years before Booker T. Washington High School was founded. The school almost certainly is Webster High School in Minden Louisiana thirty miles east. The building in the background and the women's slightly mismatching uniforms conform to those depicted in W.L.G. Abney's 1950s booklet "The History of Webster High School." Indeed the simple whitewashed wooden structure sitting on a brick pile foundation appears to be either the back of the dormitory or the newly-completed library the ground still unpaved dirt. The story of the founding of Webster High School less than ten years earlier in 1922 displays the dedication and financial burden of a Black community in the heart of the Jim Crow South. According to Abney's history a Colored Board of Trustees comprised of members of the community first set out to find a suitable site for a new school settling on a piece of land "owned and occupied as a home by one of Minden's colored citizens Mr. Henry Harris who was perfectly happy there and had no desire to sell." Abney glosses over the displacement of Harris but the site was secured and approved by the White Parish board "with the understanding that the colored people themselves would have to make substantial financial contribution if they were to secure this site because no money had been budgeted for the cause at that time." Indeed by 1931 the list of state-sponsored schools in Louisiana for White and Black students was sixty-eight to four. Webster was not one of those four schools. As Abney's history delineates however the money was raised by the community through the leadership and outreach of the Colored Board of Trustees and by 1931 a library had been erected and numerous sports teams active. The date is also significant as it coincides with the founding of two of the first all-Black all-women's professional basketball clubs the Philadelphia Tribune Girls and the Chicago Romas. Perhaps these pioneering teams inspired the formation of Webster High School's girls' basketball team. In any case the members listed are as follows: Coach Mr. Russ Tena Lowery Hazel Garrett Willie Stewart B. Green M. Ford Bran Watson M. Gafford E. McCorey Ella B. Gafford Lorscie Henry and Louella Ruffin. unknown books
1957réf. 5265St. Louis: The School Press 1957. Very good. 180pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original orange printed self wrappers staple. Minor rubbing soiling and some edge wear to wrappers. Internally clean. A seemingly unrecorded photographic annual for a prominent African-American dance school in Jim Crow Missouri. The Les Pierrettes Dance School was a well-respected institution for the training of young dancers in St. Louis. The school's director identified in the present work as "Maitre d'Ecole" was Anita W. Roland a prominent dancer with experience on the stage in North America Latin America and Europe. The work opens with a couple of introductory poems and a table of contents; thereafter the work features almost sixty dance students both male and female in two-page spreads with a poem on the verso and a photographic portrait of the students in their dance uniforms on the rectos. This section is described on the table of contents as "A group of mirth-laden girls and boys make truth-laden statements about themselves" indicating the biographical poems were written by each of the students. The middle of the work features the dancing school staff and "Studio Demonstrators" i.e. dance instructors with some biographical details about each person. This is followed by a long section of well wishes and congratulatory messages from the dance students' family friends and the larger community. The rear of the work also includes a section of advertisements from local businesses. The present work was edited by Anita Roland's husband Philip Roland here listed as the Director of Program Activities for the dance school and editor of Foto-Feature. The work itself is identified on the table of contents as "Vol. 2 No. 1" indicating it is likely the second in a series. We could locate no exact matches of the present work in OCLC or auction records though there might be one other example at the Missouri History Museum the OCLC record does not specify volume number. The School Press unknown books
1966réf. 231096Brookville OH: The School of Living 1966. Magazine. 28p. wraps and paper toned else very good condition binders tape along spine as issued 8.5x11 inches mimeographed. Includes a discussion "Pro and con Spooner-Tucker Rothbard" with contributions by Mildred Loomis Tom Marshall Laurence Labadie and others also includes Marie Anderson's "Religion in School of Living The School of Living unknown books
1941réf. 2304221941. hardcover. good. Many photo Illustrations. Thin 4to tan cloth cloth and some page margins dampstained top portion of spine worn edges of corners worn. N.p. 1941. A good copy. unknown books
réf. 002253Fort Leavenworth Kansas Command and Genl Staff Sch 1944. Light blue wrappers. Minor soiling. Filled with lists figures numbers. Several pull-out charts. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Command and Genl Staff Sch 1944. unknown books
réf. 002250Fort Leavenworth Kansas Command and Genl Staff Sch 1944. Yellow wrappers. Light soiling. A reference book probably ther first one received on reporting to the school. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Command and Genl Staff Sch 1944. unknown books
1992réf. RH1569Geneve Paris:: Droz Champion 1992. 1992. Series: Hautes etudes medievales et modernes 70. At head of title: Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. IVe section. Sciences historiques et philologiques. 8vo. lxxii 473 pp. Illus. index. Printed wrappers. Very good. RARE. Grmek 1924-2000 was a Croatian and French historian of medicine writer and scientist and one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine. . . He put forward the theory of pathocenosis the coexistence of all diseases in a specific time place and society. Droz + Champion, 1992. 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
1974réf. NF3783ESPRIT DE CORPS 1974 Dwight D. Eisenhower High School Shelby Township Michigan first edition vg in pictorial cloth. Illustrated in color or black and white on every page. EDUCATION YEARBOOK MICHIGAN hardcover books
1916réf. 15490New Haven Connecticut : Roger Sherman Studio 1916. First Edition. Photograph. Near Fine. First Edition. An original silver print mounted on board. Image is 10 1/2 inches x 13 1/2 inches. Overall mount size 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. Very nice tonality presents nicely in person. Photograph. A photograph of what is no doubt the 1916 Civil Engineering class at Yale showing students teachers and the" tools of the trade". It was taken in front of Winchester Hall then part of Yale's Sheffield School of Engineering. The building is no longer standing but we have included an reproduced image of the building for the new owner's reference. Much like medical class photographs which are prized for skeletons and other medical oddities collectors prize surveying instrumentation in Civil Engineering class photographs. This one has lots of great surveying instruments including four instruments on tripods surveying sticks an axe and a model of a bridge span. Several equations are chalked on the building pillars. "FUNDAMENTALS" is chalked on the street in front of the subjects. Photographs this large are very scarce on the marketplace this is the largest we have owned in the last 15 years. A fine addition to any surveying civil engineering Yale or Connecticut collection. Roger Sherman Studio unknown books
1950réf. 5036Washington DC: Cortez W. Peters Business School 1950. About very good. 60pp. Original purple wrappers printed in silver. Some soiling and staining to covers minor chipping and rubbing. Small unobtrusive stain to fore-edge of text overall even toning. A seemingly-unrecorded yearbook from the Washington D.C. branch of the Cortez W. Peters Business School the first African-American-owned business school in the United States. The co-educational school was founded in 1834 in the Nation's Capital followed in the next few years by branches in Chicago and Baltimore. The founder Cortez W. Peters taught himself to type as a child and went on to become the first African-American champion of the World's Amateur Typing Contest. Peters' school was one of the first to teach typing to Black students while also offering instruction in shorthand and other clerical skills. The present yearbook begins with a message from Peters which strikes a conciliatory tone in the wake of racial tensions that followed the conclusion of the Second World War: "We naturally resent discrimination lack of opportunities oppression.But on the other hand there are many other values to be considered which should make us tolerant and willing to work out these traditional handicaps generally." This is followed by messages from the dean and class president Eva Itene Brown then portraits of students and faculty a class history a class prophecy class will class poem and twelve pages of group photographs including shots of the men's and women's basketball teams the coronation ball and images featuring students in the classroom. Many of the students both men and women have included words of advice or stated their personal goals which are printed beside their portraits "To be a good typist" "To be a stenographer" and so forth. OCLC lists a single copy of three similar yearbooks all under different titles from other years and branches of the school Washington D.C. and Chicago in 1948 and an undated yearbook from Baltimore but not this particular year at the school's home base. Cortez W. Peters Business School unknown 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
1936réf. 6324Boston Mass: North Bennet Street Industrial School 1936. Wire-O metal coil binding 26 x 18.5 cm. 57 7 pages. Index is table of contents. Advertisements. Foreword printed on a separate sheet laid-in at front. Title author and publication data from cover. Date from information in second edition of 1937. FIRST EDITION. A community fundraising cookbook for the benefit of North Bennett Street Industrial School. There is no front matter title page intro etc. and the recipes are not attributed but are drawn from members of the surrounding community Boston's North End. Other fundraising efforts for the school are featured in the advertising section including The Perfection Bottle Rack "made by the unemployed" and an unnamed Spanish olive oil "sold exclusively by the North Bennet Street Industrial School". There is also a full page illustrated ad for Prince Superfine Macaroni. ~ Card stock boards printed in blue and silver; edge wear and pulls at a few wire coils. "123" written in ink at head of front wrapper panel otherwise very good. With the bookplate of cookery author and collector June Platt. OCLC locates five copies and four copies of the 1937 second edition. North Bennet Street Industrial School hardcover books
réf. 38291Boulder CO: Naropa Institute N.d. Very Good. Boulder CO: Naropa Institute ca. 1975-80. First Edition. Illustrated poster 37x28in printed offset in black on green stock. Some faint smudging and small tear at right edge. Verso likewise smudged. "Dis" has been scribbled over and "embodied" underlined with black ink by a random vandal or rogue poet. Nevertheless a Very Good copy of this scarce piece of Kerouac School ephemera. Poster promotes a weekly reading series this one featuring Peter Orlovsky Allen Ginsberg's longtime partner and Jackson Mac Low. The Naropa Institute now Naropa University was founded on Buddhist beliefs and practices. In 1974 Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman established the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics on its campus. It is described by the school's website as a "radically alternative literary space rooted in contemplative practice and experimental poetics." Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of May 2026. Naropa Institute unknown books
1949réf. 622882Gloucester City New Jersey: The Senior Class Gloucester High School 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Yearbook. Quarto. 64pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Blue and gold boards. Small dampstains at bottom corners of about the last dozen pages tiny nick at bottom corner of rear board very good. The Senior Class, Gloucester High School hardcover books
1970réf. 172901Collingswood NJ: Christian Beacon Press 1970. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good paperback. First edition. Pages clean and tight. Cover lightly soiled. Contains 12 winning essays from a local contest in Collingswood NJ. Christian Beacon Press unknown books
1951réf. 199883New York: Berlitz 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. First thus. Good in good dust jacket. Notations throughout sticker on end paper. Dustwrapper rubbed with some tearing. Berlitz hardcover books
1947réf. 124632Cincinnati OH: Hughes High School 1947. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Hughes High School unknown books
1912réf. 45263Jamestown NY: Chautauqua School of Nursing 1912. Very Good. Jamestown NY: Chautauqua School of Nursing 1912. First Edition. Octavo; 56pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges with slight curling to corners; binding sound; short tear to bottom edge of final leaf of text ownership inscriptions in pen to preliminaries; Very Good. Scarce Year Book for this correspondence school of nursing whose motto was "'I Will' conquers while 'I may' fails. Chautauqua School of Nursing unknown books
1928réf. 12982Honolulu 1928. 2810526pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled with front cover stamped in black orange green blue and yellow. Moderate staining and chipping to wrappers. Text block detached between endpapers fairly regular thumb-soiling to outer margins occasional minor staining. Good condition. An informative yearbook issued for the students of Japanese High School in Honolulu in 1928 prepared by the Literary Society at the school. The book contains the requisite sections featuring portraits of the students class pictures student testimonials group shots of clubs and sports teams and more. The last section of the book is comprised of local advertisements for a variety of Honolulu businesses and other concerns including the Young Men's Buddhist Association. A rare if not unrecorded Japanese-language school yearbook from Hawaii in the interwar period. unknown books
1926réf. 57585Lakewood NJ: Lake Wood High School 1926. First and only edition. Scarce! Few signatures on a front page. Many local business ads. Small quarto: brown faux-leather wraps; 112 pages. Illustrated. Very Good some wear covers; contents clean & tight. Lake Wood High School unknown books
1927réf. 57586Lakewood NJ: Lakewood High School 1927. First and only edition. Scarce! No signatures. Small quarto: embossed faux-leather; 124 pages. Illustrated. Good some edgewear & creasing covers; contents clean & tight. Lakewood High School unknown books
réf. 20786Pen and grey and brown ink grey wash on laid paper on an archival mount. Fine condition. Sheet size: 18 x 23 7/8 inches. Provenance: Dr. C.A. Pompe; G. Meijer; L. Houthakker with his collector's mark at lower right corner not in Lugt. A beautiful and very rare drawing of one of the most beautiful "Wunderkammern" of the day which later became the property of the Empress of Russia. This drawing shows the interior of the cabinet of curiosities of Catharina van Grovestins-von Schutz in the family house in The Hague. There is another earlier drawing of the same cabinet by the artist Daniel Marot the Younger 1695-1769 dated 1756 and currently in the collection of the Gemeentearchief in The Hague. This earlier drawing shows the interior just after it was completed but before the expanding collection necessitated certain improvements that are shown in the present drawing: additions include a shaped central cabinet bearing what may be a portrait bust of Catharina van Grovestins-von Schutz. Other improvements include the display shelves for taxidermy specimens that have been added between the built-in display cases and the architrave above; and the central bracketed display of coral and shells that was added above the fireplace. Catharina lady-in-waiting to Princess Anna of Orange employed the talents of the well-known naturalist and collector Arnout Vosmaer to help assemble the Cabinet. Vosmaer later commented in his memoirs that the cabinet was 'one of the most beautiful collections . covering every domain of nature" and noted that it was eventually sold to the Empress of Russia. The present drawing may perhaps have been intended as part of the successful attempt to sell the collection to the Empress The earliest cabinets were gathered together in the 16th century. They initially represented a genuine attempt to begin to understand the natural world but also came to be seen as an expression of the power and influence of the owner: the larger the 'wunderkammer' the more important the owner. They were the precursor to today's museums the most famous in England being the collection of Elias Ashmole 1617-1692. His private collection founded by the naturalist John Tradescant circa 1570-1638 was presented to Oxford University and opened to the public on 24 May 1683 as the Ashmolean Museum. One of the best known American examples was the Peale Museum founded in Philadelphia in 1784 for Charles Wilson Peale a painter and a scientist. His son Rembrandt Peale more famous today as a portrait painter subsequently established a 'branch' of the Peale Museum in Baltimore Maryland and this is now the oldest museum building in the Western hemisphere. The museum differed from the earlier more private collections in that it was always the Peales' intention to open the museum to the public. In its heyday the show included 90 specimens of mammals more than 700 bird specimens mounted in 'naturalistic' mini-dioramas a whole room of marine specimens about 4000 insects numerous minerals as well as their famous mammoth skeleton the first such display as well as scores of Peale's portraits. Cf. H. Engel Alphabetical list of Dutch Zoological Cabinets and Menageries Amsterdam: 1986; P. Fuhring Design into Art: drawings for architecture and ornament the Lodewijk Houthakker Collection London 1989 vol. II p. 761 #1102. unknown books
1800réf. 26715Canton 1800. Large 4to. 15 x 12 1/2 inches. 141 watercolours on thin paper nearly all captioned in ink in Chinese in the lower right corner each tipped to a sheet of wove paper. Mid-nineteenth century citron half morocco over marbled paper covered boards spine with raised bands in six compartments lettered in gilt in the second compartment the others with a repeat decoration in gilt marbled edges Provenance: Annie Pearson Viscountess Cowdray née Cass 1860-1932 Dunecht House Aberdeenshire. An extraordinary album of early Chinese export watercolours of the highest quality. Beginning in the late 18th century centred on the treaty port of Canton there existed a thriving trade in ethnographical watercolours executed by local Chinese artists and sold to the western merchants and travellers. The best known result of this trade is William Mason's Costume of China first published in London in 1800 which is illustrated with 60 hand-coloured aquatints adapted from a series of original watercolours by Pu-Qua of Canton. It was common for the local artists including Pu-Qua to work from a set series of models. The present album includes a number of compositions that are from the same set of models as those used by Pu-Qua but they include more detail and more of the trade-associated paraphernalia than are shown in the images as published in Mason's work. This suggests that they were not copied from Mason but were after another more detailed source or were unique compositions by the artist based on a similar series of models. Importantly these watercolours are of a uniformly higher quality than usually encountered and represent not only a wide array of occupations but also members of the highest echelon of Chinese society. The detailing on the costumes worn by these members of the royal court is breathtaking with copious use of gilt. Later collections of Chinese export watercolours were routinely executed on less expensive pith paper whereas the present watercolours are on high quality tissue and are larger in size than those typically encountered. The album represents an earlier more prestigious style of export watercolour paintings specifically meant for wealthy Europeans. These are Chinese watercolours of the highest quality designed and executed to the highest standards. The album was once owned by Annie Pearson Viscountess Cowdray Steward of Colchester and wife of Lord Weetman Dickinson Pearson 1st Viscount Cowdray. Cf. Crossman The China Trade Princeton: 1972; cf. Clunas Chinese Export Watercolours London: 1984. unknown books
