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An Unofficial Statesman - Robert C. Ogden


Wilson, Philip Whitwell

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Page and Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages, maroon cloth, b&w illustrations. Except for a rear hinge crack, very good. Clean.

Record # 406908


Price: $15.00 

 

Anne De Xaintonge - Her Life and Spirituality


Breslin, Sister Mary Thomas

New York , The Society of St. Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, including bibliography. Dust jacket with light soil, wear.

Record # 175893


Price: $15.00 

 

Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Par

Hardcover. London, Falcon Educational Books, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 227 pages, brown cloth with gilt title on spine, b&w illustrations. Autobiography of one of the greatest 16th century European surgeons. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 412468


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Teaching, The


Parini, Jay

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455909


Price: $12.00 

 

Barrett Wendell and His Letters


Howe, M. A. DeWolfe

Hardcover. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Tissue-protected frontispiece, blue cover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, top edge gilt, 12 b&w plates. Upper front right corner slightly bent, light wear to cover, spine slightly cocked; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 804522


Price: $10.00 

Brackman: His Art and TeachingBates, Kenneth

Brackman: His Art and Teaching


Bates, Kenneth

Hardcover. Noank, CT, Noank Publishing Studio, 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 88 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's stamp on title page. Color plates, b/w illustrations throughout. DJ has agewear, priceclipped. Pages/edges have some tanning from age, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. Red cloth decorated cover boards w/mylar cover under DJ. "Sturdy realism and a lyrical note of singular appeal meet as complementaries in Blackman's portraits, figures, and still-life paintings... an inspiring teacher... emphasizes the importance of sound construction and draughtmanship."

Record # 33549


Price: $23.00 

 

Builder, The - A Biography of Ezra Cornell


Dorf, Philip

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of the telegraph magnate, founder of Cornell University. Lib stamp to front fly leaf. Light residue to rear fly leaf otherwise VG

Record # 60733


Price: $23.00 

Doctor Wells of VermontBartlett, Donald

Doctor Wells of Vermont


Bartlett, Donald

Softcover. Hanover, Dartmouth Publications, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library edition with stamps on top left corner of front cover, and embossed stamp on title page. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613944


Price: $24.00 

 

Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization


Leibovitz, Liel

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011-02-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, b&w illustration. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463816


Price: $10.00 

 

Harvard Memorial Biographies - 2 Vol.


N/A

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Sever and Francis, 2nd, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of biographies of Harvard graduates who died in the Civil War. 445, 483 pages. Nice clean set. No photos tipped-in.

Record # 66926


Price: $80.00 

 

Hopkins of Dartmouth: The Story of Ernest Martin Hopkins and his Presidency of Dartmouth College


Widmayer, Charles E.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, b&w photographs. Small pencil mark on fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850909


Price: $25.00 

 

Howells his Life and World


Brooks, Van Wyck

Hardcover. ny, Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Frontispiece of William Dean Howells. Gray cloth with silver lettering.

Record # 40020


Price: $10.00 

 

James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks


Dybwad, G.L. and Joy V. Bliss

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, The Book Stops Here, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Limited to 800 copies. A biography of Michener's teaching days (1921-1947) and the books he taught from. With notes and reminiscences by Michener. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 405312


Price: $23.00 

 

James B. Conant - Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age


Hershberg, James G.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 948 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 108247


Price: $18.00 

 

John Dewey: His Contribution to the American Tradition


Edman, Irwin

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, very good in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 604538


Price: $8.00 

 

John Ford


Spittles, Brian

Softcover. Essex, UK, Pearson Education Ltd., First US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 129 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out. Light minor wear to edges.

Record # 751587


Price: $19.00 

 

Legacy of James Bowdoin III


N/A

Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 35 color, 120 black & white illus. 247 pages. Exceptional dust jacket with color paintings by Frans Francken III

Record # 500292


Price: $30.00 

 

Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., The


Stanley Arthur Penrhyn

NY, Scribner Armstrong & Co., Rep., 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 300629


Price: $8.00 

 

Life of Mary Lyon, The


Gilchrist, Beth Bradford

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 462 pages. Black & white illustrations. Frontis with tissue guard. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on front, spine. Light wear to edges, spine. Water stain to top edge.

Record # 509326


Price: $24.00 

Manhood at Harvard: William James and OthersTownsend, Kim

Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others


Townsend, Kim

Hardcover. New York, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468061


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoir of Rev. H. B. Soule


Soule, Caroline A.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Lyon, 2nd, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages. 2nd edition. Missing front endpaper. Foxing to preliminary pages. Title in gilt on spine. Moderate wear to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610455


Price: $35.00 

 

Memorials of Alfred Marshall


Pigou (ed.), A. C.

Softcover. New York, Kelley & Millman, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages. Three parts, including memorial essays by various authors, selections from Marshall's writings, and selected letters by Marshall. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, 7 b&w plates of Marshall's portraits including frontispiece. Faded spine, previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, slight rubbing to covers, small 1" spine to inside of front hinge, light pencil markings to a few page, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, clean boards; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401195


Price: $100.00 

Nathaniel Topliff Allen: Teacher, Reformer, PhilanthropistGreene, Mary A.

Nathaniel Topliff Allen: Teacher, Reformer, Philanthropist


Greene, Mary A.

Hardcover. Providence RI, privately printed, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Green cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. Card of subject's wife tipped on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 415261


Price: $50.00 

 

Not without Struggle: The Story of William E. Hoy and the Beginnings of Tohoku Gakuin


Mensendiek, C. William

Hardcover. Sendai, Japan, Tohoku Gakuin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white photos and one color photo. A couple of closed tears on front dust jacket cover and minor edge wear on dust jacket covers, in general. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459473


Price: $63.00 

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855Whittaker, Cynthia

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855


Whittaker, Cynthia

Hardcover. DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Blue cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453501


Price: $30.00 

 

Philosophy 4 - A Story of Harvard University


Wister, Owen

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st Thus, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages plus biography and ads. Standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608317


Price: $15.00 

 

Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, The


Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1994-08-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Faint musty smell. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463081


Price: $10.00 

 

Sri Ramaanujacampu by Ramanujacarya


Krishnamacharya, Ramanujacarya/Pandit V.

Hardcover. Madras, Madras Government, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Blue cloth spine. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Moderate darkening/foxing to covers and endpapers. Introduction in English. Main text in Sanskrit. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610779


Price: $75.00 

 

Stowell C. Goding and France: A Festschrift in Honor of Stowell C. Goding


Goding, Stowell C. and Mel B. Yoken (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Peter Lang, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 183 pages, b&w frontispiece. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452995


Price: $60.00 

Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939Gulick, Edward

Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939


Gulick, Edward

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Light foxing on page block, Cloth boards lightly warped. Foxing and sunning to dust jacket.

Record # 468506


Price: $31.00 

 

Theodore Winthrop


Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611868


Price: $56.00 

 

William Holmes McGuffey: The Schoolmaster To Our Nation


Crawford, Benjamin Franklin

Hardcover. Delaware OH, Carnegie Church Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, red cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 405842


Price: $50.00