Vintage & Collectible Education Books

Hardcover. John Babcock, 1st, 1801, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Full brown calf leather binding shows heavy wear to edges. Pages and endpapers heavily foxed and tanned. Moderate soil. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Two volumes in one.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Richardson & Lord, 1st edition, 1826, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages plus publisher ads. Hardcover. Small: 4.5" W x 5.5" L. Previous owners' names on front endpapers. Brown, marbled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, rubbing and chipping to cover boards (see image). Tanning and some foxing to pages from age (see image), doesn't affect text. Binding tight. Spine straight. Charming old, tiny textbook.

Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover school primer, blue cloth decorated in black and orange. 303 pages, three-color illustrations by Clara Atwood Fitts. About 10 pages with some chipping and short tears.

Hardcover. London, University of London Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages. Blue cloth boards. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Light pencil marking. A collection of 425 counting and numbering rhymes, rhymes for counting games, tallies, counting-out, ball boucing, etc.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 362 pages. How to present an argument in a logical and convincing manner in written form. Compiled by two professors at Oberlin College.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small ink notation on front fly leaf otherwise clean. 320 pages with extensive notes and index. This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting politicalagenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Family, family, family is the subject of That Old Cape Magic [with] a complicated skein of plotlines, deep connection to place, and affection for the large cast of characters who blunder and struggle through his pages." -Roxanna Robinson, The New York Times Book Review. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Theo. Audel & Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 334 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Bright, clean copy with gilt title, design on spine. All edges gilt. Chapter headings include: Summary of Arithmetic; Useful Measurements; Parts of a Circle; Measuring Machines; Screw cutting in the Lathe; Boring Machines & operations; Milling Machines & Operations; Drilling Machines and Operations; Grinding Operations; Punching & Shearing Machines .Bolt Cutting.Auxiliary Machines; Utilities and Accessories; Shop Management; Useful Workshop Recipes; Aid to the Injuried in Accidents, etc.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, The Colony Foundation, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards with silver rules and decoration to spine. 78 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible struggles. Takes place in 1925 in Pennsylvania's coal country. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Oxford University Press, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 11 vintage photographic plates, 416 pages. Mild wear to cover edges. No markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. SIGNED BY BRIGGS opposite title page. Introduction is dated January, 1913. The author was Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. This volume contains four essays, two each from two of Briggs' earlier works -- School, College, and Character, and Ideals -- focused mainly on students. 124 pages. Clean copy. Laid in is a folded mimeographed sheet: "Message from Dean Briggs of Harvard", date unknown.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. 116 pages, clean, bright copy, no dj. This is a collection of excerpts from the public addresses of Robert F. Goheen during his twelve years as President of Princeton University. The emphasis is on the people whose responsibility it is to promote and defend the principles underlying the modern American university-students, faculty, administrators, trustees, alumni. Several fundamental themes emerge the theme of individual responsibility, and the ever-present need to join rational intelligence with moral commitment, for example. Dr. Goheen sees the university as a continuing institution with long range goals, responding conservatively (in its best sense) to the human needs of the times. He seeks to define its institutional relationships in the context of the university's tasks in educ1tion and research, which must be understood and kept in balance if universities are to serve their functions effectively. Laid in are two reprints of postcards from the 1890s featuring Princeton athletes.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea, Revised Ed., 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1131 pages. leather covered boards with spotting, black leather spine label with gilt lettering. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Light edgewear to covers but a firm, solid binding. A doctor's name from Woodstock, Vermont on front fly leaf, Otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Second novel of the Francouer Family in Rhode Island. Review slip laid in. praise on back from Ivan Doig, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale red cloth stamped with black lettering, 112 pages. Color frontis, 119 b&w plates, endpapers map. Lacks dust jacket. clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth decorated in yellow and blue, with gilt lettering to spine. 226 pages, 10 b&w photo plates including frontis. with tissue guard. Inscription, ownership stamp on front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wondering at her mother's stories that her father, who deserted the family when she was a baby, was a leather-clad hero, fourteen-year-old Jessie Wells becomes determined to learn the truth and meet the man she has never known. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 161 pages. Carousing at the Black Dog Inn, Charles recounts to a friend the recent events of his life - "an endless soap opera" now centered on his chance meeting with hitchhiker William Cutshall, who weaves a tale of intrigue about his attempt to find his missing son. Connolly structures this novel as a kind of My Dinner with Andre, a nonstop conversation during which Charlie spins the tale of William Cutshall and Garth interrupts with observations, questions, and rebuttals. Surreal and darkly comic, A Great Place to Die can overwhelm at times, but Sean Connolly's faultless prose and offbeat characters keep things moving along until the end.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 4th Ed., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 454 pages, B&w diagrams, illustrations. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the construction of reinforced concrete structures, from design to implementation. It covers topics such as the properties of concrete and steel, the various forms of reinforcement, and the principles of beam and column design. A practical and informative resource for engineers and architects alike. Light marking to inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Copybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting - these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 160 pages. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. A writer and critic looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Crosby and Nichols, 1st US, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured light blue cloth, gilt lettering and design on spine, 7 x 5 inches, frontispiece engraving of a young woman feeding a child on her lap with a spoon, a young lad seated at the table; three additional plates. 344 pages. Fifteen stories, each intending to teach moral precepts. They are Youth, Intellect, Beauty, Favor, Ambition, Pleasure, Friendship, Love, Godliness, Kindliness, Fashion, The Life of Pride and Levity, The Life of Sense and Heaviness, The Life of Sarcasm and Bitterness, Consolations."Sarah Tytler" was the pen name of Henrietta Keddie (1827-1914), a Scottish novelist. "Her domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books for girls." - wikipedia. The artist, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), became a celebrated English painter, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Covers with light soil.

Softcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 389 pages. Minor wear to edges of cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Slight foxing on top edge. Inside is bright, clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Softcover. Alexandria, Va., Appa Assn of Higher Education, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston , Ginn and Co., 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 344 pages plus publisher's ads. First printing of this landmark math textbook. Presents foundational ideas clearly and builds toward advanced topics like conic sections, poles and polars, and systems of circles, all with practical problems to reinforce understanding. Ideal for students seeking a solid, disciplined approach to analytic geometry in one integrated volume. Organized in a clear, chapter-by-chapter sequence, the book begins with points, lines, and the geometry of straight lines, then advances through the circle, conic sections, and their modern general forms. It emphasizes methods, transformations, and the relationships between geometric figures and their equations, with numerous exercises to test and deepen comprehension. Author was a Professor of Mathematics at MIT. Light pencil marking to several pages, endpapers. Sound copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 238 pages. Jaroslav Pelikan provides a unique perspective on the university today by reexamining it in light of John Henry Cardinal Newman's 150-year-old classic The Idea of a University and showing how Cardinal Newman's ideas both illuminate and differ from current problems facing higher education. Pelikan begins by affirming the validity of Newman's first principle: that knowledge must be an end in itself. He goes on to make the case for the inseparability of research and teaching on both intellectual and practical grounds, stressing the virtues--free inquiry, scholarly honesty, civility in discourse, toleration of diverse beliefs and values, and trust in rationality and public verifiability--that must be practiced and taught by the university. He discusses the business of the university--the advancement of knowledge through research, the extension and interpretation of knowledge through undergraduate and graduate teaching, the preservation of knowledge in libraries, museums, and galleries, and the diffusion of knowledge through scholarly publishing. And he argues that by performing these tasks, by developing closer ties with other schools at all levels, and by involving the community in lifelong education, the university will make its greatest contribution to society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages plus ads. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Minor rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London UK, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 510 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial laminated boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges of spine. else a very neat, clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Co, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1921 Junior Annual of Dartmouth College. Dark green cloth covers with gilt decorative emblem and blind stamped border to front cover. Light slight edgewear, mild foxing to page block edges, ex-lib with bookplate to front endpaper, otherwise no evidence of ex-lib markings, pages crisp and unmarked; overall a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, The Tuttle Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, College yearbook of Dartmouth, class of 1904. 228 pages, with 33 pages of advertisements. Bound in heavy green buckram, illustrated throughout with photographs and engravings (b&w). In very good condition, some small stains to the covers and yellowing to page edges, pages clean and binding tight.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Burlington High School, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. 1907 yearbook for Burlington High School. Tan cloth covers, with dark brown stamped titles and pictorial, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic portraits and illustrations. Slight soiling to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Phillips, Samson, and Company, 1st, 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original 1859 publisher's cloth, 365 pages. Brown cover with gilt title to spine. Extensive sun-fading and some soiling. Soiled along edges. Slight foxing. Lacking front fly leaf. Overall, a tight copy.