Search Results: Educators

New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Very good+ (very light edgewear at spine, somewhat "dusty" page edges, otherwise fine) in price-clipped and heavily edgeworn dust jacket with one-inch chunk missing at top of spine (put in protective mylar to prevent further deterioration and improve appearance; quite passable now). Biography of William Allan Neilson, long-time president of Smith College (1917-1939) and key figure in American college education during the first half of the 20th century. Many photographs.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 149 p. Black & white photographs by Robert Crow. Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school’s headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man “at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities.” More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & C9=o., ( 1951 ). First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 312 pages, blue cloth Elizabeth P. ran a one-woman publishing company and bookshop, wrote transcendentalist and abolitionist essays, and founded the kindergarten movement in America. Mary P. married Horace Mann, and Sophia P married Nath. Hawthorne. Eleven illustrations.

Northampton, Massachusetts: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1947. Good+ (soiled covers, especially stained rear cover and spine, light edgewear) without dust jacket. Published shortly after Neilson's death, this is full of praise and wit, a nice accompaniment to Thorp's full biography published a decade later. The title page contains a wonderful quotation from Neilson, reading in part, "A muddleheaded person is a nuisance in any society, and the connection between dishonesty in thinking and in personal relations is profound," a statement of his faith in education and the goal of a liberal education.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1966. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/very good. Very Good in Very Good jacket Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. cover has a tear on bottom. Unknown printing. xx, 208, vii p. 22 cm.

[ Cincinnati, Ohio ] : The Author, 1983 circa. First Published Edition. Fine. 8vo, 102 pages, plastic comb bound. John and Nettie De Wall went to the Red Bird River area of Kentucky as missionaries. The valley was 20 miles from Pineville, the nearest town. This is the illustrated account of their decades of work there.

Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Ohio University Libraries, 1997. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

New York: Little Brown & Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, clothbacked boards, 616 pages. Hutchins re-invented the University of Chicago.

Milan, TN: Published by the author, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo, 130 pages, blue wrappers lightly spotted Presentation Copy to Flossie Bradley in 1967. The author's memoirs of Milan, Tennessee. Covers the years 1818 - 1935ish in family history.

Grand Rapids, MI,: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 497 pages, blue boards, two or three inked marks in margins. "Full of lively pen portraits of Kirk's mentors and opponents, these memoirs will interest anyone for whom the history of [the 20th] century matters - Roger Scruton."

London, UK Viking, 1988. Hardcover First Edition (1988); so stated. First Edition (1988); so stated. Near Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: The Book is a Remainder, showing a mark at the bottom edge; else shows only a hint of wear to the extremities and a very mild bump to the top edge of the rear panel; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing only the very mildest wear, but possessing a single, serious flaw. Clean, Crisp and Bright. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. The DJ shows a a bit of faint sunning to the yellow backgrould field of the backstrip (The blue, black, and red titles thereon remain unaffected: bold and clearly legible) and along the very top edge of the front… Read More

EdTechTeam, 2018-03-19. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x0. Clean, unmarked interior text, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Cover is clean and bright, shows light edge/shelf wear, no rips, chips, stains or tears. One page dog-eared. Binding and cover boards in vg condition, crisp pages. 2018. EdTech Team. Ships quickly and with care.

New York: Viking Press. Ex-library copy with minimal markings in dust jacket. 1980. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 256 pp. .

Waltham, MA: Brandeis University National Women's Commitee, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 9vo, 185 pages, cloth 50th anniversary celebratin of the Women's Committee, which not only filled the new Brandeis University Library with books, they also built the bookshelves, and sponsored the famed Brandeis used book sales nationally. Laid in is the Program for the Chicago celebration of this book.

Urbana: U. Illinois Press, 1965. First edition. Cloth. Good/very good. 8vo, 237 pages, The first book-length intellectual biography and assessment of Edmund Wilson

Poolbeg Pr Ltd, 1992. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/fine. 8vo, 187 pages, cloth, some glossing, inked over lines on rear blank leaf Presentation inscription to his cousins in Hobart, IN at St. Patrick's Day 1993. With a section of photogravures.

Gordon, NB: Gordon Journal Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. 8vo, 80 pages, brown wrappers Signed by Will and/or Lulu under their portrait frontispiece. True stories of Indians and pioneers, including "Kid" Wade, "Doc" Middleton, Frank Hart, and many others, having their locale in western South Dakota and Nebraska. [ 6 GUNS, 2080]. Illustrated with photogravures. Spindler taught for 30 years on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo. xiv, 176 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Very Good+, internally clean and sound, minor fading and wear to extremities of binding, in Very Good- price-clipped dust jacket, 1" tear to tail of spine, overall rubbing and wear.

IEP Resources, Attainment Company, 2006-01-01. 5th Edition. Paperback. Good. 10x8x0. Name on inside cover/flyleaf page. A few pages have highlighting or underlining. The majority of text appears to be unmarked. May not include all supplements such as CDs, access codes or DVDs. Softcover shows edge and shelf wear from normal use. Thank you for shopping with us!

New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Noah Webster (1758-1843) in addition to his writing the first American dictionary he was a teacher, writer, and literary critic. 460 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations and frontis portrait. Book is fine in brown cloth boards. Dust jacket has price $3.50 at bottom of front flap. Top flap corner is clipped. Jacket is slightly darkened at spine. Clean and straight. Mylar cover on dust jacket.