Search Results: Educators

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.

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.

Ohio: Yellow Springs Historical Society, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Black hardcover lacking dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Cathy - May this contain some happy memories - Joan Horn October 2010." A good copy with bumping to the corners, upper rear corner bumped through to the board. Text clean and unmarked. Solid binding but lacking in tightness. 280 pp., some black and white photos, indexed. A biography of Anderson and his work in music, higher education and the National Endowment for the Arts.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Blue hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. Signed without inscription by Moore on the title page. A very good copy with minor bumping at the corners and spine tips. Interior is clean and unmarked other than the signature and the binding is tight as if unread. Unclipped jacket is bright and attractive with matching bumping to the spine tips, no tears. 427 pp., left-leaning political activist Michael Moore presents scenes from his childhood in Flint.

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."

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.

Louisiana State Univ.. Near Fine with no dustjacket. 1972. Hardcover. 436pp. His life and his speeches, primarily concerning education. ; 8vo .

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.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Yellow and green hardcover, 2nd printing in dustjacket. Signed without inscription by the author on the title page. A very good copy with minor sunning to the board edges, general shelf-wear, and light bending at the spine tips. Interior is clean and unmarked other than a previous owner's address label to the front pastedown. Binding solid. Unclipped jacket with $3.95 price point. A good jacket with crinkling at the spine tips, a short cut to the top of the front panel and minor soiling. 158 pp., a biography of the pioneering vocational educator, aimed at young adults.

Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2005. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Gray cloth hardcover in dustjacket. A good+ copy, verging on very good - but with a heavy bump at the lower spine/front joing and general wear to the corners and edges. The front fly-leaf is not securely bound in but the rest of the book is well bound. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is clean and bright with light wear at the panel edges. 590 pp., indexed, some few black and white photos. The biography of an American historian and a mix of religion and constitutional studies.

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

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.

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

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.

NY: Century Co.. 1907. Hardcover. Very good-, back cover of vol II has damage, inner hinge cracked; 1200+ pages total in two volumes. ; 8vo .