Education from Tannery Books

New York: Newson & Company, 1916. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Margaret Ely Webb. Catherine T. Bryce, Frank E. Spaulding (Yale University), illustrated by Margaret Ely Webb, Aldine Readers Primer, New York, Newson & Company, 1916, Revised Edition. Gray-brown cloth hc with black-and-blue stamped wreath image on front, small 8vo (19 cm), 160 pp with vocabulary. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Good-:… Read more

Haverford, Penn.: Charles Shoemaker Taylor, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Margaret Taylor MacIntosh, with introduction by Rufus M. Jones, Joseph Wright Taylor, Founder of Bryn Mawr College, Haverford, Penn., Charles Shoemaker Taylor, 1936, First Printing. Gray cloth hc with cameo silhouette on front, 8vo (22 cm), xviii, 212 pp, 10 bw plates including frontispiece. Good/no DJ: ex-library with… Read more

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: covers… Read more

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1981. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. John Kobal, Carlos Clarens, Hollywood Color Portraits, New York, William Morrow and Co., 1981, first American printing. Black cloth hc with gold lettering on spine, 4to (29 cm), 158 pp, many color full-page photos (no index); glossy color DJ with Humphrey Bogart on front and… Read more

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1912. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Chas. A. Reinhardt, Lettering for Draftsmen, Engineers and Students - A Practical System of Freehand Lettering for Working Drawings, New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1912, thirteenth edition, copyright 1895, thirty-ninth thousand. Horizontal 8vo (19 by 27 cm), 3/4 green cloth under tan-gray paper boards with illustrated lettering… Read more

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Sara E. H. Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson, Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools, Boston, Ginn & Company, 1901, First Printing. Brown textured cloth hc with gold lettering, 8vo (19 cm), x, 470 pp with index a few bw illustrations. Good/no DJ: corners and edges worn, scribbles on endpapers, pp… Read more

New York: Henry Holt and Co. , 1906. Hardcover. Good. Alphonso G. Newcomer, Elements of Rhetoric - A Course in Plain Prose Composition, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1906, copyright 1898. Dark brown cloth hc, small 8vo (19 cm), xii, 282 pp with index [2 pp ads]. Good/no DJ: light dampstain on top front cover, edges worn… Read more

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: corners… Read more

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair Publisher, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. John E. Batchelor, The Guilford County Schools: A History, Winston-Salem, N.C., John F. Blair, 1991. Navy cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, xii, 288 pp with index, sources, and list of private schools before 1903, including student gender and race, 30 pp bw illustrations and maps; glossy… Read more

Frank Schaffer Publications, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Anita Meyer Meinbach and Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Memories of the Night : A Study of the Holocaust, Frank Schaffer Publications, 1994, First Edition. Glossy white paper covers with barbed wire photo on front, xii, 148 pp, bw photos by Sharon Gurman Socol. Formatted for classroom use (limited reproduction authorized)… Read more