The Montessori Method
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1912.
First American edition, first printing. xlii, 377 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to cloth, dulling to gilt, bumping to front board corners, and softening at head and tail of spine. Light soiling to textblock edges, dent to lower edge affecting 80 or so pages. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers and prelims, 2 owner names to front free endpaper. Binding starting at several places, final gathering attached with cloth tape.
The first edition of the runaway hit by the Italian psychiatrist and educator. The pedagogical text, which stressed the natural creativity of children and the importance of seeing them as individuals, quickly sold through six editions. By 1916, over one hundred Montessori schools had opened in the United States. Today, there are around five thousand.
Price: $750