New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Large quarto. 14.5" x 11" x 5.75". Bound in publisher's black cloth slipcase lettered in white, housing a matching cloth-bound text volume and a black cloth chemise slipcase housing 80 folders containing 93 color plates with protective tissues collated complete..... More
Washington, DC: American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), 1954. First edition of a rare Quaker pamphlet on the desegregation of Washington, DC schools following the epic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Answers questions and addresses concerns of parents and teachers of all races. [16] pp. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine, faint..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts Co., 1861. First separate edition. Presentation copy with the ink inscription in the publisher’s hand “With the Author’s Compliments” at the head of the half-title. Above and below that is a much later dedication to Lionel Trilling and another person. A very nice association between..... More
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955. First edition. Signed by Bruno Bettelheim on the half title page in blue ink. Laid in flyer from a Seattle reading of Bettelheim's in 1963, quite possibly it was signed there. xvi, 511, [1], [4, ads] pp. Very Good+ with Oregon Prison Association bookplate..... More
Nashville: The Sunday School Publishing Board, 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed, wear at tips, former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown (1863-1947) was one..... More
Atlanta: Atlanta University, [1900?]. First edition. 16 pp. including wrappers. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Fine, pages toned with age. Rare, only one copy at Oberlin College located in a recent OCLC search, none in commerce. An offprint of a speech by a white Congregationalist minister who was an..... More
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Wilberforce, OH: Superintendent [Richard C. Bundy], 1925. Report dated May 14, 1925, issued to the Board of Trustees of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department of Wilberforce University by the Superintentant [Richard C. Bundy]. Tall folio, (9.25x14.5"). Original drab wraps with three small metal rivets along the left side, with..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Coles on the front free endpaper and inscribed, "March, 1968 To Bob, Berkley's children will never go through what these boys + girls did -- Thanks to people like you. My best regards, Bob." Bound in publisher's..... More
Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan and crimson cloth lettered in gilt; original floral endpapers and gilt topstain. Very Good, recased and lacking the frontis portrait. Boards rubbed and spotted, lightly edge-worn. Contemporary ownership inscription of Black attorney Fountain Peyton to..... More
[New York]: [No Publisher], ca. 1920s. Collection of over 200 pages of typescript notes annotated by Blanche DeVries, signed by her on an interior page. In modern Indian binding, full red leather, all edges flecked red, handmade red-flecked endpapers. Near Fine with light soiling and moderate rubbing to covers and..... More
New York: Kappa Delta Pi / The Macmillan Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Dewey on the front free endpaper and with a short handwritten letter from him in original transmittal envelope laid in. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, cloth..... More
Boston / New York / Chicago: D. C. Heath & Co., 1910. Reprint. Signed by John Dewey and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original ribbed maroon cloth ruled in blind with spine stamped in gilt. Very Good with spine darkened, small stain to..... More
Boston: The Cornill Company, [1918]. First edition. xvii, [3], 143 pp. with frontis and seven pages of photos. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with bright gilt. Near Fine with subtle dust-soiling, very tiny gouge to top edge of a few pages, contents bright. An autobiography by the founder of the..... More
New York: Continuum, 1993. First edition. Signed by Paulo Friere on the front fee endpaper. Bound in publisher's original cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Former owner has written an lengthy gift-inscription on the half-title page, Else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1972. Signed by Paulo Freire on the title page; provenance written on interior of front cover by former owner, an October 1981 after a lecture at the University of Michigan; owner name stamp to top and bottom of text block, interior of front cover, and..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First American edition. 186 pp. Bound in white cloth with black lettering on spine. Very Good with light wear at spine ends; slight dust soiling and foxing to top edge. Marginal brackets and underlining in pen throughout. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket..... More
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Wauwatosa, WI: Milwaukee County School of Agriculture, 1919. A collection of ten specimen card mounts: eight cards with twenty-four different specimens of grains, seeds and beans under celluloid bubbles and two cards unused in original paper sleeves. Student's name and manuscript identifications on versos. Light rubbing and wear, paper sleeves..... More
New York: One World, 2021. First edition. Signed by Nikole Hannah-Jones on limitation sheet at front, one of an unspecified limitation of specially bound and signed copies. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver. Fine in Fine dust jacket with a little shelf..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. First edition. 66, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board, former owner's name stamped on front paste down and front free endpaper. Pages free of marking. Rare in the first edition. The..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth stamped in black, red and gilt. Very Good+ with wear to extremities, pages toned. A nice copy of this scarce work. More
Citta di Castello: S. Lapi, 1909. First edition, first issue. Bound in early-to-mid twentieth century maroon pebbled cloth over leather spine stamped in gilt. Very Good with uneven sunning to covers, crown lightly rubbed, pages toned with light occasional spotting. A cornerstone of educational philosophy. More
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..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Textbook and manuscript notes relating to Robert Oppenheimer's Physics 221 class at Berkeley. From the collection of physicist Mark Jakobson, who earned his PhD at Berkeley in 1951. Textbook consists of B. Peters' mimeographed notes from Oppenheimer's 1939 quantum mechanics class..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1944. First American edition. [vi], 103 pp. Original cloth. Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, a little toning to spine panel,faint pencil to front panel. Uncommon in jacket. More
Cambridge: Harvard Cooperative Society, 1948. First edition, presumed first issue. 156 p. Mimeographed of typescript, printed on rectos only, bound in plain paper wraps. Fair with staining and creasing to cover and former owner's notes throughout in pencil and pen, name and dorm address on title page. Includes a final..... More