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Pierpont's Introduction: INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL READER: A selection of easy lessons, designed to fill the same place in the common schools of the United States that is held by Murray's Introduction, and the compilations of Guy, Mylius and Pinnock, in those of Great Britain.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fair condition in cardboard boards covered with beige printed paper, quarter binding in tan leather (foxing throughout, age toning and tidemarks to the corners of the textblock, rubbing and wear to the covers, with the underlying cardboard exposed in the corners, and rubbing and wear to the spine.) However, despite the cosmetic flaws, the binding remains sturdy and the book is still quite readable - and in fact, easily entices one to dip into it. Very uncommon - no copies of the first edition appear to be on the market.
Book ID: 90855More details Price: $100.00 -
COMMON-SCHOOL GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Edition: Early printing.
Philadelphia: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Company 1878 (c 1865). Hardcover - A comprehensive educational book, beginning with a guide for beginners and including development of sentences, verbs and more. Index. vi, 354 pp.
Condition: Good overall in original blind stamped purple cloth covers stamped in blind with black leather spine(rubbing to lettering on spine, some fraying at ends of spine and to corners) .
Book ID: 90854More details Price: $18.00 -
NURSERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very good in illustrated tan cloth.
Book ID: 90728More details Price: $40.00 -
PRACTICAL SELECTIONS FROM TWENTY YEARS OF NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS.
Edition: Early printing.
Dansville, New York: F A Owen Publishing Company, 1913. Hardcover - Subtitled: A Valuable Book of Ready Reference for the Teacher, Containing Articles of inspiration and instruction; hints, suggestions, methods, illustrations; with plans and material for entertainments and many selections for recitations. Illustrated. Includes sections on nature study; reading; history; physiology; penmanship; science; arithmetic; ethical theories; domestic science, singing, and more. 320 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a brown cloth with embossed black lettering.
Book ID: 90497More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ART-LITERATURE READERS. Book Three.
Edition: First edition.
Boston,Chicago, Dallas: Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover, (1907). Hardcover first edition - Includes sections on Eugene Fields, Louisa May Alcott, Sir Edwin Landseer, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and more. Illustrated. Notes and suggestions. Bibliography. 223 pp.
Condition: Good overall in tan cloth with brown lettering (tape repairs to front free endpaper, some brackets, mostly in pencil.
Book ID: 90367More details Price: $25.00 -
TREASURE TROVE, Book V.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1930). Hardcover first edition - A book created as a new basal reader for the intermediate grades and junior high school. Includes over 125 pieces of prose and poetry - in addition to selections written by the authors, it includes others by authors such as Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Johanna Spryi and more. Illustrated throughout with colored drawings by Maud and Miska Petersham. Includes "your dictionary" and a 2 pp list of "vivid expressions" at back. xi, 436 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated gray-green boards (prev owner's name, front hinge starting, but still a sturdy copy)
Book ID: 86590More details Price: $20.00 -
HOW WE ARE CLOTHED: A Geographical Reader.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1918. SIGNED hardcover - First published in 1904. Includes a preface which discusses how to use this in the classroom. Illustrated with photographs; A title in the Home and World Series. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1920. x, 233 pp. plus 3 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in beige cloth boards with red lettering - some darkening to the spine, toning to endpapers - uncommon signed.
Book ID: 86290More details Price: $28.50 -
MY SATURDAY BIRD CLASS.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: D.C. Heath, 1894 (c 1893). Hardcover first edition - A book designed to interest children in the study of nature. Has information for the teacher at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with small drawings. iii, 107 pp plus 10 pp publisher's catalogue. Bound in tan illustrated paper covered boards with darker brown cloth spine.
Condition: Good only - some rubbing and wear to the covers, age-toning, stamp of previous owner, but a sturdy copy, still strongly bound.
Book ID: 85326More details Price: $30.00 -
THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFEL AND OTHER POEMS, Volume XXIII, Number 35. October 1903.
Edition: First printing, a slim pamphlet.
Farmington, ME: D. H. Knowlton & Co., Publishers, 1903. First edition - The School World published "popular supplemental readings" monthly From September to June each year. Lists thru 43 inside front cover. 32 pp.
Condition: Good overall in stapled printed wrappers.
Book ID: 82175More details Price: $11.50 -
RAVENEL'S ROAD PRIMER FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912. Hardcover first edition - An unusual and interesting book: one which introduces the basics of road construction, site selection, drainage and maintenance to elementary school children. Since transportation was undergoing massive changes in the US at the time with the increasing popularity of automobiles, this was especially timely. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and drawings. Questions and answers at the end of each chapter and several pages of endorsements. Bound in tan cloth with dark brown lettering and small illustration on front cover. 159 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with usual markings, but overall tight and clean (front board is slightly bent) Scarce in the original edition.
Book ID: 74545More details Price: $60.00 -
THROUGH THE GATE - Learning To Read - A Basic Reading Program,
Edition: Hardcover.
Sacramento, CA: Silver Burdett Company /California State Series, 1946. Hardcover - A beginning reader in the style of the Dick and Jane series, with illustrations on every page. This introduces 127 new words, in addition to repeating the pre-primer words. 160 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated light green cloth (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 72283More details Price: $12.50 -
STORY FRIENDS ON PARADE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan, (1945). Hardcover first edition - A supplemental reader for higher grades in elementary school with selections from such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Farjeon, Elizabeth Coatsworth and many others, arranged thematically (circus stories, nature, other lands, folklore, etc). Illustrated with drawings by George Annand. Questions at the end of each selection. Glossary. 440 pp.
Condition: Very good in orange cloth with yellow lettering and a small illustration on front cover.
Book ID: 67966More details Price: $19.50 -
SEASHORE LIFE.
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co, (1937.). Hardcover first edition - Book written for use in elementary schools. A title in the Western Nature Science Series. Contains 9 units: Sea Shells & Their Owners; Strange Mollusks; The Starfishes & Their Relatives; The Crusty Animals; Sea Flowers, Rafts & Jellyfishes; Worms, Corals, & Sponges; Shore Birds; Sea Lions, Tidepool Fishes, & Other Chordates; and, The Seaweeds. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. List of other books, Index of text and illustrations. xxiv, 271 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated green cloth (a few neat marginal notations in pencil, otherwise almost like new) Uncommon in the first ediiton.
Book ID: 66348More details Price: $21.50 -
THE HOME AND ITS RELATION TO THE WORLD: Developed According to the Problem Method.
Edition: Fifth edition.
Condition: Good overall in brown cloth with black lettering, illustration on front cover. Remains of a library pocket on front pastedown, but no stampings or other markings) Uncommon.
Book ID: 63174More details Price: $40.00 -
FOREST FACTS FOR SCHOOLS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1932. Hardcover - The emphasis in this book is on the need to restore our forests, where we have "cut lavishly the timber heritage we found here" but not replanted enough. Illustrated with black and white drawings, Includes summary tests. 356 pp.
Condition: Good condition overall in green boards with black and yellow illustration and lettering (a few stamps with a library's name, but overall clean and tight, minor shelfwear)
Book ID: 58648More details Price: $18.00 -
OPEN THE GATE.
Edition: Revised edition.
Chicago: Ginn and Company, (1959.). Hardcover - A "Dick and Jane" style first grade reader - the third book in a series of enrichment readers for first graders. Illustrated throughout in full color. Includes a list of new words. Note to the teacher. 159 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in illustrated green cloth - prev owner's name, tape repair to a torn page, some wear to the covers.
Book ID: 56839More details Price: $12.50 -
TEACHERS EVERYDAY PLANS FOR ALL GRADES: 3 Volume Set, Autummn Number, Winter Number and Spring Number
Edition: First editions,
Dansville, New York: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, (1907.). First edition - Appealing vintage lesson planners with songs, nature studies, exercises, activities, appropriate to the different seasons. Sold as a set as the publisher intended (the first page of each issue says that "This is one of the three volumes comprising Every Day Plans. Sold only in complete sets." Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Total of 476 pages in all 3 volumes.
Condition: Very good in overall in blue cloth coated stiff wrappers with black lettering (usual toning to the pages, some minor wear and discoloration to the covers.) Very uncommon.
Book ID: 55936More details Price: $45.00 -
PLAYTIME.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Newson and Company, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon primer, featuring Mary, Ted and little Joe. Illustrated throughout with four tone drawings. Word list. 128 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (some wear to the covers, chip on title page, edge tears and creasing to many pages, but still complete and readable, and with lots of vintage charm.)
Book ID: 55263More details Price: $15.00 -
OUR LITTLE BOOK FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: American Book Company, (1896.). Hardcover - A book designed to be used with the very youngest students - even those in kindergarten, according to the introduction. Includes both full-color full page illustrations of objects familiar to children and many smaller black and white illustrations. Much of the text is in cursive writing. Teacher's instructions at rear of book. 106 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards with a red cloth spine (boards are very rubbed, but the pictures of butterflies, dragonflies and flowers are still visible. Prev owner's name in pencil and dated 1917, contents overall quite clean. Uncommon and in reasonable condition for a children's primer.
Book ID: 42534More details Price: $25.00 -
A GROUP OF FAMOUS LEADERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good in light gold and blue cloth with black lettering. Some minor wear and rubbing to the covers, prev owner's name, a few stray pencil marks (presumably from a teacher who used this.) Sturdy binding,
Book ID: 40282More details Price: $40.00 -
IN THE CITY AND ON THE FARM.
Edition: Early reprint.
Sacramento, California State Department of Education, 1946. Hardcover - A 'Dick and Jane' style first reader (in fact, Jane is the name of one of the children in this book). Bound in orange cloth with a blue and green cover illustration of two boys in sitting on a stump; one in farm clothes, the other in city clothes. Color illustrations throughout by Terry Townsend. 127 pp plus a list of the 130 words introduced
Condition: Good condition - a few short edgetears have been tape-repaired, a little fraying to the corners.)
Book ID: 38291More details Price: $12.50 -
TODAY AND TOMORROW: Easy Growth in Reading (4th grade)
Edition: Later printing
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1948, c. 1943.). Hardcover - A fourth grade reader, illustrated in both color and black and white by Corrine Malvern and Ruth Steed. Topics include "We Go By Air" about the Flying Family's trip to Greenland, "Mexico, Our Southern Neighbor," "ATrip to the West." "The Circus" and more. Includes exercises at the end of each story, a dictionary and vocabulary list. 376 pp.
Condition: Good only in illustrated gray cloth covers (some wear to the covers, school stamp inside covers, contents otherwise clean and binding sturdy - illustrations are very attractive.)
Book ID: 33451More details Price: $12.50 -
ARCO IRIS: Texto De Lectura Corriente. Septima Edicion.
Edition: Later printing.
Buenos Aires: Angel Estrada. 1938 (c 1928). Hardcover - This is an old Spanish Reader, for Spanish children just learning to read. The text is entirely in Spanish (en espanol.) Has interesting duo-tone pictures on every page to go with the short readings, a very unique find. The selections gradually increase in difficulty as one progresses through the book. 107 pp, index.
Condition: Good in stiff boards with a full-color illustration pasted on the front cover (of a family looking at the rainbow -arco iris) Toning to pages, some wear to the corners and ends of the black cloth spine, but an uncommon and very interesting older book.
Book ID: 28494More details Price: $40.00
