American Educator (29 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 15 pages, illustrated, 4 portraits. An original article from the Review of Reviews, 1892. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Review of Reviews; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hard back binding in publisher's original black line illustrated grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine [faded] and to the front cover, decorated end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 184 printed pages of text with 3 tissue guarded illustrations plus 7 page publishers illustrated catalogue. In Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original gilt decorated racing green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 155 printed pages of text with tissue guarded monochrome frontispiece and four other photographs throughout. Light stains to the covers, contents not affected and without any age toning or foxing to the text block. In Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MISSIONARY (Proselytism).

Einband - flex.(Paperback). Condition: New. Presents a starting point for surveys of work in various aspects of vacuum coating. This book is suitable for materials scientists and engineers working with vacuum coating in the invention of technologies or applications in various industries.

Condition: Very good. - Nineteen words typed on a cream-colored 3 inch high by 5 inch wide card. Signed in black ink "3.20.'33 Henry van Dyke". 4 pieces of scotch tape adhering to the verso where it was removed from an album cause slight offsetting to the recto. Very good. Van Dyke notes on the card: "Although I am old, busy and not very well, I must send you the autograph for which you ask."Henry van Dyke [1852-1933] graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877 and was a professor of literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. Woodrow Wilson, a friend and former classmate, appointed him Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913, and he served effectively during the outbreak of World War I, despite his lack of training and experience as a diplomat. He resigned as ambassador in 1916. He was a prolific author of stories, hymns and poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Original-Farbportraitfoto (8°, am Fluß), eigenhändig signiert (dito : Brief (1/2 S. 4°) mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert Moscow, ID 30.12.2016 ".there are several universities here who are interested in buying my papers.The only way to enter poetry, by the way-to really find a way in- is to write it, and read it, yourself. Relentlessly." Euro 48,-).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Special Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTORE, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDES ALL THE POEMS OF LONGFELLOW. Measures 7" x 4 1/2", with 732 pages; embossed on the front is the name of the previous owner: HELEN BERES DOHERTY. There are 303 titles listed at back i.e. has Parker, Collected Poetry; does not have O'Henry, which according to Scot Kamins' work makes this a 1944 edition; book was bumped on the top spine, but is generally in excellent condition (see Scan).

Repro-Porträtfoto, von beiden Sängerinnen eigenhändig signiert (repro photo signed by both opera singers).

Condition: Very good. Cleveland, Ohio, March 14, 1903., 1903. Very good. - Over 230 words typed on his 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide "President's Room / Western Reserve University / Adelbert College / Cleveland" stationery. The University's president Charles Franklin Thwing thanks the American impressario and lecture manager Major James P. Pond for the gift of an inscribed copy of Pond's lecture on Henry Ward Beecher. He goes on to explain that "I dare not undertake any financial responsibility regarding the coming of Ernest Thompson Seton to Cleveland." He explains that several academic lecturers "are coming to us in the next weeks." He hopes that Major Pond will be his guest the next time he is in Cleveland and that "I shall be very glad, of course, it is needless to say, to arrange for you to lecture; and yet be it said even a man like you I hesitate to ask in a formal way, for the reason that I find academic audiences are usually small for general lecturers, however fascinating the subject, however eminent the lecturer." Signed "Charles F. Thwing" with a couple of minor corrections in his hand. Pond has stamped that he has answered the letter at the very top. Folded for mailing with short tears to the edges of the horizontal fold and minor creases to the edges. Very good. The American clergyman and educator Charles Franklin Thwing (1853-1937) was president of Cleveland's Western Reserve University and Adelbert College. In that role, he signed a petition for President William McKinley to mediate the Boer War conflict between Great Britain and the Transvall and the Orange Free States. Thwing was a member of the National Negro Committee, a precursor of the NAACP, and a supporter of the subsequently created NAACP.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original rich navy and gilt cloth covers designed by Margaret N. Armstrong, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Fishing and hunting stories. Contains tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, 322 printed pages of text with 7 colour plates by Frank Schoonover. Henry Sotheran ticket inside, light rubbing to the covers and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].

Kleines Albumblatt (Visitformat) mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift in Tinte signiert.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original rich navy, delphinium blue, green and gilt cloth covers designed by Margaret N. Armstrong, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, 348 printed pages of text with 7 colour plates by F. V. DuMond. Henry Sotheran ticket inside, light rubbing to the covers and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].

8 1/2 x 7 1/4" sheet of stationary with: "Lincoln Institute of Kentucky A Normal and Industrial School for Colored Youth Rev. A. Eugene Thomson, D. D., Principal Clifton B. Holt, Treasurer Lincoln Ridge, Ky." printed at the top. June 25, 1927 [to:] The Union Savings and Loan Company Cleveland, O[hio]. "Gentlemen:-enclosed please find check to your order for seven hundred and fifty dollars to open a savings account in the names of A. Eugene Thomson and Mrs. Lenora Thomson. Kindly acknowledge and send me a pass book. Yours sincerely, [signed] A. Eugene Thomson". Staple holes near top, a few small ink (?) stains; folded from mailing, minor creases, overall in very good condition. Scarce item & signature.

Condition: Very good. - Letter typed on one side of a 10-1/2 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide sheet of PM Daily letterhead. Signed "Max". The top edge is slightly darkened & the top right corner is lightly creased. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. Max Lerner regrets that he is unable to accept an invitation to speak in Harold Rugg's lecture series,: "I got myself tied to a series of radio and lecture commitments in addition to my PM work and on top of it all I am trying to finish up my book on American civilization" ["America as a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Today"]. After congratulating Rugg on his recent marriage, he writes that he hadn't known about Rugg's new book. "PM" only publishes two book reviews a week but he will ask them to look into it with special care.Max Lerner [1902-1992] was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column in the New York Post. The column, which debuted in 1949, earned him a place on Nixon's enemies list. "America as a Civilization", which doesn't get published until 1957, was his most influential book.One of the most significant educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg [1886-1960] was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s.

Oblong 12mo (85:48 mm). 1 p. The grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered a pioneer of women's education; Emerson promoted the natural history teaching in schools in New England and was one of the fathers of the Boston Mechanics' Institute. - Written on a piece of carton; small punching hole in the upper right margin.

4to and 8vo. Together 10½ pp. on 3 bifolia and 8 single sheets. The ALS in pen and pencil. With typescript envelope. Amicable letters to the French artist and writer Boris Vian (1920-59) about his literary career, from which he struggled to make a living, as well as family affairs and Vian's writing. - Several letters mention a piece on the Maginot Line which Vian was doing for the US magazine "Reporter", where Brossard worked as a journalist: "There is a lot of European stuff they are interested in and maybe you could do it. Namely, they are very interested in seeing a piece on the Maginot Line revisited [.] What is happening with the Line now, are people living in it, has it been dismantled, have the rats taken over, and so on. It would be a semi symbolic visit, as though you were visiting an idea about life you held as a child and found, in the adult world, that is was totally impracticable [.]". - Having left the "Reporter", he refocuses on his novels, expressing confidence that Vian's 1946 crime novel "I Spit on Your Graves" would be a huge success in the U.S.: "Forget the Maginot Line piece. I'm no longer working for the Reporter. Hope the whole thing did not upset you [.] My novel - published about 4 weeks ago - is slowly selling but will not make me any dough. Meanwhile I am trying to write a sexxy little novel under a different name - maybe Vernon Sullivan! - to make some money. My second novel ["The Bold Saboteurs", 1953] is all finished, on it I will stand or fall as a writer up to now [.] would you ask [Raymond] Queneau how he feels about the second novel [.] please send me another copy of I shall spit on your graves [.] I want to turn it over to my agent, who is the best in New York. I am positive it would sell like crazy here [.] My personal life stinks, as usual. But that is my destiny at the moment. My child, however, is very rewarding. A completely adorable beast [.]". - Hoping to score a secure job with the international broadcaster "Voice of America" funded by the U.S. Congress: "I am trying now to get a big job in the government, in the Voice of America. It would pay well, about $10,000 a year, and if they hire me they would want to send me to Europe for a couple of years. I go to Washington D.C. this week to see if my family can pull some wires in the government [and] use some influence on my behalf. It is too hard and too nerve wracking to try to make a full time living as a writer or an editor [.]". - About his financial situation and literary productivity: "I have a new novel coming out in the spring [.] It was just sold to the reprint people [.] for $7500. This is what we're living on. I have begun a third novel, called The Double Dealers [.]" (no such novel was published; Brossard's third novel was titled "All Passion Spent"; his fifth novel is titled "The Double View"). - About his family's difficult situation: "Very little new with me worth talking about, lots of minor bad luck - wife broke her ankle [.]. Still waiting on a job. Sent Queneau the rest of my second novel, but have not heard from him [.]". - Wondering about Sartre's intentions to publish two works: "The next time you see Queneau would you ask him if Jean Paul Sartre is going to publish those 2 stories [.]". - A few tiny marginal flaws; small portion of one letter torn, not affecting text.

MAN S RESTLESS SEARCH ( Revised edition of Sceptic's Search for God) Harper & Brothers Publishers New York, 1. Auflage 1949, ERSTAUSGABE, 224 SS. gebunden (Hardcover Oln. 8°, Size: 205 x 145 mm ) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Widmung für Frau Dr. Bügler, Empfehlung, Datum 24.XI.1949, Unterschrift signiert.

Condition: Fine. Baltimore, September 7, 1888., 1888. Fine. - Over 150 words penned on three sides 7-7/8 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide creamy white paper with an attached leaf. Writing from Baltimore, where he settled after the Civil War, the Georgia-born author Richard Malcolm Johnston writes to the American lecture manager James B. Pond that he is sending him 2 of his books, "I have ordered a copy of my Absolom Billingslea to be sent to you, and I beg you Pond to accept, with my compliments, the copy of Mark Langston that will accompany it." He goes on to indicate "I would like to be joined in some consideration for readings in the coming season." Signed "R.M. Johnston". Pond has stamped that he has answered the letter in red at top left of the first page. Folded for mailing, else near fine. Born in Powelton, Georgia, the American author and educator Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822-1898) took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was appointed to the chair of belles-lettres and oratory at the University of Georgia in 1857, a position he held until the start of the Civil War at which time he started a school for boys near Sparta while serving on the staff of General Joseph E. Brown. Moving to Baltimore after the war, he set up the Pen Lucy School for Boys where the Georgia-born poet Sidney Lanier convinced him to write for publications. Starting his new career at the age of 50, Johnston published several books including "Old Mark Langston", and "Mr. Absolom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folks" which was published the same year as this letter.

GROSSFOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT - aus 'One on One.

Grosses FOTO (Disney-GF) mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Unterschrift signiert.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Très bon. Rare - Card signed in 1988. + Photo 15x15 cm (recent print). Size : 7.5x12.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

STRING QUARTET IN FOUR MOVEMENTS Notes on the RETROFLEXIVE CANON Partitur (23 SS. Pb. 4 to, in Klarsichtmappe mit Spiralheftung), auf dem Titelblatt mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Unterschrift signiert For Frau Streicher, ROGER NEILL.

8vo. 4 pp. Double sheet. Thanks the German translator of the Divina Commedia for the delivery by his Berlin publisher. So far, he has only read the preface. Your illustration of the ,majestätischen Wellenschlag des Dante'schen Verses' is very striking and beautiful. The verse has a stately music of its own, and the translator who does not keep step to it fails to render one of Dante's chief characteristics []" - He thanks for the praise of his own translation of the Commedia into English.

12mo. 2 pp. (19 lines). The letter with New Year wishes was probably addressed to a British friend, as Longfellow mentions his astonishment that Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is little published in England: "A new interesting book, just published here in Boston, but not yet published in England except in old magazines. How is it that a writer of so much power as De Quincey is so much neglected in his own country?". - From 1851 Ticknor, Reed and Fields of Boston published the collected works of Thomas De Quincey, starting with his most famous work, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Longfellow also mentions Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lloyd, friends of De Quincey's, as well as a mutual friend or acquaintance who came to Boston "and has brought out six or eight extremely interesting volumes". - With a collector's note in pencil. Traces of folds. A minor tear to the fold and some browning.

Includes one ALS, 1 page, mechanically copied MSS of 8 poems (10 pages), 3 page mechanically copied biography with comments on his work with 4 holograph lines. His poems had appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Saturday Review, Chelsea, The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, and other prestigious publications of the era, Lewisohn writes that poet John Logan suggested that he send Claire some work and notes that if Claire does not want to publish it he should keep it. Lewisohn was quite infamous while a tenured professor at University of Maine, he was convicted of shooting his wife and served 10 years in prison while maintaining that the shooting was an accident. He eventually was released and became a Trappist monk having converted to Catholicism in prison.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Rare - Authentic card signed in 1981. + Envelope. + Photo 18x18 cm (recent print). Size : 7.5x12.5 cm. Condition : see scans please. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Assez bon. RARE authentic signed vintage photo. Size : 14x9 cm. Condition : small tear, please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Assez bon. Rare - Superb large photo signed in 1981. Size : 20x25.5 cm. Condition : slightly bent corners, to be flattened a little, please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.