Horace M Mann (15 results)

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Regular. Características: Pasta dura en tela editorial. Estado regular. Las tapas están ligeramente sucias. Fatiga en ambos extremos del lomo. Ligeras raspaduras en las orillas inferiores de las tapas y en las esquinas. Letras estampadas en la portada y el lomo. Cantos limpios. Sobrias capitulares. El texto está acompañado de excelentes fotografías, ilustraciones, mapas y tablas complementarias, en blanco y negro y en colores. Las páginas van sin cornisa y tienen los folios en el centro del margen inferior. 480 pp. (21 x 14.5 cm). Peso: 900 g.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has moderate wear and rubbing to edges with chipboard showing in places, mild fading to top edge, light toning and beginnings of foxing to textblock, light smudginge on preface.Otherwise, presentable copy with unmarked pages and solid binding. Pictures available upon request.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Issued. First Edition. Natural linen, lettered and with front panel illus. in red, deckled text block edges. Slightly soiled cover cloth, nearly as issued. Short articles on the leading museums and collections for the study of Pennsylvania history and Pennsylvania German folk culture, mostly written by their curators or directors at the time; also a substantial article (50 pp., illus.) on Lancaster County gunmakers and rifles. 174 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Not Issued. First Edition. Natural linen, lettered and with front panel illus. in red, deckled text block edges. Spine panel cloth slightly tanned, former owner's illus. book plate mounted inside front cover, otherwise as issued. Short articles on the leading museums and collections for the study of Pennsylvania history and Pennsylvania German folk culture, mostly written by their curators or directors at the time; also a substantial article (50 pp., illus.) on Lancaster County gunmakers and rifles. 174 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very solid and unmarked. Light foxing to page edges, fly leaves, and title page. Light musty odor to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co., Long Beach, Calif., July 19, 1916 (preface). 125 pages, 1p Index, 1p author advertisement. 7.5 x 5.25", gold lettered red cloth. Republican Rule Means Corporate Control; Taft Opposes Regulation; Government Represents Priviledge; Creating Public Sentiment Adverse to Public Interest. Small stain lower boaard, pocket removed, paper remnant over author presentation, few rubberstamps, G.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 160 pages : music ; 20 cm OCLC 1889713 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; 135 hymns in shape-note notation ; Hymns include: Forever with the Lord -- Heavenly rest -- We'll see heaven some day -- He's a wonderful Savior -- Only trust Him -- I'll not forget my Savior's love -- Jesus will lead the way -- I have a contented heart -- Some happy day -- I know He's mine -- Keep rolling on -- Ain't got time -- My mother's prayer -- Higher ground -- There'll be no skeptics in heaven -- I'm getting closer -- What a Friend -- The writing on the wall -- We'll live with Jesus some day -- I make-a my bed -- What a happy time -- I want my light to shine -- He paid the cost -- Help me Jesus -- Heaven fair is now my goal -- What a day of rejoicing -- In the happy glory land -- How great and wonderful -- My Shepherd -- There's a wonderful day coming soon -- His name is Jesus -- Our home beyond the blue -- Praising Jesus the Lord -- Only in Him -- I am holding to His hand -- We'll sing and shout it -- Can it be true? -- Beautiful home on high -- I've got a mansion -- Over on the hills of glory -- In glory land -- The Lord is never too busy -- I love Him more each day -- I want to live on in glory -- What would we have done? -- I am glad He came -- The beautiful city of gold -- On the King's highway -- A beautiful home -- I have built my house on a rock -- I'd rather have Jesus -- He's abiding in my heart -- Country of life -- Nobody knew -- We need Thee, Lord -- I can live for my Savior -- My Lord makes no mistakes -- I'm on the mountain top -- I'm singing glory to His name -- In that morning -- In Him we shall live -- Love did it -- Now is the time -- With joy I'm telling the story -- Rock of ages -- I want to go there, don't you? -- Revive us again -- I am satisfied -- Glory to His name -- Walking with my Lord -- In glory land -- The great white way -- Jesus cares -- My religion has ev'rything -- I'd like to talk it over with Him -- Thou art our joy --Trusting in Jesus -- The glory way -- Jesus, my truest Friend -- I'm headed for home -- America -- A redeemed soul is the next of kin -- Amazing grace -- Over in glory land -- Jesus -- What a beautiful day -- Jesus is the way -- Fear not the shadows -- Dreaming -- I'll be a witness true -- Where could I go? -- I'm living in a brand new world -- He knows -- Joy comes at dawn -- God's salvation -- Angels will listen -- Anchored in His love -- My wonderful song -- He understands and cares for me -- Ere the sun goes down -- How I love Him -- Sweet is the song I'm singing -- What could I do without Jesus? -- I stood in the bank of the river -- A prayer -- My heavenly home -- There are angels hov'ring 'round -- We'll sing, and we'll sing -- Christ is my pilot -- I want to hear them sing -- In His love -- The blood -- The joy in salvation -- The joy of heav'n awaits us there -- I want to meet you in glory land -- Jesus is my best Friend -- Lord, give me just a little more time -- Lord, I want a mansion -- Acquainted with Jesus -- He knows the way -- Away down deep in my soul -- God made me a man -- I'm glad to know -- The love of Jesus I am going home -- There's a happy feeling in my soul -- I want someone to love me -- I'll settle down in glory -- I'm preaching it -- God's love so great -- Mighty is the Lord -- Ev'ry heart resounds -- The Lord will be first to know -- He will go -- Look upward and smile -- The Father looked down -- In the cool of the evening; Composers include: I. R. Baxter, Jr. Albert E. Brumley G. T. Speer Marvin P. Dalton Lonnie B. Combs Terry Pillow J. R. Varner Dr. H. H. Martin S, L. Wallace Robt, E. Arnold M Sgt Cecil Fisher J. Otis Murphree Curtis Eppler Luther M. Hutchins A. H. Elliott Jas. Thomas Tuck W. C. Woodward C. C. Clements Lester L. Pearson Fred Rich James L. Glover Pat H. Baxter Ezra H. Knight Christine Sims June Smith W. H. Carter Ira B. Dykes, Sr. Howard Young W. C. Stewart Ruby Smith W. S. Hess Floyd E. McNeill V. 0. Fossett etc; ; writing on front cover, else G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover with dustjacket, this is volume 6 of a set containing articles from the Bucks County, Pennsylvania Historical Society, illustrated throughout, including several fold-outs, these volumes are rarely found with the original jackets, this volume has the jacket and it has protected the book through the years, it looks new with no significant flaws, the jacket has some edge-wear but is clean and presentable and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a treasure trove of information on this important County.…

rilegato. Condition: Buono (Good). DORSO UN PO ROVINATO,176 pagine in ottime condizionilibri rari Buono (Good) . Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 volumes. Bound in later cloth. xvi, 400 p. ; 22 cm [2], 384, [2] p. Light stain, mostly along bottom edge. Institutional stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Horace Mann and the School Masters: Educational Reform in 19th century Massachusetts] A sammelband of seven works bound as one. Includes the following: [1.] Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.; 1844, 144 pages; [2.] Reply to the "Remarks" of thirty-one Boston schoolmasters on the Seventh annual report of the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1844, 176 pages; [3.] Observations on a pamphlet, entitled Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of education, 1844, 16 pages; [4.] Penitential tears; or, A cry from the dust, by "the thirty-one," prostrated and pulverized by the hand of Horace Mann, 1845, 59 pages; [5.] Letter to the Rev. M.H. Smith, in answer to his "Reply," or "Supplement.', 1847, 22 pages; [6.] Sequel to the so called correspondence between the Rev. M.H. Smith and Horace Mann : surreptitiously published by Mr. Smith, containing a letter from Mr. Mann, suppressed by Mr. Smith, 1847, 56 pages; [7.] Review of the Reports of the Annual Visiting Committees of the Public Schools of the City of Boston, 1845, 1846, 58 pages. Condition report: The pages are remarkable clean and white. The works are bound together in early 3/4 sheep over marbled boards. The spine is stamped in gold, "Historical Papers; "Mann & the Schoolmasters." The front board has been reattached and the binding is solid. Horace Mann was one of the most important figures in the development of universal, non-sectarian, free education in America. His six reforming principles forms the nucleus of American educational values: 1. the public should no longer remain ignorant; 2. that such education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public; 3. that this education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds; 4. that this education must be non-sectarian; 5. that this education must be taught using the tenets of a free society; and that education should be provided by well-trained, professional teachers. Significantly, Mann attempted to bring children of all classes together and better equalize the conditions of men. The Seventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education included Mann's innovative findings from visits to schools in Europe, particularly Prussia, Saxony, and Holland, which Mann felt were superior to those of Massachusetts. The report proposed instruction for the blind, deaf, and dumb; modes of teaching children to read; the use of text books; and the abandonment of corporal punishment as a primary means of maintaining school discipline. Mann's innovative reform attempts created a backlash from Boston schoolmasters and this volume contains both their and Mann's responses.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Thick octavo, bound in three quarter dark blue levant morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Early printing of the trade edition, without date in Roman numerals on copyright page. A stunning copy of a classic of American literature, awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously ----- Extra illustrated edition -- Inserted within the text are approximately 80 portrait engravings and 50 documents signed by Henry Adams's circle of associates, including: (page i) Henry Adams, 4-page autograph letter signed (ALS) to C.W. Ernst, April 24, 1894, critiquing HA's "History of the United States"; (viii) Henry Cabot Lodge (HA's close friend), affixed signature; (5) James K. Polk, 1-page document signed; August 7, 1845, regarding a land transaction; (10) Louisa Catherine Adams (HA's grandmother), 1-page ALS, July 8, 1845, regarding a fire at the Adams home; (19) Joshua Johnson (HA's great-grandfather), 3-page document signed, July 1, 1799, regarding a dispute between neighbors; (20) William P. Hunt (JQA's pastor), 1-page ALS to N. Hale, May 9, 1842, regarding a possible story publication; (22) John Quincy Adams II (HA's brother), 1-page ALS to President Andrew Johnson, November 2, 1867, requesting assistance for a friend; (26) Charles Francis Adams (HA's father), 1-page ALS to R. B. Clark, July 10, 1856, demanding payment for services rendered; (34) Horace Mann (HA's hero ), 21-page ALS to G. B. Upton, December 20, 1844, regarding a visit to a school; (41) Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (HA's brother), 2-page ALS, no date (nd), declining a speaking engagement; (50) Caleb Cushing (CFA s diplomatic colleague), 1-page ALS, nd, regarding a lecture; (60) Louis Agassiz (HA's Harvard teacher), 1-page ALS to Franklin B. Sanborn, nd, requesting assistance; (72) Charles Dickens (English novelist whom HA admired), 1-page document signed, June 12, 1866, check; (86) Clarence King (HA's close friend), 1-page ALS, nd, defending a friend against slanderous charges; (90) Giuseppe Garibaldi (HA's hero ), 1-page ALS to George N. Sanders, April 11, 1854, regarding the destiny of Italy and his role; (100) Henry Winter Davis (CFA's political colleague), 1 ½ page ALS, nd, regarding his home, along with a sketch of his garden; (104) Richard Hildreth (CFA's colleague), 1 ½ page ALS to his publisher, March 9, 1855, regarding his "History of the United States"; (108) Horace Gray (HA's law mentor), 1-page ALS, nd, accepting a dinner invitation; (124) Richard Monckton Milnes (HA's English political friend), 1-page ALS, nd, regarding poetry; (136) Benjamin F. Butler (Massachusetts politician disliked by the Adams family), 1-page TLS to O. D. Barrett, August 12, 1887, regarding a weekend visit; (148) William M. Evarts, (secretary of state and HA's friend), 2-page ALS, April 11, 1862, discussing a recent court case; (158) Lord Lyons (British minister to US and CFA's colleague), 3-page ALS to J. Carlisle, March 1961, regarding patents and citizenship; (164) Benjamin F. Butler (Massachusetts politician), 1-page ALS to O. D. Barrett, January 24, 1884, regarding litigation of a paving company; (184) James Mason (Confederate Trent commissioner; CFA's adversary), 1-page ALS, August 29, 1848, regarding a financial settlement; (192) George Grote (Classical historian whom HA admired), 1-page ALS, August 6, 1831, regarding life insurance; (200) Samuel Wilberforce (English bishop with whom HA socialized), 2-page ALS, October 25, 1845, regarding sales of his "History of the Protestant Episcopal Church"; (206) George Canning (British statesman included in HA's "History of the United States"), 2-page ALS; January 6, 1853, regarding a misunderstanding; (210) Francis Barlow (Lawyer-politician in HA's circle), 2-page ALS, nd, regarding a book; (214) Thomas Woolner (HA's English sculptor friend), 1-page ALS to William Gladstone, June 4, 1864, regarding a statue at his studio; (244) (Continued at # ABE-12664270773.). Signed by Author(s).…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: eng. Language: eng. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted by the prestigious organization "Rare Biblio" with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1838. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - eng, Vol:- Volume Senders McA-Ma, 1838-1900, Pages:- 437, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume Senders McA-Ma, 1838-1900 437 437.…