Horace Mann Editor (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Cloth in mylar protected dust jacket. 243 pp., Inscribed by Filler on the title page. This work provides a wide range of Mann's educational writings chosen for their continuing interest. A clean, tight copy. Size: Octavo. Inscribed by Author(s).

cloth. Mann, Horace (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. xi, (iii), 54 pages. First edition, issued as part of the Horace Mann Centennial (1837-1937). Exlibrary copy with markings. Else a fine copy. A bibliography, compiled by Workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Massachusetts. Second only to Horace Mann's interest in establishing the public school system in this country was his belief in the educational and cultural value of libraries, "always urging the need of books and libraries upon the towns." Bibliography divided into primary and secondary sources, including a biographical sketch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo. xxx, [2], 160 pages. Illustrated Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Inscribed by author(s) and editor to fellow writer Jean Bergmark on the title page. Story of the lynching of African American farmer Jerome Wilson in Washington Parish, Louisiana in the 1930's.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, original publisher's cloth, spine gilt stamped, 395pp. Some foxing throughout. A few light library stamps internally only, but without bookplates or pockets or such. A good+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The book is bound in well worn suede leather with the titling worn off of the spine. Corners and spine caps softly worn. Glue staining from the original binding process on the endpapers along with remnants of red wax in four places. There is foxing on the pages throughout the book and the text is generally clean and unmarked. 354 pages plus contents pages and publisher's advertisements at the back of the book.too large to ship outside of the united States.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Lacks the spine strip, has light exterior marks, foxing on the endpapers. The "First number of "The Common School Journal", the object of the work being "the improvement of Common Schools, and other means of Popular Education. Also intended to make it a depository of the Laws of the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts] in relation to Schools, and of the Reports, Proceedings, &c. of the Massachusetts Board of Education". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, contemporary calf backed boards, spines dry and with some flaking, 384; 392; 384pp. Some foxing throughout. Ex-Forbes Library, Northampton MA, with bookplates inside front covers and perf. stamps on title pages. Upper cover on Volume I nearly detached. Originally owned by Samuel Fowler Lyman (1799-1876), prominent Hampshire County Judge of Probate, Register and member of a well known local family. LOMAZOW #358.

8vo, pp. 55, [1]; self-wrappers; spine with cloth reinforcement, first leaf with 2" tear at the top gutter (some loss of paper but no loss of letterpress), ex-Garrett Bible Institute, Evanston, Illinois with several old library rubberstamps (released); good copy. Mann had taken the Unitarian - and liberal - view, that while the Bible should be taught in school, it should be done without comment. Some religious groups charged him and the Board of Education with creating a godless system of schools. American Imprints 1612-13. Sabin 44318.