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18306526London 1830. Aquatints coloured by hand. A fine complete series of four anonymous prints of hunting scenes possibly after the Alkens.<br/> <br/>The style and naming of these prints suggests an Alken origin for the series. Siltzer records a number of series by the Alken family in which the first plate is titled "Unkennelling." This title appears to be unique to them and supports the supposition that the present series are after the Alkens. Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became an artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J. T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced an unending stream of paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s.To many sporting art is "Alken" and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary." Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75-76<br/> <br/>Cf. Siltzer pp.57-76. unknown books
1943207789Toledo SPAIN: Talleres Graficos de Rafael G. Menor 1943. Pamphlet. 47p. line-drawn illustrations softbound stapled 6.5x4.5 inch pamphlet. Covers a little dust-soiled with faint foxing and a ballpoint circle drawn round one of the cover illustrations "Pegar mas abajo de la cintura"; no other markings; paperstock is toned throughout a sound good-only copy. Talleres Graficos de Rafael G. Menor unknown books
1951175737Spain: Santander 1951. Softcover. Good tanning to edges light foxing to upper block edges. Beige wraps with red illustration on front brown illustration on rear blue illustration and yellow lettering on spine 239 pp bw and color illustrations. Second Art Week in Santillana del Mar: September 20-26 1950. Text in Spanish. Contents include: From a new sacred art / Alberto Sartoris - Art criticism and its problems / Rafael Santos Torroella - The genesis of artistic creation / Luis Felipe Vivanco - Perspectives of contemporary art / Willi Baumeister - Conversations. [Santander] paperback books
195562687Sevilla 1955. Paperback. Good. Original wrappers. 24cm. Condition varies: Spanish text. <br/><br/> paperback books
195563070Lima 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Original wrappers. 29cm. Spanish text. Theatrical Periodical. <br/><br/> paperback books
19617207Madrid: Organización Sindical Española 1961. 40p. stapled wraps lightly toned ownership stamp on front blank else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Organización Sindical Española unknown books
63194Nineteenth Century. Apx. 7 x 11 inches image size. Matted framed and glazed. Apx. 7 x 11 inches image size. Provenance: Estate of Esmond Bradley Martin unknown books
192710023HOLLYWOOD FAIRFAX 1927 1927. BLACK LEATHERETTE VERY GOOD. Hardcover. HOLLYWOOD, FAIRFAX, 1927 hardcover books
192810024HOLLYWOOD FAIRFAX 1928 1928. RED LEATHERETTE VERY GOOD. Hardcover. HOLLYWOOD, FAIRFAX, 1928 hardcover books
1996UFARORI00fpOttenheimer Publishing 1996. Very Good. Farmer Fannie . The Original Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book the Boston Cooking School. Boston Cooking-School. Owings Mills MD: Ottenheimer Publishing 1996. reprint of 1896 edition. xxx 567pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Ottenheimer Publishing paperback books
194248722Fort Sill OK: Field Artillery School 1942. Paperback. Very good. 363pp. Pen writing on the front "EOC" stamped throughout laid-in grid map else a good paperback. <br/><br/> Field Artillery School paperback books
194249980Fort Sill:: Reproduction Plant Field Artillery School. 1942. Paperback. Illustrated. Third printing paperback with corrections. Previous owner's name and address on contents page dog-eared corners worn at the spine ends else good in printed wraps. . Reproduction Plant, Field Artillery School, paperback books
185450120Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley 1854. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 50pp. Ex-Massachusetts State Library with their small pressure stamp to title page and faint Withdrawn rubberstamp to upper cover wrapers rather chipped along extremities; a Good copy internally clean and sound. Report especially recommends that news reporters and printers learn phonography Pitman shorthand. Crissy & Markley unknown books
1937006390Chicago IL: Francis W. Parker School 1937. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 110 pages of text. Tan hardcover cloth binding with blue lettering on front cover; minor rubbing to extremities and moderate darkening to spine. Contains well over one hundred photographs. No markings in text. One page from the advertisement section is detached. Includes an original 4 page Commencement Program from 1937. Francis W. Parker School Hardcover books
194018749Warren County NJ: Franklin Grove School. Near Fine. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket likely as issued faint diagonal scrape across front cover more distinctive in scanned image than it appears to the naked eye otherwise no significant wear. line drawings glued-in original calligraphy pg. A history of printing with special focus on the process of producing newspapers compiled as a school project by a group of New Jersey students -- junior high-schoolers to judge by the general tone and quality of the prose. The history itself is basic term-paper stuff illustrated with crude drawings and maps but the most interesting reading is the 7-page preface entitled "How We Came To Write This Book" in which it's discussed how the students' interest in newspapers led them to a broader range of inquiry into the development of printing which involved visits to the local newspaper office the county library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. They even went so far as to experiment with making their own paper. There is no printer or binder specified although the preface does allude to how this got done: "Miss Weber the teacher typed the book. We spent two days binding it. This was the dummy that we sent to Mr. Earl Miss Weber's friend who offered to reproduce it for us." And a nice job Mr. Earl did too with black pebbled boards a gold-embrossed title and patterned endpapers. There can't have been many of these produced; OCLC locates copies in just two libraries worldwide. . (Franklin Grove School) hardcover books
21824NP: NP ND. Fine. 21 x 16 inches gouache on paper of Art Deco jewelry shop designed by R. Tailliard. NP unknown books
1998130294New York New York: Thames and Hudson 1998. Hardcover. NF/VG lovely copy jacket shows some rubbing and very slight edge wear. Black cloth black DJ with color illus. 288 pp. 483 illustrations with 224 in color. In English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Ohio May 19 1998-July 5 1998; and two other locations/times. Colorless when it entered the kiln the ceramic material known as Egyptian faience was transformed by firing into the sparkling blue of the Egyptian sky ad a wide range of other scintillating colors. Imbued by the ancient Egyptians with great symbolic significance - resplendent with radiance and filled with the shimmer of celestial light it was the perfect metaphor for life rebirth and immortality. Over two hundred beautiful faience objects from collections in Europe and the U.S. are reproduced in lavish color with a detailed description of each along with a technical glossary extensive bibliography maps and chronological table. Five essays by top scholars in the field illuminate the subject. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
15640Important collection of 43 original vintage photos of the Public School Gardening Movement in Queens New York City 1916-1920. The school gardening movement was a nationwide initiative to create gardens for children peaking1900-1920. The movement integrated many aspects of Progressive Era urban reform including education reform tenement house work and the transformation of the urban environment with Small Parks and City Beautiful. Unfolding in cities across the country including Berkeley Boston Dayton New York Philadelphia and Chicago; it was directly influenced by the educational "nature-study" movement which advocated the study of the natural world the growth of children's gardening programs in Europe and the development of the modern playground. These 43 photos show children planting harvesting watering and carrying their produced under the guidance of teachers. Most are approximately 2"x4" with some bearing dates 1916-1920 and a few with notes or names of those pictured. This collection is particularly relevant today as there is a resurgence of interest in the urban gardening model and the benefit to children of time spent in direct contact with the natural world.<br/> <br/>The leader of the school gardening movement was Frances Griscom Parsons 1850-1923 who created the first example in New York City and helped invent a profession of school garden advocacy. In 1902 she created the "Children's School Farm" on a plot of land in Hell's Kitchen where immigrant children living in congested tenements surrounded by warehouses factories slaughterhouses and the docks could have their own plot of land to grow vegetables. Parsons created the garden to counteract the slum conditions by providing an open space and experience of nature that was so glaringly absent from the neighborhood. However she emphasized that she did not start the farm "simply to grow a few vegetables and flowers." Parsons believed that gardening would teach children values and skills applicable to their lives in the city specifically "brotherhood cooperation self-respect and the dignity of labor." By "playing the part of little farmers" the children would become urban citizens. This was particularly essential as many of them were children of immigrants or immigrants themselves. The farm-which had a deep resonance in the American imagination-was the site of Parson's vision of an idealized city as manifested in her design of the farm into four "boroughs" with the main path named "Broadway" and an government elected among the children. unknown books
195675230Charleston West Virginia 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. photos 250p. 27cm. No Jacket. Cover title: Garnett 1900 Garnet 1956. High school yearbook format and appearance but actually a pictorial history of the first fifty-six years 1900-1956 of this segregated school for African Americans. The school was named after Henry Highland Garnett but became Garnet when a new High School building was erected around 1927. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1913282010London: Constable & Co 1913. Half Leather. Near Fine binding. This copy rebound as fine binding in brown half-calf over tan cloth; raised bands with decorations and lettering in gilt to the spine; marbled endpapers with all edges marbled as well. The front board is stamped with the handsome seal of St. Olave's School Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School. Near Fine binding. Constable & Co unknown books
16088Edith Mary's Head Teacher and Mother Superior of a Girls' School Describes Living through the Blitzkrieg. Autograph letter signed Dec. 22 1940. Letterhead of Ascot Priory Ascot Berks. Berkshire England To Mr. William Nourse. The Mother Superior writes this missive on living through the Blitz with a school of girls under her care.<br/><br/>".I appreciate the kindness of our friends more than ever this year for I know how much financially hit everyone is. I do hope you will have as happy a Christmas is possible Xmas 1941 bring us peace! We have had some bombs unpleasantly near but lately I am glad to say the nights have been much quieter." The Blitzkrieg lasted from September 1940 to May 1941 during which time bombs flown in by the Luftwaffe rained down on London and its environs. Ascot Priory in the pristine Berkshires 60 miles from London was apparently not immune from the devastation. However Sister Edith responds with monastic calm. The Congregation of Religious of the Society of the Most Holy Trinity was founded in 1856 as a sisterhood of nuns dedicated primarily to nursing the sick who could not find treatment in London. They also cared for orphans. In 1933 a girls secondary school was added to the priory and named St Augustine's School. There were about 136 boarders and day girls until it closed operations in 1965. Sister Edith who wrote this letter was fondly remembered by pupils as a PE teacher and by the time of the Blitz as Reverend Mother. unknown books
16086Edward Freeman. Autograph Letter Signed. April 2 1873 Somerleaze Wells Somerset England. 4 pages on a single sheet folded. To "My Dear Lord" possibly a Bishop About a teacher who is too talented to be a governess whose name he puts forward as a candidate for headmistress of a new girls' school.<br/><br/>Stating in part "I see your name as a "Patron of the new Girls School to be set up at Manchester." I do not know whether that word is to be taken in the ecclesiastical sense as employing that you have a voice in disposing of offices in it. If so I would venture to recommend a candidate for the place of Head Mistress which I hear that the Committee are going about to fill one whom I am sure you will find it a great gain to put at the head of the new institution. This is Miss Macarthur who has been governess in my house for nearly five years and who is just now leaving us because all my daughters are now grown up. She is in correspondence with Miss Vernon to whom Mrs. Kitchener first spoke of her and she has asked me to say what I can for her to any of the Committee. I think the best witness of my opinion of her is that I have set her to write one of my series of small histories a History of Scotland which I hope will soon be out. She is a woman of powers far above the common and I can witness that she has practiced them well in the only two departments of which I am able to judge namely those of History and language. She is really strong in both; for though she does not actually understand Latin and Greek she knows all about them their relation to French English etc. I am sure she would do credit to the place. We are most anxious to find some post for her more independent than that of a private governess."<br/><br/>Unfortunately Miss Macarthur was not appointed; there being far better qualified candidates competing for this sought after position. She was Margaret A.R. Macarthur born in Scotland in 1842 and was the author of 'History of Scotland' in Freeman's Historical Course for Schools. It would be interesting to find out what happened to her. In fine condition. unknown books
16812Report Card Girls School Notebook with quarterly reports on student's academic progress at an all girls' school in London. "Wimbledon Education Committee. Wimbledon Central School for Girls." printed on front cover of notebook. 9 x 7 in. Original paper wrappers. 27 handwritten pages followed by 45 blank. Homemade brown paper jacket with original owner's name and school administrative information in the top right corner; and "Monthly Journal" written in the center. Entries from 1935-1939. Marks student Beryl Kathleen Rose's academic progress from 11 to 15 years old. Includes grades and notes from teachers in Literature Composition Grammar French History Geography Arithmetic Science Art Needlework and Handwriting. In later years her studies expand to include Book-keeping Algebra Geometry Physical Training and Shorthand. Teacher comments generally remark on her friendly nature but chide her to focus more on her studies. She is consistently listed in the bottom of her class "position in form" is listed with each entry. "Beryl could do much better if she exerted herself more. She must learn to be self-reliant." "Beryl's work shows improvement on the whole. Her behavior is usually good." "Beryl can do good work but she wastes too much time in idle talk." ".an interested worker but must try hard for better results. She is a pleasant courteous member of the form." Very good condition. unknown books
3317Forest Glen Maryland: The School; Munder-Thomsen Press 1908. . 8vo white cloth front pictorial printed in black gold and green. No copy of this date located; OCLC has three holdings for an edition dated 1909 and two holdings for a 1904 printing; none of them in Maryland. Beautifully printed by Munder-Thomsen Press in Baltimore with some printing in red. Definitely an "up-market production" Forest Glen, Maryland: [The School; Munder-Thomsen Press], 1908. hardcover books
183957670N.p. Glasgow: Graham printer October 1839. 16mo pp. 18 2; removed from binding wrappers wanting; all else very good. Contains rules of the society rules for teachers rules for visitors subscriptions and donations financial report and a table showing the state of the various schools in the Society. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> Graham, printer], October unknown books
