New York: Marion Press, 1900. Hardcover. 94 p.: tables; 18 cm. Light blue cloth with dark blue stamped cover title: The Packer Collegiate Institute 1899-1900. Some pages are unopened. The Packer Collegiate Institute is a college preparatory school founded in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy. It has always been... More
Drexel Hill, Pa. School of the Holy Child Jesus, 1940. Paperback. [100] p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Stapled wrappers with brown embossed emblem of the School of the Holy Child Jesus, Drexel, on the front wrapper. The school was established by the Sisters of the Holy Child in 1865 in Sharon... More
Beaver, Pa. Beaver College, 1900. 1 sheet 24 x 16 cm. Illustration of a log cabin, signed E. Bott. Although the centennial referred to in the title is that of the founding of Beaver County in 1800, the emphasis on Military Day was on Beaver County's role in the American... More
Cambridge, Mass. 1933. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 247, [2] p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover emblem. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. Harvard College is part of Harvard University. This attractive volume contains obituaries of those members of the Harvard class of 1923 who... More
![The Colonial Echo 1931 published by the Student Body of the College of William and Mary [ex-libris: Lucile Maxfield of Philadelphia]](/pictures/thumb/002884.jpg?v=1472082261)
Williamsburg, Va. College of William and Mary, 1931. Hardcover. [14], 19-291, [13] p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Black faux leather with embossed gilt spine title and cover title; front board has embossed gilt illustration and blind-stamped decoration along fore-edge. Blue marbled endpapers. Ex Libris on first page is filled in by... More
Harrisburg, Pa. B. Singerly, Staatsdrucker, 1869. Hardcover. lxii, [2], 280, 104 p.: tables; 25 cm. Dark brown cloth with black spine title: German School Report 1869. Boards have blind-stamped center emblem of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and decorative border. Remains of inscription on front free endpaper indicate the book was... More
![The Echo 1947 [yearbook of Hilltown High School, Hilltown Township, Bucks Co., Pa.]](/pictures/thumb/002914.jpg?v=1472082262)
Hilltown, Pa. Hilltown High School, 1947. Hardcover. 81 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Blue faux leather with embossed gilt cover title; blind-stamped cover illustration of a bird and "1947." Ring binding. "Covers by National Pub. Co., Philadelphia" -- blind-stamped on back cover. Includes advertisements for many Bucks County, Pa., businesses. In... More
Hatboro, Pa. Hatboro High School, 1933. Paperback. 2 leaves; 14 cm. White card covers tied with a dark blue leather strip. Front cover embossed with leaf and vine decoration; printed in black "Hatboro High School" and a calendar for June 1933 with the 22nd, the date of graduation, printed in... More
![The Mirror vol. 26 nos. 1-10 Sept. 1905-June 1906 [Central High School, Philadelphia]](/pictures/thumb/005779.JPG?v=1508535649)
Philadelphia: Central High School, 1906. Hardcover. 1 bound volume containing the monthly publication The Mirror for the school year 1905-1906 of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa. 26, 26, 30, 30, 26, 30, 30, 30, 26, 30 p., 8 leaves of illustrations: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth; marbled fixed endpapers... More
![The Mirror vol. 28 nos. 1-10 Sept. 1907-June 1908 [Central High School, Philadelphia]](/pictures/thumb/005778.JPG?v=1508535649)
Philadelphia: Central High School, 1908. Hardcover. 1 bound volume containing the monthly publication The Mirror for the school year 1907-1908 of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa. 32, 34, 36, 42, 40, 40, 40, 38, 36, 70 p., frontispiece and 8 leaves of illustration: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 25 cm... More
![The Nineteen Thirty Two Cornellian Volume 64 [Edmund N. Bacon, art editor]](/pictures/thumb/004992.JPG?v=1473723678)
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1932. Bacon, Edmund N. Hardcover. 528, [2] p.: illustrations (including red-and-black woodcuts); 31 cm. Brown cloth with black spine title; orange and brown pastedown on front cover. Brown endpapers. Printed in red and black throughout. William T. Thompson editor-in-chief; Robert E. Stevens business manager; Edmund N.... More
Malden, Mass. Perry Pictures Co. 1950. Group of Perry Pictures materials consisting of: 4 sepia photographs (13 x 9.5 cm.) produced by the Taber Prang Art Co., Springfield, Mass., 2 captioned "Cupid Awake" and 2 captioned "Cupid Asleep," one of which is stamped on the back "Compliments of the Perry... More
Philadelphia: Board of Public Education Committee on Boys' High Schools, 1906. Paperback. [4] p.; 18 cm. Folded paper printed in brown. "Ninth Annual Series" -- at head of front cover. Program for the 1906-1907 season consisting of five lectures given in the auditorium of the Northeast Manual Training High School... More
Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1941. Paperback. 79, [1] p., 4 large folded tables to be kept inside back wrapper: tables; 20 cm. Brown wrappers with black cover title. Four-digit number written in black at top edge of front wrapper. Circular stamp of Hochschule für Lehrerbildung, Bayreuth, on blank p. [6]; each... More
Toronto: Students' Administrative Council, 1936. Hardcover. 199, [1] p., folded map of Toronto attached to back fixed endpaper: portrait of President H.J. Cody, 2-page map of the University of Toronto campus, illustrations in ads; 13 cm. Dark green faux-leather cloth over light card cover. The folded map is Lloyd's Map... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. Hardcover. 525, [3] p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of William Emerson, 5 leaves of heavier stock with color illustrations precede sections, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Suede binding with black-stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Grey endpapers with "Ex Libris" printed... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1925. Hardcover. 520 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Allan Winter Rowe, 3 leaves of color illustrations of the campus reproduced from the original water colors by Nelson C. Chase with captioned tissue guards, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Full leather binding with... More
![Technology's War Record: An Interpretation of the Contribution Made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its staff, its former students and its undergraduates to the cause of the United States and the Allied powers in the Great War 1914-1919 [provenance: Henry C. Kawecki]](/pictures/thumb/002883.jpg?v=1472082261)
Cambridge, Mass. War Records Committee of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1920. Hardcover. ix, [1], 747 p.: frontispiece portrait of Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Contemporary full burgundy morocco with five spine compartments. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; gilt-stamped cover decoration. All page... More
New York and London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; Edward Arnold, 1914. Hardcover. xii, 336 p.: in-text drawings, photographs, tables; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Errata slip bound in between p. xii and p.1. Includes examinations, glossary of technical terms, and an index. Ex-library: remains of white... More
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1829. Hardcover. Tenth American edition. Stereotyped by L. Johnson. 334 p., 1 engraved leaf; 13 cm. Contemporary red morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title "Bennett's Letters" and decoration. Marbled paper over boards. Added engraved title page dated 1830. Shoemaker, 37761. Bennett's Letters to a Young Lady were... More
![An Address, delivered before the Alumni Association of Nassau Hall, on the day of the Annual Commencement of the College, September 30, 1835 [Princeton University]. Nicholas Biddle.](/pictures/thumb/005085.JPG?v=1477080886)
Philadelphia: John C. Clark, 1836. Paperback. 24 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "3" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) before his career in finance, which included serving as the... More
Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad, 1811. Hardcover. Second Edition. William Brown, printer. 160, [2] p., folded frontispiece and 9 other leaves of plates (1 folded); 14 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Blair's Philosophy." Publisher's catalog of... More
Leipzig: George Wigand, 1895. Hardcover. [8], 46, [2] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title; red and black cover title and illustration. All page edge red. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Half title bears the red stamp of Institut Tilly, Berlin. No date of... More
New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. 1869. Hardcover. Imprint includes S.C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. Title continued: "including complete sets of books in wholesale and retail merchandising, farming, settlement of estates, forwarding, commission, banking, exchange, stock brokerage, etc. with full explanations and appropriate remarks on the customs of trade;... More
Philadelphia: John C. Clark, printer, 1852. Paperback. 45, [1] p.; 22 cm. Pale yellow wrapper with engraved vignette of the original building at 20th and Race streets after the 1851 addition of a wing at each end. Small stamp "Dickinson" at lower gutter on first page of text. Disbound from... More