Search Results: Education from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

Montevallo, AL: Alabama College. Hardcover. 1969. 1st Edition. 8vo 297pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Binding is purple cloth with gold lettering. A very scarce college history .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Hardcover. 1943. 1st Edition. 8vo 324pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. Schneider perfected a "co-operative plan of education" where students go to school part of the time and work part of the time. Special presentation copy to John W. Estes, PhD '36, from the President's office of the University of Cincinnati. Tipped in is a certificate signed by the President of the university, the Dean of the College of Engineering,and Clyde Park, the author of the book .

New York: McGraw Hill. Hardcover. 1974. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo 130pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

Lenoir, NC: Davenport College. Paperback. 1922. 1st Edition. 8vo 114pp . Good+ with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Spine chipped at bottom end. Covers lightly worn and foxed and a few text pages foxed. Small light waterstain at bottom corner of about the later half of the book. Davenport College was established in Lenoir in 1855 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as an institution of higher learning for women. It was named for William Davenport, the largest contributor to the enterprise. William A. Lenoir offered land overlooking the town for the campus, on which a classroom building, a chapel, and a dormitory were erected. The school held its first classes in 1857 and was incorporated as Davenport Female College in 1859, when enrollment stood at 56 students, all from North Carolina and South Carolina. In 1933, the college succumbed to the economic chaos created by the Great Depression. Five years later, all remaining assets and personal properties belonging to the school were merged with… Read More

Rock Island, IL: Augustana College Library. Hardcover. 1969. 8vo 220pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations History of a Lutheran college in Illinois .

Athens, GA: Stratford Press. Hardcover. 2009. 1st Edition. 8vo 318pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Inscribed by the author on title page. Describes the history of the New Faculty Tour at the University of Georgia .

Wilson, NC: Barton College. Hardcover. 2002. 1st Edition. 8vo 442pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Inscribed on front free endpaper to an individual by Fred Craddock. Fred Brenning Craddock, Jr. (1928-2015) was Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament Emeritus in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was an ordained minister of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ) from rural Tennessee. He was the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which operates in rural Appalachia. Craddock spoke at Barton College on the relationship of Church and higher education .

Lexington, KY: Univ. Of Kentucky Press. Hardcover. 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo 217pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ has slight edgewear . History of Berea College in Kentucky .

New York: Harper & Row. Hardcover. 1986. 1st Edition. 8vo 226pp . Fine in Fine DJ. The men of Harvard Business School's Class of 1949 .

Asheville, NC: Asheville School. Hardcover. 1944. 8vo 130pp . Good+ with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Padded leather binding. This is the school yearbook for the year 1944. Ex-library copy with name of library and 'withdrawn' rubber stamped at bottom of title page, but with no library pockets or labels. Musty smell .

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1984. 1st Edition. 8vo 411pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations .

Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University. Hardcover. 1995. 1st Edition?. Oblong 8vo 183pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ rear panel top edge has a 1/2 inch closed tear . Issued on the occasion of the University' s sesquicentennial celebration. It was compiled by members of the History Committee of the Bucknell Sesquicentennial Steering Committee ; edited by Robert E. Streeter .

Carbondale: Southern Illinois U.. Hardcover. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo 246pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

Boone, NC: Arromondt House. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 285pp . Fine in Good+ DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ worn at extremities. The story of Catawba College from 1851 to 1989 - the story of its more than seventy years in Newton and its nearly seventy years in Salisbury, NC .

Dallas, TX: GLA Press. Hardcover. 1981. 1st Edition. 4to 261pp . Near Fine in Very Good+ DJ. B&W Photographs. Signed by the author on title page. DJ front panel shows a slight square stain from a sticker that was removed and there is a very small chip at the top of the rear foldover. A survey of the Lone Star State's institutions of higher learning, past and present .

Pittsburgh: Univ. Of Pittsburgh Press. Hardcover. 1959. 1st Edition. 8vo 396pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Errata slip tipped in History of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh, 1878-1958 .

Appleton, WI: Lawrence College Press. Hardcover. 1957. 1st Edition. 8vo 99pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ rear panel has a 1 inch closed tear on top edge .

New York: Hastings House. Hardcover. 1958. 1st Edition. 8vo 287pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ spine faded and has a small chip at top edge of front panel . Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Named after Chautauqua Lake where the first was held, Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s .

Amherst, MA: Univ. Of Massachusetts Press. Hardcover. 1994. 1st Edition. 8vo 299pp . Fine in Near Fine DJ. DJ rear inside panel has a slanting crease . Study of the journals that students have written in Jeffrey Berman's college class on literature and psychoanalysis over the course of fifteen years .

New York: Doubleday. Hardcover. 1994. 1st Edition. 8vo 235pp . Fine in Fine DJ. DJ price clipped A wide-ranging polemic, offering lessons drawn from the history of educational reform, language revision, and cultural pluralism .