History from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Knoedler & Company, 2004. Exhibition Catalogue. Fine. The catalogue for a 2004-05 exhibition of art work by American artist Milton Avery, including oils, watercolors and sketches from the 1920s to the 1960s of the Atlantic seacoast and the Atlantic ocean. First edition, first printing, About 10 x 9 1/2 inches, 47 pages on glossy paper in… Read more about this item

New York: Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A classic of military history and the American Civil War, originally published in 1910 and titled: "Chancelllorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study." Developed from Bigelow's extensive and exhaustive research while was a professor of military history at MIT. First Smithmark edition, first printing thus, (with complete numberline). About 7… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1857. Hardcover. About Very Good. Sparks, author of this 19th century biography of Washington, was a leading educator and intellectual of his time. A president of Harvard, chaplain of Congress and author of numerous historical works on the American Revolution and early American leaders including Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Gen. Anthony Wayne, and… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback -- Bantam Sociology Y8266. A collection of essays covering nearly 200 years of feminist thought from classic works by Abigail Adams, de Beauvoir, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Anthony, Goldman, Gilman, Sanger, Woolf and Mead. This collection of 32 excerpts and essays edited and introduced by Alice S. Rossi,… Read more about this item

New York: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1941. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good. This is a copy of the Teacher's Guide for the reading readiness program of Scott Foresman's "Curriculum Foundation Series," which provided the Dick and Jane stories to thousands of American elementary school children for nearly 40 years from kindergarten through third grade. The guide includes… Read more about this item

New York: American Book Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. In 1929, Moore, a professor at Cornell University, published this book on education philosophy and on the need to teach citizenship as a part of American students' education and as essential as mathematics or english. This copy is a scarce first edition. About 5 1/4 x 7 1/2,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Perhaps the most common complaint about school is: "Math is my worst subject," or "I was never any good at artithmetic." In the 1920s, Dr. W. J. Osburn, Director of Educational Measurements, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, analyzed the problem and determineded a large part of the problem was teachers who… Read more about this item

New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Andrew Young (1802 - 1877) was something of a 19th-century, western NY prodigy, largely self-taught and a teacher himself by age 13. Young's teaching career ended at 21 when he became a merchant, then shortly later, an editor and publisher of local newspapers… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Very Good. As one reviewer noted about Ornstein, the late Stanford psychologist, he was "gifted with the ability to expound difficult ideas simply." That is the case with "Multimind" in which he breaks down traditional barriers between for example, science and religion, that have hampered understanding of what our… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This book's subtitle is: "The Movement, The Masters, The Precursors and the Followers," and Courthion, a 20th century Swiss writer and critic, delivers a readable art historical work, one meant for the general public, that is well illustrated with some 314 illustrations including 62 hand-tipped, full-color… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Diego De Velazquez, born in Seville in 1599, was one of the great European artists of any age. His work continues to be praised and emulated by painters today more than 300 years after his death. First edition, second printing. About 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, 322… Read more about this item

New York: American Book Company, 1897. Hardcover. Good Plus/Issued Without Jacket. James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an Indiana-born teacher and educator who laer became a writer and editor of school textbooks, particularly in elementary school reading. This book is the second grade text for his "Baldwin's Readers" series. It contains stories designed to interest and entertain seven-and-eight-year olds as… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The "definitive, complete and official" history of Colt firearms from 1836 to the present (1979) researched and written by firearms expert and historian, R.L. Wilson. First edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 11 x 8 3/4 inches, 358 pages including bibliography, index and serial number appendix. Also… Read more about this item

New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1923. First Edition. . Large Softcover. Good Plus. Elbert Hubbard was a writer, philosopher, publisher and artist as well as a successful businessman and is best remembered today as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in western New York in the late 19th -- early 20th century. The Roycroft campus… Read more about this item

New York: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. In the 19th century, as well as today, a major issue in education was the best method for teaching children how to read. Several different ways were tried in various parts of the country starting in the 1820s and employing both sight (recognizing whole words instead of… Read more about this item

New York: American Book Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an Indiana-born teacher and educator who later became a writer and editor of school textbooks, particularly of reading and for elementary school children. This book is a fourth grade text from his "Baldwin's Readers" series. It contains readings by well-known authors adapted and edited… Read more about this item

Chicago: Globe Association, 1907. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good. This 1907 compendium, probably culled from the newspapers and popular magazines of the day, is subtitled, "Our Marvelous Progress in Science Inventions and Commerce." For the curious, it is a fascinating collection of ideas and machinery on the right track, perhaps, but still a ways from the finish… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Good To Good Plus. Larry Koller was a legendary, mid-20th century wrriter, editor and expert on outdoor sports, especially guns and hunting. This little 1957 book, "Popular Handguns" was one of numerous books on guns and hunting and fishing that Koller wrote or edited. Unlike most of his work which was… Read more about this item

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The True Crime story of Timothy Wells, the Rochester, NY, college professor who, in 2009, murdered his wife and spent a day driving around upstate New York with her body in the trunk of his car while he looked for the perfect spot to end his own life. It… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book is Buckley's attempt to present a portrait of Joe McCarthy as a fallible, indeed, failed human rather than the icon of political greed and ambition he has come to symbolize. In this book, Buckley, the 20th century's preminent conservative, a public intellectual and writer, founder and… Read more about this item