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Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good (fault). Dust jacket and outside edge foxed, otherwise VG. Book is bound upside-down, which, of course, isn't apparent until one removes jacket. In Brodart cover. Size: Large Octavo.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book has light rub of spine ends and cover corners, light fading cover, brown spotting foredges. Clean text. Dustwrapper has minor wear and tear of spine ends and panel edges, light browning panels.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Columbus, OH.: The Ohio State University Press/Ohio Historical Society, 1958. F/F.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Thomas Worthington, Ohio, statehood) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Near fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is very lightly rubbed at top of spine and at the corners. 260 pages with index and bibliography. Illustrated endpapers.

Zustand: New. In.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 314 pages ; OCLC 927145016 (online version); art nouveau design with sunflowers and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Selections include: The American Boy -- The Light That Is Felt -- The Tiger The Brahman, And The Jackal -- A Kind Word -- Little Brown Hands -- The Lame Man And The Blind Man -- The Owl And The Pussy-cat -- September -- The Arab And His Camel -- The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf -- Needless Pain -- Because He Loves Us -- Marjorie's Almanac -- The Brown Thrush -- Truth -- God Bless Our Flag -- The Quails -- The Discontented Stonecutter -- The Cloud -- All Things Beautiful -- Labor -- The Matsuyama Mirror -- Work While You Work -- The Pen -- The Quest -- God Bless The Commonplace -- A Bright Chinese Boy -- The Grapevine Swing -- Beautiful Joe -- Forget-me-not -- October's Bright Blue Weather -- Daisies -- So Much Of Goodness -- The Breaking In Of Black Beauty -- The Children's Hour -- The Magic Mill -- The Corn Song -- Daniel Webster's First Case -- The Day Is Done -- The Image And The Treasure -- Somebody's Mother -- Look For Goodness -- The Code Barbarian -- The Discontented Pendulum -- True Success -- Which Loved Best? -- Hope -- The Story Of King Midas -- T Is The Last Rose Of Summer -- Home, Sweet Home -- The Fight -- A Simple Recipe -- The Angels Song -- A Visit From St, Nicholas -- Ring Out, Wild Bells! -- Beauty In Common Things -- Letters Of Recommendation -- A Song For Flag Day -- The Stone In The Road -- Answer To A Child's Question -- Paul Revere's Ride -- The Dream Of Home -- The Choice Of Hercules -- Thomas Jefferson's Ten Rules -- After The Shipwreck -- The Lost Camel -- The Planting Of The Apple Tree -- We Should Smile -- The Humbug -- Sky-born Music -- The Pebble And The Acorn -- The Tree -- Service -- The Sleeping Beauty -- A Wholesome Tongue -- The Village Blacksmith -- Genuine Heroism -- The Legend Of Indian Corn -- Robert E. Lee -- The City Mouse And The Country Mouse -- Our Birth--The First Roses -- A Little Sermon -- Four-leaf Clover -- Love's Nobility -- A Prayer -- Casabianca -- Be What Thou Seemest -- Thor And The Giants -- The Spider And The Fly -- The Mouse And The Moonbeam -- The Schoolhouse And The Flag -- The Snow-image -- Index Of Authors ; Numerous Biblical references appear in Searson's Studies in Reading (1923), but the movement is toward secular stories with a moral emphasizing social values. This reader, published after World War I, begins with a poem, "The American Boy." It is a dialogue between a father and son about patriotism. According to the author of this reader, the influence of the story "The Poor Little Match Girl" "founded many an orphan home and organized hundreds of societies for relief of the worthy poor," which indicates an emphasis on philanthropy and social work during the era of the Social Gospel.80% of selections taught traditional values."-- Sharon Vincz Andrews ; signature of a youthful Gerald Grout, later a Kansas Ophthalmologist ; GOOD. Book.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 287 pp. Very Good, Half Calf on Marbled Boards; staining, rubbing, minor red rot, & edge wear on covers; chipping and minor losses on head and tail of spine from red rot; some browning of pages, shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle. Map preceding title page. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg-. First edition. Folio. 50pp. [16 pages including additional plates and publisher's ads]. Original grey paper wrappers with white lettering on the covers, specially mounted on grey cloth boards for Stieglitz. Dated April, 1907. Cover design by Eduard Steichen. This is issue #18 of the seminal quarterly art photography publication edited and published by pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). It contains a total of 10 photographic plates by photographers George Davison (1854-1930), Sarah Choate Sears (18581935), and Chicago photographer William B. Dyer (1860-1931). Davison was a founding member of the Linked Ring photographic society, which is seen as the British counterpart of American Photo-Secession movement. Also included are various essays and articles on photography from a number of notable and historically important contributors to the field, including photographers and art critics, many of whom were members of or associated with the Photo-Secession. Included here are 6 images by Davison; his famous landscape "The Onion Field" (1890), "In A Village Under the South Downs", "A Thames Locker", "Wyvenhoe on the Colne in Essex", "The Long Arm" and "Berkshire Teams and Teamsters". Sarah Coate Sears contributes the expressive portraits "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe" and "Mary". William B. Dyer contributes the nude studies "The Spider" and "L'Allegro". Each image is beautifully reproduced from the original photograph in b/w or sepia-toned photogravure, and printed on tissue paper. Text content includes "Symbolism and Allegory" by art critic Charles H. Caffin (1854-1918), "Pictorial Photography" (reprinted from The Complete Photographer) by R. Child Bayley, a poem about photography by J.B. Kerfoot (1865-1927), "The Straight and Modified Print" by French pictorial photographer Robert Demachy (18591936), and an essay on Demachy's work with contributions from George Bernard Shaw as well as British photographers Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943), and Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941). The final section of 13 unnumbered pages contain beautifully-printed period advertisements for photography-related businesses. Binding with some minor rubbing, and light bumping to extremities. Spine sunned with light bumping and rubbing to the head and tail. Back cover bumped with creasing along the bottom. Interior with the pages between the initial list of Davison plates at the front and p.18 loosening from the book block but not fully detached. Plates all clean and vibrant overall with some having minor to light foxing, mostly in the margins. Binding and interior in very good- condition overall. * Agnes Ernst Meyer (1887-1970) was an American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron. She was a close collaborator and friend of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, with whom she publishing the arts and literary magazine "291" (from 1915-916). She first encountered the work of photo-secession group, when she chanced upon Stieglitz's Gallery 291, while work as a reporter for the New York Sun newspaper. She was one of the first female journalists to work at the paper. Due to this fact Stieglitz often referred to her as the "Sun Girl". Along with Katharine Rhoades and Marion Beckett she was known as the one of "The Three Graces" of the Alfred Stieglitz artistic circle. She is well known for her political activism throughout her life on behalf many causes, including public education and racial equality in America.