Introduction to counting & probability
[Alpine, CA: AoPS Incorporated, 2005]. First edition, 2 vols, including the solution book, pp. xii, 243, [1]; vi, 112, [2]; a few corners creased, else fine. More
[Alpine, CA: AoPS Incorporated, 2005]. First edition, 2 vols, including the solution book, pp. xii, 243, [1]; vi, 112, [2]; a few corners creased, else fine. More
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; edges curled and one or two small chips, else very good. Peabody (1811-1893) was a Unitarian pastor, author, and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended Harvard at the age of 12 and at the..... More
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1949]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 493, [1]; full tan cloth, gilt title on spine; boards faded, corners bumped, text clean and sound, inscribed by Pei to John S. Mayfield, very good. Laid in is an autograph postcard signed from Pei, dated March..... More
Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Pierce's address focuses on the public and social duties of the college graduate. More
New York: Jan. 4, 1841. Folio broadside, approx. 19" x 13", text in triple column, top half of the broadside announcing a series of lectures on English grammar in various locations in New York, and classes "for a term of years" on grammar at the Park Grammar School. Dates, times..... More
Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1808. 8vo, pp. 480; contemporary full calf, gilt ruled spine, morocco label; endpapers lacking; boards worn, head of spine chipped, light spotting in textblock, good and sound. More
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for Oliver D. and I. Cooke, 1799. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound. Mary Pilkington was primarily..... More
Chautauqua, NY: August 16, 1905. Typescript transcript, [1], 19 leaves typed on rectos only; bound with an incomplete transcript of a speech by Olivery Dyer on shorthand, 2 leaves; printed gray limp cloth covers, spine sunned, near fine. A speech given at the Chautauqua Institution, focused primarily on Benn Pitman's..... More
New York: John Donlevy, 1844. Third American edition, 16mo, pp. 32, 3 double-sided folding charts; contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, edges dyed green, light foxing, corner of one chart mis-folded, owner's stamp on first page of introduction, very good. A relatively early American Pitman imprint. Benn Pitman would not establish..... More
Bath and London: published by the author, 1846. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; 30 pages of engraved shorthand exercises; original printed paper wrappers; spine perished, covers toned and starting, binding weak but holding, some pencil in the margins, fair. More
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies, this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterend paper-covered..... More
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 12); 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterned paper-covered boards also by Connors, paper label on..... More
New York: Society of Friends of Russian Culture, 1965. 8vo, pp. 428, [4]; frontispiece portrait; blue printed paper wrappers; wrappers a little toned, spine with some wrinkles but no splits or damage, text clean and sound; very good. Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff (Никола́й Серге́евич Тима́шев) was a sociologist and pioneering professor..... More
Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, printers to the University, 1836. First edition, 8vo, pp. 72; removed from binding; light foxing, very good. An argument for the learning of Greek and Latin. Popkin was the second Eliot professor of Greek literature at Harvard and in his memorial, he is cited as..... More
Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Co., 1893. Slim 8vo, pp. 94; original half white cloth over grey boards (soiling), upper cover stamped in black and gilt; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine discolored, edges and corners scuffed, interior mostly fine. Publication includes the menu, starting with Canapés..... More
Easton: printed at the Sentinel Office, 1843. 8vo, pp. 37, [3]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. American Imprints 43-4139; Sabin 64317. More
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; very good. At the back is printed the Society's Constitution, adopted in 1848. Bartlett, p. 208; Parks 788: "History of education in R.I." More
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; near fine. At the back is printed the Society's Constitution, adopted in 1848. Bartlett, p. 208; Parks 788: "History of education in R.I." More
New York: Whiting and Watson, no. 96 Broadway, 1812. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], 4-56; uncut; original printed brown wrappers; ex-N.Y. State Library with small inoffensive rubberstamp on the wrapper; very good. Wrapper dated 1813. American Imprints 26519; Sabin 65218. More
Philadelphia: LOAG, printer, Samson Street Hall, 1870. First edition, 12mo, pp. 15, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; old vertical fold, text clean; very good. Ann Preston was a member of the first class of the Pennsylvania Women's College, which was itself the first school anywhere to train women in..... More
[Boston]: printed for the Alumni Association of Saint George's School [by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press], 1920. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 168, [2]; frontispiece, 16 gravure portraits and 3 other gravure plates; original red cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover, black cloth spine lettered in gilt;..... More
New-London [CT]: printed by J. Springer for C. T. Green, and S. Green; and J. Trumbull, Norwich, 1796. First American edition, 12mo, pp. x, 102, [2]; contemporary green paper-covered boards backed in calf; waterstains on boards and first and last few leaves, corners rubbed, signature of Gamaliel Manning on front..... More
New York: M. W. Dodd, [1840]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; original brown cloth, stripe-grained, decorative blind-stamping; gilt lettering on front cover; spine extremities chipped down to textblock, mid-spine a bit chipped; corners scuffed; otherwise very good. A collection of Greek, Latin, and French poems with corresponding English translations for..... More
Providence: January 30, 1837. 4to (approx. 10" x 8), 5 leaves of ruled stationery, with manuscript in ink on rectos only, in a neat, secretarial hand, bound with blue silk ribbon; previous folds, very light staining, otherwise near fine. Interesting chapter in the historical evolution of the Providence school system..... More
January 16, 1845, 1845. One page, 8¼" x 7½"; blue paper; fine. A note from Josiah Quincy to an anonymous father informing him that his son "has satisfied his instructor so little in history that he is ordered to study it during the vacation under a private instructor as specificed..... More