Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1807. First Edition. Satirical account of the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion at Harvard in 1807, an uprising/food fight galvanized by the presence of maggots in the cabbage and splinters in the sugar bowl. Among the expulsions were Dr. Walter Channing and Richard Henry Dana. SHAW & SHOEMAKER..... More

Atlanta: The Institute of the Black World, 1969. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); printed sheets (rectos), side-stapled into beige pictorial card covers; [9]pp. Tiny spot to lower front cover, touch of dust-soil to rear cover; contents clean; Near Fine. Innaugural program and ten-point platform of the Institute of the Black..... More

Raleigh, NC: Rev. M.L. Latta, 1903 [but 1924]. Revised and Expanded Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover within a brown double-ruled border; [viii],[31]-600pp, with a portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass and five inserted plates of illustrations (halftones);..... More

Washington DC: The Associated Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Educational text compiled by two African-American women, under the direction of Carter G. Woodson, "for extending the study of the Negro in the junior and senior high schools. As a rule, the study of this element of our population does not include..... More

N.p. [Washington, D.C.: by the Author], 1913. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; [12]pp. Staples slightly rusty; light marginal soil; Very Good. Scarce offprint, detailing the imnportance of a moral curriculum in higher education, and outlining some possible approaches to its achievement. "Moral pedagogy...can not be stated, at present, in terms of..... More

Old Westbury, NY: Clearinghouse on Women's Studies--an Education project of the Feminist Press, SUNY/College at Old Westbury, [1973]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 20pp.; text in double columns. About Fine. List of resources including works on sexism in education and a directory of "Feminist Booksellers" in the country. More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1924]. First Edition. Essays and papers by the first female Dean of the Women's College at Brown University. Addressed primarily to freshmen and sophomore college students including essays "Freedom and Family Life," "Mothers and Daughters," "The Open Door to Marriage," and "Men, Women, and..... More

New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1954. Second (1955) Printing. Octavo (21cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. Bottom two inches of fore-edge a bit chipped, light soil to upper cover, else Very Good overall. More

Washington DC: American Council on Education, [1932]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's orange staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; illus. A hint of toning to extremities, else Fine. At head of title: "Achievements of Civilization No. 3." More

Georgetown [Washington, D.C.]: William Cooper and Joseph Milligan, 1812. First American Edition. 12mo. Contemporary full sheep; xx,[1]-130pp; frontispiece + 5 leaves of plates. A complete but somewhat worn copy, with typical darkening to text leaves; a few brief marginal chips (including a small loss to frontispiece, costing a couple of..... More

Boston: Charles H. Peirce, 1847. First Edition. Entire run (comprising six bi-monthly issues) of this short-lived magazine of moral hygiene, instruction, and literature, aimed at adolescent boys and young men. The content is generally progressive, with contributors such as Wendell Phillips, Lyman Beecher, George Tuckerman, William Ellery Channing, etc. well..... More

[New-York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1830s]. Offprint. 12mo (18cm.); self-wrappers; 8pp. Light spotting and dampstaining, bottom fore-ege corner slightly creased, else Very Good. Short religious tract on the religious training of children by their parents, citing various historical men of God and their own parental practices. More

New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1830s. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); tan pictorial wrappers; 10pp. Light toning to extremities and a hint of foxing to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Advice to the guardians, wards, and friends and family of wards, signed in text at the end of p...... More