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THE BASIC READERS TEACHERS EDITION, PRE-PRIMER PROGRAM (also Titled GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PRE-PRIMER PROGRAM OF THE BASIC READERS)
by Gray, William S., Monroe, Marion; Gray, Lillian
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- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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- 1941
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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NZ$82.91
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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 Item Price
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THE GOVERNMENT CLASS BOOK: A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT AND LAW
by Young, Andrew W.
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- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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- Issued Without Jacket
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- 1894
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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NZ$41.46
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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 Item Price
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SKY CASTLE
by Northup, Arthur
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- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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- Fair To Good
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- 1932
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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NZ$24.87
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Chicago & Philadelphia: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1932. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Fair To Good. This early 20th century, juvenile adventure story for boys features Ted Lucas and Bob Jordan, young reporters for the "Dixon Tribune." The pair are assigned to write a series of historical feature stories about early travel on the upper Mississippi River… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCHOOL READING BY GRADES: SECOND YEAR
by Baldwin, James
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- Used - Good Plus
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- Issued Without Jacket
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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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 Item Price
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THE RATIONAL METHOD IN READING: THIRD READER
by Ward, Edward G.
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1899
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- Hardcover
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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 Item Price
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SWINTON'S FIFTH READER and SPEAKER
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- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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- Issued Without Jacket
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- 1883
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Publishers, 1883. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. As the subtitle --"The Reader: The Focus Of Language Training" -- indicates, this is one in a series of 19th century school texts designed to teach the elements of English to grade school students. It is filled with selections of prose… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCHOOL READING BY GRADES, FOURTH YEAR
by Baldwin, James
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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NZ$29.43
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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 Item Price
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CORNELLI
by Spyri, Johanna
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Good Plus to Very Good
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- 1927
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- Hardcover
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus to Very Good. A late children's novel by Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author of "Heidi." Cornelli is the story of a widowed mother of four children who must weigh the needs of their futures against their current desires, particularly in terms of educations in art and music or… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK, 1980 To The Present
by Kushner, Tony
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- Used - Good Plus
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- Fine
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9780810944480
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NZ$49.75
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2003. Hardcover. Good Plus/Fine. The work of Sendak as a children's book artist has been known around the world since his Caldecott winning "Where The Wild Things Are" in 1963. Less well-known is Sendak's work for adults, a kind of second career, in set and costume design for opera and other… Read more about this item Item Price
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IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT
by Munari, Bruno
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- Used - Near Fine to Fine
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- 2017
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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NZ$43.11
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New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2017. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine. Munari, an Italian artist, author, graphics designer, inventor and teacher, who was once called "the Leonardo of our time" by Picasso, began creating children's books for his son, Alberto, in the 1930s. Originally issued in Italy in 1956 as an artist's book, "In the Darkness of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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PROSE AND POETRY, SIXTH YEAR
by Avery, Fannie L. & Leitzell, Frances L.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1935
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- Hardcover
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NZ$34.82
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Chicago: The L.W. Singer Co., 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Wiser, Guy Brown. Originally issued in 1927, this sixth grade literature reader was in use in U.S. classrooms for many years. This copy is the 1935 edition, revised by Cassie B. Burton. It includes studies of the lives and poems of Rudyard Kipling and Sir Walter Scott as well… Read more about this item Item Price
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GLORIA AT BOARDING SCHOOL
by Garis, Lilian
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- Used - Good Plus
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- 1923
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- Hardcover
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Hardcover. Good Plus. In the first half of the 20th century, Garis, a former newspaper reporter, writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, produced literally hundreds of juvenile fiction novels under pen names such as Margaret Penrose and Laura Lee Hope as well as her own name. She also wrote several of the books… Read more about this item Item Price
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WITH PENCIL AND PEN: Language Lessons for Primary Schools -- New York State Edition
by Arnold, Sarah Louise
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- Used - Very Good
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- Issued Without Jacket
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- 1906
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- Hardcover
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Boston: Ginn & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Sara Louise Arnold, superintendent of schools in Minneapolis and Boston, was also a prolific author of school textbooks, especially for the elementary grades. Her "Stepping Stones to Literature" and "See and Say" series were nationally used textbook series during the early 20th century. "With Pencil and Pen" is… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TWO BROTHERS
by Ho, Minfong & Ros, Saphan
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing.
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9780688125516
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NZ$19.48
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New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This traditional Cambodian folktale, retold here for modern American children (ages 9 - 12) , is the story of two orphan brothers who grew up in a Buddist monastery. When they were ready to leave the monastery, the abbot advised the older brother,… Read more about this item Item Price
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