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The Academic Revolution

by JENCKS, Christopher, and RIESMAN, David

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 580pp. Very good/very good. Quite minor jacket wear; ownership name/address neatly inkstamped in green on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and attractive, of this hefty chronicle of (to quote the front jacket flap) "the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well.
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The Albion College Sesquicentennial History: 1835-1985

by FENNIMORE, Keith J.

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Albion, MI: Albion College, 1985. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan and brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 738pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A wonderfully tight and handsome first edition of this thick-as-a-brick Michigan college history.Ownership signature on front flyleaf of Ralph C. Gordon, noted Michigan pediatric medicine specialist -- and medical book collector.
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Alma Mater: A Profound Study of a Great University
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Alma Mater: A Profound Study of a Great University

by BENSTEAD, C.R.

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London: Frederick Muller, 1985. Hardcover. Illustrations by Edgar Norfield. Small 8vo. Pale blue paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 152pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Price sticker abrasion to front panel of otherwise-superb jacket; ownership signature (Cambridge) on front pastedown and small name/addrss inkstamp of Cambridge pupil on front flyleaf and top page edges. Tight and superb later printing of the second edition of this lighthearted 1944 "classic memento of idyllic days by the Cam which argues so wittily for the ascendency of Cambridge....
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Among Schoolchildren

Among Schoolchildren

by KIDDER, Tracy

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and tan speckled paper over boards, dust jacket. 340pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first edition, signed boldly by Kidder in blue fineline on the half-title page.
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The Basis of Practical Teaching: A Book in Pedagogy

by BRYAN, Elmer Burritt

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New York: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1905. Hardcover. 8vo. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering. 190pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, with spine gilt a tad rubbed. Tight and attractive first edition of this study by the noted educator and Franklin college and Ohio University president (1865-1934).
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Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh: As Iowa Remembers Him, 1871-1940 -- In Memoriam

by (SHAMBAUGH, Benjamin Franklin)

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Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1941. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering and rules. 229pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded illustration. Near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this Iowa educator, historian, antiquarian and first superintendent of the State Historical Society.
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Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Exploring the Organization of Knowledge -- Speech to the Faculty September 18, 1986

by FREEDMAN, James O.

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Iowa City: The University of Iowa, 1986. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff ivory textured wrappers. 11pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this talk by the educator (1935-2006) who served as University of Iowa president (1982-87) and then Dartmouth College president (1987-98).
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The Cambridge Apostles: A history of Cambridge University's elite intellectual secret society

The Cambridge Apostles: A history of Cambridge University's elite intellectual secret society

by DEACON, Richard

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London: Robert Royce Limited, 1985. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 214pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature and Wolfson College Cambridge name/address inkstamp. Super and tight first British edition.
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A Centennial History: A History of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

by JENKINS, John W.

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Madison: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ix, 199pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome.
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A Centennial History: A History of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

by JENKINS, John W.

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Madison: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ix, 199pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Date inkstamped on top page edges. First edition, tight and handsome.
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A Centennial History of the University of Louisville

A Centennial History of the University of Louisville

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Louisville: The University of Louisville, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and emblem. xiv, 301pp. Illustrations. Very good. Faintest of mild edgewear; contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight and most attractive first edition of this "American Guide Series" volume, the famed WPA (Work Projects Administration) series -- one of the scarcer institutional histories they produced.
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Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt

by MIMS, Edward

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Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. xvii, 362pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Mild bit of wear. Tight, decent first edition of this biography of this university long-lasting chancellor, James Hampton Kirkland (1859-1939).
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Charles Sumner Slichter: The Golden Vector

by INGRAHAM, Mark H.

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Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 316pp. Color tipped-in frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. First edition of this biography of the University of Wisconsin academic and educator -- a discreet ex-library copy, with no spine marking whatsoever and very few other markings.
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Children in Jeopardy: Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty
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Children in Jeopardy: Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty

by HARRIS, Irving B.

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New Haven: The Yale Child Study Center, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with silver lettering and light grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxxi, 236pp. Figures. Fine/fine. Handsome and tight first edition of this study by the noted businessman and philanthropist (1910-2004) whose largesse created The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He boldly signs and inscribes the title page in black fineline to a Chicago politico, civil servant and one-time CEO of the Chicago Pubic Schools: "To Forrest Claypool / Good Luck! / Irving Harris / 12/3/01." Most unusual copy.
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A Counselor Looks Back Through the Years

by HOUSTON, Lloyd H.

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Lawrence, KS: The Allen Press, 1964. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff white glossy wrappers. 97pp. Inside front and rear wrappers illustrations. Very good. Bizarre "dings" mainly to outer wrapper edges of otherwise tight and nice copy. First edition of this Delta Upsilon Fraternity history and pep talk by their long-time University of Kansas advocate (born 1882). He boldly inscribes and signs the title page in blue ballpoint: "With my compliments / Lloyd H Houston." Interesting and unusual.
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Doctor Dock: Teaching and Learning Medicine at the Turn of the  Century
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Doctor Dock: Teaching and Learning Medicine at the Turn of the Century

by DAVENPORT, Horace W.

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New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 342pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A perfectly pristine and tight first edition of this distillation of Dr. George Dock's University of Michigan diagnosis clinic transcript from 1899 to 1908.
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The Education of an American
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The Education of an American

by SULLIVAN, Mark

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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1938. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 320pp. Frontispiece, 7 illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine a bit sunned and edgeworn. Tight, clean early (not first) printing of the journalist and historian's memoir -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Sullivan, 1p, 8½" X 5 3/4", Washington, DC, 25 April 1941. Addressed to future notable Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. "It was thoughtful of you to send me your booklet, 'Amberglow', and I appreciate the inscription. I am taking the book with me this week-end when I visit my farm. Maybe it will give me some inspiration...." Boldly signed in black ink. Budding historian Gates had published "Amberglow of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge" in 1939 and greatly admired Sullivan's 6-volume opus, "Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925.
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Edward Charles Elliott, Educator
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Edward Charles Elliott, Educator

by BURRIN, Frank K.

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Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth, dust jacket. xv, 187pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Promotional leaflet laid in, as well as letter from "Indiana Magazine of History" to an academic soliciting his review of this title. First edition, tight and nice.
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Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too

Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too

by GARDNER, John W.

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and grey cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiv, 171pp. Very good. Spine faintly sunned, else tight and internally fine. Attractive later printing of Gardner's first book, bearing huge inscription and signature in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf: "To Robert Malott / with my best wishes / John W Gardner." Gardner (1912-2002) was an educator who served as Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist.
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Family Portraits: History of the Holy Cross Alumnae Association of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1879....1949

by McCANDLESS, Marion

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Notre Dame: Saint Mary's College, 1952. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 477pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. First edition, handsome and tight.
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