Education: Teaching/High School & College Students/Curriculum from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sophomore effort from the author of the highly lauded first novel, "The Secret History," written a full decade after that first success. 555 pages. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, this hardcover octavo has black paper over boards, stamped in silver… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A FIRST EDITION, Third Printing, from 1992 of the author's first novel, now widely credited as initiating the "dark academia" genre in contemporary fiction. 522 pages. Hardcover octavo has black & gray paper over boards, title box to… Read more about this item

First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. New. Brand New book, still sealed, so we have no information other than this from the publisher: "Few people know that the Gardena High School [Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles] student body has what is a preeminent art collection of Western landscapes, the product of an innovative collaboration between the students and community… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG-/VG-. Second & last book in this very short-lived (2-book) series for YA girls featuring Gloria Doane. Written by one of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's most prolific children's series writers (she also did the Bobbsey Twins), this one under her own name, it has 240… Read more about this item

New York, New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Collection of 20 essays, most originally published in journals & magazines, that present both supportive & critical views & an attempt to document & understand the student unrest & protests that were unfolding in the mid-1960s at Berkeley University in California.… Read more about this item

Pathfinder Books Ltd, 1978. First Trade Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. A supplement to the author's groundbreaking 1975 work, "Woman's Evolution,'' this new work examines the "antiwoman bias that permeates the sciences closest to human life--biology, sociology, anthropology, & primatology." An early feminist expose of sexism in academia & the scientific professions. This FIRST TRADE PAPERBACK… Read more about this item

Dutton Children Books, 2000. Hardcover. As New. Boxed set of 5 books on basic educational concepts for young children, where Winnie the Pooh & friends introduce the ABCs, Numbers, Opposites, Colors, & Telling Time. Bright & colorful box has a red carrying handle on top. Brand New in Shrink Wrap; since we can't open it, I don't know… Read more about this item

Library Press, 1971. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Leading psychologist during this period addresses the "nature vs environment" debate in seeking to explain why Black Americans consistently underperform on standardized intelligence tests, & proposed a new explanation. The source of much controversy when first published (decades before the even more controversial "Bell Curve" debate… Read more about this item

Akron, Ohio: Goldsmith Publishing Co., 1911. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hayn, Walter. Third book in the beloved series featuring this "splendid, fun-loving & kindhearted girl from Oakwood" as she & her chums make their way through high school adventures. No date, but research places it at 1911; publisher is Goldsmith, so not the very first Altemus… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. First Edition Later Printing 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Bestselling novel about a large inner-city high school in New York City, a teacher, & her students in the mid 1960s. Made into a movie of the same name in 1967, starring Sandy Dennis. A FIRST EDIITON, Fourth printing from 1964, this… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Two volumes in one! As New! Part of a collection of social science books just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions:… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Nelson-Hall, 1985. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Part of a collection of social science books just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions: we trust you'll know if a book is what… Read more about this item

Freestone, California: Freestone Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. Efroym, Max. In the style of the Whole Earth & Big Rock Candy catalogues, this book was written by a couple who were one of the first to explore "free schools" as alternative methods of educating children in the 1960s-1970s. They get down to… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2023. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. As New. Very first book on the case, by a renamed true-crime writer & Idaho resident, of the "Idaho Murders,'' the brutal stabbings in Nov. 2022 of 4 young University of Idaho, Moscow, students--Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, & Xana Kernodle,& the hunt… Read more about this item

Dial Books for Young Readers, 2009. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Roth, Susan. Children's book, written from the perspective of the children of the village of Korphe, that tells the true story behind Dr. Greg Mortenson & his pioneering project to build schools in remote Pakistan, as chronicled in his best-selling adult book, "Three Cups of… Read more about this item

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A professor of religious studies explores how stories of "religious martyrdom" surrounding 2 of the victims of the Columbine school shooting in Littleton, CO, on 20 April 1999 emerged & helped shape the narrative about that senseless massacre. Despite an abundance of evidence challenging the initial… Read more about this item

Sandusky, Ohio: American Crayon Company, 1946. Soft cover. Very Good. Monthly magazine published by the American Crayon Company of Sandusky, Ohio, from the 1930s-early 1950s. Founded in 1890, the company merged with the Prang Educational Company around 1915, adopting its mission to make art accessible to the common American household and child by way of the public classroom.… Read more about this item

Harlin Quist, Inc., 1971. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG+/Very Good+. Collection of poems written by children from various schools & classrooms that "capture what it's like to be small, penned up, bossed around.they shine with the whole truth." Each is complemented with a full-page drawing by 1 of 29 illustrators. Essential reading for parents & teachers… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Bantam Books, 1970. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Very Good+. Burke, David L.. Now quite scarce, this vintage mass market paperback original (PBO-never previously published in any format) is a stirring documentary in book form of the student protest movements that swept the US in the late 1960s-1970s, created by those who were… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1958. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Gorey, Edward. Collection of 3 lectures on secondary & higher education in the US, by a professor of sociology, with a new Preface created especially for this First Mass Market Paperback edition from 1958. In 174 pages + 3 pages of… Read more about this item