Scarce, desirable booklet in good clean, tightly bound condition. Isolated small rubbed spots to cover, front and back, and flat corner creases only faults. Pages very clean with no names or writing. Nicely illustrated in both black and white and color throughout. 39 pages of dense text. At the time of writing Fabun was director of Publications for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp, but also taught at Brandeis as a professor of psychology. He has published a large body of work, but this one can be elusive. A recently closed auction showed this selling for $80 and I sold one myself in 2007 for ... View More...
Eleven consecutive books in a fine arts course published in 1907. Beautifully kept and beautifully designed. All are illustrated, primarily in black and white on quality coated paper. Each measures 9"x12" and each is focused on one period of art. Appears to be missing one volume -- #12 -- which covers Asian art. All are clean and tightly bound with just light wear. Begins with principles and technique of fine art and moves through the ages showing painting, sculpture and architecture of each. The final volume I have -- #11 -- is devoted to decoration. 742 pages collectively. View More...
This is a very scarce item which I have been researching on and off for months. It’s a nine lesson course written by the former editor of Popular Culture magazine in which he wrote articles about birth control when it was highly controversial. That topic and the title of this course in body building brought up the dark story of E. S. Gosney and his The Human Betterment Foundation located in Pasadena, California in 1928. Gosney’s goal seemed to envision America and apple pie, but it was really all about eugenics and the involuntary sterilizations of Californians considered lacking by the standa... View More...
Six handsome hard cover manuals which offer a chance to learn to take notes quickly using the symbols for the alphabet that you already know. The course became available in 1923, but this set is from 1937. Both the pages and the covers are clean and tightly bound. The only exterior fault is a light stain to the front cover of five of the six at the far right edge. The inside is clean, but the previous owner erased all of the penciled answers in volumes one and two, but the others were never touched. I don't dare go over the erasures with a document pad, as the paper is too thin. You can still... View More...
Very nice, clean little booklets which measure 5" x 6-3/4" written by Frederick Houk Law, Ph.D. who created a course "on general speech,business talking, public speaking, and what to say and how to say it under all conditions." Book One -- How To Speak Correctly and Pleasingly; Book Two -- How to Use Words Correctly; Book Three -- How to Speak Well Under All Ordinary Conditions; Book Four -- How to Speak in Daily Business Life; Book Five -- How To Speak Under Trying Conditions; Book Six --How to Speak In Private Life and Public Places; Book Seven -- How To Speak On Public Occasions; and Book E... View More...
To find an original of this one is quite a task, but here we have it in clean, tightly bound condition. It's designed primarily for the craftsperson who wishes to learn from the ground up which may be why there are "problems" posed for various grades in school. But the most likely reader is the one who wishes to follow it straight through learning how to design a stencil, transfer the design, and master such techniques as stenciling with oil colors on fabric, water colors on both paper and fabric, crayon stenciling, spray stenciling and stenciling with dye. This is not your mother's stenciling... View More...
Ten clean tightly bound booklets comprise this very useful and easy to comprehend course in the application of logic to everyday circumstances. There's no date, but the set appears to have been published in the mid-20th century. There's some fading to the first five volumes to various degrees with volume one being sunned to gray. Pages are clean and there is no writing. Each has 48 pages with cartoony illustrations. The author was a lecturer in philosophy at Morley College in London. Booklet titles as follows: Words & Efficiency in Thinking; Habits & Prejudice in Thinking; How To Examine Confl... View More...
ITEM # 5937 NELSON DOUBLEDAY PERSONAL SUCCESS PROGRAM PUB 1958 - 61 BY DOUBLEDAY 5 1/2 X 81 /4 45 PGS PAPER BACK THREE TITLES FROM THIS SELF HELP SERIES ,INCLUDING " HOW TO REMEMBER NAMES AND FACES " BY EDWARD STODDARD , " HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LUCK " , " HOW TO LISTEN " BY TED POLLOCK ALL BOOKS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION 3 RD FL ROOM 1 ] View More...
