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Message:: [QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 29857, member: 44"]I have been going through old books passed down and trying to decide what might be rare/good, what's so so, and what are "dime a dozen" types. They date from the early 1800s to early 1900's. Many are school (grade, high school & higher educational) books. Subject matter ranges from literature, religious, poetry, fiction, math, philosophy, etc... Some have my great & great great grandparents' names in them. I have research many of them, but still don't know what to think about them because of condition, etc.. Their condition ranges from good to poor. Some still have their wonderful hand tooled leather covers. Just don't know whether to post separate queries or not. Here are most of them. Do call out any of them that you think may be something and I'll give more detail plus pictures. I have made a point of italicized and underlined the titles so they will standout. 1. Wm. Perry's The Royal Standard Dictionary; 1810.2. Goldsbury & Russell's The American Common-School Reader and Speaker; 1844.3. Goldsbury & Russell's Introduction to the American Common-School Reader and Speaker; Comprising Prose and Verse with Elementary Rules and Exercises in Pronunciation; 1845.4. McGuffey's New Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools; 1850s.5. Salem Town, LL.D., and Nelson M. Holbrook's The Progressive Speller for Common Schools and Academies; 1859.6. Patterson's Common School Speller; 1880s. 7. Patterson's New University Algebra: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise; 1875.8. Horatio N. Robinson's New University Algebra: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise; c1875, 1st Edition was 1862, this is probably 2nd Edition.9. Schuyler's A Complete Algebra: for High Schools and Colleges; 1883, 1st Edition. 10. Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including Virginia, Kentucky; 1857, Revised Edition. 11. Prof. Jean Gustave Keetels' An Elementary French Grammar; 1880.12. Adapted by Bullions, A Greek Reader, Selected Chiefly from Jacob's Greek Reader; 1868.13. Dalzel's Collectanea Graeca Majora: ad usum Academicae Juventutis Accommodata; 1875, 4th American Edition. Title translates to "History The greater bodies of the Greek: for the use of the Academic Accommodata."14. Blair's Outlines of Chronology, Ancient and Modern; Being an Introduction to Study of History; 1828, Revised Edition.15. Wedgewood's The Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Additional Laws to 1844, Reduced to Questions and Answers, for the use of Schools and Families; 1845, 1st Edition. 16. Rev. Richard Baxter's Rare: A Call To The Unconverted To Turn and Live and Accept of Mercy while Mercy may be had, as ever they will find Mercy in the Day of their Extremity, from The Living God; 1822: Originally published 1658.17. Daniel Clark; Original author Alexander Pope; An Essay On Man; in Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke; 1824 updated version by Clark; Original by Pope 1734.18. Rev. Daniel Wise's The Path Of Life: or, Sketches of the Way to Glory and Immorality; 1847 or 1856.19. Martin Farquhar Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy; a book of Thoughts and Arguments; 1851. 20. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, c1887, 1st Edition?.21. Ralph Waldo Emerson's ESSAYS, First & Second Series; 1891-1908, 1st Edition.22. Goodrich's The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present; 1832, 1st Edition?23. By Sherwood the author of The Child's Keepsake (?), The Young Maiden Mirror; 1853-57; 3rd Edition(?).24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Divine Tragedy; 1871 applied to Congress, 1873; 1st Edition.25. Louisa May Alcott's Rose In Bloom, a Sequel to "Eight Cousins"; 1876, says "New Edition" on the title page and the printing date is 1876.26. Dumas' Twenty Years After; 1909, Original French 1845, 1st translation to English 1846.27. Fanny Ashley's Bessie Mason's Victories; c1913.28. Winston Churchill's A Far Country; 1915, 1st Edition.29. Winston Churchill's The History of the English Speaking Peoples, The Birth of Britain, Vol. 1; Copyright Canada 1956. TIA. --- Susan[/QUOTE]

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