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Greensboro, N.C.: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, [1991]. x, 213, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Original cloth. 29 x 22.5 cm. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket shows sun-fading to the spine panel, a slight crease to the base of the spine panel, and some faint rubbing. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Established in 1891 as a women's college focused on teacher training, the school became co-educational and was given its present name in 1963. The author, Allen W. Trelease (d. 2011), was a professor of history at UNC-G and the chair of the history department (1984-1992).

[Davidson, N.C.:] Philanthropic and Eumenean Societies of Davidson, North Carolina, 1907 -1908. Continuously paginated: 540 pages, plus four plates in one issue and several pages of advertisements at the end of each number. Original printed wraps with each rear wrap bearing a college directory on the verso and information on the college and the magazine on the recto. Nos. 1-7 measure approx. 23 x 15 cm; no. 8 measures 24 x 15.5 cm. Wraps show creasing and chipping to the wrap edges, some marginal browning, a chip to one spine with loss of the date, several tears (including a long, closed tear to the front wrap of one issue), and some moderate foxing and soiling. The final number has heavy stains to the rear wrap. Interiors are generally in nice condition with only a few minor spots of foxing and with the first issue showing light crinkling to the lower third of the leaves. A good set overall. A few penciled names appear on the wraps, including J.B. Shearer (probably John Bunyan Shearer, a former… Read More

Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, [1991]. xi, 288 pages, plus [30] pages of illustrations (photographs and three maps). Original dark blue cloth with silver spine lettering. 23.5 x 16 cm. A fine copy in very nearly fine dust jacket (minor rubbing to the jacket). FIRST EDITION. The first chapter discusses private academies in the 18th and 19th centuries and the first efforts to establish public schools. The remainder of the book is an account of the growth and administration of the public school system from 1885 to the time of publication. John E. Batchelor was himself a teacher and administrator in the Guilford County Schools. He has since worked as a consultant on school improvement and written several books including: "Race and Education in North Carolina: From Segregation to Desegregation" (2015).

[Durham, N.C.: Christian Printing Co.], 1941. 24 pages. Original printed wraps. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Good plus. Wear and short tears to the spine ends, creasing and a few tiny tears to the yapp edges of wraps; light toning and foxing to wraps. Bump to top edge of the text leaves creating faint crease to the upper margins throughout. FIRST EDITION. Scanlon's brief history of the College (pp. 3-8) is followed by lists of the faculty and graduates, a list of known living students and their places of residence, and several addresses by the school's founder and his wife. Shenandoah Normal College was a small, co-educational institution founded in 1883. The prospectus for the college proclaimed it a "School for the People . . . Thorough, Practical, Progressive" (Hoenshel, “Shenandoah Normal College,” circa 1883). Its primary mission was to train teachers, but it also had a few graduates each year in a scientific track. The college was originally established in Middletown, Virginia,… Read More