Search Results: Social Science from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Arkansas , 1893 . Letter. Very good. In a letter to a Mr. J. L. Winchell of Fair Haven Vermont, Mr. Worthen writes that parties are continually writing, wanting to buy "Blood Hounds". " I saw your dogs at the 'Bench Show' in Madison Square Garden February last have you any for sale, age and price and what commission will you pay for selling them eithe rin money or dogs. 

Dedham, Massachusetts : Dedham Associated Charities , 1887. Wraps. Very good. 6p., 9" x 5.75" in printed wrapper. Lightly toned at border. Speech addressing social reforms, holistic approach to aid, with pleas to thougtfully include those less fortunate in larger cooperative networks. Mrs. G. G. Nichols was a contributor to the Columbia Hospital for Women. Seemingly unrecorded.

Cheltenham, 1893. Letter. Very good. In a Christmastime letter of 1893, a woman writes in great error, apparently responding to an advertisement in a local newspaper in which a school is looking for a an infant mistress, to which she offers her own. Mrs. Holtham, a mother of six writes offering to part with her youngest child, “ Having seen in Citizen of the 21st that you are in request of an infant. I have an infant, three months old, very pretty, fair with blue eyes. I have five children besides from 11 to a year and 8 months. Should be willing to part with infant on conditions that It would have a good home and well cared for . Kindly write and state particulars and oblige, Yours truly... Folded letter with creaselines. Overwritten in red, by someone greatly surprised by content. Mailing envelope affixed, address partially lost.

New York: The McAuley Mission , 1914. Staplebound. Fair. 58 p., Folding halftone of family and converts in home, halftones of exterior, chapel, portraits, Bushwick Reformed Church, Williamsburg Recue Mission, Northfield, in printed wrappers showing halftonw of line of men outside mission. Lacks lower wrap, damptstained. America's first rescue mission, now the New York Rescue Mission, begun by Jerry McAuley (1839-1884), a rogue and street thief doing seven years in Sing Sing. Three McAuley mission related titles in holdings at Drew University, Columbia University in the city of New York and Harvard Divinity School, though none shown for this Annual.

New York: New York Board of Education, 1970. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Cover photograph, Ed Lavitt. Stapled 4to., pp12 in photographic and printed covers. Dual language outreach text explaining roles of guidance counselors, with student stereotypes and framework for utilizing the guidance tier. In the gang-fueled and difficult time of 1970s NYC, the network of parent, guidance and staff would be of profound import to student achievement. District 8 contained some of the most economically challenged neighborhoods in the city. Contemporary photographs of children and counselors throughout, with cover photo especially engaging.

Springfield, Ohio: Animals Helper, 1932. First Edition. Letter. Very good +. Signed. Lengthy, anti-vivisectionist's two page letter to non-renewing subscriber whose prior submitted poems had not been accepted. N. F. Whitaker seems anti-everything, bashing higher learning and college education, Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a magnificent cave man and a murderer, directly insulting Mr. Hurd while extoling Edison, Shakespeare, Twain, Hugo and Swift. Unrecorded, with no source material for The Animal's Helper of any kind in holdings (at this time.)