Arthur Ruth Mabel (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD. MINOR SIGNS OF AGE AND USAGE. TIGHT BINDING, NO INSCRIPTIONS. A CHARMING LITTLE BOOK. R M TURVEY (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. No jacket. First Edition. New York: The Century Co., 1920. This is the 1920 first edition -- not a cheap reproduction. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A square, reasonably tight copy. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are creamy white. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 225 tables. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original maroon cloth. From the series: Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene. This book is from the library of, and bears the ink signature of Dr. Arthur Frank Payne (1876-1939) of Newton, New Jersey. Dr. Payne earned the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that of Master of Arts at Columbia University. In 1917 he served as executive secretary of the Military Training Commission in New York. In 1918 he was director of the United States War Department surveys. He pursued advanced studies at Harvard where he was made a Doctor of Education. He went on to teach at Columbia, the College of the City of New York, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, and Harvard. Dr. Payne edited several educational and psychological texts for McGraw-Hill and was associate editor of VOCATIONAL EDUCATION MAGAZINE. A gifted lecturer, Dr. Payne spoke regularly on psychology at Carnegie Hall in New York. For many years Dr. Payne was actively involved with the National Education Association, serving as its treasurer and as president of its department of vocational guidance. According to his biography in THE STORY OF NEW JERSEY by William S. Myers, Dr. Payne's "contribution toward solving some of the colossal psychological problems rising in consequence of modern industrial changes was a truly notable one, of value to countless individuals.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xviii, 542pp.…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Margery Gill (illustrator).…