Roberts Ralph Strang (5 results)
Published by D.C. Heath and Co., Boston
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
More imagesPublished by D.C. Heath & Company, Boston; Dallas; New York; San Francisco; Chicago; London; Atlanta, 1954
- Hardcover
Seller: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, U.S.A.Books on the Square
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. No Jacket. 1954. Very Good - Near Fine hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean (not ex-library) copy. 248pp. 8vo. (Kk).
Language: English
Published by D.C. Heath & Co, Boston, MA, 1954
- Hardcover
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. EX-HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY. Text/Bright, clean, strong & near new. Linen boards/VG; Strong & sound with light rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges. DJ/None. Anthology of short stories, most first published elsewhere, for teens. Selections made with themes of interest a…nd relevance to secondary school students in mind. Questions to rear guide/encourage class discussion and literary criticism.
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Published by D.C. Heath and Company, 1954
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Archives, Manassas, VA, U.S.A.The Archives
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Strang, Ruth, and Ralph Roberts, eds. Teen-Age Tales: Book One. Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, and London: D.C. Heath and Company, 1954. Octavo (8 x 5.5 in.), 193 pp. Illustrated in blue and black throughout. Printed in the United States of America. First…Edition (1954) of this midcentury classroom anthology for junior and senior high school students, compiled by educational psychologists Ruth Strang (Teachers College, Columbia University) and Ralph Roberts (University of Alabama). Designed to encourage both literacy and moral reflection, the volume groups short fiction into sections such as 'Teen-Agers Today,' 'Science Stories,' 'True Sports Stories,' and 'Suspense and Mystery.' Contributors include S. I. Kishor, Loula Grace Erdman, R. Austin Freeman, H. W. Magee, and Walter Farley (The Black Stallion), among others. The lively two-tone illustrations capture the optimism and realism of 1950s youth culture. Condition: Very Good. Blue-green striped cloth boards with white and navy lettering; moderate rubbing and shelfwear, corners lightly bumped. Tight binding. Endpapers toned, with Benjamin Franklin High School (Philadelphia) property stamp and checkout ledger dated 1957-58, adding period authenticity. Interior pages clean, illustrations vivid, light age toning only. Copyright ©1954 by D.C. Heath with no subsequent printings stated, confirming a first printing. Ruth Strang (1895-1971) was a pioneering educational psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University, whose research shaped mid-20th-century theories of adolescent development and reading instruction. Ralph Roberts, professor of education at the University of Alabama, co-edited numerous anthologies promoting curiosity, ethics, and literacy among teenage readers during the postwar expansion of U.S. public education.
Published by D.C. Heath
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Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
