Elson Gray Basic Readers Primer by Elson Gray Runkel (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked with page-turn soiling marks. Couple pages with edge tear. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Miriam Story Hurford (illustrator). Moderate wear to covers, pencil erasures to paste down and flyleaf. Text is exceptionally clean and bright; nicely illus. Early primary reading book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. An elementary school reader from the 1930's with charming colorful illustrations. Some stains, scribbles, and tears to pages. 144 pages. 5 3/8"w x 7 1/2"h. Keywords: Stories, Reader, Reading, Learning, School, Grade School, Elementary school, Text Book, Illustrated, Thirties.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good only ex-library with the usual markings, cloth edges frayed, pages soiled. Part of the Curriculum Foundation Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Miriam Story Hurford (illustrator). 144 pages. Decorative covers with black lettering on orange spine and orange and green lettering on front cover. Decorative endpapers. Color illustrations throughout the book. Minor soiling to top edge of textblock. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. Pub by Scott, Foresman, 1936. Part of the Curriculum Foundation Series. G+ cond. hardcover now in archival Brodart, no dj. Green, black & orange pict bds. Lt-mdt bumping & rubbing to wear points. Green & pale yellow pict eps. Juneau County WI school stamp inside front cover, no other school or exLib indications inside or out. Incl 4 Dick & Jane stories. Wonderful color illus. P.25 has a 2"x2" chip out of lower corner, does not affect illus or main text. Light soiling & wear internally. 144pp incl word list. Book is square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall G+ cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Miriam Story Hurford (illustrator). Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1936. Second edition, Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2". 144 pp. Green, black and orange cloth over boards with illustration on cover, corner bumping and some spine cloth fraying, a few stains. Interior has some stains throughout and small amounts of foxing but is overall very bright and clean with many colorful illustrations by Miriam Story Hurfurd. Very good condition.William S. Gray developed the Curriculum Foundation Series of books for Scott, Foresman and Company. His vision was to tie "subject area" books in health, science, social studies, and arithmetic (each discipline having its own series of graded texts also published by Scott, Foresman and Company) with the vocabulary mastered in the basic readers, thus vastly improving readability in these same areas. These books often had the very recognizable names of Dick and Jane.

Miriam Story Hurford (illustrator). Appears to be published in 1943. Good condition book with a light school inkstamp (dated Sep. 1944) on the endpaper. No names in book, slight fraying to about one half inch of spine. [1204].

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Hurford, Miriam Story (illustrator). Slight wear to cover corners. Some pgs have small corner creases or small stains. Spine is tight. Nice copy. Book.

12mo.; black cloth covered boards with orange and green picture of boy and dog, 144 pages; hardcover; color illustrations by Miriam Story Hurford; green and white endpaper; from the Curriculum Foundation Series; in lightly rubbed boards else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition (1930.) 12mo paperback with 40 pages and 39 color illustrations. This measures 7 1/4" x 5 1/4". The book is in good condition with one 1 1/4" crease to bottom of front cover. Slight chipping to edges and spine. Housed in custom clamshell case. First issue with three lines, 18 word Elson copyright and code '308.2' (Feb. 8, 1930) the earliest date noted for this book which was reprinted many times well into 1934. The first appearance of Dick and Jane. A revolutionary concept conceived by Zerna Sharp. In 1927 she visited the beach, studied children's speech patterns, and observed the way they spoke to one another. She brought her ideas to William Elson publisher of a Pupil's Hand Chart. Elson agreed to let Sharp develop her idea and, with a team of writers and illustrators, Dick and Jane evolved over 3 years. Green spine/gold text. #0323617 Size: 12mo. Childrens.