Carole Marsh, Christopher Columbus Comes to Virginia! Atlanta, Ga., Gallopade Publishing Group, 1996. White paper covers, 8.5 by 11 inches, 36pp. History lessons with a twist: discussion questions from Indian and European perspectives, worksheets, contemporary tie-ins (eg. global economy), and facts the history books forget to teach. VG: minor corner wear on cover, small spot on back, po name in ink and sticker on cover, worksheets unused, pages bright.

Price: $14.97

States & Regions - Teacher's Edition, Level 4, Harcourt Brace Javonovich, 1985. Spiral-bound, illustrated paper cover with orange background, about 9 by 11.25 inches, 450 pp with index and tests, many color illustrations and photos. Contains tables of skills/ideas for K through 6, but the book is primarily "Level 4"; project and activity ideas for Easy, Average and Challenging; vocabulary; answers to questions; five unit multiple-choice tests. Includes basic skills that may soon be lost, such as reading a map, using a dictionary and using a phone book. G : Cover is bumped with minor creases, clean, no markings.

Price: $15.95

Pat Conroy,The Water Is Wide, Atlanta, Old New York Book Shop Press, 1990 reprint of 1972 publication. Red cloth with bold white lettering on spine, 8vo (5 5/8 by 8 5/8), 298 pp with bw photographs NF/NF: corners sharp, very light bumping on tail of spine, pages bright and tight, very very light scratching on front of DJ. SIGNED by author on ffep, with separate inscription to po. Memoir by the author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides of his year teaching on a remote island in South Carolina. At the advent of desegregation, Conroy arrives by boat to find a junior high class where many students can't write their own names, much less read.

Price: $65.00

M. W. Haliburton (Supervisor of Primary Grades, State Normal School, Farmville, Va.),Third Reader, Graded Classics, Richmond, B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., North Carolina Edition, 1902. Green cloth, 12mo (about 5.5 by 7 inches), 224 pp with spelling list, color frontispiece of Robin Hood and at least two other color plates, many bw illustrations. Thirty-one adapted stories and poems/songs include Androclus and the Lion, The Little Match-Seller, A Real Santa Claus, and Wynken, Blynken and Nod. G: corners and edges worn, light staining (as if fingerprints), po names in large pencil on front pastedown and ffep, small pencil doodle on title page, a few pages dog-eared, no underlining, no tears.

Price: $14.95

Will L. Thompson, Thompson's Day School Gems! East Liverpool, Ohio, self-published, 1883 (no other dates). Stiff paper boards with pastedown covers and dark brown leatherette spine, 8vo, 124 pp. Includes music basics, practical suggestions (eg. don't sleep with heat that's pumped up from the cellar), folk songs, rounds, The Star Spangled Banner, and hymns. "Bang She Goes" instructs students when to pound on their desks. G: covers scuffed and edges worn, spine worn with mesh showing at ends, hinges weak with staples rusted through cloth, light scratch or mark on ffep otherwise unmarked, clean, last 28 pp yellowed but readable, last couple pp minor chipping.

Price: $102.00

Fran Andrews, Trinity North Carolina, Birthplace of Duke University, Trinity, NC, 2009. Laminated paper covers with sketch of Brown's schoolhouse on front, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, plastic-comb bound, 122 pp, bw photos and sketches, including many photos of historic homes in Trinity. History of Trinity, especially Trinity College (also Union Institute, Normal College), which became Duke University. New (from author/publisher): very light scratching on laminated covers (both copies), clean, unmarked, pages bright.

Price: $30.00