Complete Classified Price List of School & College Textbooks. January 1915

A practical window into American schooling in the early 1900s, this 1915 classified price list details every textbook a teacher could order from the American Book Company. The opening pages explain the ordering process, payment methods, and shipping options, giving a clear picture of how schools acquired their supplies before the era of digital catalogs.

Beyond the administrative notes, the list itself reads like a snapshot of the curriculum of the day, with dozens of graded readers, primers, and subject books, each shown with its exact title and price. For anyone interested in the history of education, publishing, or the economics of learning materials, the volume offers a surprisingly vivid portrait of the choices and costs that shaped classrooms over a century ago.