The Great Society's poor law: a new approach to poverty
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiii, 348p., illus., discard stamp on bottom edge else very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj. More
Cat.No: 1281
Poor, poverty
Iran on the brink, rising workers & threats of war
London: Pluto Press, 2007. Paperback. 262p., wraps, minor soiling of fore edges, old bookseller stickers on rear wrap else good condition. More
Cat.No: 222391
The economic predicament of low-income elderly women
Southport: Southport Institute for Policy Analysis, Project on Women and Population Aging, 1992. 55p., 8.5x11 inches, spiral-bound wraps. African American economist. One of six papers on the impact of population aging on women. More
Cat.No: 128209
Las comunidades alteñas
Mexico City: Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, 1967. Paperback. ix, 148p., text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w photos at rear, good first edition paperback in lightly-worn wraps (but there is an inconspicuous vertical crease to front cover) Antropología Social #5. More
Cat.No: 203681
Agriculture, Elevage et Pauvrete en Afrique de l'Ouest
Dakar: Édition CREA, 2007. 207p., very good in wraps, text in French. More
Cat.No: 192364
Rupo hinkon taikoku Amerika ルポ貧困大国アメリカ
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 2008. 207p., very good in wraps. Text in Japanese. Critical examination of poverty in American society, its relationship to health problems and to the military-industrial complex, by the New York-trained journalist who moves between NY and Japan. More
Cat.No: 147852
![Cat.No: 241922 Uncle Sam's Farm Fence. With illustrations by N. Orr [bound with:]...](/pictures/thumb/241922.jpg?v=1567650970)
Uncle Sam's Farm Fence. With illustrations by N. Orr [bound with:] Something Wrong; or, The Why and the Wherefore; by T. S. Arthur.
New York: C. Shepard & Co., 1854. Hardcover. Temperance novel, Wright II, 1714. Pagination 247p., with publisher's endorsing preface (3p.) and a similarly-themed short novel by T. S. Arthur at 249-282p., plus publisher's ad leaves. Find three fullpage engraved illustrations. Hardbound, the first edition in moss-green cloth boards, cover-titled gilt..... More
Cat.No: 241922
Mexican-American Study Project: Advance Report 5; The Burden of Poverty; [preliminary and subject to revision]
Los Angeles: Mexican-American Study Project, UCLA, 1966. Paperback. xi, 65p. 8.5x11 inches, foreword, overview, appendices, tables, charts, very good paperback report in yellow wraps. Analyzes Mexican American poverty in the southwest. More
Cat.No: 105733
Autonomia y nuevos sujetos sociales en el desarrollo rural
Mexico D.F. Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1992. Paperback. 281p., softbound in glossy 8x5 inch wraps; cover and textblock are somewhat waved owing to careless storage, no other damage, perfectly handleable and clean. The half-title and title page each bear an inscription from one of the authors ("Neil" and an illegible) to..... More
Cat.No: 217758
Sociological Theory and Social Practice; Problems and Viewpoints (for the 10th World Congress of Sociology). Translated from the Russian.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982. Paperback. 174p., text reproduced from neat typescript, softbound in 8x5 inch plain printed wraps. Find an emendation on p98 (a redacted half-line) which is in the printed plate; a completely sound, clean and unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 245998
The dangerous class: crime and poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 186p., tables, very good condition in an unclipped and faded dust jacket with some toning. More
Cat.No: 20882
Hanging by a Thread. Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa.
Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. Paperback. xii, 297p., illustrated with tables, charts and line maps, softbound in glossy photodecorated wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches. Nice condition, in fact near-new: absolutely sound, clean and unmarked. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies Series no. 9. More
Cat.No: 250004
Welfare warriors; the welfare rights movement in the United States
New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback. xix, 310p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 299828
Action report. Vol. 1 no. 5. The White House conference: a circus in three acts without bread.
Washington DC: the Council, 1969. 50p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner, very good. Also included is a two-page statement excoriating Nixon for starving the poor. Radical report by doctors, religious leaders and activists on hunger in America. "2,000 years ago, Emperor Nero kept the plebs content with..... More
Cat.No: 182853
Beyond Asian American poverty; community economic development policies and strategies
Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute, 1993. xiii, 171p., trade-size wraps, a very good copy. Focuses on Los Angeles. More
Cat.No: 46951
State, Capital, and Rural Society. Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes
Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Paperback. 350p., softbound in flexible maroon cardstock, a clean sound unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 250213
Gendai Amerika Gasshukoku ron 現代アメリカ合衆国論
Kobe: Hyogo Buraku Mondai Kenkyujo 兵庫部落問題研究所, 1992. Hardcover. 245p., hardcover, dj. Text in Japanese. Very good. A study of increasing income disparity in the US with much discussion of its effects on African Americans. More
Cat.No: 127946
Commodity Trade of the Third World
London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. xiv, 192p., hardbound in light blue cloth boards gilt, lacks the jacket but has a lengthy (700 words) typewritten letter laid in, in response to editor's request for a reading; signed "hm", it elaborates two disagreements. This copy of the book, by the..... More
Cat.No: 288031
The long-lost Rachel Wild, or, seeking diamonds in the rough
Denver, CO: The Reed Publishing Company, 1905. Hardcover. 448p., original cloth boards with decorations; frontis., plates, corners a tad bumped, minor dimming of board decoration, title page and page 16-17 are torn through the middle about halfway, else in very good condition. Autobiography of a missionary in the slums of..... More
Cat.No: 299474
Luchas sociales y crisis en Estados Unidos (1945 - 1993)
Buenos Aires: El Bloque, 1993. Paperback. 183p., glazed decorated 8x5.5 inch wraps, a very good copy. Text in Spanish. Colección Perspectiva Histórica. More
Cat.No: 162205
Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond. An inside-out model of prevention and resiliency in action through health realization ( NEHRI Publications, Vermont, U.S.A., 1998.
Cabot, VT: Northeast Health Realization Institute Publications, 1998. Paperback. 280p., worn wraps. Based on work at housing projects in Florida. More
Cat.No: 129500
The truth about welfare
Brooklyn: PLP, [1969]. Pamphlet. [14p.., wraps, printed on newsprint, evenly toned, PLP local contact address for Berkeley stamped on front cover else good condition. More
Cat.No: 171849
Five photo-textual documentaries from The Great Depression
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. Hardcover. xiv, 169p., boards faintly worn, else in very good condition. Studies on Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, and more. More
Cat.No: 300093
![Cat.No: 298622 Portfolio, containing Pieces of the Puzzle [a paperback], individual poems...](/pictures/thumb/298622.jpg?v=1675295517)
Portfolio, containing Pieces of the Puzzle [a paperback], individual poems [on cartes de visite], a bunch of colorphoto copies of nifty covers [loose].
San Francisco: Tangram, 2021. Portfolio. A nostalgic look at careers and output and failures of Bay Area printers, with a selection of simple verse in subtle layouts, lovely bells and whistles galore. Seems to be complete, it is recent enough not to have lost any constituent item. One question is..... More
Cat.No: 298622
Why not? a plea for a free public library and museum in the city of London, established without taxation. A letter addressed to the right honourable the lord mayor
London: Walton and Maberly, 1855. Pamphlet. 23p., disbound 8x5 inch self-wraps, threads absent but adhered, mildest dust-soil, and on the blank of last leaf a line of sunning. Very good copy. More
Cat.No: 173428