Washington DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau, 1943. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 5.75x9.25 inches, front wrap toned along top edge, else very good condition. Publication 301. More
Cat.No: 294864
Buenos Aires: Editorial Humanitas, 1985. Paperback. 87p., wraps, 5.5 x 7.75 inches, charts, tables, wraps worn, previous owner's name and bookstore sticker on half-title else very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 234696
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Hardcover. xviii, 206p., very good in like dj. More
Cat.No: 206040
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Paperback. xviii, 206p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 208485
Boston / London: Geo. H. Ellis / P.S. King & Son, 1899. liv, 544p., steel-engraved frontis portrait of Wm R Stewart, several photos of in-house interest on inserted coated stock; massive 9x6 inch cloth boards spine-titled gilt, a little edgeworn with cracked front hinge (holding well, however), cover titling bright..... More
Cat.No: 223415
Geneseo NY: Chestnut Hill Press, 1982. Paperback. x, 214p., softbound in 8.5x5 inch printed white wraps; worn, with a couple dog-ears and light toning, a good (good-only) copy. More
Cat.No: 284511
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xv, 363p., dj. More
Cat.No: 60824
London: Clarke Hall Fellowship, 1950. Pamphlet. 34p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, ex-library, stamped withdrawn from the Home Office library, catalog numbers written on front and inside front covers, staining to back cover, a few dog-ears, a reading copy. The author was the Headmaster of Eton College. More
Cat.No: 238425
New York: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover. viii+226p., cloth boards bumped at spine and lower corners, no dj, else very good, illus., first edition. Bowen worked closely with Jane Addams at Hull House; she also authored "Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play" More
Cat.No: 156551
New York: Stein and Day, 1976. Hardcover. 224p., first edition, first printing, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 10786
New York: A Touchstone Book / Simon & Schuster, 1999. Paperback. 415p., trade-size softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps, reprint of the mid-60s Macmillan edition. A very good copy; has a remainder strike across the bottom textblock edge, else entirely clean, unmarked and sound. FYI, the decorative cover photo is..... More
Cat.No: 247547
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958. Hardcover. 293p., ownership stamp on pastedown endpaper under flap otherwise a very good early reprint (no First Edition slug yet no other printing stated) in gray boards with designs and price-clipped white dj illustrated with b&w photo of teen girl JD. Grier A. Basis of..... More
Cat.No: 208245
New York: Heck-Cattell Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. 216p., offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in an edgeworn and sun-faded dj. "Frank, thought-provoking facts about prostitution, VD, juvenile delinquency, free love, and alcoholism"-dj. More
Cat.No: 247970
New York: Heck-Cattell Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. 216p., previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in a price-clipped, shelfworn, and chipped dj. "Frank, thought-provoking facts about prostitution, VD, juvenile delinquency, free love, and alcoholism"-dj. More
Cat.No: 284956
[San Francisco]: Ethsix* / National Association of Social Workers, 2006. Paperback. 48p., 11x8.5 inches oblong, illustrations, color and b&w photos, poetry, social commentary, oral history, small stain on front corner, else very good condition in original pictorial wraps. High-level artwork by Bay Area social-workers; the title is explained as "*The..... More
Cat.No: 227389
[San Francisco]: Ethsix* / National Association of Social Workers, 2006. 48p., 11x8.5 inches oblong, illustrations, color and b&w photos, poetry, social commentary, oral history, very good in original pictorial wraps. High-level artwork by Bay Area social-workers; the title is explained as "*The sixth code of ethics (eth-six) from the National..... More
Cat.No: 131084
New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1918. Pamphlet. 43p., wraps a bit worn, club stamp and date stamp on front wrap else good condition. (Reprinted from the Child Labor Bulletin, vol. VI, no. 2, November 1917). More
Cat.No: 273451
Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Paperback. xiii, 199p., slightly shelfworn bottom-edge, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 274988
Oakland: National Center for Youth Law, 2007. 55p. plus appendices; staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 223026
Paris: Paul Morihien, 1949. Paperback. 51p., 5.5x7.5 inches, text in French, very good first trade edition, in pictorial wraps with full-length photo of a young Genet in prison garb, smaller portrait-photo on the first page of the first of the two stories, slightly worn on spine. The Criminal Child, Genet's..... More
Cat.No: 107110
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Juvenile Deliquency and Youth Development, 1966. Five booklets, various pagination (approx. 25-35 pages) 5.75x9 inches, tables and footnotes, ex-library copies with minimal marking otherwise very good in stapled pictorial wraps. The authors worked for The National Parole Institutes. More
Cat.No: 191135
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1924. Hardcover. x, 150p., front., illus., first edition, previous owners book plate and neat inscription on blank endpapers, else very good condition. No dj. Much on African American children. More
Cat.No: 57372
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1924. Hardcover. x, 150p., front., illus., first edition, very good condition in a chipped dj. Much on African American children. More
Cat.No: 62415
Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press, 1978. Paperback. 74p., some snapshot photos, pocketsize trade wraps (cover photo shows a young woman playing billiards). The African American author wrote this book based on her experiences as a counselor in juvenile hall. "A rare glimpse at the informal social life among the young people..... More
Cat.No: 29902
London: Clarke Hall Fellowship, [1935]. Paperback. 48p., previous owner's name on front wrap else good condition. The second Clarke Hall lecture. More
Cat.No: 239150
