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 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
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 Pamphlet. 34p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, ex-library, stamped withdrawn from the Home Office library, catalog numbers written on front and inside front covers, staining to back cover, a few dog-ears, a reading copy.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
Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, 1916. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound pamphlet; 1916 receipt stamp of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on front cover. Discusses the moral conditions in theaters, dance halls, lake boats, and other places that "easily subject young people to the grossest temptations." More
Cat.No: 273716
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
[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: 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. Much on African American children. More
Cat.No: 57372
New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Hardcover. xvii, 315p., paper lightly toned, ownership signature of Pulitzer Prize winner Carl N. Degler, review in pencil on rear blank end paper in an unknown hand, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 195661
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
Fremont: Fault publications, 1974. 118p., stills, text reproduced from typescript in first edition 7x8.5 inch untrimmed wraps, staplebound. Cast and crew lists, production notes, setting instructions, musical notation and lyrics for 3 songs, production photos shot by Jack Hamilton. Short tear in cover, else very good . Actor's Conservatory Theatre..... More
Cat.No: 107713
SF: JLSF, Inc, 1976. 288p., 8.5x11" wraps, illustrated with stats and folded charts, errata slip laid in; covers a little rubbed. More
Cat.No: 41806
Denver: Self-published by the author, 1927. 23p. includes covers, 3.5x9 inches, note, lightly-worn pamphlet in stapled wraps. Lindsey was a judge and founder of the Juvenile & Family Court of Denver, CO. This was a response to the misunderstandings engendered by Judge Lindsey's talk on Companionate Marriage over KOA Radio..... More
Cat.No: 266221
Mendocino: The Ridge Times Press, 1987. Magazine. 64p., softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps, clean and sound, a very good copy. Amidst a plethora of local ads find interviews with the Highway Patrol, a constable, a ranger, a conservation-camp inmate, the Grand Jury, courts and a judge. Part II touches..... More
Cat.No: 241252
