Annual Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Children and Youth. July 1, 1963 - June 30, 1964
by [CHILD WELFARE] U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 85pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Includes reports of various subcommittees including Services for Adolescent Girls; Families & Children of Agricultural Migrants; Parent & Family Life Education; etc.
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Child Welfare Report Number 13: Goals, Problems, and Progress in Child Welfare. Report of Four Regional Meetings on Implementation of the 1962 Public Welfare Amendments
by [CHILD WELFARE] U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 90pp. Mild crease to lower edge of text block, else Very Good. Report on implementation of the 1962 amendments to the Social Security Act, dealing with the extension of child welfare services including expansion of child day care... Read More
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In The Ranks of The C.I.V.; A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa
by CHILDERS, Erskine
London: Smith Elder, 1900. Second Printing. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and white to spine and front board. 301pp.; [10] ads to rear. Bumped to spine ends and corners, a little shaken, and with some wear or predation to the cloth and dulling to the spine panel, solid; internally clean and fresh, frontis... Read More
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![The Road to Suez: A Study of Western-Arab Relations [Inscribed & Signed by the Author's Son]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/049/533/1038533049.0.m.jpg)
The Road to Suez: A Study of Western-Arab Relations [Inscribed & Signed by the Author's Son]
by CHILDERS, Erskine B.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 416pp. General light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author's son (also named Erskine) on front free endpaper.
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![Collection of Twenty Volumes from the British Poets Series [from the library of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/250/062/1044062250.0.m.jpg)
Collection of Twenty Volumes from the British Poets Series [from the library of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge]
by CHILD, F.J., ed
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1853-1854. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); twenty volumes; uniformly bound in original publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine labels; engraved portrait frontispieces. Spine crowns uniformly chipped and worn, spines additionally toned and labels rather browned with some effacement of text. Still, a Near Very Good set, interiors near fine save some minor foxing to preliminaries.... Read More
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Pennsylvania Children and the Depression
by [CHILD WELFARE] CARTER, Isabel Gordon
Philadelphia: [Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work], 1935. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm); original stapled wrappers; 37,[3]pp. Light dust-soil to wrappers, some oxidation to staples, with foxing along lower edge of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. A substantial study on the health and welfare of Pennsylvania children... Read More
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![From Julia Child's Kitchen [Inscribed by Julia and Paul Child]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/134/177/1532177134.0.m.jpg)
From Julia Child's Kitchen [Inscribed by Julia and Paul Child]
by CHILD, Julia (text); CHILD, Paul and Albie Walton (photos & illustrations)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); original pictorial boards; dustjacket; xviii,687,[1],xxviiipp; illus. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Betty / Julia Child," and signed by Paul Child directly beneath. Spine ends nudged, modest external wear, with faint foxing to text edges and upper board edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $15.00),... Read More
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![The Blue Wall [...] A Story of Strangeness and Struggle](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/153/542/811542153.0.m.jpg)
The Blue Wall [...] A Story of Strangeness and Struggle
by CHILD, Richard Washburn
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1912]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original blue cloth (a bit soiled) lettered in white; vi,[2],377,[3],[2](ads)pp.; color illustrated title page and frontispiece by E. Coles Phillips, 4 leaves of plates by Harold J. Cue. Minor shelf wear; contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, plates a bit foxed; Very Good and sound. American diplomat... Read More
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Comisión Internacional de Investigación de los Crímenes de la Junta Militar en Chile: Audiencia sobre la violación de los derechos humanos en Chile, 24 - 26 de Septiembre de 1982, Atenas, Grecia
by COMISIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LOS CRÍMENES DE LA JUNTA MILITAR EN CHILE
[Helsinki: Comisión Internacional de Investigación de los Crímenes de la Junta Militar en Chile, 1982. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's olive green card wrappers lettered in white; 74pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Does not appear to be separately catalogued in OCLC as of March, 2020.
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![Registro de los Criminales de la Junta (Primera Lista) [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/933/1305933169.0.m.jpg)
Registro de los Criminales de la Junta (Primera Lista) [cover title]
by COMISIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LOS CRÍMENES DE LA JUNTA MILITAR EN CHILE
[Helsinki: Comisión Internacional para la Investigación de los Crímenes de la Junta Militar en Chile, n.d., ca. 1974. First Edition. Octavo; [42] leaves printed on rectos only loosely housed as issued in cream printed card chemise. Light wear to chemise extremities, else Fine. List of forty-two members of the Chilean junta, beginning with Pinochet and his top officials, after... Read More
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![[Drop title] National Legislative Conference on Chile and People's Lobby, July 14 - 15](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/185/408/1266408185.0.m.jpg)
[Drop title] National Legislative Conference on Chile and People's Lobby, July 14 - 15
by NATIONAL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE IN SOLIDARITY WITH CHILE
Washington DC: National Co-Ordinating Committee in Solidarity with Chile, n.d. but 1976. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); bifolium printed offset in dark blue on white stock; donation blank and typescript leaf providing list of Conference sponsors laid in. A hint of wear and toning, else Near Fine. Conference held at George Washington University, featuring key note speaker Abe Feinglass, International... Read More
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The Uighur Empire; According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories
by [CHINA] MACKERRAS, Colin [ED.]
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Unnumbered copy from a limitation of 999. Publisher's black cloth spine over red marbled paper boards, titled in gilt and red to spine. 226pp. [1]. Very light wear, a little scuffing to the spine, housed in a matching marbled slipcase; internally clean and fresh, from... Read More
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Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor
by [CHINA] PERRY, Elizabeth J.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket;187pp. Includes bibliography. Fine copy, free of markings or wear, in crisp, unworn dustwrapper.
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Archive of Letters and Photographs of a U.S. Marine in China and the Philippines, 1912-1913
by [CHINA MARINES] TREDER, John P.
Ripon, CA: S.i., ca.1912-1913. A small archive of photographs and letters relating to the Marine Corps career (1909-1913) of John P. Treder, a Polish-born resident of Ripon, California. Includes 26 original (vintage) photographic prints (a few commercial, but most apparently vernacular) of scenes in China and the Philippines; three pieces of printed ephemera, and 9 ALS. A few photographs... Read More
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Far East Reporter: How the Chinese are Conquering the Food Problem
by [CHINA] RUSSELL, Maud (ed)
[New York]: Maud Russell Publisher, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple bound pamphlet; 16pp; Publisher's addendum laid in. Light rubbing; else a very good or better copy with no interior markings.
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Documents of the First Session of the Fifth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
by [PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA]
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 237pp. Mild external wear and soil; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.
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New Development in Friendly Relations Between China and Nepal
by [PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA]
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1960. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 93pp. Faint corner-creasing, mild external soil; Very Good.
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China's Renminbi: One of the Few Most Stable Currencies in the World
by [PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA]
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1969. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 32pp. Faint corner-creasing, mild external soil; Very Good.
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The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China. Together with other relevant articles
by PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1950. First Thus. 12mo (18.5cm.); original white decorative wrappers printed in red; 41pp. Fine.
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Along The Border of Heaven; Sung and Yuan Paintings from The C.C. Wang Family Collection
by [CHINA] [ART] BARNHART, Richard M.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. First American Edition. Folio. 34cm. Publisher's oatmeal colored cloth titled in dark grey to spine. Publisher's Slipcase as called for. 191pp. Sharp and bright, very little wear, light scuffing at the spine ends; internally clean and fresh, lavishly illustrated throughout; in the original publisher's slipcase, strong and clean with some light scudding... Read More
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New Women in New China
by [WOMEN] [CHINA]
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; 78pp.; 4 leaves of photographic plates, text illus. throughout. Order form with integral envelope laid in. Fine.
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Work in Progress
by CHIN, Walter
[Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2001]. First Edition. Folio (33.25cm.); publisher's boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly photographic illus. Minor wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fashion and nude photography.
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Liberation Support Movement Interview: Daniel Chipenda, Member of the MPLA Comité Director
by CHIPENDA, Daniel
[Seattle: Liberation Support Movement, [ca. 1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [2],22pp.; map illus. Fine. Interview of a leader of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Daniel Chipenda, conducted by LSM Liaison Secretary Don Barnett in Zambia, 1969.
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Liberation Support Movement Interview: Daniel Chipenda
by [CHIPENDA, Daniel] Barnett, Don
[Richmond, B.C.: Liberation Support Movement Information Center, 1972]. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original orange pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],21pp.; illus., text printed from typescript. About Fine. Interview of a leader of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Daniel Chipenda, conducted by LSM Liaison Secretary Don Barnett in Zambia, 1969. First published in 1970.
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![Report of an Examination of Poor-Houses, Jails, &c. in the State of New York, and in the Counties of Berkshire, Massachusetts; Litchfield, Connecticut; and Bennington, Vermon, &c. Addressed to Aristarchus Champion, Esq., of Rochester, N.Y. [Third Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/819/589/1324589819.0.m.jpg)
Report of an Examination of Poor-Houses, Jails, &c. in the State of New York, and in the Counties of Berkshire, Massachusetts; Litchfield, Connecticut; and Bennington, Vermon, &c. Addressed to Aristarchus Champion, Esq., of Rochester, N.Y. [Third Edition]
by CHIPMAN, Samuel
Albany: New York State Temperance Society, 1835. Third edition. Octavo (21cm). Sewn, printed self-wrappers; 96pp; untrimmed. External soil and scattered foxing to contents; old damp-stain in gutter throughout; complete and Good. AMER. IMPRINTS 30906.
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