Poor, Poverty from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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Poverty and Health: The Problem / Roots of Change
by English, Joseph T., Alice Lipscomb, Rev. James G. Jones, Jose L. Gonzalez, Harold N. Weiner, Harold Wise, Nancy Doyle, Charles T. Sweeny, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Fisher, and Mortimer Frankel
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- 1969
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, 1969. Pamphlet. 31p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. with b&w photos, offsetting to verso of front wrap and first page, else very good condition. Reprints of articles and speeches from 1968 and 1969. Includes articles on health issues in African American and Mexican American communities. Item Price
$15.00
Life on the Mean Streets - Experiences of Working with Street Children
by Vora, Alpa, et alia, compilers
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- 1995
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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Bombay: YUVA [Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action], 1995. Pamphlet. 62p., scattered sketch illustrations (excellent work), softbound as an 8x5.5 inch pamphlet in decorated grey wraps, staple-fastened. Item is in very good condition, even the staples; sound, clean, unmarked. Item Price
$22.00
Family Law and the Poor. Essays by Jocobus tenBroek. Joel F.Handler, editor
by tenBroek, Jacobus, essayist. Joel F.Handler, editor
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9780837158174
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Hardcover. xix, 220p., first book appearance of these journal-published papers, hard bound in 8.5x5.5 inch maroon cloth boards titled gilt. Item is jacketless and may not have been issued with one. Nice condition, bottom margins of casing bear a few flakes of offset white, spine titling is a touch dim without affecting legibility… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Food as a human right
by Eide, Asbjørn, Wenche Barth Eide, Susantha Goonatilake, Joan Gussow, and Omawale, editors
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- 1984
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Tokyo: The United Nations University, 1984. Paperback. xi, 288p., 6.5x9.25 inch wraps; some slight sun-fading on front cover, else in very good condition. Chapter titles include "Bananas and Underdevelopment," and "Plantation Capitalism and Poverty: the Caribbean Experience," among many other interesting topics. Item Price
$12.00
Jonathan Swift, A Short Character
by Dennis, Nigel
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Hardcover. 160p., no illustrations beyond the dust jacket sketch, second printing of the first issue in brown cloth boards and dust jacket. Book itself is in very good condition; a touch of edgewear to casing, spine titling turned dim (through mere aging and inferior pigment), while dust jacket is edgeworn with a roughened… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
My people is the enemy, an autobiographical polemic
by Stringfellow, William
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Hardcover. 149p., nicely designed hardbound book with an upper stretch of white cloth lettered black, over a much deeper brown stretch lettered white (top edge tinted same brown), enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is absolutely sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket is rubbed and edgeworn. White lawyer in… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Tropic of Capricorn
by Miller, Henry
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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London: John Calder, 1964. Hardcover. First British edition (unless there were pirated issues), hardbound in orange-red cloth boards gilt, a very nice design in perfect condition (clean, sound, crisp, unmarked) only lacking the jacket. Miller has a way of insulting everybody and getting away with it. "At first blush people usually [take] me to be good" (p.9). His decency… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
![A manual on: unions and affordable housing [promotional handbill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/384/330/1588330384.0.m.jpg)
A manual on: unions and affordable housing [promotional handbill]
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- nd
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- Handbill
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$11.00
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Chicago: Trade Union Housing Corp, nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; in very good condition. Item Price
$11.00
The erotic traveler; edited by Edward Leigh
by Burton, Richard
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- 1967
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. 189p., first US edition in 8x5.5 inch openweave magenta cloth boards and dust jacket. Spine panel is dim with handling, its lettering barely legible, and a disfiguring impact has made a quarter-inch slot where tail of spine meets rear cover. This "slot" is disguised by the dust jacket, which is edgeworn… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
![God in the Slums. A book of Modern Miracles [subtitle from cover]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/736/281/1587281736.0.m.jpg)
God in the Slums. A book of Modern Miracles [subtitle from cover]
by Redwood, Hugh
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- 1930
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1930. Paperback. 128p., softbound in 7x5 inch wraps decorated in sepia and black. A rolled textblock with other mild signs of handling, covers slightly dusty, a good (good-only) copy: structurally not at risk, otherwise clean, and free of markings. Laid in on 7x4.5 inch notepaper with an Edinburgh header pressed in blind, is a… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
![[Two NAACP contribution letters]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/580/290/1582290580.0.m.jpg)
[Two NAACP contribution letters]
by Wilkins, Roy
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- 1971
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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New York: NAACP Special Contribution Fund, 1971. Ephemera. Two NAACP Special Contribution Fund letters by Roy Wilkins from August and March 1971, March letter is printed as a copy, evenly toned, the second letter is only faintly toned, else very good. Item Price
$12.00
A vampire is sucking the lifeblood out of public education, and social services in California. Heartsick about endless cutbacks? Read on..
by Roth, Lisa, design & production (donated)
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- 2012
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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[San Francisco]: vanpireslayers dot org, 2012. Handbill. [4]p., single folio sheet of bright-white alkaline paperstock (heavy, but not cardstock) printed and folded to make a four-page flyer, presswork in three columns and illustrated with b&w borrowed tables and ideas, very professional. An exemplar, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. From final paragraph of text: "We are a workgroup of faculty,… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Atlas de la pobreza y la opulencia en El Salvador
by Arias Peñate, Salvador
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- 2011
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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San Salvador, El Salvador, Centroamerica: Talleres Graficos UCA, 2011. Paperback. xxii, 701p., wraps; illus., tables, graphs, photos., wrappers a bit handled, otherwise in very good condition. Signed by the author. Item Price
$20.00
Edouard Balladur et les cinq millions de Chomeurs. Preface de Raymond Vacheron
by Filoche, Gerard
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- 1993
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- Paperback
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- 9782738417565
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$18.00
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Paris: Conjonctures Politiques / L'Harmattan, 1993. Paperback. 171p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy white wraps titled in green and black. A very good copy, sound and clean, and marked only by author Filoche's inscription (signed) on the half-title. Cahier No2; fyi, No1 was authored by Pierre Broue', a favorite author around this shop. Item Price
$18.00
Die Illusion der Freiheit; Deutsche Klassenkampfe zur Zeit der franosischen Julirevolution 1830 bis 1831
by Bock, Helmut
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- 1980
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- Mass Market Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. [256]p., pocket-size paperback plentifully illustrated with period images, most reproduced rather small and some with loss of clarity, artwork provided with glazed alkaline paperstock, text on acidic matte stock (uniformly toned throughout), a very good copy: quite sound and entirely clean and unmarked. Item Price
$20.00
Poorhouse Sweeney; life in a country poorhouse
by Sweeney, Ed; Theodore Dreiser, foreword
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- 1927
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Hardcover. xi, 178p., titling tipped-in spine and front board; color frontispiece, b&w plates, spine sunned, lacking dust jacket, corners a bit bumped, otherwise very good. "Art? No. A great book? No. Yet a very exceptional one. And but for a lack of poetry, a great one," (Dreiser vi). Item Price
$22.00
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International Forum on Globalization, issue two 1967. Mander's cover letter plus a number of corner-stapled papers
by Mander, Jerry, IFG acting director. Various papers on MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) in a two-pocket folder
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- 2001
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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[San Francisco, CA]: International Forum on Globalization, 2001. Paperback. A tasteful commercial folder in dove-grey manila with a smartly affixed title label; clean copies, sound and unmarked. Cover letter (approx. 250 words) addressed to a professorial leftie, RIP, local, thanking for donation, describes success of a recent "ad Item Price
$20.00
The New Economic System. Explanatory Treatise Complementary to Metamorphose
by Fitzsimmons, Orlando K.
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- 1906
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$65.00
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Buffalo, NY: World Betterment Publishing Association, 1906. Pamphlet. 55, [1]p., wraps. 6 x 4 in. diagram illus., Very Good. An elaborate scheme for eliminating poverty through maximization of profit and economic growth. Makes frequent reference to the author's longer book, Metamorphose (1906). Not found in WorldCat as of October 2023. Item Price
$65.00
It's our planet - it's our hunger project
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- 1978
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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San Francisco: The Hunger Project, 1978. Pamphlet. [7]p., 5.5x8.5 inch wraps; in very good condition. Item Price
$12.00
So rich, yet so poor; the paradox of plenty
by Gibbins, Thomas Henry
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- 1956
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Oakland: Self-published by the author, 1956. Paperback. 170p., staplebound paperback; light dampstain on front cover, otherwise very good. Item Price
$15.00
