Child Welfare in North Carolina. An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee for the North Carolina Conference for Social Service. (With Letter Signed by Edgar W. Knight)
by Swift, W. H.; (Edgar W. Knight Association)
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1918. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo. 314 pages. Soft cover bound in grey wrappers. The binding is worn and has several chips, including at the foot of the spine. Front cover is detached but present. The top corner of the rear panel is torn and chipped. There is a typed letter pasted inside the front cover with a UNC-CH letterhead and dated 1930. This is signed by UNC Professor and author Edgar W. Knight to Dr. Charles Dabney offering this book as a gift. The front cover shows some splitting at the hinge, and there is a "Community Health Survey" laid in loosely.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036782
- Title
- Child Welfare in North Carolina. An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee for the North Carolina Conference for Social Service. (With Letter Signed by Edgar W. Knight)
- Author
- Swift, W. H.; (Edgar W. Knight Association)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- National Child Labor Committee
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- 1918; 1930; W. H. Swift; Edgar W. Knight; Child Welfare; North Carolina Social Studies; Labor Law; History; The South; Southern.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Signed Books & Association Copies;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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