Children in Jeopardy: Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty
by HARRIS, Irving B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0300068921
- ISBN 13
- 9780300068924
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New Haven: The Yale Child Study Center, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with silver lettering and light grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxxi, 236pp. Figures. Fine/fine. Handsome and tight first edition of this study by the noted businessman and philanthropist (1910-2004) whose largesse created The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He boldly signs and inscribes the title page in black fineline to a Chicago politico, civil servant and one-time CEO of the Chicago Pubic Schools: "To Forrest Claypool / Good Luck! / Irving Harris / 12/3/01." Most unusual copy.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47403
- Title
- Children in Jeopardy: Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty
- Author
- HARRIS, Irving B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300068921
- ISBN 13
- 9780300068924
- Publisher
- The Yale Child Study Center
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Education;
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