Published by Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1946
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good+ HC in Good DJ. Gray cloth over boards, silver stamped titles on front cover and spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; 1/2 inch of rear cover at lower fore corner has been gnawed; gnawing slightly affects terminal 50 leaves at lower fore corner - no text affected; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front pastedown (Marion C. Armstrong); clean interior with faint pencil erasures in few margins. DJ is complete; scuffed with some foxing; several closed tears repaired on inner face with cello-tape; small chips along cover edges; small letter 'N' at lower spine. 8vo, 400 pp; biblio.
Published by World Peace Foundation
Condition: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good first edition. No dust jacket. Frayed hand of spine. *.
Published by World Peace Foundation, 1952
Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; 2nd and revised edition; 3rd printing of a 1949 copyright; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fading and edge wear to exterior; cover cloth wearing at corners and ends of spine; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.
Published by World Peace Foundationi, Boston, 1947
Seller: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book in very good+ condition; light to moderate rubbing top and bottom of spine and tips of outside corners; light toning outside edges of book; faint to light toning to clean interior pages; binding sound. Dust jacket in good condition; one 1 1/4-in. irregular tear top left corner front cover; small chipping and short tearing top and bottom of spine and tips of outside corners; light soiling and light toning at edges; dark toning along spine; not price clipped. 413 pages. Blue cloth boards with silver stamped lettering front board and spine; jacket in Mylar sleeve. 9.5 x 6 1/4 in.
Published by World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1946
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 400 pages; Subjects: United Nations. Charter. 1 Kg.
Published by World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1946
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 400 pages; Subjects: United Nations. Charter. 1 Kg.
Published by World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1949
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second US Edition. 710 pages, book is aqua green with blue titling on spine and on front cover, book is quite sunned, corners and spine edges are all slightly bumped, still fairly tight, Good-VG. Jacket is quite heavily sunned and has numerous tears along top and bottom edges, price clipped, Fair. Book.
Published by World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1949
Seller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller, Saint John, NB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. No Jacket. Original light blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Spine (only) waterstained. Contents clean and sound. Written with the purpose of "explaining what the Charter meant to those who wrote it and and what it has come to mean in the practice of the United Nations." - Preface to Second Edition. A few light marginal checkmarks. 710 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1946
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: fair to good condition. Reprint. Third printing. xiii, [1], 413, [5] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. List of References to Articles. Index. No dust jacket is present. Slight foxing to edges. Boards somewhat worn and soiled. Ink name and address of previous owner written inside front flyleaf. Some pencil underlining to text. Compiled toward greater historic and lay understanding following the June 26, 1945 signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco. Representatives of 50 nations signed. Contents include Failure of the League of Nations Experiment; U.N. for War (1942); Dunbarton Oaks; Yalta Agreement; Conferences; Charter Contents; Organizational Matters; Commentary on Articles (19 sections); 15 Documents. Leland Goodrich was Director of the World Peace Foundation founded in 1910, based in Boston. Edvard Hambro was Director, Dept. of International Relations, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen Norway, and member, Pacific Committee on Settlement of Disputes, post World War II, on which Goodrich was Secretary. From and internet posting: "Dr. Goodrich was a member of the International Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945. He was also the secretary of the Committee on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, which drafted a section of the United Nations Charter. In 1960, he was appointed to the United Nations Committee on the Review of the Activities and Organization of the Secretariat, and later served as a consultant to the United Nations. Dr. Goodrich graduated from Bowdoin College in 1920 and received his master's degree in 1921 and his doctorate in 1925, both from Harvard. He taught at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., in 1925 and 1926, and at Brown University in Providence, R.I., where from 1926 to 1950 he was an assistant professor, associate professor and professor and chairman of the department of political science. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1950 and had been the James T. Shotwell Professor Emeritus of International Relations from 1968 ton 1990 when he died at the age of 91. From Wikipedia: "Edvard Isak Hambro (22 August 1911 1 February 1977) was a Norwegian legal scholar, diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. He was the 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly (1970 1971).He finished his secondary educationin 1929, enrolled in law studies at the Royal Frederick University and graduated with the cand. jur. degree in 1934. In 1931 he chaired the Conservative Students' Association. In 1936 he took the docteur ès sciences politiques degree in Geneva with the thesis L'Éxécution des sentences internationales. With a Rockefeller grant he studied abroad before being hired as international director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in 1938. In 1940 Norway was attacked by Germany. During the subsequent fighting Hambro was a liaison officer for British forces in Western Norway, but later in the same year he fled via London to the United States. He was a guest scholar at the Northwestern University from 1941, and secretary-general in Norse Federation and editor of their magazine Nordmanns-Forbundets Tidsskrift from 1941 to 1943. He then returned to London to work in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs-in-exile until the war's end. He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940 1945. After the war Hambro specialized in international organizational work. He was a Norwegian delegate to the San Francisco Conference in 1945, and led the United Nations judicial office until 1946. In 1946 he issued the Charter of the United Nations. Commentary and documents together with Leland Goodrich. From 1946 to 1953 he was a secretary at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He was then a research fellow at the Norwegian School of Economics from 1953, visiting scholar at the University of California in 1958 and professor of jurisprudence at the Norwegian School of Economics from 1959 to 1966. Academic publications in the Norwegian language include Norsk fremmedrett (1950), Folkerettsp.
Published by Stevens & Sons / Martinus Nijhoff, London / The Hague,, 1949
Seller: Antiquariat Christoph Wilde, Düsseldorf, Germany
XVI, 710, (6) S. Orig.-Leinenband. - Rücken verfärbt und oben etwas bestoßen; Einband mit Wasserflecken. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber. - Achtung: Bei Auslandsversand bitte Portokosten erfragen (höheres Gewicht)!.