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A World Made New
by Mary Ann Glendon
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked against the clock, the...
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United Nations Books & Ephemera
Speeches by A.Y. Vyshinsky on Measures Against the Threat of Another War and for Strengthening Peace and Friendship Among Nations. Delivered at the Plenary Meetings of the Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, November 8, 1951 and November 16, 1951
by Vyshinsky, A. Y
Washington, D. C.: Information Bulletin of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1951. Pamphlet. 48p., stapled wraps, 4.5x7.25 inches, frontispiece portrait of Vyshinsky, very good condition.
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Speech by Chiao Kuan-hua, chairman of the delegation of the People's Republic of China, at the plenary meeting of the 29th session of the U.N. General Assembly (October 2, 1974)
by Chiao, Kuan-hua
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1974. Pamphlet. 26p, staplebound pamphlet with minor handling wear. Speech celebrating third world revolutionary movements and resistance to imperialism. Includes sections on the Middle East, Cambodia, Cyprus, and North-South Korea. From the library of Ann Tompkins, with "Ann T." penciled in the upper right corner of the front cover. Tompkins was one of the few Americans to participate in China's Cultural Revolution. She lived there from 1965 to 1970.
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On Condemning the Preparation of a New War and Concluding a Five-Power Pact for Strengthening Peace: Speeches delivered by A.Y. Vyshinsky at the Fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, November, 1949
by Vyshinsky, A.Y
Washington DC: Information Bulletin of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1949. Pamphlet. 72p., stapled wraps, 5.25x7.25 inches, frontis. portrait of Vyshinsky, very good condition.
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The UN Decade for Women: an offer we couldn't refuse
by Fahnbulleh
London: Housewives in Dialogue, 1987. 23p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled yellow wraps. Centrepiece 6.
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£16.19
No Enchanted Palace. The end of Empire and the ideological origins of the United Nations
by Mazower, Mark
Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 236 pages. Traces the origin and early development of the United Nations. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£21.14
Who Won the San Francisco Earthquake? Uncle Sam's Plea for Humanity at the Geneva Disarmament Conference; An imaginary Oration covering ten days of February, 1932
by Chilton, Carroll Brent
New York: Self-published by the author (as Robbins, 1931. Paperback. xiv, 125p., frontispiece a political cartoon, softbound book in 8x5 inch plain printed yellow wraps; cover is rubberstamped with author's price, titlepage stamped in similar fashion giving us "Robbins" and a NYC address. The unglazed cover-stock, of very soft paper, is mildly worn: edgewear, a corner-tip crease, tiny ink-stain and offset color to top edge, general dust-soil. Inside find a seller's pencillings on half-title, a little...
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Israeli Agression Against Iraq's Nuclear Installation: The Arab Case Before the Security Council
New York: Arab Information Center, 1981. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Reprints statements made by various officials from Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries in front of the UN Security Council in 1981.
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Towards Freedom in the Air: The Story of the International Civil Aviation Conference, November 1st-December 7th, 1944
New York: United Nations Information Office, 1945. Pamphlet. 31p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps toned along edges, date penciled on verso of front wrap, else very good condition.
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![[Two small leaflets: "Ban the UN" and "Stop foreign aid!"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/082/812/1497812082.0.b.jpg)
[Two small leaflets: "Ban the UN" and "Stop foreign aid!"]
by American National Party
New York: the Party, 1961. Handbill. Two leaflets, about 4x5.75 inches, from the short-lived group led by John Patler, erstwhile comrade and later assassin of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. Faint vertical crease; formerly stapled together. Cartoons by Patler. The ANP published four issues of its small magazine, "KILL," and issued leaflets in the New York area to promote its belligerent street meetings before Patler reunited with Rockwell's American Nazi Party.
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£68.79
Resouce Material Series No. 71 U N a F E I
by Aizawa Keiichi, Director
Tokyo, Japan: the Treatment of Offenders. Fine. 2007. Softcover. Trade Paperback in Fine condition. Tighly bound with a bright, unmarked text. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 139 pages .
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£11.84
The United Nations: An Introduction
by Kerr, Marcella
Board of Global Ministries, 1978-09-01. Paperback, Trade. Good. 0 Paperback, Trade - EX LIB - Usual library markings, worn - 6 x 9 x .25 inches
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£12.10
WHY NOT VICTORY? A Fresh Look At American Foreign Policy
by Goldwater, Barry
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear with small open tears and slight staining to DJ. Inkstamp to front free endpaper ; Two years before his landslide defeat at the hands of Lyndon Johnson, gop leader Goldwater outlines his prescription for American foreign relations; 8vo; 201 pages .
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£11.53
Parliament Of Man, The The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations
by Kennedy, Paul
Vintage. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2007. Paperback. 0375703411 . A very nice Trade Paperback, glossy covers, a small piece cut out of the top edge of the front free end page, and a few pages that have ink lines in the margins of the book. "From one of America's greatest historians, and the bestselling author of "TheRise and Fall of the Great Powers," comes the first definitive history of the United Nations, from Woodrow Wilson to Kofi Annan. "; Vintage; 0.87 x 8.03 x...
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The United Nations Conspiracy
by LEE, Robert W
Boston and Los Angeles: Western Islands, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 282pp. Page edges and cloth lightly soiled, spine cocked, very good in a near fine dustwrapper with mild edgewear.
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Towards World Government - The role of Britain
by Usborne, Henry C
London: National Peace Council, 1947. Pamphlet. 12p., 5.5x8.5 inches, stapled pamphlet, staples starting to rust, light soiling to wraps, else good. Inscribed by author with note: "I wrote this for the NPC early in 1947." Peace Aims Pamphlet 39.
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£9.71
![IWGIA Newsletter; nos. 33-62 [Run of 30 issues in 24 of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/798/291/1510291798.0.b.jpg)
IWGIA Newsletter; nos. 33-62 [Run of 30 issues in 24 of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs]
Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1990. Newsletter. Thirty issue run of the journal between no. 33 (1983) and no. 62 (1990); 5.5x8 inch pictorial wraps; photos., maps, throughout mild edgewear and rubbing on wraps, most issues contain a single rubberstamp of various Oakland-based organizations, minor editorial pen notes on issue 46, minor spine wear on issue 60/61, else in very good condition. "IGWIA- is an independent, international organisation which supports indigenous...
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£117.35
Lenin's last bastion, a story of a Communist takeover in Southern California
by Warn, Keith L
New York: Exposition Press, 1966. Hardcover. 160p., first edition, very good condition in a shelf worn dj with a faded spine. Novel about the future takeover of the Communists (with the help of the UN and New Left of course) and about the conservative freedom fighters that rise up.
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£36.42
A New Economic Order: An Arab Perception
by Maksoud, Clovis
New York: Arab Information Center, 1980. Pamphlet. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, front wrap lightly toned along stapled edge else very good condition. Text of a speech given by Maksoud to the United Nations in September 1980.
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The Berlin crisis and the United Nations
by Henkin, Louis
New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1959. 30p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, some edgewear and toning. The author, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, was teaching at Columbia at the time of publication.
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£20.23
The Welsh Case to UNO
Bangor: Plaid Cymru, 1965. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Welsh separatist appeal to the United Nations.
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£16.19
Lenin's last bastion, a story of a Communist takeover in Southern California
by Warn, Keith L
New York: Exposition Press, 1966. Hardcover. 160p., first edition, previous owner's name else very good condition in a bright dj with minor shelf wear. Novel about the future takeover of the Communists (with the help of the UN and New Left of course) and about the conservative freedom fighters that rise up.
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£52.60
A Realistic View of the United Nations
by Kershner, Howard E
New York: Christian Freedom Foundation, 1964. Pamphlet. [8]p. including covers, stapled wraps, 4x9 inches, staples rusted, wraps lightly edgeworn else very good condition. Criticizes the UN for its supposed domination by atheists and Marxists. Kershner was a Quaker, conservative, and child welfare advocate.
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£12.14
Hammarskjöld, Kennedy, Stevenson: några avsnitt ur historiska fn-tal
Stockholm: Idun-vecko journalen, n.d.. 33 1/3 rpm flexible sound disc, very good in illustrated sleeve. Recordings of Dag Hammarskjöld's swearing-in as secretary-general, Hammarskjöld agreeing to remain as secretary-general, John F. Kennedy's remarks on Hammarskjöld's death, Kennedy speaking on Cuban missile crisis, and Adlai Stevenson questioning Zorin on the Cuban missiles.
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£20.23
The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson: Governor of Illinois, 1949-1953 Volume 3
by Stevenson, Adlai E. with Johnson, Walter (Editor)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1973. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. 621 pages. Shows Stevenson speaking out on the local and national issues of the day and wrestling with his political problems such as the revision of the State's constitution, improving its public welfare and education programs, drafting anti-discrimination laws and fighting against organised crime and juvenile deliquency etc....
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