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Chevalier, Stuart. The World Charter & the Road to Peace. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1946.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Description: Slight adhesive residual on front end paper otherwise near fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket.
Seller: Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Chevalier, Stuart. The World Charter and the Road to Peace. Ward Ritchie, 1946.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed and dated by Chevalier on the ffep.
Seller: Ahab Books, Glencoe, CA, U.S.A.
Chevalier, Stuart,. The World Charter & the Road to Peace. Ward Ritchie Press, 1946.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The World Charter & the Road to Peace, Chevalier, Stuart, Ward Ritchie Press, 1946, 179p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears/chipping, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding, but binding threads visible inside hinges, SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR---15.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.74 + shipping
Description: nFINE/G+. Blue cloth boards. This modest little book is only of passing importance in and of itself. It's provenance however is quite another matter. A visitcard inside identifies it as coming from the personal library of Dr. Elmer Belt, a Professor Emeritus in the UCLA School of Medicine and a collector of Vinciana (Leonardo Da Vinci). The Elmer Belt Library at UCLA houses his personally acquired editions of original Da Vinci manuscripts and books including "Treatise on Painting". Dr Belt was a supporter of International Peace, as this book testifies. If you want to own a special piece of related history, then this is the item. UNIQUE. [B78]
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$292.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 179 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing. Near Fine In Price Clipped Dust Jacket, Worn. Apparently First Book About The Implications Of The New United Nations. With Belt's Personal Card And Handwritten "Christmas 1946", Apparently A Christmas Gift. Also With The Department Of State Publication 2353, 1945, 58 Pp., "Charter Of The United Nations Together With The Statute Of The International Court Of Justice", , Near Fine, Also With "World Peace", 12 Pp, By Hewlett Johnson, Dean Of Canterbury. More Blah Blah Blah, As If Much Of Anything Made Up By The Delegates Was Or Is Or Will Be Enforceable Absent Governments, With Absolute Power, Holding Themselves And Each Other Absolutely Responsible, An Impolite And Fraught Outcome Which Is Highly Unlikely In Most Circumstances And Almost Never With Results Satisfactory To Those Adversely Affected By Incompetence, Failure To Foresee Outcomes, Corruption, And Absence Of Rule Of Law. The Advantages Of The Exercise Of Careless Or Malevolent Or Just Plain Selfish Power Far Outweigh Any Reasons To The Contrary, As About 10,000 Years Of Human History Clearly Record, If Anyone Thought About It. Per Wikipedia, Elmer Belt (April 10, 1893 – May 17, 1980) Was An Internationally Recognized Urologist, A Pioneer In Sex-Change Surgery, An Important Mover In The Founding Of The Ucla School Of Medicine, And A Book Collector Known For Assembling A Library Of Research Materials About Leonardo Da Vinci—The Elmer Belt Library Of Vinciana. Between 1961 And 1966, Belt Donated In Installments His Leonardo Da Vinci Collection To Ucla On The Condition That The University Maintain His Collection And Not Integrate It With The Rest Of The Library's Holdings. In 2002, Counter To The Terms Of The Gift, The Elmer Belt Library Of Vinciana Was Integrated Into Ucla Library Special Collections. Belt Also Collected Works By Upton Sinclair And, In 1934, Supported Sinclair's Campaign For Governor Of California. He Donated His Upton Sinclair Collection To Occidental College Library Including First Editions "Warmly Inscribed From Sinclair To Elmer Belt, Who Was His Physician. In 1950." In Addition, Belt Formed Collections Around Neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell And The Founder Of Modern Nursing, Florence Nightingale. He Donated Both Collections To The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library At Ucla. In 2014 The Remainder Of Belt's Collection Was Sold At Auction Including An Illuminated Manuscript By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Of The Blessed Damozel By Alberto Sangorski; California Mission Etchings By Henry Ford (Illustrator); A Handwritten Manuscript By Bertrand Russell And A Signed Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail By Ansel Adams.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.