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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 Against Governments With Absolute Internal Power. 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.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book Club Edition. A worn copy copy in gray Book of the Month Club boards with a tiny tear at the top of the spine and one corner bumped; in a good minus dust jacket featuring the coquette behind a pink shower curtain; with brown paper backing to the jacket. Taped to the front paste-down and the front endpapers are: "The original envelope with Erle Stanley Gardner, the Rancho Del Paisano, Temecula, CA addressed to the recipient for whom he has autographed a card. The card is taped to the front enpaper: Erle Stanley Gardner/ Autographed for Barbara A. Hopson/ flamboyant signedErle Stanley Gardner/dated July 15, 1949." Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 1970) was an American lawyer and author. Though best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces, as well as a series of non-fiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the twentieth century at the time of his death. (Wikipedia).