![Item #17435] The Gang. Joseph ANTHONY](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17435.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1369314706)
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [ca.1924]. Important early novel of Jewish-American life in New York City, set among a gang of miscreant teenagers in Jewish East Harlem, the first-generation children of the great wave of Eastern European immigration that took place in the decades leading up to and following the turn of..... More
![Item #83975] Youth In Trouble: Studies in Delinquency and Despair. With Plans for Prevention...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/83975.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738632979)
Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation, 1946. First Edition. Presentation, lengthily inscribed: "To Edward Hopper / Assistant Superintendent of a work that is more than mere prevention of disaster in young peoples' lives - it is a program of building creative personalities - with the best wishes always," signed, undated but..... More
![Item #29958] Delinquency Prevention Advocate. January, 1936 [All Published?]. JUVENILE...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29958.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1479506930)
Detroit: Juvenile Court and the Human Relations Councils of Wayne County, 1936. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; illus. Extremities a bit foxed and toned, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Monthly newsletter that "aims to acquaint the public with the work of prevention councils in..... More
![Item #35124] The Young Delinquent. CRIME, UNDERWORLD - JUVENILE DELINQUENCY](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35124.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696462032)
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1929. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime, in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death, however, and..... More
![Item #58580] The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, CRIME,...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/58580.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659313581)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xiv, 205pp; 2 folding maps. Fine copy of the book; in the original dustwrapper, which has been heavily repaired on front and rear panels, covering a ca. 1" x 2" loss and repairing a ca. 4" tear into..... More
![Item #57041] 666: The Hymn To Lucifer. HELLS ANGELS, DRUGS, COUNTERCULTURE, a k. a. Frank Reynolds](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57041.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1788486242)
San Francisco: Frank Reynolds / Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (26.75cm); twelve (12) five-color broadsides (measuring 20cm X 26cm), printed on rectos only and housed in an illustrated portfolio on glossy cardstock. A few stress creases and some subtle toning along the spine-fold of the portfolio, else..... More
![Item #63744] Us: Inside a Teenage Gang. Janet GREEN, Lance BROWN, text, photographs](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/63744.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696296071)
New York: Hastings House Publishers, Inc., 1982. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-126pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $9.95), showing light shelfwear, and a faint diagonal crease to lower right..... More
![Item #84958] Youth in the Toils. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY - NEW YORK, Leonard V. HARRISON, Pryor...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/84958.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1746512525)
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xv,167pp. Darkening to endpapers, else a tight, straight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwraper, price-clipped, rubbed on rear panel; Very Good. A study, sponsored by the Delinquency..... More
![Item #80734] Delinquent Boys; The Culture of The Gang. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, Albert K. COHEN](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80734.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707781922)
New York: The Free Press, 1967. Twelfth Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's charcoal grey cloth, titled in silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 198pp. A clean, fresh copy, with the lightest of wear to the cloth, and some light marginal scuffing and rubbing to the dustjacket, with one small triangular chip to..... More
![Item #26964] First Annual Report of the Commissioners for Locating and Building House of...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26964.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1439245341)
Concord: Amos Hadley, 1856. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); original tan wrappers printed within triple rule; 23pp. Light wear to wrapper extremities, folding plate neatly excised, else Good to Very Good, partially unopened copy. Apparently the only report issued by the Commissioners, whose members included the future Governor of New Hampshire..... More
![Item #43698] Original Photograph - "McHenry, Illinois" [Signed]. PHOTOGRAPHY, Danny LYON](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43698.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681943903)
N.p. S.i., 1965. An outtake from Lyon's 1968 debut The Bikeriders, his attempt at recording and glorifying American motorcycle culture. "McHenry, Illinois" depicts a member of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club of Cicero, Illinois, mounting his girlfriend in a field of grass and wildflowers. Lyon lived and traveled with the..... More
![Item #44733] Chance to Belong: Story of the Los Angeles Youth Project, 1943-1949. Duane ROBINSON](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44733.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1561674659)
New York: Woman's Press, 1949. First Edition. Volume by the former director of the Los Angeles Youth Project, detailing the program's effectiveness in the wake of the Zoot Suit Riots. "The Los Angeles Youth Project was boldly conceived as a frontal attack by the major youth-serving agencies on the problem..... More
![Item #56322] The Amboy Dukes. Irving SHULMAN](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56322.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716397093)
New York: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Taupe pictorial cloth, titled and decorated in maroon on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 273pp. Small sticker shadow on rear pastedown, else a tight, clean copy, about Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly..... More
![Item #48132] An Appeal to the Friends of Humanity. Charles SPEAR](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48132.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585693985)
[Boston? n.d., ca. 1854]. First Edition. Letter signed in print by Unitarian minister and prison reform advocate Charles Spear delineating fourteen specific goals, among these "VIII. To encourage reformed prisoners, after their discharge from confinement, to procure employment," "IX. To assist Young Men and Women, who fall into temptation for..... More
