- Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. Top edge gilt. The binding is bumped & rubbed and the spine is darkened. 103pp. There is an "International University Society" bookplate on the soiled front pastedown and a "Wing Heath & Co. Insurance Brokers" stamp on the front endpaper. Illustrated with a frontispiece & 6 plates, including one in color. Good.
Includes a chapter on the South Sea Bubble. View More...
Milano: Antonio Fontana, 1831.. 1831.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wraps. The wraps are stained, soiled & chipped with pieces out & with the corners creased. The backstrip is heavily worn. xvi & 259 pages. There is scattered foxing. The page corners are creased & the front edges of the first few leaves are chipped. The last leaf is stuck to the rear wrap. Good only. ,An early Italian edition of "Elements of Political Economy" by James Mill, who based his book on lessons he taught his teenage son John Stuart Mill. The book is from the series "Collezione di Manuali c... View More...
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1914.. 1914.. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. vi & 337 pages. The page edges are slightly darkened. Very good.
First edition. Volume 1 was the only one published. First Edition. View More...
Harborside, ME: August 4th, 1972.. 1972.. Very good. - Letter penned in blue ink and filling most of one side of a sheet of Social Science Institute letterhead, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Signed Scott Nearing. There is some light creasing to the paper. Folded twice for mailing. Together with the mailing envelope addressed in an unknown hand. Very good. Nearing is replying to an Arthur W. Manchester in Boston, inviting him to visit the Institute. Some of us here are working on idological & agricutural problems. If you are up this way, why not look in on us and share a meal & some i... View More...
Boston: William J. Reynolds, 1845.. 1845.. Very good. - Small quarto [7-7/8 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], printed green boards backed with brown cloth tape. The rear board has advertisements for Reynolds school books. The front board is bowed with soiling & small stains. There is a chip out of the cloth tape near the head of the spine. 8 pages of text plus 48 blank lined ledger pages. There is a chip out of the bottom corner of the front endpaper & there is some minor staining to the text pages. Overall, a very good copy. First edition. Scarce in the original boards.Educator Charles North... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The spine & extremities are slightly darkened and there is foxing to the spine & the adjacent edge of the front cover. 142 pages. The contents are very good. Good.
First edition.
A study of the economic and political sovereignty of Svalbard and the various interests affecting its political status. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It is one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas.
The text is in Norwegian. First Edition. View More...
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, 1900.. 1900.. Good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped. The spine is slightly darkened with its head & tail creased. xv & 512 pages. Illustrated with 41 tables. The front hinge is starting & there is occasional very light foxing & soiling. There is a short tear to the front margin of 1 rear leaf. Ex-library with the remnant of a handwritten sticker on the spine, a library label on the front pastedown & the remnants of a label with glue stains on the rear pastedown, and with a blind stamp on the title page... View More...
Hartford: D.F. Robinson & Co., 1833.. 1833.. Good. - Octavo, printed tan boards backed with a black calf spine. The covers are heavily stained and rubbed with wear to the edges and corners. The head and tail of the spine are chipped with a small piece out near the top of the spine. 184 pages with examples of forms plus 4 pages of testimonials entitled "Recommendations". The hinges are cracked with evidence of some early worming to the front hinge. There is scattered foxing throughout. The bottom edges of a dozen pages are creased and there is dampstaining to the bottom edges of several... View More...
New York: Institutional Investors Newsletters, 2002. 2002. Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS - Octavo, red cloth in a dust wrapper. The front panel of the dust jacket is very lightly rubbed. xvii & 180 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables & diagrams. Near fine.
First edition.
Inscribed in the year of publication by co-author Richard L. Harris: "4/21/02 / To George, / Who is one of the wealthiest people I know -- in friends and stuff / Richard". The book was originally published for the price of $400.00! Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Paris: Librairie de Garnier Freres, 1857.. 1857.. Good. - Small octavo, marbled boards backed with brown calf & titled in gilt between raised bands & decorations in gilt on the spine. The spine is rubbed & the boards are heavily rubbed & bumped. xii & 511 pages. Illustrated with tables. There is scattered foxing with some pencil markings in the margins. Good.
(London): Cambridge University Press, 1952.. 1952.. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped with the bottom edges rubbed. The dust jacket is darkened, chipped & lightly soiled with a few stains to the rear panel. vii, [ii] & 401 pages. The book is lightly cracked at the title. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait plate & a folding facsimile tipped in at the rear. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
Published for the Royal Economic Society. Dust jacket present. View More...
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc., 1951.. 1951.. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped & the covers are slightly warped. The head of the spine is lightly chipped & frayed. The dust jacket is chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of its spine and its spine & extremities are darkened. xii & 236 pages. There are tiny areas of foxing & soiling to the fore-edge with a small gray mark to the fore-edge. Good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Trenton, NJ: September 9, 1976.. 1976.. Fine. - 84 words typed on a sheet of cream-colored 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide National State Bank letterhead with 'Mary G. Roebling / Chairman of the Board" printed at the top below a vignette of a sailing ship. Signed "Mary Roebling". There is a small pencil notation at top right. Folded twice for mailing. Near fine. Roebling writes to Congressman Seymour Halpern, regretting that she cannot attend the signing of the new Declaration of Independence for children. "I am sure the affair will be most successful. Certainly it is in behalf... View More...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931.. 1931.. Good. - Octavo, maroon cloth. The binding is rubbed. The spine is faded with the head lightly chipped & frayed and with a small stain to the tail. xii & 464 pages. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece and numerous full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. The endpapers & the front pastedown are partially darkened with a previous owner's ink name on the front endpaper. The fore-edge is spotted. Good.
Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1887.. 1887.. Good. - Small octavo [9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed orange wrappers. The wraps are chipped & slightly darkened with some tiny brown marks to the bottom edge of the front wrap & with tears to the top edge of the front wrap, the bottom corner of the rear wrap & the tail of the spine. [vi] & 87 pages, partially unopened. There is occasional foxing & there are a few short tears to the edges of the pages. Good. Staatswissenschaftliche Studien, published by Gustav Fischer, edited by Dr. Ludwig Elster. 1. Band. 1. He... View More...
NY: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1971.. 1971.. Fine. - (Reprints of Economic Classics). Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt. Lightly rubbed & spotted. 72 pp. Ex-library with light stain to tail of spine where scotch tape has been removed & a numeral stamped on the front endpaper. The contents are else near fine.
Review copy with publisher's printed slip mounted on the front endpaper. View More...
Paris: Chez Guillaumin, Libraire, 1843.. 1843.. Good. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcovers. Two volumes uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon cloth with marbled boards, titled and decorated in gilt on the spines. The covers are rubbed and soiled. lxxix & 520 pages; and [iv] & 714 pages. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of Adam Smith. The endpapers are darkened and there is scattered foxing and staining throughout. The engraving is foxed with a short tear to its top edge. Several page corners are creased and there are holes to the front edge of a couple of leaves,... View More...
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1933).. (1933).. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in yellow on the spine, in a printed yellow dust wrapper. The head and tail of the book's spine are slightly bumped and the edges of the bottom corners slightly rubbed. The dust jacket is soiled and its spine is darkened with minor chips to the corners and head of the jacket's spine. 121 pages. There is some offsetting to the endpapers and minor foxing to the top corner of the last few leaves. The top edge is soiled. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First American edition. The English economist and scienti... View More...
Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1903.. 1903.. Very good. - Octavo, original printed orange wraps bound into three-quarter green calf & marbled boards titled in gilt on spine. Wraps lightly soiled; boards lightly bumped & rubbed with slight fraying to top corner of rear board. Title, [1] leaf, 415 & [1] pp. Very good.
A bibliography of trade, finance and taxation. The text is in German. View More...
