JOAN ROBINSON AND MODERN ECONOMIC THEORY
London: Macmillan Co., 1989. First edition. Large 8vo. lxvii, 927pp. Black cloth with red and white dustjacket, short, closed tear to spine of jacket. Very good. More
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DER GESCHWINDE RECHNER ORDER: des Handlers nutzlichr Gehulfe; in Kauffung und Verkauffung.
Germantown, [Pa.]: Christoph Saur, 1774. First American edition in German. 12mo. 17cm. [280] pp. Contemporary calf, rubbed. A very good copy with some browning. Manuscript notes on front endleaf with some bleed through. KARPINSKI, pp. 55. EVANS 13275. First American edition (in English) was published in Boston in 1742... More
ECONOMICS AND THE ART OF CONTROVERSY. How Seriously are Americans Divided on Matters of Economic Debate?
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. First edition. 8vo. ix, (3), 111pp. Blue cloth. Red lettered gray dust jacket. Some wear to edges of dust jacket which is lightly soiled. Brown & Haley Lectures given at the College of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Publishers promotional for book laid..... More
AMERICAN CAPITALISM. The Concept of Countervailing Power.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. First British edition. 8vo. xi, (5), 217 pp. Very good in dustjacket, slight foxing to edges and endpapers. More
A THEORY OF PRICE CONTROL.
Cambridge, (MA): Harvard University Press. Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1952. First British edition from American sheets. 8vo. vii, (5), 81pp. Blue cloth. Red lettered gray dust jacket. Some soiling to edges and spine of dust jacket. More
THE LIBERAL HOUR.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1960). First edition. 8vo. 192 pp. Red cloth in black lettered salmon colored dust jacket. Some foxing to page edges, short split to rear panel of dust jacket, spine of jacket slightly faded, else very good. More
GALLATIN WRITES TO NEW YORK GOV. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, IN AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED.
[Washington, DC] Treasury Department: July 14, 1808. A 1 1/4 page letter, approx. 150 words. Single sheet, folded, 25 x 20 cm., third page blank, docketed on fourth page in Gallatin's hand. Secretary Gallatin writes about the difficulty in giving such instructions to the Southern Collectors as would remove the..... More
THE FISCAL HISTORY OF TEXAS, Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution in 1834 to 1851-52, with Remarks on American Debts.
Philadelphia, (PA): Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852. First edition. 8vo. xx, [17]-327 pp. 34-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Sabin 28071. Jenkins Basic Texas Books 77: "The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution and of the Republic of Texas, this book is much more interesting reading than..... More
A SHORT HISTORY OF PAPER MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by T.W. Ustick, 1833. First edition. 12mo. 12, 140, 240 pp. Original cloth, with some loss to cloth of rear board, printed paper label, spine partly perished and cracked vertically, boards detached (new endpapers used to reattach them). KRESS. C.3500. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19075. See DAB. Gouge was..... More
AN ESSAY ON GOLD. SHOWING ITS DEFECTS AS A STANDARD OF VALUE AND SUGGESTING A SUBSTITUTE THEREFOR. Also A Translation of THE DEATH OF GOLD.
Dallas, Texas: Hargreaves Printing Company, (April, 1925). White paperwraps, title in black on spine and in gilt on front wrapper. 23 cm. 198 pp. Chipping and wear to wrappers, one long tear to edge of front wrap, small private institutional stamp inside rear wrapper, else a clean copy. Includes Malcolm..... More
How to Start and Keep Alive, a First Class / Greenback Newspaper.; / [Two-line caption headline, followed by two columns of dense text, separated by a rule].
[New York or Chicago? Pomeroy's Democrat? nd, but circa 1875]. Broadside circular, 22 x 5 3/4 inches, signed below the text in purple ink "M.M. Pomeroy," probably issued as an extra to Pomeroy's Democrat, his weekly newspaper published in advocacy of the Greenback Movement (1868-1888, supported primarily by American agrarian..... More
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM; OR, THE EFFECTS OF HIGH DUTIES ON IMPORTS, DESIGNED FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY; WITH REMARKS ON THE LATE ANNUAL TREASURY REPORT.
Boston: From Nathan Hale's Press, 1828. 8vo. 86 pp. Disbound pamphlet. Very good. First edition. An essay on the injurious effects of protectionism. Sabin 29648. More
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, on the subject of a national bank: read in the House of Representatives Dec. 13th, 1790.
New York: Published by S. Whitig & Co. No. 118 Pearl Street. J. Seymour, print. 1811. 8vo. 21.5 cm. 44pp. Disbound. First published in 1790 (Evans 22998), there is also an 1810 edition. Hamilton's proposal for a national bank was accepted only after much debate on its constitutionality and in..... More
The Merchants' Magazine, and Commercial Review.
New York: The editor, 1839-1840. Volumes I & II, 12 monthly issues, July, 1839 – June, 1840. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, 552; vii, 528 pp. Tables. The first two volumes of a long running business oriented periodical that was issued without break, 1839-1870; contributors here include Charles F. Adams, Daniel..... More
A SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE WITH ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. To which is added, The India Directory for Purchasing The Drugs and Spices of the East Indies, &c.
New York: John Furman, 1800. First edition. 18 cm. [13], xiv-xvi, [1], 18-180pp. Repair to half-title and title, where name had been removed, no loss of type. Recently rebound in half leather and marbled boards, gilt stamped title on spine. Bears the previous ownership markings of John Bolton Nov. 1..... More
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE 1919-1975 [IN TWO VOLUMES]: ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE BETWEEN THE TWO WARS [VOL. I]; INTERWAR POLICY, THE WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION [VOL. II]
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. 8vo; xix, 616 pp.; ix, 666 pp. Illustrated with maps and figures. Very good in dust jackets, spines sunned. More
POSTWAR ECONOMIC GROWTH. Four Lectures.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard, 1964. First edition. 8vo. 148pp. Very good in dust jacket. Some pencil notes on rear pastedown. Kuznets went on to win the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1971. More
ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1953. 8vo. viii, 394pp. Red lettered gray dust jacket. Some offsetting to pastedowns, else very good. "Abba Lerner was the Milton Friedman of the left. Like Friedman, Lerner was a brilliant expositor of economics who was able to make complex concepts crystal clear. Lerner was..... More
PLANTATIONS FOR SLAVE LABOR: THE DEATH OF YEOMANRY.
NY: Loyal Publication Society, 1865. Brown printed paperwraps. 8vo. 8pp. Very good. More
A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance, of Political Economy; Containing an Outline of a Course of Lectures on the Principles and Doctrines of that Science
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, 1825. Second edition, corrected and enlarged (first published the previous year). 8vo. (4), 124 pp. 1832 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman catalogue bound in ahead of the front endpaper. A revised edition of the author's 1824 Ricardo Memorial Lectures delivered in London. "McCulloch's..... More
Defense of a Liberal Construction of the Powers of Congress, as Regards Internal Improvement, etc.; With a Complete Refutation of the Ultra Doctrines Respecting Consolidation and State Sovereignty.; To which are prefixed, an encomiastic advertisement of the work by Major (now Governor) Hamilton, and a preface by the Philadelphia editor.
Philadelphia: Printed by William F. Geddes, 1832. Second Philadelphia edition (M'Duffie's work first appeared pseudonymously in 1821). 8vo. 24 pp. The Philadelphia editor was Mathew Carey. Not in Turnbull. Original printed yellow wrappers (some soiling); stitched; old tideline in lower corner, but a very good copy. More
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with, An Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which It Occasions.
Washington City: Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman (another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan). 1809. First American, from the third London edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 510, xxxiv; vii, 542 pp. Half-title to each volume present. Here Malthus "laid down his famous..... More
THE GOLDEN AGE OF CAPITALISM Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo. xii, (4), 324pp. Blue cloth (mottled) in green dust jacket, faded along spine. Erratum slip laid in. More
The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of husbandry in that County.
London: T. Cadell, 1787. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvii, (2), 400; ix, (6), 392, (4) pp. Folding map. Contemporary calf, gilt rules and leather labels on spines; joints cracking, offset from map to title page of volume one, but a very good copy. More