Vancouver: Robert Reid & Takao Tanabe, 1958. First Reprint Limited Edition. Hardcover. 153/275 Quarto. 44 (1)pp. Original quarter Oasis Niger over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red label of spine. Gray endpapers. Decorative title page and headpieces. Ribbon marker. With and introduction by Neal Harlow. Originally printed in 1871..... More
London: John Murray, 1871. New edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxiii,584,32pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold decorated spine. David Ricardo (1772-1823), a political economist, is often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists. He was also a businessman, financier and speculator. Head and tail..... More
New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1887. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 724 pp. + adds. Gilt decorated blue cloth binding. Some wear to edges. Light staining to front. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Artistic half title. Frontis. Illustrated with 52 b/w drawings. Hinges starting to crack. Light tanning to..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1845. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 378, [24]pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth. From the Third English Edition, with notes and additions, adapting it to American food and climate, by A. B. Allen." Contents include construction of stables, ventilation, appendages of stables, management of diseased and..... More
Bern: Stämpflische Buchdruckerei, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv, 346, 336pp. Library binding with green half cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. Dedicated to the Two volumes bound into one. Historical Society of the Canton Bern commemorating its 50th anniversary. Brief historical epitome and detailed city bills providing a view into..... More
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. XXII, 248pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. The reason for the choices made by the consumer have been investigated throughout history by observation and theoretical analysis, and marginal utility has emerged as one of the..... More
Hamburg: Hapag Seebäderdienst GmbH, No date (1930s). Original document. Loose leaf. Octavo. Six wing leporello with covers printed in color offset, with a lithographed color map across all six wings of inside, protected by modern mylar. The cover illustration by Ottomar Anton shows a smiling sailor waving his cap with..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 315, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Friedrich A. von Hayek. The articles in this volume were written in honour of F. A. Hayek and cover the whole scope of his..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935-1936. Reprint (Vols. I & II), First edition (Vols. III & IV). Hardcover. Quarto. XXV, [1], 623, [1], XX, 620, XXX, 778, VIII, 683pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spines. An influential economist, reformer and labor historian, John R. Commons drafted innovative social..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 414 (2) pp. Green pebbled cloth binding. Decorated endpapers. Corners bumped. Light bumping to head and tail of spine. Else in very good condition. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 466pp. Original printed dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable thorough study of the character and effects of industrial rationalization in Germany, where the rationalization movement has gone farther than in any other country, and..... More
Oxford; Warsawa: Pergamon Press; PWN, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IX, 494pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Michal Kalecki. Title page in blue and black lettering. The work of Michal Kalecki in the important field of economics has..... More
Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,408pp. Gray cloth. Minor staining to boards. Spanish economic history (Valencia, el Siglo XVI). Text in Spanish. Very good condition. Rare. More
Tehran: National Teachers College Press, 1961. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 108 (1)pp. Original stiff white wrappers with black lettering on cover. Illustrated with diagrams and drawings printed in green and 2 b/w reproductions of coins with red glassine overlays. Text in Persian. Wrappers with light foxing at top and..... More
Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, n/d. Hardcover. 4to. xiv,411pp. Three-quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Discoloration and staining to boards. Fascinating look at various countries main source of income such as wine production, harvesting corn and wheat, tobacco, cotton, etc. Profusely illustrated with 12 color,- and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. X, 269, [3]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. This book, the first to deal extensively with Ricardo's school, examines the nature of its success and the interplay of historical and intellectual forces which finally broke..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2006. Second printing. Softcover. Octavo xv, (1), 330, (2)pp. Text in English. Index and 13 page bibliography. Unrevised softcover reprint (a hardcover and softcover edition was published in 1998). Yellow wrappers lettered in blue. A fine, as new copy. Mirroring the expansion of wealth in the Middle East..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv. 26-564pp. Tooled and stamped cloth. Yellow endpapers. Notable translation of "Soll und Haben". Minor age wear to binding. Free front endpaper and top part of free rear endpaper missing, with closed tear through middle of page following last text page. Minor..... More
Mexico: "Cultura" 1931. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 84pp. Original printed wrappers. This scarce work in which the author objects to the Montes de Oca-Lamont agreement assesses the extent to which bankers approached sovereign debt defaults during the interwar period according to norms established during the nineteenth century. Bankers treated..... More
Baltimore: NP, n/d. Softcover. Ex-library. 8vo. Both copies with bookplate of Franklin Institute Library, Philadelphia, on inside of front wrapper. 1) May 10th, 1852. Printed by James Lucas. 16pp. Original printed blue wraps. Front and rear wrapper almost detached. Chipping, staining and tearing on wraps. Stamp of previous owner on front..... More
Oxford; Warsawa: Pergamon Press; PWN, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 661, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Oskar Lange. Title page in red and black lettering. Professor Lange was one of the world's most eminent authorities in the..... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966. Reprint. Among the earliest to revolt from the philosophy and ethics of the Classical economists was the French historian and writer on economics, Sismondi. This thinker well illustrates the difficulty of making a rigid threefold classification of opponents; for his criticism on the score..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1937. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. VIII, 9-287, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over cloth. Top edge red. This work is the first systematic and comprehensive historical survey of the forms of profit accruing through war to financiers, manufacturers, munition-makers, contractors..... More
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 663, [1]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Fascinating work being a reprint of the very rare collection of tracts prepared in 1856 for the Political Economy Club. The various tracts compiled in this..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 257pp. Tan cloth with black lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Essay by A. Phillips on price fixing and combinations in restraint of trade. Minor sunning on top area of binding. Minor staining, creasing and rubbing on..... More