Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the Third Session of the Forty-Second Congress of the United States, December 2, 1872 by Knox, John Jay - 1872

Rio De Janeiro: Petrobras, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 255p. Portuguese text. a pristine copy of the story of the first 50 years of the Oil industry in Brazil. This item was sent only to oil company executives and investors and is seldom seen in North America. OCLC locates one copy at the Library of Congress and another in the Brazilian national library.

Washington, D. C.: International Monetary Fund, 1976. Complete in 2 Volumes. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1976, first printing. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 3/4", xxii+699pp., illus; viii+339pp. Terra cotta cloth with gilt titles, cream endpapers. Both volumes fine in fine dust jackets, free of markings. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York, Horace Liveright, 1930, hardcover, 264 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition in publishers brown cloth with maroon decoration, gold lettering, embossing to spine, decorated endpapers, and red topstain. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, some of first 100 pages showing evidence of dampstain to bottom edge, faint spots to boards. The Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, continues the theme of two other novels she wrote in the 1920s, The Singing Season (1924), and The Fourth Queen (1926), each shows how cultures are shaped by an underlying set of moral and political principles.

Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy; In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained By the Author of "Conversations on Chemistry"Mrs. Marcet's most popular work, an early explanation of the "dismal science" for young girls.The work is in the form of a series of dialogues between "Mrs. B" and her precocious young female charges ("Here is a beautiful passage in Adam Smith, the merits of which you will now be able to appreciate…"). No less a critic than Macaulay wrote of it: "Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on political economy could teach Montagu or Walpole many lessons in economy and show herself superior even to men." Sections include: On Property; On the Division of Labor; On Capital; On Wages and Population; On Revenue, Money, Foreign Trade, etc. Small 8vo. early/period half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Third Edition.Missing half title; modest wear to the binding; spine a… Read More

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More

Rio De Janeiro: Petrobras, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 255p. Portuguese text. a pristine copy of the story of the first 50 years of the Oil industry in Brazil. This item was sent only to oil company executives and investors and is seldom seen in North America. OCLC locates one copy at the Library of Congress and another in the Brazilian national library.

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

New York, Horace Liveright, 1930, hardcover, 264 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition in publishers brown cloth with maroon decoration, gold lettering, embossing to spine, decorated endpapers, and red topstain. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, some of first 100 pages showing evidence of dampstain to bottom edge, faint spots to boards. The Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, continues the theme of two other novels she wrote in the 1920s, The Singing Season (1924), and The Fourth Queen (1926), each shows how cultures are shaped by an underlying set of moral and political principles.

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."