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Washington, D.C.: United States Treasury Dept., 1872. John Jay Knox's bookplate "With the Compliments of Jno. Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency" pasted to front pastedown. Knox was the 4th Comptroller General to serve in this office, and also the longest-serving ; his time in office lasting 12 years, from 1872-1884. Top edge of page block soiled. Dark blue cloth boards have some spotting near the top edge. Contents are clean, tight and unmarked. A wonderful resource for anyone studying the history of banking in the U.S., and let us all hope that more than a few people currently are doing just that !. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY; OR, THE LAWS OF THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL WEALTH, DEVELOPED BY MEANS OF THE CHRISTIAN LAW OF GOVERNMENT. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A CASE DELIVERED TO THE HAND-LOOM WEAVERS' COMMISSION ... by Atkinson, William, and Horace Greeley [introduction] - 1843
by Atkinson, William, and Horace Greeley [introduction]
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY; OR, THE LAWS OF THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL WEALTH, DEVELOPED BY MEANS OF THE CHRISTIAN LAW OF GOVERNMENT. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A CASE DELIVERED TO THE HAND-LOOM WEAVERS' COMMISSION ...
by Atkinson, William, and Horace Greeley [introduction]
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New York [etc]: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune Buildings, 1843. xx,[22]-83,[1]pp. Large octavo. Printed cocoa brown printed wrappers. Text in double columns. A few ink smudges on upper wrapper, elongated chip from within upper margin of front wrapper, lower blank fore-quadrant of leaf i/ii torn away, not affecting text, but an unusually good copy. First printing of this edition, published as No. V Extra in the series "Useful Works for the People." With an introduction by Horace Greeley "Treating of the Present State of the Science of Political Economy, and the Adaptation of Its Principles to the Condition of Our Own Country." The first edition appeared in London in 1840. KRESS C.59999.
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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
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1933 Chicago and The World's Fair
by Anon
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Inside is nice with the exception of a border mark around something that had been laid in and removed on flyleaf page. Hardcover, no dust jacket, is bent and has a wavy affect from being stored poorly. There are some small nicks on the spine and top edge. Also a water spot on back cover. Please see photos. All books ship with delivery confirmation when available.
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Miss 318 And Mr. 37
by Hughes, Rupert
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2 VOLUMES. Hughes, Rupert: Miss 318 AND Miss 318 And Mr. 37. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911, 1912 1st Editions. Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKETS ARE INCLUDED. RARE Historical fiction based on actual events that occurred during the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: "One of the worst industrial disasters in the history of New York City, causing 146 deaths and an unknown number of injuries, took place on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. "A")
by Moss, Jeffrey
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Sesame Street Golden Shape 1st Ed. IMPRESSION "A", Western Publishing) RARE. Used. VG Paperback. Written by Moss, Jeffrey. Features Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Rare/Scarce.
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Last Tales
by Dinesen, Isak
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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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Wörterbuch der Volkswirtschaft in zwei Bänden. I: Abbau, Hypotheken- und Grundbuchwesen, Nachträge. II: Jagd, Zwangsvollstreckung, Nachträge, Sachregister. [TWO VOLUMES].
by Elster, Ludwig. (Hrsg.)
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Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes. Thick crown quarto. Pp. x, 1092; x, 1018. Set in double columns. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in the original half calf and pebbled cloth, spines in compartments, decorated in gilt, with contrasting gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, cloth inner hinges, marbled edges, cloth ribbon markers; extremities of one volume bit rubbed. In a very good condition, very fine interior. A very handsome set. ~ FIRST EDITION. C-5
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Éléments d'économie politique.
by Rambaud, Joseph.
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Paris, Librairie de la Société du recueil général des lois et des arrêts et du Journal du palais, L. Larose; Lyon, Auguste Cote, 1895. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Octavo. Pp. 796. Original printed wrappers bit yellowed, minute chip to a corner. In about fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Joseph Rambaud (1849-1919), professor of political economy. 010-10
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ECONOMIC ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
by PIGOU. A. C.; ROBERTSON. DENNIS. H
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P. S. King & Son, Ltd. London.,1931. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publishers burgundy cloth with gilt ruling and lettering to spine. Front board with blind double ruled border and lettering. Small amount of rubbing to the very bottom of the spine, which shows some minor and uiniform fading. Overall a very good, tight and bright copy.:
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The International Monetary Fund 1966-1971 : The System Under Stress (2 Volume Set)
by de Vries, Margaret Garritsen (ed)
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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.
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The Road of the Gods
by Paterson, Isabel
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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.
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From Capitalism to Socialism: Day to Day Pamphlets No. 8
by J. A. Hobson
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Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1932, Very Good Softcover, 53 pages, 5" x 7.25", crease on front cover, slight edgewear, otherwise clean and tight. John A. Hobson (1858 - 1940), was an English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism.
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Worlds Revealed - The Dawn of Japanese and American Exchange
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Tokyo: Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1999. 1st. Softcover. Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto in illustrated wraps. very good condition, except for remainder of small price label on front. Ships from Hawaii. In collaboration with the Peabody Museum, this publication and exhibit marks the 200th anniversary of the first commercial contact of America with Japan. Few know that in 1799 an American ship called "Franklin" docked in Nagasaki and engaged in trade. The ship was constructed in Salem, home of the Peabody Essex Museum. Captain Devereaux brought back with him a a large number of Japanese works of art, thus initiating an ongoing exchange and appreciation of Japanese culture and art. Show less.
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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At the Bottom of the Ladder
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926, Cartoons by Camillus Kessler. Quarto, cloth pictorial boards, 274 pages, no dust jacket. Platinum Age comics depicting celebrities, political humor, captains of industry (and their first jobs), economics and social strata. Cracked hinges, toning, wear to covers, clean pages.28 x 21 x 4 cm; 3lb 2.4oz
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen
by Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar (editor)
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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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Ten Pamphlets (Conservatism, Big Business, Ethics, Bankruptcy, Americanism, Free Enterprise, Faith and Force, New Frontier, Antitrust, Affluence)
by Rand, Ayn, Alan Greenspan, and George Reisman
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Each of these is an offprint pamphlet in stapled wraps of an earlier publication, speech, or lecture by the authors. Condition varies from Very Good to Near Fine depending upon degree of age toning present. All ten are housed in a Fine, green vinyl "Objectivist" binder. The titles by Rand are: Textbook of Americanism; Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise; Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World; Conservatism: An Obituary; Americas' Persecuted Minority: Big Business; The Objectivist Ethics; The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age; and The Fascist New Frontier. Title by Greenspan is Antitrust and that by Reisman is The Revolt Against Affluence: Galbraith's Neo-Feudalism. The two pamphlets that were published by the Institute have had reference to it lined out and have been stamped to indicate publication by The Objectivist.
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Grand Hotel
by Baum, Vicki
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GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.
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