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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.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1890. "With the Compliments of Edward O. Leech Director of the Mint" slip tipped in at title page. Leech was appointed by President William Henry Harrison. With period Indianapolis Public Library attached front paste down identifying this copy as being a gift of The Director of the Mint. Only other library indications are a small label at spine and a small stamp at title page, hidden by the tipped in slip. Overall Very Good Minus, tear to cloth and loss of cloth at spine ends and tips of boards. Binding sound, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hartford, CT: Aetna Insurance Co., 1905. 35 pages in beige wrappers printed in gilt, tied with brown string, illustrated, with 6 black and white tissue covered plates. Includes a poem, written by Benjamin B. Whittemore, on the occasion of the dedication of the new building, June 8, 1905. Wrappers a bit dusty, a fascinating look at this company at the turn of the 20th century. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939. Fourth Inpression of the 1939 First edition. Two volumes in original red cloth, black labels and gilt lettering at spines. Very Good Plus, light rubbing at the tips, contents clean and unmarked. Although initially viewed less favorably than John Maynard Keynes, Schumpeter is now viewed as one of the greatest economists of modern times. He introduced the concept of the entrepreneur and the influence of entrepreneurship on economic systems, and the theory of dynamic economic growth known as creative destruction. . Fourth Impression. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. First Edition, Second Printing June 1938, 293 pp. RARE in either the 1st or 2nd printings, and especially so in dust jacket. Very Good Plus, slight browning to cloth at spine ends, in Very Good dust jacket, spine browned, chipping at spine ends and fold corners. Although no indication in the book, from the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, with his scholarly annotations in pencil at margins of Appendix A only from pages 245-290. F. A. Hayek is the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists, and a founding board member of the Mises Institute. Hayek shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974 with Gunnar Myrdal, for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1893. Handsomely bound in 20th c. dark blue cloth with gilt lettering front cover, Near Fine, old tape mend front end page, triangular section of top corner p. 87 detached and laid in, easily repairable. Bound without original wrappers and publisher's ads. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Herbert B. Adams, Editor, Eleventh Series, VII-VIII. 92 pages. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamburg 1883-1885, : Verlag von Otto Meissner , 1883. xxiii, (1), 808, xxvii, 526 pages. Two volumes, The 3rd revised edition of the first volume of Das Kapital , edited by Friedrich Engels after the death of Karl Marx , with First Edition of the second volume of Kapital, edited by Engels and published 1885. .Newly rebound in half maroon faux leather over red linen boards, spine embossed similar to the original, new parchment end papers, the title and final pages of both volumes now ensconced in rice paper due to brittle paper. The faint embossed stamp of Indianapolis Public Library at title pages, also stamped Indianapolis Public Library bottom edge of page blocks, pencil gift markings at copyright pages, no other markings, internally clean, bright and unmarked. RARE early printing (third revised edition) of the first volume and a 1st Ed. of the second volume of this foundational work of materialist philosophy, a towering economic critique of the 19th century. . Half Faux Leather. Very Good… Read More

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1961. Near Fine, faint corner crease top corner front cover. 28 pp. clean and unmarked. . Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Prentice Hall, 1941. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS on front endpage -"To Will Hays with appreciation Sincerely Wm. B. Cornell, John G. Glover". Will Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Near Fine, faint stain to cloth rear boards. Profusely illustrated and with fold-out charts and maps. 1005 pages. Hays is mentioned on page 807 in the chapter on the Motion Picture Industry. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 7th Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Presentation Copy.

London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1925. SCARCE. Very Good, tidy prior owner name front end page, small chip to cloth at head of spine. Classics of Social and Political Science. Original black cloth, gilt titles at spine, 392 pp. . Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1862. Volume I only of this three volume set. vii, 474 pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary full polished calf, gilt rules, red and brown morocco labels, edges and end papers marbled. Near Fine, light rubbing and soiling at spine. Contains 12 essays with Index. SCARCE in the 1862 Second Edition.. Second Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1957. SCARCE in the First Edition and dust jacker in collectible condition. Near Fine, slight fading to edges of cloth at spine ends, "Duplicate Sales" stamp red end paper, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small chips at head of spine, spine evenly toned. Although no indication in the book, from the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, with his scholarly annotations in pencil at margins.Myrdal shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974 with F. A. Hayek for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1897. From the personal collection of Princeton economics professor Walter L. Whittlesey (1878-1961), heavily annotated and extra-illustrated by him with contemporary newspaper clippings. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and corners, top gilt dulled. Hadley's Economics helped to establish him as one of America's top economists of the day, and this uniquely annotated copy by a fellow economist offers fascinating insight of one of his contemporaries. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. SCARCE in dust jacket and collectible condition. Near Fine, slight toning at end papers, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine faded yet still legible, small chips at spine ends and flap fold corners. Henry C, SSimons spent almost his entire career at the University of Chicago. A student of Frank H. Knight, he was a foundational figure in the development of the Chicago School of economics. He is best known for A Positive Program for Laissez Faire (1934). "In Economic Policy for a Free Society Simons claimed that all it takes to precipitate a massive liquidation of securities is "a relatively small decline of security values" (Simons 1948). Simons is emphatic in pointing out that corporations that traded on a "shoestring of equity, and under a mass of current liabilities" are "placing their working capital precariously on call," and hence at risk, in the event of the slightest financial disturbance (Simons 1948). This is… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1935. RARE in dust jacket and in lovely condition. While held by over 200 institutions, quite SCARCE in current commerce. Near Fine, tonoing to end papers only, in a Near Fine dust jacket, bottom corner front flap price-clipped, spine a bit browned, small chips at spine ends. xi, 326, 2 [ads] pp. Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) is best known for The Economics of Welfare, which was first published in 1920. A student of Alfred Marshall, Pigou was named Professor of Political Economy in Marshall’s place in 1908. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1956. Near Fine, prior owner name front end page, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips at the spine ends, spine a touch darkened. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Engineering Magazine , 1909. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage - "To Clyde M. Carr, Esq., This book outlines the theories, in which, building on a foundation already laid, our work supplements yours. I hope what I have written may interest you as much as your plant has interested me. Harrington Emerson Sept. 20, 1909 ". With Clyde M. Carr's period bookplate front pastedown. Carr was one of the key developers of the 1909 Plan of Chicago and President of Ryerson Steel, which had been a client of the Emerson Company, Emerson's quite successful consulting firm. Harrington Emerson, along with Frederick W. Taylor and Frank W. Gilbreth, was one of America's pioneers in industrial engineering and management and organizational theory. His major contributions include his concept of efficiency and installing his management methods at many industrial firms. A great Association Copy of this early and important work in the field. Near Fine, scant edgewear to… Read More

London: Published for The American Economic Association and The Royal Economic Society by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. , 1954. "Translated from the Definitive Edition (1926) of the "Elements d'Economie Politique Pure", annotated and collated with previous editions." Near Fine, small rub to cloth at bottom edgefront board, in Near Fine dust jacket, spine evenly and lightly browned, small area of soiling rear panel near top edge. . Walras' most important work, a classic of the last 100 years of economic thought and a work that caused Joseph Schumpeter to consider him "the greatest of all economists". SCARCE.. First Edition in English. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1949. Near Fine in the original blue cloth, gilt lettering at spine, endpages lightly age toned. . 2nd Revised Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. First Edition, First Printing of Samuelson's classic work on economics, in RARE dust jacket. Original red cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine, Near Fine, sun fading at top edge of spine, slight toning at gutters. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine, small chips at base of spine, spine faded yet title still legible, 2" tears at front spine crease with horizontal tear just below title.. Harvard Economic Studies No. 80. Samuelson was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970 for having written considerable parts of economic theory. "Fifty years after it was written, the Foundations (together with Hicks' Value and Capital) is still one of the most inspiring classics of general equilibrium economics (Niehans, History of Economic Theory, 423).. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.