Search Results: Titles starting with A from Canton Books

First edition. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper: For C … L. Pawlowski / with all good wishes / John Kenneth Galbraith / 1969. A near fine copy, square and unread. A little bumping to the head and foot of the spine. Mild traces of offsetting to the pastedowns and endpapers, causing a slight mark to the bottom of the ffep. In a bright, near fine and unclipped dust jacket. The spine slightly sunned. A tiny, .25 closed tear at the top of the front panel, with a bit of dried tape adhesive at the same point to the verso. A beautiful copy overall, scarce inscribed. Housed in a custom marbled box. The Harvard economist s most influential work, selected by The Modern Library as one of the greatest non-fiction books of the 20th Century. Galbraith challenges conventional wisdom against the new realities of post-war America, which he describes as rich in the private sector and relatively poor in the public sector. He argues that all essential consumer needs have been satisfied,… Read More

Princeton: February 14th, 1769
Single page ADS by the hand of the Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon. Measuring 7.5 x 4.5. Reading: "On sight of this please pay to the order of Jonathan Baldwin Steward of the College of New Jersey the sum of forty six Pounds ten Shillings…money of New Jersey & place to my Account with the said College ——- Jno Witherspoon." Addressed "To Mr Jonathan / Sergeant Treasurer of the / College of New Jersey," and "Recd. of the Treasurer / Jon Baldwin." A rare surviving record of Witherspoon's formative work as president and head professor of Princeton University, then the College of New Jersey. He transformed the school from a small college that trained clergymen, into a more secular, academically rigorous institution designed to shape the leaders of a country. The very year this letter was signed, Aaron Burr entered Princeton under Witherspoon's tutelage, as did the young James Madison, who would become the "Father of the Constitution."… Read More