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"Mathematical science, which is the only real science that the entire civilized world has agreed upon, furnishes unmistakable proof of history repeating itself and shows that the cycle theory": First Edition of W.D. Ganns 45 Years in Wall Street
GANN, William Delbert [W.D.].
45 Years In Wall Street.
Miami, FL: W.D. Gann Publishing, 1949.
First edition of Gann's classic 45 Years in Wall Street. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Gann. In near fine condition, with a remnant of the rare original dust jacket.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 101764
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“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart": First Edition of A Beautiful Mind; Signed by Sylvia Nasar and John F. Nash
NASAR, Sylvia; John F. Nash.
A Beautiful Mind.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition of this work, basis for the Academy award-winning film. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Sylvia Nasar and additionally signed by Nobel Laureate and subject John F. Nash on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Timothy Hsu.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 58990
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First edition of a celebration of John F. Nash; Inscribed by "one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century" Louis Nirenberg
NASH, John F. and Harold W. Kuhn [Louis Nirenberg and Peter Sarnak].
A Celebration of John F. Nash Jr.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
First edition of this collection of Nash's writings. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the mathematician on the title page, "To John Rogay Best wishes Louis Nirenberg." In near fine condition. Edited by Harold W. Kuhn, Louis Nirenberg and Peter Sarnak. Managing editor Morris Weisfeld. Louis Nirenberg was considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144405
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First Edition of A Course In Game Theory; Signed by Ariel Rubinstein
OSBORNE, Martin J. and Ariel Rubinstein.
A Course In Game Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994.
First edition of this classic work on game theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ariel Rubinstein on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 112551
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First Edition of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
HAHN, Frank and Robert Solow.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 45079
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"If I've inspired you, now you've inspired me": First Edition of John Rothchild's A Fool and His Money; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
ROTHCHILD, John.
A Fool and His Money: The Odyssey of an Average Investor.
New York: Viking, 1988.
First edition of "the funniest book about investing ever written" (New York Post). Octavo, original half coth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear John, If I've inspired you, now you've inspired me. Best wishes, John Rothchild." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Rafal Olbinski.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 102598
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"For it is this understanding which, in part, promotes a climate of freedom within which fruitful and genuinely new ideas- and the science of economics- can progress and prosper": First Edition of A History of Economic Theory and Method; Lengthily Inscribed by Robert Ekelund
ROBERT B. EKELUND, Jr. and Robert F. Hebert.
A History of Economic Theory and Method.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975.
First edition of this classic work. Small quarto, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Robert Ekelund on the half-title page, "For John Rogers- For it is this understanding which, in part, promotes a climate of freedom within which fruitful and genuinely new ideas- and the science of economics- can progress and prosper. With all good regards and wishes Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. (Bob Ekelund) March 25, 2015." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 72763
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First edition of J. E. Meade's A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth; in the rare original dust jacket
MEADE, James E.
A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on economic growth models. Octavo, original cloth, top edge blue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 115377
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"In this book I take you on a random walk down Wall Street, providing a guided tour of the complexities of finance": First Edition of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973.
First edition of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with best wishes Burt." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 133519
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First Edition of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973.
First edition of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Burt Malkiel on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 140658
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First Edition of the 50th anniversary of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
First edition of the 50th anniversary of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Burt Malkiel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pete Garceau. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140797
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First edition of Peter Diamond's A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics: The Wicksell Lectures, 1982; signed by him
DIAMOND, Peter.
A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics: The Wicksell Lectures, 1982.
Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Diamond at the 1982 Wicksell lectures. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Diamond on the half-title page. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114504
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“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth": Rare First Edition of John Stuart Mill's The System of Logic
MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.
New York: John W. Parker, 1843.
First edition of this classic work on logic. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some wear to the cloth and overall toning. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions in the original cloth are rare.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 34033
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FIRST EDITION OF MILTON FRIEDMANS MASTERPIECE: A THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION; SIGNED BY HIM
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth, graphs and charts throughout. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 3694
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FIRST EDITION OF MILTON FRIEDMANS MASTERPIECE: A THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. A superior example.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 100964
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"To Lionel, in place of a work of art": FIRST EDITION OF MILTON FRIEDMANS MASTERPIECE: A THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION; INSCRIBED BY HIM to Fellow Economist Lionel Robbins
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth, graphs and charts throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the British economist Lionel Robbins on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, in place of a work of art Milton." The recipient, Lionel Robbins, along with J.M. Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the economics department for thirty years and built it up to its pre-eminent position in British economics" (ODNB). Milton Friedman was less shaped by Robbins's thought and teachings than many of his British contemporaries, but…
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 116572
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First Edition of A Tiger By the Tail; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
A Tiger by the Tail: The Keynesian Legacy of Inflation.
San Francisco : Cato Institute , 1979.
First edition of this collection of writings on Keynesian economics by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To George Meyer with best wishes 1-12-82 F.A. Hayek." Compiled and introduced by Sudha R. Shenoy. With a foreword by Leland B. Yeager. In fine condition. Rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 77024
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FIRST EDITION OF J.M. KEYNES' A TRACT ON MONETARY REFORM
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
A Tract on Monetary Reform.
London: MacMillan & Company, 1923.
First edition of this important treatise, which is devoted to the need for stable currency as the indispensable foundation to a healthy world economy. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition with light shelfwear. A very sharp example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133844
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Rare First Edition of Tunis Wortman's Political Classic A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press
WORTMAN, Tunis.
A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press.
New York: Printed by George Forman, 1800.
First edition of a classic work of libertarian political philosophy. Octavo, contemporary calf. In very good condition with some marginal dampstaining and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are extremely rare.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 23046
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First editions of Keynes A Treatise on Money
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
A Treatise On Money. In Two Volumes.
London: MacMillan & Company, 1930.
First editions of each volume of Keynes' classic work Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Each volume is in near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133842
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"Undoubtedly the most important work on probability" First Edition of Keynes Treatise on Probability
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
A Treatise on Probability.
London: MacMillan & Company, 1921.
First edition of what Bertrand Russell called, "undoubtedly the most important work on probability that has appeared for a very long time," and a "book as a whole is one which it is impossible to praise too highly." Octavo, original brown cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. In near fine condition with the spine gilt very bright. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 3669
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First Edition of Gary Beckers Classic Work A Treatise on the Family; Inscribed by Him To Fellow University of Chicago Colleague Sidney Davidson
BECKER, Gary. S.
A Treatise on the Family.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sidney with best wishes Gary." The recipient was colleague and fellow economist Sidney Davidson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3898
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First edition of John Kenneth Galbraith's A View From the Stands; inscribed by him to Elaine Steinbeck
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A View From the Stands of People, Politics, Military Power and the Arts.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
First edition of Galbraith's retrospective collection. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to Elaine Steinbeck, "For Elaine with love... John G - 1986." From the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Galbraith and John Steinbeck met in the early 1950s while on a holiday on St. John in the Virgin Islands. They enjoyed talking and both liked to have a drink at the end of the day, which Steinbeck referred to as “Milking Time” and Galbraith called “The Liberal Hour.” While the content of this book has nothing to…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128099
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Rare First edition of Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923.
First edition of Veblen's last book. Octavo, original green cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135297
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Rare 17th century printing of the Act of the Scottish Parliament erecting the Bank of Scotland
Act of Parliament for Erecting the Bank in Scotland.
Edinburgh: [Royal Bank of Scotland] , 1695-1719.
Rare 17th century printing of the Act of the Scottish Parliament erecting the Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original wrappers, the act is dated July 17, 1695 and approved a joint stock amounting to the sum of 120,000 pounds to be raised by a company thereby established to manage the first public bank of Scotland. Bound with Copy of a Signature For a New Bank which approved and act to settle yearly funds payable out of the Revenue of Scotland to satisfy public debts on an annual basis. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 124034
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First edition of R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner's Adam Smith
CAMPBELL, R.H. and A.S. Skinner.
Adam Smith.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
First edition of Campbell and Skinner's accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 126943
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Inscribed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page, "For John with admiration Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 76891
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Signed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133580
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it": First Edition of Peter Drucker's Adventures of a Bystander; Inscribed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Adventures of a Bystander.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of Drucker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 72052
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it": Peter Drucker's Adventures of a Bystander; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Adventures of a Bystander.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Drucker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 73004
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Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society; Inscribed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.
First edition, early printing of this work "which makes businessmen think thoughts they have never thought before" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 81084
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First Edition of Charles Madison's American Labor Leaders; Inscribed by Him
MADISON, Charles A.
American Labor Leaders: Personalities and Forces in the Labor Movement.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
First edition of this work on American labor leaders. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Hod and Helen In friendship Charles A. Madison 5-11-50." Near fine in a good dust jacket with some small chips and tears.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 47071
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An American Dilemma "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilization"; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Gunnar Myrdal
MYRDAL, Gunnar.
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944.
First edition, early printing in one volume of the economist's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed and dated by Gunnar Myrdal in 1965. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear and chips to the extremities.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 1406
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First Edition of Israel M. Kirzner's An Essay On Capital; Signed by Him
KIRZNER, Israel M.
An Essay on Capital.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966.
First edition of Kirzner's essay of the conceptual problems surrounding the foundations of capital theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 114868
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“The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason”: Rare First Edition of Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population; With An autograph Note from Him
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.
London: J. Johnson, 1798.
First edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf. Laid in is a clipping from an original manuscript signed by Malthus and entirely in his hand which reads in part, "If at one time such a given product would make an effectual demand for certain commodities the conditions of the supply of which are supposed to remain the same, it would immediately cease to make such effectual." Signed by Malthus in the lower right corner, "Malthus." The verso features two further partial lines of text relating to supply and demand. In near fine condition.…
Price: $200,000.00 Item Number: 116955
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Rare Second Edition of Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.
London: T. Bensley, 1803.
Rare second edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Quarto, bound in full diced morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 143843
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“The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason”: First American Edition of Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions.
Washington: Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman, 1809.
First American edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, red and black morocco spine labels, gilt titles. Previous owner’s inscription to front free endpaper, “An application was made to Bishop Watson to answer this book on the grounds that it discouraged benevolence. He declined, excusing himself, however unfavorably saying that he saw its object was to prove that population could not increase beyond the level of rules of self-evident truth. A much better employment would have been to discover means of resistance that might supply the increasing wants of the population.”…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 101490
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First Edition of John Carey's An Essay, on the Coyn and Credit of England: As They Stand with Respect to Its Trade
CARY, John.
An Essay, on the Coyn and Credit of England: As They Stand with Respect to Its Trade.
London: Printed by Will. Bonny, and sold by the booksellers of London and Bristol, 1696.
First edition of this work by Cary, a pioneer in the field of economics. Small octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Rare with no examples appearing at auction in the last eighty years.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 109827
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Rare Eighteenth Century Set of Adam Smiths Masterpiece The Wealth of Nations
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1793.
Rare 18th century edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels. In near fine condition. A very nice set of this classic work.
Price: $4,600.00 Item Number: 124986
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Adam Smiths Masterpiece The Wealth of Nations; Finely Bound
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Printed for William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair, 1819.
Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in contemporary full calf, gilt titles to the spine, red and green spine labels. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of this classic work.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133843
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First Dublin edition of Adam Smith's Magnum Opus An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Chamberlaine, W. Watson et al., 1776.
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the first of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Uncommon.
Price: $28,000.00 Item Number: 135479
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Adam Smiths Masterpiece The Wealth of Nations; Finely Bound
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1799.
Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels. In near fine condition, rebacked. An exceptional set of this classic work.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 137589
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Finely bound early 19th century Scottish printing of ADAM SMITH’S MASTERPIECE THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed by and For J. & J. Scrymgeour, and for Mundell & Son, and Arch. Constable & Co., 1805.
Finely bound early 19th century printing of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. A new edition containing A Life of the Author and a View of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists. In good condition. Armorial bookplates.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138495
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First McCulloch Edition of Adam Smiths Masterpiece The Wealth of Nations; Finely Bound
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Adam Black, and William Tait/Longman, Rees, 1828.
First McCulloch edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels, raised bands, frontispiece to volume one. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of this classic work.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 141427
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Rare Early 19th century printing of Adam Smith's An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Printed for J. Maynard, Panton Market, Haymarket; and F. Zinske, 448, Strand, 1811.
Early 19th century printing of Adam Smith's ground-breaking analysis of capitalist economics. Octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter diced calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very god condition. Bookplate to each pastedown, printed bookplate of "A.C. Eustace" pasted over previous owner's name to each title page and additional ownership inscription of A.C. Eustace to the first page of each Table of Contents. Embossed stamp "St. Anselm's College Manchester, N.H. 1889" to each title page.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142658
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"First and greatest classic of modern economic thought": First Edition of Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776.
First edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Quarto, 2 volumes, bound in full brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, front and rear panels, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Remarkably clean throughout with some light toning. Housed in a custom half morocco calf clamshell box, elaborately gilt decorated spines. An exceptional example of this landmark work.
Price: $225,000.00 Item Number: 144265
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“A DISTINCT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPIRICAL SCHOOL”: FIRST EDITION OF JAMES MILL’S MAGNUM OPUS, ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND; WITH A 4 PAGE AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED LETTER TO LORD ASHLEY IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
MILL, James.
Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.
First edition of this classic exploration of the processes of human thought by the father of John Stuart Mill, whose own “logical and ethical doctrines are evidently suggested” by this work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, armorial stamp to the front panel of the Earl of Shaftesbury, with a four page autographed letter signed by James Mill discussing his interest in the book to Lord Ashley dated 8 July 1829, the year of publication of this volume. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was a British politician, philanthropist, and a social reformer. He was the eldest son of…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 141327
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First edition of John Milnor's Morse Theory; signed by him
MILNOR, John.
Annals of Mathematics Studies No. 51: Morse Theory.
Princeton, New Jersey: Annals of Mathematics Studies Princeton University Press, 1963.
Rare first edition of this compilation of lectures presented by John Milnor on the study of Morse Theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In near fine condition. Milnor's signature is uncommon.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 114620
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"THE USUAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN DIPLOMACY AND FORCE IS NOT MERLY IN THE INSTRUMENTS, WORDS OR BULLETS, BUT IN THE RELATION BEWTWEEN ADVERSARIES": FIRST EDITION OF ARMS AND INFLUENCE: SIGNED BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST THOMAS SCHELLING
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Arms and Influence.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
First edition of this "exemplary text on the interplay of national purpose and military force" (Book Week). Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas Schelling on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the spine. A very nice example of an important book, that is uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 2912
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First Edition of James Tobin's Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on Contemporary Macroeconomic Theory
TOBIN, James.
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on Contemporary Macroeconomic Theory.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 142144
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First Edition of Attention and Effort; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN, Daniel.
Attention and Effort.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
First edition of this influential work, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive sciences. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "For William D. Kahneman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 140270