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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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"For people to accept the yoke they must believe they had no choice": First Edition of Liar's Poker; Lengthily Inscribed by Michael Lewis
LEWIS, Michael.
Liar’s Poker.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John For people to accept the yoke they must believe they had no choice. Michael Lewis." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andrew M. Newman Graphic Design Inc. Jacket illustration by Vint Lawrence. A unique example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 149989
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Rare First Edition of Art of Speculation; Signed by Philip Carret
CARRET, Philip L.
The Art of Speculation.
New York: Barron's, 1927.
First edition of the Wall Street legend's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Carret on the title page. Fine in the rare original dust jacket with some repair and tape. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 141467
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First Edition of Free to Choose; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition of Friedmans' persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. Fine a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133148
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 117889
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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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Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects
WEBSTER, Pelatiah.
Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects: Published During the American War, and Continued Up to the Present Year, 1791.
Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1791.
First edition of these influential essays concerning the finances and government of the fledgling United States by Webster, who took a strongly-laissez-faire position economically, and was a proponent of what would become the Constitution of the United States. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133510
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"If you ever want to accumulate some capital of your own - speculate, don't invest": Wall Street 20th Century; signed by Gerald M. Loeb
EDITED BY JOHN ARTHUR NEUMARK. [GERALD M. LOEB],.
Wall Street 20th Century.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News, 1960.
Collection of fundamental articles related to 20th century Wall Street. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated with photographs and charts. Boldly signed by renowned Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb on the front panel who contributed the article 'A Challenge for the Ambitious.' Introductory letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other contributors include: Benjamin Graham, Robert C. Riehle, Bernard M. Baruch, William D. Kerr, and Craig Severance. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by this Wall Street legend.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 108521
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First Edition of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism; Inscribed by Daniel Bell to Harvard Colleague George Homans
BELL, Daniel.
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1976.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Daniel Bell on the front free endpaper a month before publication, "For George and Nancy Homans with affectionate regards, Dan Bell Dec. 18, 1975." The recipient, George Homans was a sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and a colleague of Bell's at Harvard University. He is known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he enforced to better explain social behavior. A few pencil notes in the text by Homans, fine…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 16092
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"Make your theories fit your facts, not your facts your theories": First Edition of Dickson G. Watts Classic Thoughts on Life; Signed by Him
WATTS, Dickson G.
Thoughts on Life.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1899.
First edition. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dickson G. Watts on the title page. In good condition, with some wear to the cloth.This is the first Watts signature we have encountered. Rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 4486
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First McCulloch Edition of Adam Smith’s 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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First edition of Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts; signed by Legendary Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb
LOEB, Gerald M.; Bernard M. Baruch; Benjamin Graham; William S. Goedecke; Walter Maynard; John Stevenson et al.
Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News, 1954.
First edition of this compilation of reports published by Yale as an introduction to Wall Street for aspiring students. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 116393
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"Every penny you think I'm pissing away comes back to you dressed up like a nickel": James Garner's Original Shooting Script for Barbarians At The Gate, for which he starred; Lengthily Signed by both Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
BURROUGH, Bryan and Helyar.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1992.
James Garner's original shooting script for the film in which he starred, Barbarians at the Gate. Quarto, bound in the original binder, with Garner's embossed name in gilt to the front panel. Lengthily signed by both authors on the title page, "I loved Larry Gelbart. Wish I'd loved his script! Bryan" and by co-author Helyar, "Recognize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold moves which by definition, cannot be planned. John Helyar." Barbarians at the Gate was directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart, based on the 1989 book of the same name by Bryan Burrough and John…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 114514
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Rare First Edition of Benjamin Graham's The Interpretation of Financial Statements
GRAHAM, Benjamin and Spencer B. Meredith.
The Interpretation of Financial Statements.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.
First edition with the statement of first edition on the copyright page of this classic in understanding balance sheets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Written in collaboration of Harold T. Johnson, Birl E. Shultz, Albert P. Squier, Belmont Towbin and Eric C. Vance. First printings are exceptionally scarce.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 100061
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"The Basis for the Standard Finance Model" First Edition of Gerard Debreu's Theory of Value
DEBREU, Gerard.
Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.
First edition of the groundbreaking work by Debreu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics, viewed as "one of the few classics of our period" by the prestigious American Economic Review for his revolutionary insights into the economics of "'general equilibrium"—demonstrating a "freely competitive economy can, in theory, reach a state in which supply balances demand in every market… an entire economy could, at least theoretically if not necessarily in fact, be in equilibrium" (Time). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce, especially in this condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 102758
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First edition of Landmark Papers in General Equilibrium Theory, Social Choice and Welfare; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu
ARROW, Kenneth & Gerard Debreu.
Landmark Papers in General Equilibrium Theory, Social Choice and Welfare.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition. Thick octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Books signed together by these two giants in the field are rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 5788
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Adam Smith’s 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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Adam Smith’s 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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"The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society": First edition of Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind
KIRK, Russell.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.
First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 142023
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First Edition of The Strategy of Conflict; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
The Strategy of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Thomas Schelling on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has some chipping and wear to the extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket and inscribed.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 30057