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1. Altman, George T. INVISIBLE
BARRIER: A TAX SPECIALIST'S ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE. Los
Angeles, Devorss & Co. : 1949. Wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Some
ink marking to pages, mostly in margins, and not extensive. $25.00
2. American Economic Association. SURVEYS
OF ECONOMIC THEORY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. Volume II-Surveys V-VIII. New
York, St. Martins: 1965. Scattered underlining and markings to margins. Binding
worn at spine edges and corners. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to flaps and
edges and has a few small chips. $3.95
3. Anduig, Jens C. RAGNAR
FRISCH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A STUDY IN THE INTERWAR HISTORY OF
MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY. Oslo, Norway,
Norsk Utenrikspolitisk: [n.d.,ca. 1980]. Large softbound edition. Wear to covers
and edges. With a lengthy inscription signed by the author to a colleague,
inside the front cover. $25.00
4. Artle, Roland. THE
STRUCTURE OF THE STOCKHOLM ECONOMY. New York,
Cornell University: 1965. Shelf wear, else in near VG in d. J. With small chips
to edges. $9.50
5. Association, American Economic. READINGS
IN THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF INDUSTRY. Philadelphia,
Blakiston: 1942. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. $7.50
6. Becker, Joseph M. -editor. IN
AID OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns
Hopkins Press: 1965. Some shelf wear. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to the
edges, flaps & spine. $5.95
7. Bensusan-Butt, D. M. ON
ECONOMIC GROWTH; AN ESSAY IN PURE THEORY. Oxford,
Clarendon Press: 1963. Slight shelf wear, else VG in slightly edge-worn dust
jacket. $20.00
8. Brennan, Michael J. THE
ECONOMICS OF AGE. New York, W. W. Norton: 1967.
Slight shelf wear, else VG in slightly worn dust jacket. $8.00
9. Brown, J. Douglas. THE
PRINCETON SYMPOSIUM ON THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF SOCIAL INSURANCE: ITS PHILOSOPHY,
IMPACT, AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. New York, Mcgraw
Hill: 1968. Shelf wear to spine and corners. $9.25
10. Cameron, Burgess. THE
DETERMINATION OF PRODUCTION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ECONOMIZING
ACTIVITY. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press:
1954. Shelf wear and fading to binding. $5.95
11. Clark, John M. THE
WAGE-PRICE PROBLEM. [n.p.], American Bankers
Assosiation: 1960. Slight soiling and shelf wear to the covers. $10.00
12. Cooper, William W.-editor. ERIC
LOUIS KOHLER: A COLLECTION OF HIS WRITINGS, 1919-1975. Atlanta,
Academy of Accounting Historians: 1980. 573 pages. Slight shelf wear to the
spine and corners. $15.00
13. Cord, Steven B. HENRY
GEORGE: DREAMER OR REALIST? Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania: 1965. Slight shelf wear, else VG in slightly worn
dust jacket. $6.00
14. Cossa, Luigi. AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Revised by the author and
translated from the Italian by Louis Dyer. London,
Macmillan: 1893. 1893 first edition. Some wear to spine edges and corners. Small
repaired tear to headcap. A scarce title. Browning to page edges. Binding
tight. Scarce and important work on political economy. $55.00
15. Dano, Sven. INDUSTRIAL
PRODUCTION MODELS: A THEORETICAL STUDY. With 71 figures. New
York, Springer-Verlag: 1966. 1st American edition. Front endpage has been ripped
out. Some shelf wear. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to the edges, flaps
& spine. $25.00
16. Dohr, James L. COST
ACCOUNTING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. New York,
Ronald Press Company: 1935. 621 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and corners.
Dust jacket has tears and chips to the edges and a chunk missing from the top of
the spine. $11.00
17. Elliott, J. C. THESE
HARD TIMES: WHEREFORE AND HOW LONG? STUDIES OF THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. Akron,
Ohio, Akron Printing: 1894. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped. Discoloration to
covers. Slight soiling. $40.00
18. Geddes, Joseph A. A
CRITIQUE OF UTAH'S CULTURE AND ECONOMY: A SELECTION OF ESSAYS. Logan,
Utah, Utah State University Press: 1974. Some shelf wear, else VG. $12.50
19. Hansen, Bent. A
SURVEY OF GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS. New York,
Mcgraw-Hill: 1970. Some wear. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to the edges,
flaps & spine. $12.00
20. Harrison, Molly. PEOPLE
AND SHOPPING: A SOCIAL BACKGROUND. London, Ernest
Benn: 1975. Slight shelf wear, else VG in slightly worn dust jacket. There is
an ink stamp that says "library surplus material" on the front endpage,
but no other library marks. $4.25
21. Hennings, Klaus & Warren J.
Samuels. Neoclassical Economic Theory, 1870 to
1930. Boston-et al, Kluwer Academic Publishers:
1990. 290 pages. Some shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Overall a clean and
tight copy. Very scarce title. $97.50
22. Hickman, C. Addison. J.M.
CLARK. New York, Columbia University: 1975. Shelf
wear and rubbing to spine and corners, else G+. $7.50
23. Hodgskin, Thomas. LABOR
DEFENDED AGAINST CLAIMS OF CAPITAL, OR UNPRODUCTIVENESS OF CAPITAL PROVED WITH
REFERENCE TO PRESENT COMBINATIONS. New York,
Augustus M. Kelley: 1963. Some wear to binding and slight dulling to gilt title.
One in the "Reprints of Economic Classics" series. $24.50
24. Holland, Daniel M. PRIVATE
PENSION FUNDS: PROJECTED GROWTH. New york, Nat.
Bureau Economic Research: 1966. Some shelf wear, else VG. $6.95
25. Industrial Commission Of Ohio. COST
OF LIVING OF WORKING WOMEN IN OHIO. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO:
DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATION AND STATISTICS. Columbus,
Ohio, F. J. Heer: 1916. Bound in red library buckram. Library label on spine. A
most interesting publication, giving detailed statistics of women's purchasing
and shopping habits for a wide variety of consumer goods of the time. Scarce. $75.00
26. Jacobsson, Per. SOME
MONETARY PROBLEMS: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL. London,
Oxford University Press: 1958. Some wear to binding. Dust jacket has tape
reinforcement to the edges, flaps & spine. Light scattered underlining in
red pencil. $15.95
27. Kixmiller, William. UNITED
STATES INCOME AND WAR TAX GUIDE. Chicago, Commerce
Clearing House: 1917. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped, else G+. Some rubbing
to covers. $8.25
28. Lindgren, Torgny. RIKSBANKENS
SEDELHISTORIA, 1668-1968. Text in Swedish. Stockholm,
Sweden, Raben Adn Sjogren: 1968. Shelf wear to spine and corners. 239 pages
of text followed by 114 pages of illustrations. History of this prominent Swiss
bank over 4 centuries. $15.00
29. Lundberg, Erik. ON
INCOMES POLICY: Papers and Proceedings from a Conference in Honour of Erik
Lundberg. Stockholm, Sweden, Industrial Council
Economics: 1969. Some wear, else near VG in edge-worn dust jacket with some
soiling. $25.00
30. Macfie, Alec L. AN
ESSAY ON ECONOMY AND VALUE: BEING AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REAL NATURE OF ECONOMY. London,
Macmillan: 1936. 152 pages. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners, else
Good+. There is an ink stamp that says "library surplus material" on
the front endpage, but no other library marks. $15.00
31. Malhotra, S.K. AN
INSIGHT INTO THE NEXT ECONOMICS. New Delhi, India,
Shakuntla Devi Memorial: 1989. Small gouge to cloth near top of spine, else near
VG. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to the edges, flaps & spine. $25.00
32. Marsh, Elsie A. G. -compiler. THE
ECONOMIC LIBRARY OF JACOB H. HOLLANDER, Ph.D. Professor of Political Economy in
the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland,
Privately Printed: 1937. Green cloth spine & corners. Green paper over board
covers. Light wear to spine and corners, else VG. Limited edition of 500
copies printed by J.H. Furst Company. A beautiful book. Includes a slip inserted
at the top of the 1/2 title page that says "With the Compliments of Jacob
H. Hollander, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD. $85.00
33. McCulloch, John R. TREATISES
& ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH ECONOMICAL POLICY, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF QUESNAY, ADAM SMITH & RICARDO. New
York, Augustus M. Kelley: 1967. Some shelf wear, else VG. One discolored spot on
front cover. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1853 edition. $35.00
34. Merton, Richard & Alfred Petersen.
SCIENCE AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER. Frankfurt,
Germany, Mattallgesellschaft: 1956. First American edition. Brown leather
binding. Spine slightly faded, otherwise VG in slipcase. $25.00
35. Mill, John Stuart. ESSAYS
ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. London,
Longmans, Green, Reeder Dyer: 1874. Green cloth worn at spine edges &
corners, with corners bumped. Includes a 24-page publisher catalog at the end of
the book, announcing other books. Cloth on spine has a repaired tear. $50.00
36. Millward, Robert. PUBLIC
EXPENDITURE ECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTORY APPLICATION OF WELFARE ECONOMICS. New
York, Mcgraw-Hill: 1971. Slight shelf wear, else VG in edge-worn dust jacket.
$15.00
37. Moser, Michael J.-editor. FOREIGN
TRADE, INVESTMENT AND THE LAW IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Oxford,
Oxford University Press: 1985. 341 pages. Slight shelf wear to book and d.j.
$8.50
38. Oxford University. THE
ECONOMICS OF FULL EMPLOYMENT: STUDIES PREPARED AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS. Oxford., Basil Blackwell:
1946. Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with chips to edges. $20.00
39. Peck, Harvey W. ECONOMIC
THOUGHT AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND. New
York, Farrar & Rinehart: 1935. Shelf Wear and some fading to spine. Corners
are rubbed a bit. Binding tight. Very scarce. $35.00
40. Recktenwald, Horst Claus-editor. POLITICAL
ECONOMY, A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. London,
Collier-Macmillan: 1973. Trade softbound edition. Wear to edges & corners.
Signed by editor, with a warm inscription to a colleague. $20.00
41. Rigby, Paul H. MODELS
IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS. Colmbus, Ohio, Charles E.
Merrill: 1969. VG in slightly worn dust jacket. $4.65
42. Robertson, Sir Dennis H. UTILITY
AND ALL THAT, AND OTHER ESSAYS. London, George
Allen and Unwin: 1954. 1st American edition. VG In slightly worn dust jacket. Second
impression. $6.00
43. Rosa, De Gabriele. CARTEGGI
PARETIANI, 1892-1923. Rome, Sotto Gli Auspici:
1962. VG in slightly worn dust jacket. $50.00
44. Samuels, Warren J. RESEARCH
IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY. Volume 2-1984. Greenwich,
CT, JAI Press: 1984. This is volume 2 in the series. Slight shelf wear. $25.00
45. Schneider, Erich. EINFUHRUNG
IN DIE WIRTSCHAFTSTHEORIE. (Introduction to Economic Theory). Four volumes, or
parts. Tublingen, J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) :
1964. 1st American edition. Volumes I & IV are hardbacks in d.j. Volumes II
& III softcover. Some wear to edges, else volumes near VG. Volume IV has
tape reinforcement to the edges of the dust jacket. This set is divided into
four volumes, with each volume representing one part. The parts are titled as
follows: -Teil 1 (Part I). "Theorie Des Wirtschaftskreislaufs" (Theory
of Economic Cycles) -Teil 2 (Part II). "Wirtschaftsplane und
Wirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht in der Verkehrswirtschaft" (Planning and
Balance in Economic Transactions) -Teil 3 (Part III). "Geld, Kredit,
Volkseinkommen und Beschaftigung" (Money, Credit, Commerce(?) and
Employment). -Teil 4 (Part IV). "Ausgewahlte Kapitel der Geschichte der
Wirtschaftstheorie" (Selected Episodes and Accounts of Economic Theory)
Please pardon the weak translation from German to English. $100.00
46. Simonds, John Cameron. THE
STORY OF MANUAL LABOR IN ALL LANDS AND AGES: IT'S PAST CONDITION, PRESENT
PROGRESS AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. Chicago, R. S.
Peale: 1886. 715 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners.
Small tear to cloth at the headcap. A few small rubbed spots on the binding.
Pictorial pattern-stamped spine and front cover, with title in gold. Binding is
tight. A very nice copy overall. $25.00
47. Smith, Paul F. ECONOMICS
OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS. Illinois,
Richard D. Irwin: 1971. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners, else near
VG. Spill stain affects bottom edges of some pages. $3.25
48. Smyth, R. L. -editor. ESSAYS
IN ECONOMIC METHOD. With an introduction by T.W. Hutchison. London,
Gerald Duckworth: 1962. First American edition. Slight shelf wear, else VG in
slightly worn dust jacket. Essays by Senior, Jevons, Ingram, Sidgwick,
Cunningham, Bonar, Nicholson, Bastable, Wicksteed, Cannan, Bowley, Ashley &
Price. $11.95
49. Spargo, John. THE SUBSTANCE OF SOCIALISM. New York, B. W. Huebsch: 1909. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners slightly bumped. $10.75
50. St. Clair, Oswald. A
KEY TO RICARDO. London, Routledge & Kegan
Paul: 1957. First American edition. Shelf wear, else VG in edge-worn else near
VG dust jacket. A few pages have light underlining in red ink. $40.00
51. Stark, W. THE
IDEAL FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: THREE ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF
ECONOMICS. New York, Oxford University Press:
1944. Some shelf wear, else near VG in edge-worn else near VG dust jacket.
$15.00
52. Sturges, R.P. ECONOMISTS'
PAPERS, 1750-1950: A GUIDE TO ARCHIVE AND OTHER MANUSCRIPT SOURCES. Durham,
NC, Duke University: 1975. Shelf wear to spine and corners, else near VG in
edge-worn dust jacket. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement to the edges, flaps
& spine. $16.95
53. Torrens, Robert. ON
WAGES AND COMBINATION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY SERIES. Shannon,
Ireland, Irish University Press: 1971. Slight shelf wear. $25.00