Good. First British Edition, First Printing, which was preceded four years earlier by the American edition. In Good condition. Cloth is faded, mottled, spotted, toned and edge worn with some rubbing and fraying at extremities. A few stray marks to cloth. Pages have a light storage odor, and show light toning, thumbing and wear. The letters on the title page appear to have been traced in pencil, then the pencil erased, leaving faint indents. Small closed tear to bottom of title page. Rear hinge ...
First edition, first printing. xii, 447 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lacking dust jacket. Copy of Elmus R. Wicker, a noted historian of banking panics and monetary policy; his signature on title page and the text has a few of his brackets and notes in margins. Spine a bit dulled, upper corners bumped, light foxing to edges. Sturdy binding. Very Good condition overall. A milestone in the history of economics, showing the value of the field's adoption of ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date published: 1817
Description: Very Good. xvi, 496 p; iv, 507 p; 500 p. "The fifth edition with important additions." Complete and unrestored in three volumes. Original boards with orginal paper spines, most of which are, not surprisingly, gone given their fragility. In protective mylar wraps. Very Good condition overall: bindings degraded over time but completely unrestored and text in very nice shape. Clean pages--no marks--generally bright for age. Some foxing throughout text and typical waviness. Bumped corners. Not ex ... Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date published: 1931
Description: Very Good. First edition, first printing. In Very Good condition. Clean text, though pages age toned and show light wear. Small stain to title page, small bookseller tag to rear paste down. Binding lightly shaken. Bottom edge of boards, and top edges near corners are rubbed through with fraying to the cloth. Spine ends worn. Cloth toned at spine and edged of boards. Rear board shows light staining. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780575023956ISBN:0575023953
Description: Very Good. Signed first British edition. 365 p. Signed by author on title page, inscribed to former owner, dated "6/9/83". Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. Clean pages and sturdy binding. Corners lightly bumped, toning to pages with age, else fine. Jacket has sunning and fading/fuzziness, probably typical, but not as sharp as is ideal. Small tear near foot, rubbing, chip at back panel tip, price intact. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hawthorn Books, New York
Date published: 1970
Description: Very Good. First edition. 127 p. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Clean, bright pages and sturdy binding. Top corners lightly bumped. Beverly Hills ad agency label on front end paper, partially removed. Mylar-protected jacket has light edge wear, rubbing, nick near the head. Price intact ($4.50). A handsome copy. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Capra Press, Santa Barbara
Date published: 1981
Description: Fine. First softcover edition. Signed by Edward Abbey, inscribed to former owner. 159 p. Fine in wraps. Clean, bright pages and sturdy binding. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Editorial Losada S. A, Buenos Aires
Date published: 1968
Description: Signed by Miguel Asturias on half title, warmly inscribed to former owner in Spanish and dated April 1972. 169 pp. with index and 5 pages of ads at rear. Wraps. Third edition. Very Good. Light stain to front cover, light wear. A rare signature from the Guatemalan winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt, New York
Date published: 1914
Description: Very Good. First edition, second issue. One of 150 copies bound from sheets bought from Frost's British publisher David Nutt, published by Henry Holt with the title page a cancel. In Very Good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Previous owner name to front free end paper. Spine label shows chipping. Sunning to spine label and boards. Boards show light soiling, rubbing and wear at corners and rubbing to edges. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date published: 1953
Description: Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Red and green colored pencil markings in the text. Previous owner (author, economist and professor HPB Jenkins) name to front free end paper. Front hinge starting at top. Top of pages bumped and gently creased. Cloth shows rubbing at extremities, light sunning. A rare title. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date published: 1957
Description: Very Good. First edition, first printing. (Correct jacket: jacket's titles all predate publication date, unlike later issue jackets. ) In Very Good condition, in original blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to the spine. Clean text. Sound binding. Light cigar smoke odor to pages, may very well dissipate over time. Top of page corners often show a gently bump. Previous owner (Helmar H. Veltzke, a published economist) stamp and signature to front free endpaper. The cloth is clean and crisp, ... Read More
