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First Edition of The Changing World of the Executive; Inscribed by Peter F. Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The Changing World of the Executive.
New York: Times Books, 1982.
First edition of this work by the legendary father of management. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Phil Johnston from Peter Drucker." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142026
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"Culture and Leadership as so central to understanding organizations and making them effective that we cannot afford to be complacent about either one": First edition of Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership; Lengthily Inscribed by him
SCHEIN, Edgar H.
Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1985.
First edition, second printing of Schein's classic text on organizational culture. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page with the following transcription from the text as follows, "Dear James Culture continues to be my main interest and our most important topic Enjoy Ed Schein 10/10/22." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Willi Baum.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145929
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First Edition of A Beruházások Matematikai Programozása [Mathematical Programming of Investments]; Inscribed by János Kornai
KORNAI, János.
A Beruházások Matematikai Programozása. [Mathematical Programming of Investments].
Budapest: Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, 1962.
First edition of this economic work. Octavo, original light blue cloth, illustrated with graphs and a folding chart at the rear. Presentation copy, inscribed in Hungarian by the author on the title page. In very good condition with some sunning to the spine and a single page detached. A rare example. WorldCat locates nine copies in total: three apiece in Hungary and the US, two in Germany, and one in Switzerland.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146268
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics.
New York: : Adelphi Company, 1927.
First edition in English. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3682
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First Edition of The Question of National Defense; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of Game Theory Oskar Morgenstern
MORGENSTERN, Oskar.
The Question of National Defense.
New York: Random House, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, "Hon. Frank Pace Jr. with high esteem O. Morgenstern Oct. 1959." The recipient, Frank Pace, Jr. was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army under Harry Truman and a business executive, who in 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller to launch the International Executive Service Corps, which was established to help bring about prosperity and stability in developing nations through the growth of private enterprise. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Books signed by Morgenstern are rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 15044
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First Edition of Adam Smith's Paper Money; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Adam [George Goodman].
Paper Money.
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 20005
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Israel M. Kirzner's Competition and Entrepreneurship; Signed by Him
KIRZNER, Israel M.
Competition and Entrepreneurship.
Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013.
First edition of the Liberty Fund edition of Kirzner's classic Austrian School text. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Boettke and Frederic Sautet.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 86784
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Rare autograph equation Signed and entirely in the hand of Kenneth J. Arrow
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Kenneth J. Arrow Autograph Equation Signed.
Rare three-page equation inscribed and entirely in the hand of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth J. Arrow. Three pages, the equation bears the title "The Shadow Price of Technological Change" and is signed by the author on the first page, "With best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow." In addition to his work on social choice theory analysis, Arrow made significant contributions to the general equilibrium theory and, with fellow economist Gérard Debreu, presented the first rigorous proofs of the existence of a market clearing equilibrium. Strongly influenced by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Arrow's work on general equilibrium theory extended the model…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 114565
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Power & Market: Government and the Economy; Warmly Inscribed by Murray Rothbard
ROTHBARD, Murray.
Power & Market: Government and the Economy.
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977.
Second edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. "For Dan Haag, July 1981 For the market and against Power Best wishes Murray Rothbard." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143965
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From the Library of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow
MODIGLIANI, Franco; Charles C. Holt; John F. Muth; Herbert A. Simon [Kenneth A. Arrow].
Planning Production, Inventories, and Work Force.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
First edition of collection of essays, from the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow, with his signature to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 15053
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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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Rare first separate edition of Holbrook Working's The Investigation of Economic Expectations
WORKING, Holbrook.
The Investigation of Economic Expectations.
n.p.: American Economic Review, 1949.
First separate edition of Working's treatise on economic expectations. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with charts and graphs. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126334
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's Warrant and Proper Function; inscribed by him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
Warrant and Proper Function.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of the second book in Plantinga's notable epistemological trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John with best wishes Alvin Plantinga." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126554
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First Edition Of Storage and Stability, Graham’s 1937 study on supply and demand, production and consumption, and their impact on value investing
GRAHAM, Benjamin; Foreword by Alvin Johnson.
Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Energy.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1937.
First edition of the author’s classic third book. Octavo, original red cloth. Foreword by Alvin Jonson. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143023
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First edition of Robert M. Solow's Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level
SOLOW, Robert Merton.
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Solow in the University of Manchester. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126488
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First Edition of Fred Schwed's Classic Where Are the Customers' Yachts; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SCHWED, Fred; Illustrated by Peter Arno.
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
First edition of "one of the funniest books ever written about Wall Street" (The Washington Post). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Peter Arno. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chips and wear.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147035
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"THE STORY OF MISES IN HIS ROLE AS ECONOMIST": FIRST EDITION OF ISRAEL M. KIRZNER'S LUDWIG VON MISES: A MAN AND HIS ECONOMICS; SIGNED BY ISRAEL KIRZNER
KIRZNER, Israel M.
Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics.
Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001.
First edition of Kirzner's authoritative biography of Ludwig von Mises. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144496
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First Edition Value, Capital and Growth: Papers In Honour of Sir John Hicks; Signed Twice by Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow
HICKS, John R. [Robert M. Solow].
Value, Capital and Growth: Papers In Honour of Sir John Hicks.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
First edition of this work in honor of John Hicks. Octavo, original cloth. Signed twice by Robert Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Edited by J.N. Wolfe.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5798
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"The Father of Venture Capitalism": Rare First Edition of George Doirot's The Management of Racial Integration in Business
DORIOT, Georges F.
The Management of Racial Integration in Business [Special Report to Management].
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.
First edition of this work by the father of venture capitalism. Quarto, original half cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 112869