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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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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand": First Edition of Milton & Rose Friedman’s memoirs Two Lucky People; Warmly Inscribed by Both
FRIEDMAN, Milton and Rose D.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Dorian + John with love and thanks for your friendship Milton + Rose." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3148
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First Edition of Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey; Signed by Howard Raiffa
LUCE, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa.
Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.
First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137439
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First Edition of Andrew Tobias' The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need; Lengthily Signed by Him
TOBIAS, Andrew.
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "The only ever! Best wishes 37 years (and six updated editions) later....Andrew 4/15." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 106588
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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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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Harry Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry; Bernard Hauser; Herbert W. Karr.
Simscript: A Simulation Programming Language.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Small quarto, original wrappers. Inscribed by Harry Markowitz on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon, especially signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5379
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First Edition of Milnor and Stasheef's Characteristic classes; Signed by John Milnor
MILNOR, John W. and James D. Stasheef.
Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 57021
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Rare original Harry M. Markowitz research memorandum; produced for the RAND corporation
MARKOWITZ, Harry M.
The Nature and Applications of Process Analysis.
Santa Monica, California: The Rand Corporation, 1954.
Rare research memorandum written by Nobel Prize-winning economist Harry M. Markowitz providing an economy-wide process analysis model to "predict what combination of civilian and military outputs can and cannot be produced with specified national resources." Octavo, 23 pages typescript on original Project Rand Research Memorandum letterhead including two folding graphs concerning technological and mechanical resources and outputs. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 88163
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"Who came along at the tail end of this long saga- and can look forward to decades of constructive contribution to the public": First Edition of Changing Fortunes; Lengthily Inscribed by Paul A. Volcker
VOLCKER, Paul A. and Toyoo Gyohten.
Changing Fortunes: The World’s Money and the Threat to American Leadership.
New York: Times Books, 1992.
First edition of this work by the former Federal Reserve chairman. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription, "3/16/93 To Neal Loss, Who came along at the tail end of this long saga- and can look forward to decades of constructive contribution to the public! With warmest but wider appreciation for years of help. Paul." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson. Jacket illustration by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 108116
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First Edition of Gary Becker's The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle; Inscribed by Him
BECKER, Gary. S. & Gilbert R. Ghez.
The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle.
Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Econoimic Research, 1975.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Gary Becker on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3899
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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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"Good questions outrank easy answers": Economics: An Introductory Analysis; Signed by Paul A. Samuelson
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Economics: An Introductory Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition reprint of the original 1948 first edition of this influential text by the father of modern economics. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the title page, "Paul A. Samuelson MIT." Some light dampstaining to a few pages, very good in a fine dust jacket. With a new foreword by the author.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 86523
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"The Foremost Academic Economist of the 20th Century"; The Collected Papers of Paul A. Samuelson Volume I; Inscribed by Him
SAMUELSON, Paul A. [Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Robert C. Merton; Hiroaki Nagatni; Kate Crowley].
The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volumes I.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
First edition, early printing of Volume I of the Nobel Prize-winning economists papers. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Doug Burrows, Paul A. Samuelson, Endicott House, June 21, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 53008
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First Edition of Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist; Lengthily Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Thomas Schelling
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's important compilation of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "For John Rogers I hope he enjoys this book as much as I enjoyed writing it Thomas Schelling." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Fender.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 144352
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Rare First Edition in English of Pantaleoni's Pure Economics
PANTALEONI, Maffeo.
Pure Economics.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1898.
First edition in English of the economist's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by T. Boston Bruce. In very good condition with some rubbing to the cloth, name to the front pastedown. First editions are rare.
Price: $875.00 Item Number: 49088
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Signed by Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein.
LAWRENCE R. KLEIN & MICHAEL K. EVANS,.
The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Model.
University of Pennsylvania, 1967.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with some offsetting and light spotting the front panel. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Lawrence Klein on the title page.
Price: $875.00 Item Number: 3797
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First edition in English of Henri See's Modern Capitalism in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SEE, Henri [Henry].
Modern Capitalism: Its Origin and Evolution.
London: Noel Douglas, 1928.
First edition in English of See's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Translated by Homer B. Vanderblue and Georges F. Doroit.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132345
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"What did all this have to do with doing business?": First Edition of Barbarians At The Gate; Lengthily Signed by Co-Author John Helyar
BURROUGH, Bryan and John Helyar.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.
First edition of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Lengthily signed by co-author John Helyar on the half-title page as follows, "What did all this have to do with doing business? John Helyar." This is the final line of this title. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119559