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First Edition of Thomas Schelling's Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction; Inscribed by Thomas Schelling
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction.
Washington, D.C: American Enterprise Institute, 1998.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Warm regards to John Rogers Tom Schelling October 2015." In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 133495
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First Edition of Peter Lynch's Beating the Street; Inscribed by Him
LYNCH, Peter .
Beating the Street.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of the sequel to Lynch's classic One Up On Wall Street. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with charts and figures in the text. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Mike and Mimi Best wishes Peter Lynch 10/10/95." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Littmann. Written with John Rothchild.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 84326
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First edition of John Kenneth Galbraith's A View From the Stands; inscribed by him to Elaine Steinbeck
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A View From the Stands of People, Politics, Military Power and the Arts.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
First edition of Galbraith's retrospective collection. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to Elaine Steinbeck, "For Elaine with love... John G - 1986." From the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Galbraith and John Steinbeck met in the early 1950s while on a holiday on St. John in the Virgin Islands. They enjoyed talking and both liked to have a drink at the end of the day, which Steinbeck referred to as “Milking Time” and Galbraith called “The Liberal Hour.” While the content of this book has nothing to…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128099
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“AS A MATTER OF SELECTIVE NECESSITY, MAN IS AN AGENT. …HE IS POSSESSED OF A TASTE FOR EFFECTIVE WORK, AND A DISTASTE FOR FUTILE EFFORT”: FIRST EDITION OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN'S THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
The Theory of Business Enterprise.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
First edition of Veblen's second book, a seminal work in economics. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137118
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First Edition of Institutional Change and American Economic Growth; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass C. North
NORTH, Douglass C & Lance E. Davis.
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by Douglass C. North on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5607
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First Edition of Vernon Smith's Bargaining and Market Behavior; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Bargaining and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
First edition of this collection of important essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Vernon L. Smith on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James F. Brisson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 80039
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First Edition of F.A. Hayek's Individualism and Economic Order
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
Individualism and Economic Order.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
First British edition of this collection of economics essays rejecting socialism in favor of true individualism. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138817
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“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble": Irrational Exuberance; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Irrational Exuberance.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Robert J. Shiller Oct 8, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144343
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First edition of Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor; inscribed by fellow M.I.T. Management Professor Edgar H. Schein who edited the work
MCGREGOR, Douglas. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor.
Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1966.
First edition of this collection of essays on the "dilemmas of a managerial society" by former M.I.T. management professor Douglas McGregor. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by one of the editors, Edgar H. Schein on the half-title page, "We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. Ed Schein author of Humble Inquiry." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 88145
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First edition of Gustavas Dedman Crain's Market Data Book and Directory of Class, Trade and Technical Publications; finely bound by asprey
CRAIN, Gustavas Dedman.
Crain’s Market Data Book and Directory of Class, Trade and Technical Publications.
Chicago : G.D. Crain, Jr, 1921-22.
First edition of G.D. Crain's collection and analysis of market publications circa 1920. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full morocco by Asprey with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, raised bands, grey speckled endpapers, with original full color publication wrappers from various petroleum and dry good business throughout. In fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 95096
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"THE KEY FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF HIS THOUGHT": FIRST EDITION OF THE SENSORY ORDER
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Sensory Order. An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952.
First edition of Hayek's foundational study of cognitive behavior—"an exercise in profound thinking." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Heinrich Kluver.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143046
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First edition of The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures; inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry M.; William F. Sharpe; Merton H. Miller.
The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures.
Charlottesville: The Research Foundation of The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 1991.
First edition of this collection of the Nobel lectures of Harry M. Markowitz, William F. Sharpe, and Merton H. Miller. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz on the title page, "Dear William: Best wishes, Harry Markowitz." In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115906
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Rare collection of econometrics papers including Paul A. Samuelson's Some Implications of Linearity
KLEIN,Lawrence R..
Three Papers on Econometrics of Consumption.
Chicago: Cowles Commission For Research in Economics at The University of Chicago, 1949.
Rare collection of econometrics papers including Paul A. Samuelson's Some Implications of Linearity. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Other papers include A Constant-Utility Index of the Cost of Living (Lawrence R. Klein and Herman Rubin) and Family Expenditures and the Marginal Propensity to Consume (Trygve Haavelmo). Stamp to the front panel "With the Compliments of The Author and Cowles Commission For Research in Economics The University of Chicago." Small contemporary name to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 88160
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Rare First Edition of Frederick Macaulay's The Movement of Interest Rates, Bond Yields And Stock Prices in the United States Since 1856; In the Original Dust Jacket
MACAULAY, Frederick R.
The Movement of Interest Rates, Bond Yields And Stock Prices in the United States Since 1856.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938.
First edition of the work known for introducing the concept of bond duration. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear and tear. With a preface by Wesley C. Mitchell.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 10012
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First Edition of John Bogle's Character Counts: The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group; Inscribed by Him
BOGLE, John.
Character Counts : The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
First edition of the story of how Vanguard was born, why it has flourished, and what leadership principles and management practices fostered its development. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Jay Goulart, With best wishes to one of Sandys heroes! John C. Bogle April 6, 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Stvan.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 106342
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First Edition of F.A. Hayek’s Classic Treatise The Constitution of Liberty
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Constitution of Liberty.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960.
First edition of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, pencil marginalia.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143609
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First Edition of Volume One of the Papers of Mathematician Peter Lax; Inscribed by Him
LAX, Peter.
Peter Lax Selected Papers. Volume 1.
Springer: New York, 2005.
First edition of volume one of the selected papers of mathematician Peter Lax. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Roger with best regards Peter D. Lax." In near fine condition. Edited by Peter Sarnak and Andrew Majda.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 100027
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First Edition of Volume II of the Papers of Mathematician Peter Lax; Inscribed by Him
LAX, Peter.
Peter Lax Selected Papers. Volume II.
Springer-Verlag: New York, 2005.
First edition of volume two of the selected papers of mathematician Peter Lax. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Roger with best regards Peter D. Lax." In near fine condition. Edited by Peter Sarnak and Andrew Majda.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 100028
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Signed boxed set of The 48 Laws of Power & Mastery; with The 48 Laws of Power signed by Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power & Mastery.
Signed boxed set of the author's popular #1 New York Times bestsellers, which have sold over 1.2 million copies. Octavo, original wrappers. The 48 Laws of Power is signed by Robert Greene on the front free endpaper. Fine in the original slipcase which is in near fine condition. Cover designs by Joost Elffers and Maggie Payette.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142614
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First edition of Landmark Papers in Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
SOLOW, Robert M.
Landmark Papers in Economic Growth.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition of this collection of writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 37017