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"I hate no man, envy no man, but love all mankind": First Edition of The Master Key to Riches; Signed by Napoleon Hill
HILL, Napoleon.
The Master-Key to Riches.
Los Angeles: The Willing Publishing Company, 1945.
First edition of Napoleon Hill's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on a half-title page. Very good in a good dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145872
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First Edition of Pecora's Rare Work on Wall Street; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
PECORA, Ferdinand.
Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1939.
First edition of Pecora’s account of his role as chief counsel in the dramatic 1930s Senate hearings on Wall Street’s role in the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a near dust jacket with light rubbing and a closed tear to the front panel. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 115692
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First Editions of the Collected Works of Nobel Prize-Winning Economist’s Collected Works; Warmly Inscribed by Him to his Assistant of 46 Years
BUCHANAN, James M.
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999-2002.
First editions of each of volume that comprise the collected works of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan's papers. Octavo, original half cloth, 20 volumes. Eighteen of the twenty volumes are association copies warmly inscribed in the year of publication by James Buchanan to his assistant of 46 years, Betty H. Tillman, the second person Buchanan phoned on October 16, 1986 (after his wife, Ann) when he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (see Buchanan, 'Notes on Nobelity,' in Better than Plowing: And Other Personal Essays, University of Chicago Press 1992). Only Volumes 11 and 20…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 26023
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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; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
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. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light chipping to the spine extremities. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 34037
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"In this book I take you on a random walk down Wall Street, providing a guided tour of the complexities of finance": First Edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Lengthily Signed by Burton Malkiel
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973.
First edition of this Wall Street classic. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a transcription from the book as follows, "In this book I take you on a random walk down Wall Street, providing a guided tour of the complexities of finance. Burt Malkiel." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 147136
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First Edition of Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns; inscribed by Michael D. Edleson and signed by Warren Buffett
EDLESON, Michael E. [Warren E. Buffett].
Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns.
Chicago: International Publishing Corporation, 1991.
First edition of this work which evolved out of Edleson's 1988 article which first introduced his concept of value averaging to the world. Octavo, original glossy wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear John, Many Happy Returns, Michael E. Edleson." Additionally signed by Warren Buffett, "Warren E. Buffett." Like Edleson, American business magnate Warren E. Buffett developed his own innovative investment strategies based on the concept of value investing which he shared in several papers, essays and books. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by both Edleson and Buffett.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 90411
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"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish": First Edition of Gary Becker’s Classic Work Human Capital
BECKER, Gary S.
Human Capital.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1964.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 84768
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The only book by Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory; The Future of Industrial Man; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The Future of Industrial Man.
New York: John Day, 1942.
First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free end paper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 144693
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Rare First Edition of Asa Greene's The Perils of Pearl Street
GREENE, Asa.
The Perils Of Pearl Street, Including A Taste Of The Dangers Of Wall Street.
New York: Betts and Anstice, and Peter Hill,, 1834.
First edition of a very early Wall Street work. Octavo, original cloth, leather label. In very good condition, rebacked, with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 24014
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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results": Anniversary Edition of Milton Friedman's Classic Treatise Capitalism and Freedom; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, Milton with the Assistance of Rose D. Friedman.
Capitalism and Freedom.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Special anniversary edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 87985
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First Edition of Attention and Effort; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN, Daniel.
Attention and Effort.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
First edition of the Nobel laureate's influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive sciences. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "For William D. Kahneman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 140270
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First Edition of Ludwig von Mises' The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth: An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism; Signed by Him
VON MISES, Ludwig.
The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth: An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism.
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1962.
First edition of this classic work by von Mises. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Ludwig Mises March 2nd 1970." Near fine in very good dust jacket. Translated by Ralph Raico. Edited by Arthur Goddard.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 106574
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Rare Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate; signed by master illusionist Harry Houdini
HOUDINI, Harry.
Harry Houdini Signed Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate.
New York: The Brown-Green Co., January 23, 1922.
Rare stock certificate signed by the world’s greatest escape artist, master illusionist Harry Houdini. One page, partially printed in brown and black ink with an embossed seal, the document is dated January 23, 1922 and certifies that W.E. Jefferson hereby owns twenty shares of the Capital Stock of Houdini Picture Corporation. Signed by Harry Houdini as President of the Corporation and countersigned by Harry H. Poppa as Assistant Treasurer. In near fine condition. With a Houdini Picture Corporation Voting Trust Certificate awarding 30 shares of common capital stock of Houdini Picture Corporation to Abel Shearer.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 129031
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"MATHEMATICS IS A LANGUAGE": FIRST EDITION OF PAUL SAMUELSON’S FOUNDATIONS OF ANALYSIS
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Foundations of Economic Analysis.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century as published in Harvard Economic Studies as volume LXXX in the series. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. In near fine condition with light toning to the spine. Harvard College library bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 135729
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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results": Anniversary Edition of Milton Friedman's Classic Treatise Capitalism and Freedom; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, Milton with the Assistance of Rose D. Friedman.
Capitalism and Freedom.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Special anniversary edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147392
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“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth": Rare First Edition of John Stuart Mill's The System of Logic
MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.
New York: John W. Parker, 1843.
First edition of this classic work on logic. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some wear to the cloth and overall toning. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions in the original cloth are rare.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 34033
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"Markets are never wrong – opinions often are": RARE FIRST EDITION OF JESSE LIVERMORE’S HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS
LIVERMORE, Jesse.
How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s greatest traders. Octavo, original blue cloth, contains 16 full color charts. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 133596
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Rare First Editoin of Buying a Bond; Signed by Wall Street Legend Philip L. Carret
CARRET, Philip L.
Buying A Bond.
New York: Barron's, 1924.
First edition of the Wall Street legend’s rare first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Carret on the title page. Near fine in the rare dust jacket which is in very good condition with light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $5,200.00 Item Number: 3746
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First Edition of Alfred Marshall's Money Credit and Commerce; From the Library of Legendary Economist Irving Fisher
MARSHALL, Alfred [Irving Fisher].
Money Credit and Commerce.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of legendary economist Irving Fisher, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Irving Fisher was an economist, statistician, inventor, and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase crafted by Asprey. An important association, linking two giants of economic thought.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 133255
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First Edition of Walter Bagehot’s Classic work Lombard Street
BAGEHOT, Walter.
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market.
london: Henry S. King, 1873.
First edition of this "undying classic" (J.M. Keynes). Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, contemporary bookplate to the pastedown. A very nice example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 116258
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First edition of William F. Sharpe's Fundamentals of Investments; Inscribed by him to Legendary Economist Paul A. Samuelson
SHARPE, William F. and Gordon J. Alexander [Paul A. Samuelson].
Fundamentals of Investments.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc, 1989.
First edition of Alexander and Sharpe's classic text on the fundamentals of investments. Quarto, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by William Sharpe on the title page to fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, "For Paul with my best regards William F. Sharpe." In near fine condition. From the library of Paul Samuelson. An exceptional association linking two giants of economic theory.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 138641
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get": First edition of Tap Dancing To Work; Signed by Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis
BUFFETT, Warren E. & Collected and Expanded by Carol Loomis.
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything.
New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2013.
First edition of this collection of writings by and about Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joseph Perez.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145816
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Scarce first edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Political Economy For Beginners
FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett.
Political Economy For Beginners.
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1870.
Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett's immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square, at the unveiling of which UK Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged, "I would not be standing here…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 134388
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"Don’t trust your own opinion and back your judgment until the action of the market itself confirms your opinion": RARE FIRST EDITION OF JESSE LIVERMORE’S HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS
LIVERMORE, Jesse.
How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most well-known traders. Octavo, original blue cloth, contains 16 full color charts. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145641