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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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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 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 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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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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"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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"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
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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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Ludwig Von Mises' Theory and History; Signed by Him
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Theory and History. An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
First edition, second printing of Mises’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Merle Gwinn Ludwig von Mises." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 133816
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First Edition of Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett; Signed by both Warren Buffett and Andrew Kilpatrick
KILPATRICK, Andrew. [Warren E. Buffett].
Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.
New York: AKPE , 1994.
First edition of this early Buffett biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper and additionally inscribed by Andrew Kilpatrick on the front free endpaper, "To Tish, Hope you enjoy Andy Fitzpatrick May your finances wind-up in better shape than Warren Buffett's!" Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Nancy Line Jacobs.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 146329
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 44009
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Philip Fisher's highly regarded Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks; Warmly Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Philip A.
Paths To Wealth Through Common Stocks.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1960.
First edition, second printing of Fisher's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free end paper, "To Vernon Patterson whose approval of this book I would greatly value Sincerely Phil Fisher." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 128599
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First Edition of Kenneth Arrow’s First Book Social Choice and Individual Values; Signed by Him; from the library of fell economist Emmanuel Drandakis
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Social Choice and Individual Values.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles and frontispiece in gilt. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow." From the library of Emmanuel Drandakis with his name to the front free endpaper, "Emm. Drandakis Rochester, N.Y. 10/20/59." Drandakis was a well-known economist, who specialized in general equilibrium theory and served the University of Athens Department of Economics from 1972 to 2000 and one of the first people from the University of Rochester Economics department to be awarded a Ph.D. In near fine condition with…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 45982
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FIRST EDITION and the first advance copy OF KARL POPPER'S THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; inscribed by him in a letter to close friend and colleague Lionel Robbins
POPPER, Karl R. [Lionel Robbins].
The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
London: Hutchinson, 1959.
First edition and the first advance copy of “one of the most important documents of the twentieth century” with the original transmittal letter inscribed by Karl Popper to economist Lionel Robbins (Peter Medawar, New Scientist). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, accompanied by the original transmittal letter on Popper's London School of Economics and Political Science letterhead which reads in full, "December 10th, 1958 Dear Robbins, I am sending you the first advance copy of the Logic of Scientific Discovery. I was just about to inscribe this copy "To Lionel Robbins, in sincere gratitude for his unflagging interest which has meant…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 131549
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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 Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973.
First edition of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with best wishes Burt." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 133519
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First Edition of Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street; Signed by Warren Buffett and Andrew Fitzpatrick
KILPATRICK, Andrew; Warren E. Buffett.
Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street.
New York: Donald I. Fine , 1992.
First edition of this early biography on investing legend Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper, "To Mike- With best wishes Warren E. Buffett 4-9-93." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Author photograph by E. Kent Oztekin.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 107255
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FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: FIRST EDITION OF Greed and Glory on Wall Street; SIGNED BY KEN AULETTA
AULETTA, Ken. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman.
New York: Random House, 1986.
First edition of this account of the Lehman Brother takeover, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Signed by Ken Auletta on the front free endpaper. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White,…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 146519
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“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny": Human Action: A Treatise On Economics; Signed by Ludwig Von Mises
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.
Chicago: Contemporary Books Inc, 1963.
First printing of the third edition of the economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig Mises on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 140799
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"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish": Gary Becker’s Classic Work Human Capital; Signed by Him
BECKER, Gary S.
Human Capital.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1966.
First edition, second printing of the economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gary Becker on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 42091