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Ludwig von Mises' Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution; With a New Introduction by Murray Rothbard
VON MISES, Ludwig; Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.
Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1985.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work, the first to feature a preface by Murray N. Rothbard. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 104223
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"The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure": Rare First English edition of Marguerite Yourcenar's The Abyss
YOURCENAR, Marguerite.
The Abyss.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.
First English edition of the author's evocative Prix Femina award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with chipping to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by James Campus. Jacket illustration by Eric Fraser. Small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126394
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First Edition of The Course of My Life; Signed by Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Edward Heath
HEATH, Edward.
The Course of My Life: My Autobiography.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998.
First edition of this historical snapshot and autobiography. Octavo, original navy boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by Edward Heath on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146787
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First edition of David Rieff's Going to Miami; inscribed by him and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
RIEFF, David. [Peter Matthiessen].
Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
First edition of Rieff's classic work on the complex history of Miami, Florida. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "For Maria, with much love. David New York IX.9.87." The recipient, Maria Eckhart was the third wife of American writer Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135144
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First edition of The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association
EDITED BY F.H. HAHN AND F.P.R. BRECHLING,.
The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association.
New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1965.
First edition of this collection of talks delivered at the 1962 International Economic Association Conference held in Royaumont, France. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership signatures. Jacket design by Sarah Shervington.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 101480
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In the Wake of the Crisis; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
STIGLITZ, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence.
In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 10900
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First edition of Frederic Masson's Josephine Repudiee; finely bound and profusely illustrated
MASSON, Frederic.
Josephine Repudiee.
Paris: Societe d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques, 1901.
First edition of the third installment in Masson's three volume biography of Empress Josephine. Imperial octavo, bound in full polished crushed levant morocco by S. David with gilt titles to the spine, gilt central emblem to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top-edge gilt with others untrimmed, hand-colored frontispiece, likely extra-illustrated, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Bookplates, presentation inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 138462
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First Edition of Paul Krugman's End This Depression Now!; Signed by Him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
End This Depression Now!
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jon Gray.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128646
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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"I HAVE AN IRREPRESSIBLE DESIRE TO LIVE TILL I CAN BE ASSURED THAT THE WORLD IS A LITTLE BETTER FOR MY HAVING LIVED IN IT": FIRST EDITION OF TONY KUSHNER'S SCREENPLAY FOR LINCOLN
KUSHNER, Tony.
Lincoln: Screenplay by Tony Kushner.
Dreamworks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2012.
First hardbound edition of Tony Kushner's screenplay for the monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln, loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Quarto, original pictorial boards. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 139539
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Rare first edition of Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907
HARPER, William Hudson and Charles H. Ravell.
Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907.
np: The Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, nd.
First edition of one of the earliest works on the history of banking in Chicago. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124773
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First Edition of Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek
[FRIEDRICH VON AUGUSTE HAYEK] [F.A],.
Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fritz Machlup. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146448
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First Edition of Thomas Piketty's Monumental Work Capital In the Twenty-First Century
PIKETTY, Thomas.
Capital In the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
First edition of Piketty's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design Graciela Galup. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 144345
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First edition of Peter Howitt's The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays
HOWITT, Peter [John Maynard Keynes].
The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990.
First edition of Howitt's collected essays analyzing Keynesian and Walrasian economics. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John with best wishes Peter Howitt." Laid in is an additional note inscribed by the author which reads, "12/9/14 John, With best wishes and many thanks for the kind words. Peter." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110737
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"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
JAY, William.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay's classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 82412
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"The calmest voice and coolest mind in American public life": First Edition of John W. Gardner's No Easy Victories; inscribed by him
GARDNER, John W. Edited by Helen Rowan.
No Easy Victories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of "the father of campaign finance reform", John W. Gardner's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mariam and Andrew - affectionately, from their friend John W. Gardner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Herb Weitman.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110909
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Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire; Inscribed by Him
BRANCH, Taylor. [Martin Luther King Jr.].
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the second book of the author's epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed on a bookplate, "For Gail Mitchum Taylor Branch 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Seow.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140029
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Frist Edition of Orville Victor's Incidents and Anecdotes of the War
VICTOR, Orville J.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: Together with Life Sketches of Eminent Leaders, and Narratives of the Most Memorable Battles for the Union.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, 1862.
First edition of Victor's anecdotal history of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133076
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The Affluent Society; Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Affluent Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of the 40th anniversary of the economist's landmark work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 118388
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First edition of John Codman Ropes' The Story of the Civil War
ROPES, John Codman.
The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes' account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133077
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First Edition of Oliphant Smeaton's Edinburgh and its Story
SMEATON, Oliphant. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington.
Edinburgh and its Story.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1904.
First edition of Smeaton's history of Edinburgh. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt with others uncut, marbled endpapers, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, copiously illustrated with colored tissue-guarded engravings. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96044
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First edition of J. M. Reid's The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938
REID, J. M.
The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1938.
First edition of Reid's authoritative history of the Clydesdale Bank. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, engraved frontispiece portrait of James Lumsden, the first chairman of the bank. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. With the Clydesdale Bank's complimentary slip laid in.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124093
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First Edition of James Tobin's Full Employment and Growth
TOBIN, James.
Full Employment and Growth: Further Keynesian Essays On Policy.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 131476
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos; Signed by Artemis Cooper
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
New York: John Murray, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by Artemis Cooper on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ed Kluz.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140032
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First Edition of The Fiscal System of Venezuela; Inscribed by Carl Shoup
SHOUP, Carl S.
The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, "To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup." Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Carl S. Shoup. Contributors include John F. Due, Lyle C. Fitch, Sir Donald McDougall, Oliver S. Oldman and Stanley S. Surrey.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 75023
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First Edition of Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth & Stanislav Menshikov.
Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence: From A Bitter Past To A Better Prospect.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a Vermont friend and publisher, "For Carol with love John G 1988." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 1601
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First Edition of John Baxter's Locker Room Ballads; Inscribed by Him
BAXTER, John E.
Locker Room Ballads.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.
First edition of this collection of verses. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To C.D. Stimson with the compliments of the author, John E. Baxter 12/24/23." Near fine in a good dust jacket with a chip to the front panel. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 65472
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First Edition of James Tobin's Policies For Prosperity: Essays in a Keynesian Mode
TOBIN, James.
Policies For Prosperity: Essays in a Keynesian Mode.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 116781
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 135674
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Limited First Edition of A Turn in the South; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A Turn in the South.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989.
Signed limited first edition of captivating travelogue of the American South, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Bart Forbes specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147061
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"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall": First Edition of Speaking My Mind
REAGAN, Ronald .
Speaking My Mind.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
First edition of President Reagan's collection of speeches. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Littmann.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147034
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First English edition of Kipling's October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123116
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First Edition of Nathan Glazer's From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City; Inscribed by Him
GLAZER, Nathan.
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Chris and Kathy, Dear friends and neighbors! Nathan May 3, 2007." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 44001
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First Edition of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties; Signed by Michael Lesy
LESY, Michael.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
New York: Norton, 2007.
First Edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilted titles to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Lesy on the half title page.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 799
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First Edition of The English: A Portrait of a People; Signed by Jeremy Paxman in the year of publication
PAXMAN, Jeremy.
The English: A Portrait of a People.
London: Michael Joseph, 1998.
First edition of this portrait of English history and culture. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Jeremy Paxman 19.x.98." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146933
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Arthur Elson's A History of Opera: Giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Different Schools, with a Description of the Master Works of Each
ELSON, Arthur.
A History of Opera: Giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Different Schools, with a Description of the Master Works of Each.
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1906.
Early printing of Elson's critical history of Opera. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial onlay to the front panel, top edge gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Verdi, index. In near fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142583
