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First Edition of Milton Friedman’s First Book Income From Independent Professional Practice; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Simon Kuznets.
Income From Independent Professional Practice.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1945.
First edition of Milton Friedman's first book, co-authored with fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist, Simon Kuznets. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In near fine condition. Income From Independent Professional Practice served as his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially signed.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 4225
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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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“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. 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 Friedman's Sampling Inspection; Signed by Him and In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Sampling Inspection: Principles, Procedures, and Tables for Single, Double, and Sequential Sampling in Acceptance Inspection and Quality Control Based on Percent Defective.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Scarce in the original dust jacket and signed by Friedman
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 138192
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First Edition of Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Anna J. Schwarz.
Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970.
First edition of this monumental work on history of monetary statistics in the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110121
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First Edition of The Essence of Friedman; Inscribed by Milton Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Introduction by Anna Jacobson Schwartz.
The Essence of Friedman.
Stanford: Hoover Press, 1987.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To the Jackson Hole economist Tucker Smith, Milton Friedman." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Anna J. Schwartz. Foreword by W. Glenn Campbell. Edited by Kurt R. Leube. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 4000
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Nobel Lectures: Economic Sciences 1969-1980; Signed by Milton Friedman and twice by Kenneth Arrow
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Kenneth A. Arrow; Paul A. Samuelson.
Nobel Lectures: Economic Sciences 1969-1980.
Singapore: World Scientific, 1992.
First edition of this work which contains the Nobel lectures in economics from 1969-1980. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Milton Friedman and Kenneth Arrow (twice), once on the half-title page and again at Arrow's Nobel lecture. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146250
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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both": Rare First Edition of Capitalism and Freedom; Signed by Milton Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton; With the Assistance of Rose Friedman.
Capitalism And Freedom.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare signed.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 23005
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First Edition of Karinthy Frigyes' Minden Másképpen Van [Everything is Different]
FRIGYES, Karinthy.
Minden Másképpen Van (Ötvenkét Vasárnap). [Everything is Different (Fifty-Two Sundays)].
Budapest: Athenaeum, 1929.
Rare first edition of this collection of stories in the original Hungarian which introduced the sociological phenomena of "six degrees of separation." Octavo, original wrappers with titles in red and black. In very good condition. Exceptionally rare in the original wrappers.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 146211
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First edition in English of Ragnar Frisch's Theory of Production
FRISCH, Ragnar.
Theory of Production.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1965.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian economist's work on production theory. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 127011
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First Edition of David Fromkin's The Independence of Nations; Inscribed by Him
FROMKIN, David.
The Independence of Nations.
New York: Praeger, 1981.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning historian. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "November 24, 1981 For David and Margaret Levin With affectionate regards- David Fromkin." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Deborah England.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 138409
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First Edition of David Fromkin's Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?; Signed by Him
FROMKIN, David.
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this "enormously impressive book" (The Weekly Standard). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and 1 map. Boldly signed by David Fromkin. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney. Jacket photograph by Gavin Bond.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 138439
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First Edition of David Fromkin's The Way of the World
FROMKIN, David.
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of the award-winning author's map of universal history. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photograph by Alfred W. Cook. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145172
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First Edition of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving; Inscribed by Him
FROMM, Erich.
The Art of Loving.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of this groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their capacities for love. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Fur Hans und Ruth...Eric August 1957." Very good in a good dust jacket with some wear. First editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 98633
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First Edition of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving; Inscribed by Him
FROMM, Erich.
The Art of Loving.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956.
First edition of this groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their capacities for love. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rev. Gotlerb Huse with best regards Eric Fromm." Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. First editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 112439
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First Edition of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving
FROMM, Erich.
The Art of Loving.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956.
First edition of this groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their capacities for love. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 140445