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Concord, MA: 1865. First Edition. List of bonds totalling $300,000 which were stolen from the Concord National Bank on September 25th, 1865, while the teller was eating lunch. The Directors of the Bank, together with the Trustees of the Middlesex Institution for Savings offer at the bottom of the flyer..... More
Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1844. First Separate Edition. Lengthy and important article on the debts incurred by the country during the 1830s, the author noting that "Disgrace has fallen upon the people of this country in the eyes of the civilized world, and it becomes us to inquire how..... More
Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue staplebound printed wrappers; 19pp.; illus. Fine. Inaugural lecture delivered on May 16th, 1969, at the University of Ghana, Legon, where the author was a professor of Home Science. Delineates a number of imperatives, including the improvement of women's education..... More
[St. Lucia, West Indies: D. Sinclair Dabreo, n.d., 1975?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 120pp.; illus. Mild dust-soiling, else About Fine. Errata slip mounted inside front wrapper. Covers the state of poverty and political unrest in Cuba, Trinidad, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Guyana, and Jamaica. More
![The Prostitution of a Democracy: The Agony of Grenada [cover title]. D. Sinclair DABREO](/pictures/medium/26534.jpg?v=1529353500)
[St. Lucia, West Indies: D. Sinclair Dabreo, n.d., 1974?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 62pp.; illus. Fine. Errata slip tipped in between pp. 8 & 9. Account of the violence and unrest in Grenada leading up to independence in February, 1974. Dedicated to the author's friend..... More
![Someday It'll All Be...Who's? [sic]. Léon DANCO, Donald J. Jonovic](/pictures/medium/33993.jpg?v=1529353748)
Cleveland: Center for Family Business / Family Business Management Services, [1990]. First Edition. Square quarto (24.25cm.); original cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; vi,196pp.; chiefly illus. Tiny closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel, otherwise Just About Fine. Collection of cartoons on family business (upper jacket panel subtitle: "The..... More
[Roma]: Editori Laterza, 1990. First Edition. Thick octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],1044pp. A hint of shelf wear, shallow creasing to a few early leaves, else Fine. Collana Storica della Banca d'Italia Documenti Vol. 1. More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1935. First Edition. Collection of dialogues written by De Leon during his tenure as editor of the official organs of the Socialist Labor Party. "The present selection, however, is confined exclusively to Marxian economic subjects, or, what commonly and broadly is designated "political..... More
[Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies]: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1973. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 44pp.; illus. Fine condition. CADEC Study Paper no. 4. More
London: Woolwich Polytechnic - Department of Economics and Management, 1965. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 22pp. Clean, tight, unmarked copy, Very Good or better. More
New York: Viking Press, 1946. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21.75cm.); uniformly bound in blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, dark blue topstains, with the paper-covered slipcase, decorative plate mounted to upper slipcase panel; xii,499,[1],xxxi;vii,[1],[501]-987,[3],lvpp. Slipcase rather rubbed and foxed, most heavily to bottom edge, else a Fine set in About..... More
[Toronto]: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original brown and white printed staplebound wrappers; 24pp. Fine. More
[Urbana]: University of Illinois / College of Agriculture / Agricultural Experiment Station, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 62pp.; graphs throughout text. Wrapper extremities a bit worn, spine edge toned, else Very Good overall. More
New York: "The Light" Pub. Co., [1912]. First Edition. 12mo (16.75cm.); original drab printed staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Old ink stain to upper cover, else About Fine. Uncommon piece of socialist propaganda--the author wants to start a "People's National Business Co."--which begins in the form of a parable. Not in..... More
Heidelberg: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth; dustjacket; xxviii; 401pp. As new, unread copy. Edited volume of essays on economics of developing democracies; contributions by Ebke, Vagts, Tom Farer, Satoru Osanai, Jean Sonnekus, Michael Wallace Gordon, James Tent, Marina Tode, others. Text entirely in English. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp.; graphs in text. Near Fine condition. Brookings Research Report no. 59. More
Berkeley: University of California Printing Office, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 46pp. Brief pencil notation to front wrapper; old ink pressure stamp to rear wrapper ("Library of the San Francisco College For Women"); marginal soil and toning; Very Good and sound. A publication of the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. Second Printing. The earliest such history of the personal finance business, authored by a statistician for the Beneficial Management Corporation, a company which supervised and audited the largest group of personal finance companies in the country. Neifeld would go on to write a...... More
New York: Trow's Printing & Bookbinding Co., 1883. First Edition. A series of articles on political economy and monetary reform by the prominent inventor and philanthropist, builder of the first American steam locomotive, founder of New York's Cooper Union, and the Greenback Party's 1876 Presidential nominee. An exemplary copy. Complimentary..... More
New York / London: M.L. Holbrook & Co. / L.N. Fowler, 1897. First Edition. Memoirs of the individualist land reformer Joshua K. Ingalls (1816-1898), best known for his opposition to Henry George's proposed land reforms, himself believing that government protection of idle land only deprived those of its use "who..... More
New York: John Day Company, [1946]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[3],297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none quite touching text, spine very slighty toned, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall..... More
![I Am in Action [Inscribed]. ECONOMICS, Samuel Robert MAXWELL](/pictures/medium/42456.jpg?v=1539628252)
Chicago: University of Plenocracy Publishers, [1937]. First American Edition. Treatise on so-called "Plenocracy," "The Science of Creating Abundance for All" (rear jacket panel), by the author of "Unseen Forces and How to Use Them" (1933). Ownership markings as wacky as the contents. OCLC locates five copies in the United States..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. Second Printing. Landmark of 20th-century economic analysis; still in print; early printings are notably scarce. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Original maroon cloth, titled in black and gilt on spines; pp 1-448; 449-1095. Mild external wear, with some rubbing to spine ends; scattered marginalia in pencil, mostly..... More
New York: Ronald Press, 1938. Second printing. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of the Great Depression, clearly intended as a primer for an American public forced for the first time to comprehend economic dysfunction on a catastrophic scale. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First, Limited Edition. The foundational work of 20th-century Scientific Management. Of Taylor's influence on 20th-century business and manufacturing practices, Carter (PMM) writes: "...Taylor...besides studying factory conditions and methods in great detail...was responsible for fundamental changes in machinery and machine tools...[and] standardizing processes and machines..... More
