Search Results: Economics from Attic Books

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xi, [3], 66 p. 21 cm. Red cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Light wear and soiling to jacket. Some spotting to endpapers, text block edges. Paper browning. A few small tears and stains.

London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 5th August 1822. Disbound. Very good +. Georgii IV. Regis. Cap. CXIX. Pages 1101-1115. 30 cm. Disbound. Two tables or schedules at rear. By this act, goods from the United States enumerated in Schedule A, including foods, drugs, livestock, and dry goods, may be imported into either Upper or Lower Canada. Goods from His Majesty's Dominions may be exported to any port in the U.S. but no arms or naval stores may be exported without a licence. A duty is placed on West India rum imported into Lower Canada. The rest of the act describes various duties.

London: Edward Stanford, 1881. Hardcover. Good. viii, 143, 31, [1] p. 19 cm. 12 colour diagrams. Green cloth with gold print, blank impressing. Small tears to spine ends, worn corners. Pages 35-38 jutting out a bit. Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900) was an Irish author, statistician, economist and newspaper editor. Here he discusses industry, commerce, trade, population increase, railroads, debt, taxation, military expenditure, food supply, farming, etc. 20 countries/regions studied in more detail.

Distributed free of charge through the courtesy of J. J. Harpell, nd. ca. 1950. Softcover. Fine. 62 p. 20 cm. B&w photo of the author. Staplebound.

Cambridge, New York; Paris: Cambridge University Press / Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 514 p. 24 cm. Green hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Translation of "De la superiorite de l'Angleterre sur la France." Traces Britain's rise to economic dominance in the 19th Century. Includes essays on the second One hundred Years War, coal, the North Atlantic Triangle, the French Revolution and Napoleon, the industrial revolution, and the First World War.

Toronto: The Hugh Heaton Printing House Limited, 1932. Cloth Bound. Very Good. 62 p. + 1 p. Author's Note. 7 p. Appendix booklet "A Reviewer Comes To Lunch" inserted at rear. 19 cm. Salmon-coloured cloth hardcover with black impressing. Faded spine. Inscribed "With my compliments. Hugh Heaton" on front free endpaper. Three conversations, a summary, and a fourth conversation. The first conversation was published in Toronto Saturday Night and was reprinted courtesy of that newspaper. "We have built civilization around money instead of making money do its job. Money is only counters ... it's ideas we want and work" (Introduction).

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Hardcover. Good. Supplement to Weekly Bulletin of the Department of Trade and Commerce. Issued by authority of Sir George E. Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce. 173 p. 26 cm. Maps and b&w illustrations. Blue cloth. Dampstains to bottom corners of first pages. Some tape and soiling to title page. Some thumbing to bottom corners of last pages.

Toronto: Canada Law Book Company, 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover. ex library-good. lxviii, 857 p. 24 cm. Buckram. Ex library with labels on lower spine and endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges, blind stamp on title page. Includes Branch Managers and the Changes in the Bank Act, by H. M. P. Eckardt.

New York: International Publishers, 1946. Booklet. Very good. 32 p. 20 cm. Staplebound booklet. Light soiling. "What is a cartel? How is it related to the trust and other forms of capitalist monopoly? What is its role in world trade? Is the cartel an instrument of industrial peace of of economic warfare?"

London: George Philip & Son; The London Geographical Institute, 1925. Hardcover. Fair. xv p. + maps + 33 p. index. 41 cm. Colour maps. Half leather with cloth boards. Binding extremely worn with leather missing from both top corners, spine lifing from rear bord holes in cloth on rear. Tears in spine ends and hinges. Front pastedown has one large tear and some minor ones. Ink stamp on rear pastedown. Publisher's letter to customr pasted to a front page with owner's signature and address written above. Maps themselves in good condition. Issued under the Auspices of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce: A Systematic Survey of the World's Trade, Economic Resources & Communications. Specially prepared for The Times Trade and Engineering Supplement. Note: tucked inside is the 1928 supplement to this atlas, also with some tears and chips to edge

1916. Card covers. Good. 94 p. 17 cm. Brown card covers. Pencil marks on front. Tear in bottom front hinge, chips to spine ends. Large hole in rear page not affecting diagram. Smaller holes in second last page, a few of which affect type. "Including a copy of the plan of representation and agreement adopted at the coal and iron mines of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company."

London: Communist Party, 1961. Fair. 4 p. leaflet. 22 cm. Creases. Red signature at top front. "Statement adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party, July 8th, 1961."

Hassocks/Hamden: The Harvester Press/Archon Books, 1976. Cloth. Near fine/good. xiv, [2], 7-217 p. 19 cm. Blue cloth hardcover in mylar-covered cream and blue dustjacket. Jacket has some soiling, especially to front. Topics include: class influences in early youth; humanism and rationalism; contacts with political and ethical movements; South African and American studies; the rise of sociology in England; politics and journalism; the Great War and its aftermath; break-up of creeds and parties; post-war economics; Western Christianity; revision of democracy; etc. Indexed.

London: J. Osborn, 1746. Good +. 77 p. 21 cm. Disbound. Title page not as wide as rest of text block. Ink notation to p. 1. Moderate foxing. Title continues: "With a Postscript, containing some Notions relating to Publick Credit".

London, Ontario: Typography designed and type-set by the London Typesetting Company, 1934. Hardcover. Fair. 61 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece photo. Tan paper covers. Soiled front. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper.

Chatham, Ont.: S. & E. F. Stephenson, Printers, 1880. Softcover. Good. xi, 51 p. 22 cm. Grey paper covers. Label on front cover. Chips and tears to edges. Title continues: "With all orders in council and departmental regulations relating to customs and inland revenues. Exchange tables and Other Necessary Information, the Whole Being Carefully compiled and Certified as Being Correct." Alphabetical list of Canadian Tariffs from Sulphuric Acid to Zinc.

Ottawa: Combines Investigation Act, Department of Justice, 1953. Card Covers. Good. iii, 247 p. (one-sided). 28 cm. 3 tables. Yellow card covers held with metal clasps. Notation in black marker on top front corner and spine. Moderate wear. Topics: the electrical wire and cable industry; policies and practices of the industry; agreements or arrangements on prices and terms and conditions of sale.

nd. Fine. Advertises the new Sixth Series bonds. 23 cm flyer unfolds to 46 cm. Illustrations in black, white, and green.

Sir Isaac Pitman (Canada) Ltd., 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Good. x, 271 p. 25 cm. Cloth in dustjacket. Scratch along rear of jacket. Some creases, small tears to jacket edges. 16 cases which cover a wide range of financial management issues that chartered banks face in the course of their activity.

CRC Press, 2014. Hardcover. Good. Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series. xxvi, 805 p. 26 cm. Figures and tables. Light wear. Marks on text block edges. Wrinkles in front pastedown. Signature on front free endpaper.