Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect On the Production and Distribution of Wealth and the Well-Being of Society by Wells, David A - 1897

New York, Horace Liveright, 1930, hardcover, 264 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition in publishers brown cloth with maroon decoration, gold lettering, embossing to spine, decorated endpapers, and red topstain. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, some of first 100 pages showing evidence of dampstain to bottom edge, faint spots to boards. The Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, continues the theme of two other novels she wrote in the 1920s, The Singing Season (1924), and The Fourth Queen (1926), each shows how cultures are shaped by an underlying set of moral and political principles.

vii + 88 pp. Printed by Purnell and Sons, Ltd., Paulton (Somerset) and London
First impression of the true first edition, published in 1940. There were two issues of this book - the first was in blue-green paper covered boards, as with this issue, and there was a second printing in pale orange paper covered boards, which incorporated some corrections to the text, and is less common than the earlier uncorrected version. With a four page Preface by J. M. Keynes, King's College, Cambridge, February, 1940.Very good in blue-green paper covered printed boards with black titles and borders on the front board. Spine complete but with one 1.5 inch tear to the base (see photo) The bottom right-hand corner of the rear board is slightly creased. Light grey or blue pencil underlinings on several pages of text as well as marginal notes on the appendix. No foxing. Spine tight. No dustwrapper was issued as this was a cheap war economy production. It is priced at 1 shilling net (on front cover). 190mm x 125mm. vii +… Read More

Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy; In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained By the Author of "Conversations on Chemistry"Mrs. Marcet's most popular work, an early explanation of the "dismal science" for young girls.The work is in the form of a series of dialogues between "Mrs. B" and her precocious young female charges ("Here is a beautiful passage in Adam Smith, the merits of which you will now be able to appreciate…"). No less a critic than Macaulay wrote of it: "Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on political economy could teach Montagu or Walpole many lessons in economy and show herself superior even to men." Sections include: On Property; On the Division of Labor; On Capital; On Wages and Population; On Revenue, Money, Foreign Trade, etc. Small 8vo. early/period half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Third Edition.Missing half title; modest wear to the binding; spine a… Read More

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862
Octavo, quarter cloth and boards, morocco label lettered gilt, pp.(4),5-354, title damp stained.
First edition in Swedish. Rare, no copy in Copac.

Bruxelles: J. P. Meline, 1834. A very good hardcover copy with stains on pages (soiling & humidly) edge wearied cover, title worn of from spine has on image. 319p. 22.5X14,3cm. 550gr.

Hardback. Fair. Standard of Freedom, London, 1851; 8vo, pp vii (being prelims such as information on the Association and a list of contents), [552]; original brown cloth, spine gilt, binding now shabby and worn; internally generally firm and clean although rather browned, particularly in the latter half of the book; the (blank) prelims are loose, the last sheet of the last tract is damaged at the top outer corner with some loss including to a few words on the verso and the final end paper is missing. The Association was instituted in April 1848 and was later described by W N Calkins in his essay in the "Economic History Review" as "the most persistent and single-minded free trade body England had ever known". Its first president was Robertson Gladstone, elder brother of William Ewart, a merchant and banker who became Mayor of Liverpool when he was only 37. The 35 tracts in this volume, generally of 16pp each, focus on supporting "the most rigid economy in the… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. Ninth Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. 8vo., viii+298pp., illustrated. Pale green cloth with black titles. Light soil to the cloth, previous owner name on fly leaf, else very good, binding straight and tight, unworn. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1915. Paperback. Good. 251, [5] p.: tables; 19 cm. Paperback with plain brown wrapper and black cover titles. Publisher's catalog on final 4 unpaginated pages. Printed pastedown on front cover from the United Mine Workers of America to a newspaper editor urging the paper to use the information in this book when writing about the negotiations for the next anthracite wage agreement. Stamped over the pastedown and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library" (newspaper not identified). Attached to the inside of the front wrapper is a folded sheet with detailed information about the agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 1916. Very scarce in paperback with the United Mine Workers additions. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper over spine; chipping along edges of wrapper, with partial loss of title on front wrapper; back wrapper is detached but present; front wrapper almost detached; tape residue along spine from old repair; minor loss from… Read More

Whipple & Damrell, Boston, 1837. Clothback. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 72 pp. clean, unmarked and lightly foxed, typical of age. Front and rear free endpaper missing, otherwise intact. Title page perforated with Ohio State University stamp and date stamp on inside back cover. Clothback version of this era is vary rare to find in this condition. Unable to find another copy on internet for comparison.