The Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein - 1899

Octavo, 13.5 x 21.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, embossed JSM initials on writing paper, lightly dust-soiled, slight creasing and chipping at fore-edge, repaired without loss.£3,500 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]A very fine political letter to Edmond Beales, relating to one of the most notable episodes in Mill's later political career. In it, Mill outlines his reasons for favouring the reformer Edwin Chadwick over the trade unionist Alexander McDonald as the Liberal candidate for Kilmarnock.Chadwick was a founder member of Mill's London Debating Society and had been acquainted with Mill since 1824.Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, who had been the Liberal member for Kilmarnock for twenty-five years, protested at Mill's action in recommending Chadwick and publication of Mill's reply to Bouverie was considered by many to have cost Mill his seat at Westminster.Edmond Beales was closely connected with radical groups active in the campaign for American and European democracy. He stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate… Read More

[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2).MacMinn, p.90FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. Of this Memorandum Mill wrote in his manuscript of the bibliography of his writings of this I was partly the author and partly the editor, the facts being furnished by the departments of the India House.MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".withSix pamphlets in two volumes[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858Tall octavo, blue cloth on grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, pp.(4), 101, drop head title.Very rare, 1 copy only in Copac at BL. MacMinn, p.90First separate edition. Of this Memorandum… Read More

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. PRESENTATION COPY. [#24 OF 700]Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.With Additional Articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed green cloth, in custom made Greenbriar slipcase. The New American Library (1966). First Edition. Limited to 700 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy #24. Presentation copy inscribed by Rand on the half-title, "To . . . Cordially – Ayn Rand 4/30/75." Fine. Scarce.

Woodcut title-vignette, XXXIV (recte XXXVI), 47 pages, XLIII pages with tables of which four folding, 22 (one folding) engraved plates. Cont. calf, richly gilt spine with red morocco label. All edges gilt. Multipe coloured shell marbled end-papers. Engraved book label of one Thihavsky - Lieutenant Colonel d'Artillerie pasted onto front paste-down. Folio. (405 x 265 mm). Extremeties rubbed, three tiny traces of worming to covers. First and only edition. A report of a commission initiated by the Austrian archduke Charles to investigate effective wood-burning stoves in public and private premises. The furnaces for military facilities, hospitals and schools, prisons and bathing establishments, as well as cooking hobs for public facilities, laundry kettles and stoves for industrial purposes of dyeing and cloth manufacture are shown on the plates, together with thorough tabular listings of production costs, maintenance and consumption data. Furthermore recommendations for furnaces for private use with a… Read More

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second Edition stated, 1947. From the collection of George J. Stolnitz, long time Professor of Economics at Indiana University and nationally recognized demographer, with his 16 page undated notebook in his pencil handwriting titled "Seminar on Theory of Games" with the first 8 pages filled with his notes in pencil. Returning to Princeton in 1946 following wartime service in the Air Force, Stolnitz was a research associate at OPR, received his Ph.D. in economics and demography in 1952, and taught economics there until 1956. Von Neumann and Morgenstern led the Seminar on Theory of Games at Princeton from 1949-1955. With first 115 pages of book also annotated in pencil by Stolnotz. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, spine slightly sunned. A unique copy of this classic text given the close prior owner's association to the authors. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More

Three volumes, octavo, contemporary pale Irish calf, contemporary dark red labels lettered and numbered gilt, slight wear to head and tails of volume II, pp. (4) + (8) + iii-xii + (6) + 426 + (2)adverts; (32) + 424; (8) + 431 + folding table of coins + (20), a fine and attractive copy.
Kress 6760. Goldsmith 10611. Higgs 4854. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176.

First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1933. An unsophisticated copy of this RARE Mises work, about Very Good, triangular chips top corner front wrapper and bottom corner rear wrapper, smaller chips at edges, rear wrapper separated at spine, paper loss to wrappers at spine ends, not affecting title. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked, 216 pp. Translated into English and published as Epistemological Problems of Economics in 1960. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Extremely rare hardback copyright 1924 in good-plus condition; stated first edition, January 1924; well preserved withdrawal from university library with usual stamps and stickers; text block and burgundy boards tight and square; front board shows fading to outer edge (see photo); light wear to head of spine; found two instances of underlining of text (see photo); 394 pages BNB-3.

Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65.£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor… Read More