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Viking 1971.. Fine in VG+DJ. Later edition. Binding is HC. .

Machinery & Allied Products Institute. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1945. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. Prev. owner name on front pastedown. Very scarce fine dust jacket in mylar cover. xviii + 263 pp. Index. The author, a U. Of Chicago Ph.d, criticises the "stagnation theses" influential during the 1930s and 1940s. The gist was that investment opportunities had dried up (the economy was "senile" said Robert Nathan) and the return to peace time after WW II would lead to disaster unless the Federal government ran continued large deficits. Alvin Hanson of Harvard is the main target here, but the argument is mainly statistical rather than polemic. Interesting chapter on the the Great Depression, concluding that it was not caused by the sudden vanishing of investment opportunites. .

Harvard University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. xx + 439 pp. 1 color plate + 24 illustrations; 34 tables, 7 charts and 15 appendices, index. No. .XVII of the Harvard Studies in Business History ed. by Henrietta Larson and Thomas Navin; 8vo .

Russell Sage Foundation. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. xx + 259 pp. .

Longmans Green. with no dust jacket. 1928. Cloth. Gold lettering on dark blue cloth. Despite ex-library, no numbers on spine; library stamps on fron tpastedowns; front free endpapers appear excised. Vol. I: xii + 283 pp. Index; Vol. II: xii + 332 pp. Index. Fore word by Sir Guy Granet.; Ex-Library; 8vo .

Oxford University Press 1962[1961].. Owner dedication on front fore edge, else fine in VG+ DJ. Later prtg. Hardcover.

The Viking Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1943. 1st Ed, 2nd Prtg. Cloth. Two prev. owner names on front free endpaper; name stamp on bottom of text blockand several othe rplaces; crown bumped, lettering on spine worn; some underlining in pencil in the introduction (by Leon Ardzrooni) and one essay. xviii + 472 pp. No index. .

University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine in Good dust jacket. 1930. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. In somewhat torn light brown wrapper. #8 in the Research Studies of the Industrial Research Dept. of the Wharton School at U. Penn. [the series that included several works by Anne Bezanson]. xii + 195 pp. .

Chicago Book Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. Tears at top and bottom of spine, lettering faded. No underlining or other marks in the text. ; 312 pages .

New York: Adelphi. Very Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Cloth. The History of Prices was originally published in six volumes, starting in 1838 and ending in 1857 [seeLarson #75]. The six volumes were later reprinted in four volumes, although no date is given. The present book consists of vols 3 &4 of the reprint edition. Vol. III: iv + 298 pp. No Index.[First published as "The State of Circulation in 1838 and in 1839" by Thomas Tooke in 1840]; Vol. IV: xvi + 500 pp. No Index.[First published as "The State of the Circulation from 1839 to 1847 Inclusive: with a General Review of the Currency Question and Remarks on the Operation of the Act," in 1848, by Thomas Tooke. .

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0674458400 . Dust jacket now in mylar cover. Viii + 354 pp. 5 plates, 32 graphs, 8 maps, 2 atlases of coinage, 10 tables. Index. Harvard Economic Studies, Volume 138.; 8vo ; 354 pages .

George Allen and Unwin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. Dust jacket in mylar cover. 311 pp. Index. Among the half dozen best books ever writtten on the oil business.; 8vo .

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. !st American Edition. Cloth. 236 pp. 8 pages phot illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. .

University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. NOT ex-library. Corrado is the Gini of the "Gini Coefficient." His contribution is "The Cyclical Rise and Fall of Population," pp. 1 - 140, a small book in itself. Dust jacket, now with mylar protective cover, has some small tears. ; 312 pages .

Aldine Publishing Company. As New in As New dust jacket. 1966. First American Edition; First Printing. Cloth. Not the English edition; this the first American edition. Sir Basil Yamey provides an introduction to the main economic issues and a survey of RPM in he U. K. Six other country surveys include S. C. Hollander on the U. S. A. , Trolle on Sweden, and Boggie on the OEC. ; 303 pages .

Arliington House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. 1st Arlington House Edition; Fifth Printing. Cloth. Previous owner's neat blindstamp on title page. Dust jacket price-clipped, else very good. This is a 1978 reprint of the 1957 Yale university edition. ; 384 pages .

Harvard University Press. Fair in Fine dust jacket. 1959. 1st Ed, 1st Prtg. Cloth. Dust jacket price-clipped, else both jacket and book as new. xiii + 321 pp. Detailed study of vertical price relationships between tin plate and cans industry. Attention paid to economies of scale. .

J. J. Lipsey, Western Books. As New. 1961. Original Wraps. #113 of a limited edition of 500 signed by Lipsey. Prev. owner name on inside front cover. 30 pp. .