Search Results: Economics from Zetetic Books

Bury St. Edmunds and London: Gedge and Barker [Printers] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-296pp. Original boards, with original paper label to spine. Worn to extremities, outer joints with Japanese tissue paper repair, spine browned. Internally the text is lightly browned, with sporadic very light foxing, repaired tears to L3 and L4, L4v with old tape stain to text but not affecting sense. Bookplate of John Grey Mannings to front pastedown, previous owners name and date in pen above the bookplate, with book label of Peter Crofts to ffep. The preface is by the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson. Goldsmith's 20381. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

London: For the Author, and Sold By George Hawkins at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet Street, 1758. [7], 2-34pp. Modern quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, title label to upper cover. Externally very good, internally title is slightly browned, one or two spots of foxing to margins, last couple of leaves lightly foxed, but generally quite bright and clean. Printed by William Bowyer. Mainly concerned with the price of corn and bread, an attempt towards the "speedier relief of the poor, from the hand of the extortioner and oppressor". Goldsmiths 9413; Higgs 1815. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Bury St. Edmunds and London: Gedge and Barker [Printers] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-296pp. Original boards, with original paper label to spine. Head of spine defective, lacking about an inch, foot of spine slightly chipped, spine browned, edges and corners bumped and worn. Internally some light foxing, but generally fairly bright, largely unopened at head. Name and address of a previous owner to ffep. 6p of adverts bound in at the front (from 1818). The preface is by the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson. Goldsmith's 20381. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

Dublin: M. Goodwin, 1830. [2], 3-16pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, title and final page of text very slightly soiled, otherwise fairly clean. The full title is, "An Antidote to Revolution; Or, A Practical Comment on the Creation of Privilege for Quadrating the Principles of Consumption with Production, and Thereby Creating Stimulus for the Unlimited Production of National Wealth, Neutralizing the Motives for Political Discontent, and Establishing a Solid Base for the Promotion of Morality". Includes a brief look at 'colonies' (ie. Robert Owen and William Thompson), and includes suggestions for the reorganisation of land and labour in the West Indies. Four physical locations in Library Hub. Goldsmiths 26083. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. ix, 484pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, top and fore-edges slightly dust-stained, internally quite bright, a few instances of pencil lines to text and margins, but generally clean. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

Senegal: No Publisher, 1813. Double sided manuscript receipt, approximately 260mm x 130mm in size. Lightly browned, slightly creased, a few small chips and tears, but generally complete and fairly clean. Dated 23rd January, 1813 and issued in Senegal, this is a bill of exchange on Greenwood Cox & Co. (the army agents), for the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, to reimburse the local agent paying wages to the soldiers of the Royal African Corps in Senegal. The reverse has a certification of the current rate of exchange by the 'principal inhabitants and merchants of Senegal'. The Royal African Corps was established in 1804, originally raised as the Goree Corps in 1800, to defend the Island of Goree in Senegal. It was composed primarily of prisoners, deserters and condemned men from the hulks. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 24mo (Oblong). Receipt / Invoice.

London: William Pickering, 1845. vii, [1], 288pp, later full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with volute corner pieces and flower heads to centres, covers with single fillet bordering a blind seed head roll and flower corner pieces, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Slightly rubbed to extremities, some minor discolouring to head of lower cover. Head of ffep and reverse of front marbled endpaper water stained, previous owners' name to reverse of front marbled endpaper, otherwise quite bright and clean. Kress C6620; Goldsmiths 34375; Keynes, page 70 and Einaudi 2873. Second Edition. Full Calf. Good+. 12mo.

London: W. Sandby, 1761. Two volumes complete - Volume One - iv, [5], 2-496pp, [14]; Volume Two - [5], 2-202, 217-432pp. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, title label to second panel, volume number lettered direct in gilt to third panel, old paper labels to first panel, gilt double rule either side of cords. Bindings rubbed, volume label to volume one slightly chipped with loss to three letters, slightly chipped to spine ends with small amounts of loss to head and tail caps, corners bumped, second volume with central vertical crease down spine corresponding with the placement of the folding table, but holding well. Lightly browned internally, especially to edges, with a couple of small marginal stains, but generally fairly clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir Gervase Clifton to front pastedowns. Half-title to volume two. Folding plate to volume two is creased, chipped and browned to top edge with old tape repair to reverse. The register and pagination of the second volume is… Read More

London: C. Davis and M. Cooper, 1752. [2], iii-vi, 33pp, [1]. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, title and date in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. Back strip reglued, chipped to spine ends and joints, rubbed to extremities. Internally the title is browned, name of author to head, text lightly browned, but fairly clean. Printed by William Bowyer, and first published a year earlier without the appendix. Thirteen locations worldwide in ESTC. Goldsmiths 8750; Higgs 337. Second Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News, 1943. 8pp, original paper covers. Lightly creased and lightly foxed. Jisc shows at BL and Society of Friends. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Exeter: Cullum [Printer], 1825. 4pp. Lightly browned, upper portion of last page browned, creased from old folds where once sent through the post, with address and ink stamp to bottom portion of last page, and date and note in ink to fore edge margin of upper part of last page. The printer was probably Robert Cullum, see the BBTI. Proposal for a new market site in Exeter. Not found in Library Hub. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Pamphlet.

London: Fabian Publications, 1943. 34pp, original paper covers, spine slightly rubbed, previous owner's name to head of title, otherwise quite bright and clean. Early Schumacher pamphlet. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Shirehouse: No Publisher, 1826. 6pp, original paper wrappers. Slightly creased, browned, especially to edges and final page, otherwise fairly clean. A report from a Committee set up to examine the Formation and Government of Friendly Societies or Institutions in Norfolk, relating to the Catton and Rockland Friendly Societies. The Committee was particularly exercised by the rules of the Societies which required meetings to be held in public houses, with "a certain sum to be expended on Liquor by every Member, whether he attends or not, and the Meetings not to separate till all the Liquor has been consumed - practices which cannot fail to be productive of the worst consequences to the community at large ... and other most injurious effects to their Members, and defeat the benevolent purposes for which they were originally formed". The current rules of Friendly Societies are then listed, with the Committee's recommended additional rules following (including "That no publican shall hold… Read More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. [6], vii-xii, 423pp, [1]. Original buckram in DJ. DJ with small tear to foot of upper panel and small nick to head of upper panel, otherwise quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London and Plymouth: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans and Edward Nettleton, 1846. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [3],viii-xviii, [1], 4-322pp and Volume Two - [3], iv-xviii, [1], 324-878pp. Original cloth, with original paper label to spines. Spines faded, private library sticker to foot of spines, upper joint of volume one starting but holding, corners bumped, rubbed to extremities. Internally lightly browned throughout, a few instances of pencil marginalia, endnotes rubbed out to lower pastedowns and free endpapers. Uncommon, with only three physical copies in Library Hub. Goldsmiths 34543. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. xx, 666pp, [2], publishers half calf and cloth, smooth back, title, author and publisher to spine in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Chipped to spine ends with small amount of loss, front outer joint slightly chipped with a small tear across middle of spine, slightly rubbed to extremities, small patch of fading to fore-edge of upper cover. Light foxing to fore-edge of text block, internally fairly bright and clean. Presumably a publishers presentation binding, though no evidence of this. First Edition (US). Half Calf and Cloth. Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. xiv, 19pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ spine and top edge slightly browned, chipped to head, lightly soiled, small patch of colour bleed to reverse. Small spot of colour loss to upper cover, dust staining to top edge of text block, light foxing to fore-edge, text quite bright and clean. Presumably the author's copy, no evidence of this in the book itself, but does have some associated ephemera, including a letter to the author from a reviewer and the author's signed copy of his contract with CUP for the publication of the book. With Signed Contract. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

London: W.I. And I. Richardson, 1798. [5], 2-28pp. Modern half calf and marbled paper over boards, author, title and date in gilt to spine. Spine very slightly faded. Slightly cropped to fore-edge margin with loss of some of the contemporary marginalia, occasional underlining, title lightly browned, one or two spots of foxing. The third 'improved' edition. Goldsmiths 17370; ESTC T37345, showing eleven locations worldwide. Third Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Paris and London: Bossange Pere et Martin Bossange, 1822. [5], vi-xv, [1], 389pp, [3], plates/tables. Modern quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards, smooth spine divided into five panels by two gilt double rules, author and title lettered directly to second panel, date to foot, marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed, internally a small closed tear to head of half-title, some light browning and occasional light foxing, but generally quite bright and clean. With thirteen (all but one folding) plates / tables on guards to rear. Goldsmiths 23362; Kress C808 and Einaudi 73. First Edition. Quarter Morocco and Boards. Good+. 8vo.

London, 1712. [2], 46pp, bound in modern black buckram with paper title label to upper cover. Title page stained, browned and lightly stained throughout. Pamphlet attacking the Duke of Marlborough and Walpole for the embezzlement of public funds. Goldsmiths 4910. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.