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[From the Library of Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom] Reform of Metropolitan Governments Together with Metropolitanization and Public Services by Lowdon Wingo, Series Editor - 1972

by Lowdon Wingo, Series Editor

[From the Library of Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom]  Reform of Metropolitan Governments Together with Metropolitanization and Public Services by Lowdon Wingo, Series Editor - 1972

[From the Library of Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom] Reform of Metropolitan Governments Together with Metropolitanization and Public Services

by Lowdon Wingo, Series Editor

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Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, Inc., 1972. Nos. 1 and 3 in a series on The Governance of Metropolitan Regions. Both titles from the library of Elinor Ostrom, to date still the only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, with her address labels at half-title pages of each book. Both are Very Good, wrappers rubbed, No.1 with a note in ink and check marks at Contents page, No.3 with underlining in ink several pages. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Melanges et Correspondance

Melanges et Correspondance: d'Economie Politique

by Say, De J.-B.

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The Objectivist Forum
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The Objectivist Forum

by Binswanger, Harry (Editor), Leonard Peikoff (Advisory Editor), and Ayn Rand (Contributor)

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The first six Volumes of this magazine, which followed after Rand's publication The Objectivist ceased publication. All copies are Fine to Near Fine in maroon, stapled wraps that are all 5 ½ inches wide but that were trimmed in heights that range 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. The shades of maroon range from medium to dark. Some issues have slight edge wear, color loss along the spines, with touch of age toning along edges of the white, back cover. All issues are free of address labels. Each Volume is complete with six bi-monthly issues, EXCEPT that Vol. 6 has two copies of issue 2 and is missing issue 3. Total set is made up of 36 issues of the Forum. The set of six volumes is housed in a matching, maroon vinyl magazine file.
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Tracts of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association
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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
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The Spread of Economic Ideas
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The Spread of Economic Ideas

by Colander, David C./ Coats, A. W. (Editors)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, first printing. 8vo., xvi+262pp. Fine, as new in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, Ninth Edition
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The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, Ninth Edition

by Kemmerer, Edwin Walt

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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.
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Melanges et Correspondance

Melanges et Correspondance: d'Economie Politique

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The Objectivist Forum
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The Objectivist Forum

by Binswanger, Harry (Editor), Leonard Peikoff (Advisory Editor), and Ayn Rand (Contributor)

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The first six Volumes of this magazine, which followed after Rand's publication The Objectivist ceased publication. All copies are Fine to Near Fine in maroon, stapled wraps that are all 5 ½ inches wide but that were trimmed in heights that range 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. The shades of maroon range from medium to dark. Some issues have slight edge wear, color loss along the spines, with touch of age toning along edges of the white, back cover. All issues are free of address labels. Each Volume is complete with six bi-monthly issues, EXCEPT that Vol. 6 has two copies of issue 2 and is missing issue 3. Total set is made up of 36 issues of the Forum. The set of six volumes is housed in a matching, maroon vinyl magazine file.
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Tracts of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association
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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
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The Spread of Economic Ideas
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The Spread of Economic Ideas

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The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, Ninth Edition
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The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, Ninth Edition

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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.
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From Capitalism to Socialism: Day to Day Pamphlets No. 8
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From Capitalism to Socialism: Day to Day Pamphlets No. 8

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1932, Very Good Softcover, 53 pages, 5" x 7.25", crease on front cover, slight edgewear, otherwise clean and tight. John A. Hobson (1858 - 1940), was an English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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Samuel The Seeker
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Samuel The Seeker

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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Worlds Revealed - The Dawn of Japanese and American Exchange

Worlds Revealed - The Dawn of Japanese and American Exchange

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Grand Hotel
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Another Part of the Forest

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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Resistance and Change: The Struggles of Guyanese Workers (1964 to 1994), with Emphasis on the...
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Resistance and Change: The Struggles of Guyanese Workers (1964 to 1994), with Emphasis on the Sugar Industry

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New York: Inside News Publications, 1997. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. ix + 396 pages.
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At the Bottom of the Ladder
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