The Nature and Necessity of Interest by Cassel, G - 1903

Edinburgh, William Tait; London, Simpkin, Marshall; Dublin, John Cumming, 1843. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. xxiii, (i) blank, 419, (1) blank. Plus lithograph frontispiece portrait, from an engraving made by C. Fox after H. W. Pickersgill, printed by the lithographer S. Leith of Edinburgh, with facing tissue-guard. Half-title present. Index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, embossed in blind, spine gilt; first inner hinge cracking but very firm, lower joint mended, wear at head of spine, cloth bit dull. Good copy, preserved in the original state, with rather fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Republished in 1844, and recently in 1998. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English social philosopher whose influence on the development of economic thought and theory was very great. Burton was an Edinburgh lawyer and a professional writer for literary journals. He established his name as an author with the "Life and Correspondence of David Hume" (1846), in which he threw… Read More

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Xi, 179 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. All Publishing Information Shows Cambridge University Press, 1960, Sheets Printed In The Usa, Dj Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap And With (American) $3.75 Price Stamped At Top Corner Of Front Flap. No Indication Of Later Printing, No Reviews On Dj. A Classic Of Cold-War Economics. Book With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Marks. Dj With Some Wear, A Few Short Tears And With Some Very Small Losses At Corners, Spine A Little Faded. Small Original Pasadena Bookseller's Tab (Vroman's) On Front Endpaper, Thus First Purchased New In Pasadena.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Vol. I and II. Octavo. Full dark blue levant morocco bindings with fancy gilt turn ins, full bright gilt edges, decorative spine with gilt lozenge design, red leather labels in compartments between raised bands and bound by Holloway. Bookplate on endpaper. Minor brown blemishes to the colour plates and on the pages opposite. Wear to the joints on v.2, front joint is cracked down to the first compartment, otherwise are tender, covers are lightly rubbed with scattered dark blemishes and minor wear to the gilt edges, top corners on both volumes are slightly chipped and bumped. Otherwise both volumes are both firmly bound and in very good condition. 504 & 643 pp. .

Kopenhagen-Prag-Zurich: Verlag Für Sexualpolitik, 1934. First Edition . Original Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 72pp German text, Spine partly torn ( binding is holding together) Backcover with some minor wear, Hebrew name on title page, otherwise very fresh. RARE first edition.

London: Willoughby & Co, 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 363, [1], 52 p., engraved title page and 24 leaves of plates; 26 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Paper label with handwritten number in first compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Caption title p. 1: The People's Journal; with which is incorporated Howitt's Journal. Final 52 pages are headed Appendix. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this was acquired by the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1864. No date of publication or volume number. From 1849 to 1851 the magazine was published by Willoughby & Co. The Appendix on p. 48 references a work published in 1851. Contents include fiction by George Sand, Georgina C. Munro, Elizabeth O'Hara, Paul Creyton [John Townsend Trowbridge], and others; poetry by Charles Mackay, Henry Frank Lott, and others; Indian legends by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh [George Copway];… Read More

Edinburgh, William Tait; London, Simpkin, Marshall; Dublin, John Cumming, 1843. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. xxiii, (i) blank, 419, (1) blank. Plus lithograph frontispiece portrait, from an engraving made by C. Fox after H. W. Pickersgill, printed by the lithographer S. Leith of Edinburgh, with facing tissue-guard. Half-title present. Index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, embossed in blind, spine gilt; first inner hinge cracking but very firm, lower joint mended, wear at head of spine, cloth bit dull. Good copy, preserved in the original state, with rather fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Republished in 1844, and recently in 1998. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English social philosopher whose influence on the development of economic thought and theory was very great. Burton was an Edinburgh lawyer and a professional writer for literary journals. He established his name as an author with the "Life and Correspondence of David Hume" (1846), in which he threw… Read More

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Xi, 179 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. All Publishing Information Shows Cambridge University Press, 1960, Sheets Printed In The Usa, Dj Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap And With (American) $3.75 Price Stamped At Top Corner Of Front Flap. No Indication Of Later Printing, No Reviews On Dj. A Classic Of Cold-War Economics. Book With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Marks. Dj With Some Wear, A Few Short Tears And With Some Very Small Losses At Corners, Spine A Little Faded. Small Original Pasadena Bookseller's Tab (Vroman's) On Front Endpaper, Thus First Purchased New In Pasadena.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Vol. I and II. Octavo. Full dark blue levant morocco bindings with fancy gilt turn ins, full bright gilt edges, decorative spine with gilt lozenge design, red leather labels in compartments between raised bands and bound by Holloway. Bookplate on endpaper. Minor brown blemishes to the colour plates and on the pages opposite. Wear to the joints on v.2, front joint is cracked down to the first compartment, otherwise are tender, covers are lightly rubbed with scattered dark blemishes and minor wear to the gilt edges, top corners on both volumes are slightly chipped and bumped. Otherwise both volumes are both firmly bound and in very good condition. 504 & 643 pp. .

Kopenhagen-Prag-Zurich: Verlag Für Sexualpolitik, 1934. First Edition . Original Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 72pp German text, Spine partly torn ( binding is holding together) Backcover with some minor wear, Hebrew name on title page, otherwise very fresh. RARE first edition.

London: Willoughby & Co, 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 363, [1], 52 p., engraved title page and 24 leaves of plates; 26 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Paper label with handwritten number in first compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Caption title p. 1: The People's Journal; with which is incorporated Howitt's Journal. Final 52 pages are headed Appendix. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this was acquired by the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1864. No date of publication or volume number. From 1849 to 1851 the magazine was published by Willoughby & Co. The Appendix on p. 48 references a work published in 1851. Contents include fiction by George Sand, Georgina C. Munro, Elizabeth O'Hara, Paul Creyton [John Townsend Trowbridge], and others; poetry by Charles Mackay, Henry Frank Lott, and others; Indian legends by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh [George Copway];… Read More