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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.