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Bison Books, 1967. Paper Back. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Thomas Crowell, No date. Reprint. HC, no DJ. MV Good+. Red cloth, gilt titling & spine decoration, boards spotted, red topstain, FO name/date(1903) to FFEP, B/W frontis w tissue, leaves age-toned, binding sound. Handy Volume Classics series. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

TheClassics.us, 2013. Paperback. New. 32 pages. 9.69x7.44x0.07 inches.

George Routledge and Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 125 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Front free endpaper cut out. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Facsimile Publisher , pp. 202 . Hardback. New.

University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Chicago, Illinois: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1888. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reissue. Rear board soiled, pencil name on first blank. 1888 Hard Cover. 134 pp. "John Ruskin, (born February 8, 1819, London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire), English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change." - Britannica. CONTENTS: Preface; The Roots of Honor; The Veins of Wealth; Qui Judicatis Terram; Ad Valorem.

University of Nebraska Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 97 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

MP3 Audio CD. Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant elements. Let us eliminate the inconstants, and, considering the human being merely as a covetous machine, examine by what laws of labour, purchase, and sale, the greatest accumulative result in wealth is… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant elements. Let us eliminate the inconstants, and, considering the human being merely as a covetous machine, examine by what laws of labour, purchase, and sale, the greatest accumulative result in wealth is… Read More

University of Nebraska Press, 1984-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Orpington: George Allen. xxi 173pp hardback, green cloth gilt, 6th edition, contemporary ownership signature . Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 1888.

Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1984-02-01. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Cover is different than one pictured. Paperback.Minor marking or underlining to textMinor wear to page edges and corners. Cover a bit worn and rubbed.Binding tight.

George Allen. London. 1906.. IV, 174pp. Hardcover, oriiginal maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering and front cover titles, gift inscription on ffep and foxing on foredge and eps, overall in vg cond. Essays originally published in the Cornhill Magazine.

London, George Allen, 1899;. Thirttieth Thousand. Hardback. Good/ No dj. xxi, 199pp including index. Few light finger marks in margins. Dark green covers with gilt title on spine. .

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1867. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes bound as one. 1867. Hardcover, 4to. in three-quarter tan leather and marbled boards withmarbled edges and endpapers. 250, 138pp. Good. Staining to edge of title page and back page, overall wrinkling to text, otherwise in good condition.

London & Glasgow: Collins Publishers: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library edition with University library inside front cover. Tightly bound, mostly clean; with no writing inside. Some minor handling wear to covers

Paperback / softback. New.

Routledge / E. P. Dutton, 1907. ~TITLE CONTINUES: (The New Universal Library) ~Green cloth, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. No ownership marks. Bright fresh unused copy, corners sharp. No browning. Very faint foxing to top edges, otherwise Fine.. 2nd impr thus. Hardback. Near Fine. xv, 125pp. No dustwrapper. 16 x 10cm. Binding tight, text unmarked.