Search Results: Economic history from Berthoff Books

Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of foxing to top edge, binding tight. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly small marks) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and by an earlier owner (in barely visible gold highlighter) on approximately 60 pages.

The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Two-volume set. 977 pages consecutively numbered across the two volumes (Volume 1 contains pages 1-500), with index to both volumes at the end of Volume 2. 8vo, blue cloth, slight shelf wear, page-turn soil to bottom edges, Vol. 1 has a few pages chipped or folded at outside bottom corner. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and "June 1946" written on each front pastedown, pages clean, bright for their age, and unmarked.

EIR News Service, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 398 pages, with index, tables of economic data, author's Introduction to the English edition. English translation of book published in Russian in 2004. Prof. Stanislav Menshikov (1927-2014) was an eminent Russian economist in the Soviet period and thereafter. He co-chaired the Russian branch of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction. Menshikov's books about the USA, such as U.S. Corporations in World Markets (1958) and Millionaires and Managers (1966) provided a differentiated picture that was unusual during the Cold War. In 1988 his conversations with John Kenneth Galbraith were published in the book Capitalism, Communism, Coexistence. In The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, Menshikov applied his half-century of research and experience to analyze the first decade of Russia's post-Soviet economic experience, the effects of which still reverberate 30 years later. The book's chapters are: 1. A General Description of Russian… Read More

Schocken Books, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 222 pages plus 117 b&w illutrations on unnumbered pages. First Schocken Paperback edition of work first published 1947; version revised and extended by editor Arthur Elton, 1968. Has Editor's Preface, Catalogue of Illustrations, and Index. Large trade paperback (6-5/8" x 9-1/8"), minimal shelf wear, light dust soil to top edge, faint foxing to fore-edge, page-turning soil to bottom corner, pages unmarked.

Allen & Unwin, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 295 pages, with index, bibliography, illustrated with tables and graphs of economic data. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, a couple of tiny spots of soil to bottom edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Association Press, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 256 pages. Preface by Paul Abrecht. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, spine rubbed and stained, edges age-toned, binding solid. Book sale price in pencil on ffep, text pages unmarked.

Sphere Books Limited, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 287 pages, eight pages of b&w photos, two maps. "In 1983 two young Australians were forced by a storm to moor their yacht Tiger Rag in a port in south west India. Within weeks, the Milgates realized that Cochin was not the quiet naval base it seemed, but the centre of a massive international drug-smuggling and intelligence operation." Mass-market paperback edition of book published the previous year, creases to spine, wraps and edges lightly soiled. No markings within.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 191 pages plus Index and translator's Preface. Sixth printing of 1957 Vintage edition, translation by R.R. Palmer first published 1947, the book in French - 1939. Appendix: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Mass-market paperback, water stains and slight waviness to top of the text block, light wear and creases to wraps, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 20 pages.

Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1963. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN (but the images are its main content). Mit einer Einleitung von Friedrich Schnack. Panoramas of 46 European cities and their surroundings, drawn from the 1695 edition of Archontologia Cosmica and the Topographia by the Swiss engraver Matthaeus Merian (the Elder) earlier in the 17th century. The engravings are on fold-out panoramic pages. 8" x 10-1/2" (~20 cm x 26.5 cm), pictorial boards, dust soil to edges, Paris fold-out was creased in the wrong place and protrudes slightly. The condition "fair" is a compromise between the "good" interior and "poor" binding: the backstrip is entirely missing and the paper over boards is ragged along where the backstrip was. Gift inscription on the half-title, other pages unmarked.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 269 pages (plus list of Vintage books), with index. First Vintage edition (V-584) of book published in hardcover 1969. Eight chapters of economic history, six-part Appendix containing diagrams of various processes: export-generating, import-replacing, patterns of economic activities, and a list of definitions. Mass-market paperback, average wear and age-toning to wraps, page margins age-toned, binding cracked at p. 184-85 and reglued - all pages attached, crease to p. 185. Name of former owner Prof. Ann Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia throughout first three chapters, but few thereafter; outline for imaginary colloquies, e.g. Jacobs - Suzanne K. Langer - Freya Stark - Jane Addams handwritten on rear end papers.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 225 pages, with index, numerous figures and tables, eight b&w illustrations on plates. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible wear, pages bright and unmarked, in clean and crisp DJ with a tad of curl to the top of the flaps.

Vintage Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages, with Index of Sources, Subject Index. First Vintage edition - V-682 (book copyright 1970). From back cover: ". . . what few social scientists would have dared to attempt: . . . an introduction to the economic study of history, in all of its complexity." Mass-market paperback, shelf wear includes nick along top edge of front cover, small tear at heel; pages age-tanned, binding tight, interior unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 55 pages, with Appendix showing landed wealth of 23 English Peers under Charles I. The Economic History Review Supplements - 1, published for the Economic History Society. Date inferred, not stated. Polemical pamphlet directed at the arguments of Prof. R.H. Tawney on the causes of the English Civil War. Journal format (approx. 7" x 10"), light-weight card-stock wraps with corner creases, light soil, age-tanning and light foxing, spine a bit rumpled. Name of former owner Prof. W.B. Berthoff with date July 1963 written on front cover, alongside price in pencil. Interior unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 242 pages, with index, 36 tables of economic, sociological and population data, 28 maps. A Pelican Original - Pelican Book A706. Mass-market paperback. This copy is listed as in "good" condition as an average of the beat-up exterior ("fair") and the unmarked pages ("very good"). Front cover discolored from being damp-stuck to another book, wraps heavily creased, 2" separation of front cover from spine at top, small tears at foot; foxing, stains and soil to edges and end papers; front matter pages dog-eared at bottom and slightly so at top. Not ex-library, former owner's name written on ffep, no marks on pages except for one tiny ink spot on page 155.

Broadway Books, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 472 pages, with index, Sources and Guide for Further Reading. Trade paperback, light shelf wear along the bottom, back cover and about 1/4" of text block wavy at top near spine. Pages unmarked.

Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 87 pages, with index, list of illustrations. Besides the 40-some b&w illustrations (photos of artifacts and art works) on plates, there is a two-page frontispiece diagram "General Plan of the Excavations" at the site in Sicily. First English Translation stated. Series: Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. Text runs through page 51, followed by plates on glossy stock. Small booklet (~5-3/8" x 7-5/16", 13 x 18.5 cm), light blue wraps, spine sunned, wraps soiled, wear includes 1/2" tear at crown, foxing to edges and first plate. Main defect is that p. 64 and 65 are stuck together near top, with ~1" diameter damage to two of the plates. Pencil marks in margin of approximately 15 of the text pages.

D.C. Heath and Company, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 90 pages, with suggestions for additional reading. Introduction by the editor. Ten essays on aspects of British economic and social history 1750-1850. Trade paperback, reading crease, creases to corners, rubbed along spine, wraps age-tanned and lightly soiled, foxing to edges/wraps/end papers, small pencil notation on front cover at upper right. Pages unmarked.

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 355 pages. Fifth printing of work published 1914. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), brown buckram, black lettering and decoration, spine sunned, corners bumped, gray topstain. Old price and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout pages 1 - 110 and on rear end papers, rest of the pages clean.

Cambridge University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 308 pages, with index. A long subtitle informs that the book comprises Fay's lectures at Cambridge in 1919 to students including Royal Navy officers and U.S. Army personnel. 8vo, yellow cloth with red lettering, boards soiled and banged up (dents in spine, bumps to edges), some wavy areas as from damp on boards and front-matter pages near spine. Writing on ffep includes a former owner's name and bookstore price; copyright page stamped "withdrawn" from H.M. Stationery Office; pale yellow highlighting observed on three pages, but rest of the text is clean and unmarked.

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute/Silk Road Studies Program, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 512 pages, with maps, graphs, tables. Chapters on the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Russia and Turkey. Trade paperback, tiny scratch to front wrap, almost invisible crease to back top corner, minor shelf wear. Pages clean, bright, unmarked. Not ex-library.