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The University of Chicago Press/Phoenix Books. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. Third Impression. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg, dated 1982 in Berlin. 570 pages. A National Review Panel ranked this work as the ninth best non-fiction book of the twentieth century. "A positive statement of the principles of society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations... A thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state." - Publisher. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Dust jacket in poor condition with numerous defects..; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; LOC # 59-11618 Von Hayek, Friedrich A. The Constitution of Liberty Arvid Fredborg social philosophy ethics anthropology jurisprudence history of ideas economics modern… Read More

Germany: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.. Good. 1929. First Edition. Paperback. xii, 147, 2 [ads] pp. Index. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut fur Konjunkturforschung nr. 1" - front cover. Text in German. In 1933 this work appeared for the first time in English as "Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle". Hayek went on to share the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Moderate wear to original brown paper wrappers. Binding sound. Small chip from top of backstrip. Top corners of last five leaves were folded. Several mostly imperceptible pencil erasures in first 66 pages. A well-preserved example of the first edition of this, Hayek's first book. Masui p.1277, Cohen 184, Cody & Ostrem B-1.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Geldtheorie Und Konjunkturtheorie, Monetary Theory, Trade Cycle, Austrian School, Economics, Monetary Policy .

New York: Kasper and Horton. Good. 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Stellar provenance for this signed first printing example inscribed by Mullins (1923-2010) to dedicatee of a subsequent printing, George Stimpson, upon title page. Also signed by Stimpson inside front cover. In the Foreword to the 1991 printing of this title Mullins paid tribute to Stimpson by saying he and Ezra Pound were "two of the finest scholars of the twentieth century, who generously gave of their vast knowledge to a young writer to guide him in [this] field which he could not have managed alone. The research [for this book] at the Library of Congress was directed and reviewed daily by George Stimpson, whom the New York Times on September 28, 1952 called 'A highly regarded reference source in the capital'". The first nationally circulated revelation of the secret meetings of the international bankers at Jekyll Island, Georgia, 1907-1910, where the draft of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was… Read More

London: David Nutt. Good. 1896. First English Edition. Paperback. First English edition of Der Judenstaat, published in German in the same year. [xii], 102, [1] ad, pages. "Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the reasonable requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves". - p.25. In his July 10, 1896 diary entry Herzl wrote "Paid the publisher David Nutt 19 pounds and a few shillings for the English edition. He has sold only 160 copies". - p.414 of "The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl". Moderate external soiling. Above-average external wear with a variety of small chips from and short openings to the thin paper covers. Binding intact. Prior owner's details in pencil, dated 1896, atop half-title, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy of this profoundly influential work by the acknowledged father of the Jewish state. Emanuel p.53; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall;… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boldly signed and dated, without inscription, by Schumpeter upon front free endpaper. A revision of the 1942 first edition with new material appraising the social changes wrought by WWII. p. xiv, 411. Index. Bookplate of Leo Kramer inside front board. In these emergent days of AI, robotics and blockchain technology, Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction, introduced in this work, has never rung more true. Google Scholar states that a 2016 study by Professor Elliott Green determined this book to be the third most frequently cited work in the social sciences published before 1950. Blaug p.216, Pressman p.161, Fundaburk 9545, Swedberg chapter 7, Hutchinson 735, Hazlitt p.146, Augello S.011.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Schumpeter, Joseph A. (Signed) Economics Political Economy Theory Process of Creative Destruction… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by FDR's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. [1891-1967], to his first cousin once removed, James Frank Jr. The infamous Morgenthau Plan charted a course for Germany post WWII intended to revert it to a pastoral state. Senator Henrick Shipstead denounced it as "America's eternal monument of shame, for the destruction of the German people." - Congressional Record, Senate, May 15, 1946, p.5039. "The punishment policy deeply betrayed the will of the American people against indiscriminate vengeance, which had been demonstrated in the nationwide condemnation of the Morgenthau Plan." - James Bacque, Other Losses, p.158. "The Morgenthau Plan would wipe out everything in Germany except land, and the Germans would have to live on the land. Thus only 60 percent of the population could support themselves and the other 40 percent… Read More

Singapore: Straits Times Press, 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Fifth Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and dated [2012] by Lee Kuan Yew, without inscription, upon title page. "Lee Kuan Yew's name is nearly synonymous with modern Singapore. Prime Minister for 31 years from 1959 to 1990, he was in the public eye for over 60 years as a revolutionary leader who steered Singapore to independence, as a determined Prime Minister who transformed the country, and finally as an elder statesman. This book picks up from his memoirs of 2000 as Lee engages a group of journalists over issues that a younger, more critical population has raised." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Unopened DVD inside back board. A wonderful memento of this extraordinary statesman..

New York: Henry George & Co.. Good. 1880. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Henry George [1839-1897] upon first blank leaf. Publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; 4,xi,[3],512,[2],4,[4]pp. Moderate wear to extremities. Few light red pencil marks to four leaves. Trifles of ink writing atop front free endpaper and second blank leaf. Several thin ink lines on pages 138 and 241. Binding tight. 19 x 13 cm. George, an unknown printer in 1870's San Francisco, witnessed the city's evolution from rough encampment to wealthy metropolis, while at the same time observing the emergence of pauperism. He endeavored to discover why wealth grew simultaneously with poverty and, after years of study, produced this book, determining that a single tax on land value was the solution. Once early publishing difficulties were overcome, sales of the book skyrocketed into the millions internationally, exceeding all titles other than the… Read More

New York: Story Magazine, Inc.. Good. 1938. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. First appearance of this prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. Simon & Schuster published the first book edition in 1939 and a film noir version followed in 1944. Subsequent stage play performances have continued globally until recent years. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. Occupies pages 20-32 of this 104 page magazine which is clean and unmarked with respectful wear. Front cover beginning to loosen and must be handled gently. Two-inch openings at head and foot of… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good. 1924. Third Printing. Hardcover. A modern Jew, perhaps for the first time, analyzes western civilization as an expression of the Gentile way of life and shows where this clashes with the nature and spiritual impulses of the Jew. - paraphrased from front flap of replica dust jacket included with this copy. "We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands - The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us." - p. 155. "I console myself with the thought that if this book offends by its assertiveness, God knows that the infinite tactfulness of thousands of other Jews seems to have offended no less. Whatever we do we are damned - and I would rather be damned standing up than lying down." - p. 221. "Born in Romania, Maurice Samuel [1895-1972] moved to the United States in 1914. A Jewish intellectual and… Read More

Australia: The Institute for Semantography. Good. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Bliss [1897-1985] was a chemical engineer until WWII forced him and his wife to flee Europe. In 1946 they landed in Australia where he directed his full effort to developing what would come to be known as semantography, an easy-to-learn ideographic writing system which would enable people of different languages to communicate. - Wikipedia. Upon its publication in 1949, Bliss wrote to 6,000 educators around the world, seeking to encourage interest in his work, but very little was expressed, although he did hear back from a few, including Bertrand Russell and Julian Huxley. They gave him the courage to carry on. - film "Mr. Symbol Man" xxii, 1-37, XXVIII, 38-90; [28], 91-414; [10], 415-670 pp. Index. Occasional paperclip marks. Four lines of the acknowledgements section stroked out in ballpoint pen, presumably by publisher. Similar corrections to pages 82 and 665. Respectful wear to… Read More

Singapore: Prentice Hall. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0130208035 . Signed and inscribed upon title page by Lee Kuan Yew to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, dated October 1998. "The first volume of the memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew [1923-2015], the man who planted this island state firmly on the map of the world. In Intimate detail, Lee recounts the battles against colonialists, communists and communalists that led to Singapore's independence. Lee brings the reader into his personal life, with unusual candour and the occasional touch of humour. He also shares insights into the men who shaped the times." - dust jacket. "For a country to rise from the threshold of subsistence to one of the highest living standards in the world in 30 years is no common achievement. At the root of this success lies the genius of one man, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew." - Jacques Chirac. "Lee Kuan Yew is one of the seminal figures of Asia, and this book does justice… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1966. Third Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Milton Friedman upon half-title. "Uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the U.S. economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations. The implication drawn is that changes in the money supply had unintended adverse effects, and that sound monetary policy is necessary for economic stability. Orthodox economic historians see [this] as one of the most influential economics books of the century. Friedman, 1912-2006, won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Upon his death, The Economist described him as 'the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century... possibly all of it.'" - Wikipedia. Third printing of the 1963 first edition. Inscribed to John De Jong whose name is handwritten atop front free endpaper. No… Read More

Appleton, Wisconsin: C.C. Nelson Publishing Company. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1953. Second Printing, With Revisions. Hardcover. Charles A. Lindbergh's copy, signed and inscribed to him by his fellow seeker of peace, justice and historical truth, Harry Elmer Barnes [1889-1968], whom Murray Rothbard eulogized as "the last of the truly erudite historians." A truly magnificent provenance for this work which "shows how the extension of military operations to civilian populations and property, and the increasingly destructive nature of total warfare, menace the very future of humanity and Western civilization. [This work] makes it clear how the [Nuremberg] war-crimes trials, far from curbing the barbarism of present-day warfare, will make it absolutely certain that every known form of destructiveness and mass-murder, however fiendish and devastating, will surely be brought forth in the desperate effort to avoid a defeat which, in all future wars, will mean the summary… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. A first printing example of "the best-selling economics textbook of all time, now in its 19th edition and having sold nearly four million copies in 40 languages. In 1970 Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the 'Father of Modern Economics', and the New York Times considers him to be the 'foremost academic economist of the 20th century'." - Wikipedia. Signature upon half-title appears to be that of Professor Emeritus and Rhodes Scholar G. Coleman Woodbury (1903-1994), "one of the three-person team which drafted the legislation establishing America's public housing program, the Housing Act of 1937". - University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Document 1108. pp. xx,… Read More