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Malthus's economics classic, uncut, in boards
Malthus, Thomas R. Principles of Political Economy considered with a view to their practical application
$2,899.00Fine Editions Ltd
London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1820. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher’s catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. “London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.” on colophon and title-page verso, as called for. Uncut, in the original publisher’s drab blue paper-covered boards, largely unopened, with brown paper spine and remnants of original printed label. Internally, fresh and bright with only occasionally spotting, original spine largely perished but restored sensitively by an expert conservationist, the boards somewhat stained and bumped but thoroughly original, hinges reinforced. Small owner’s book label, probably contemporary, partly effaced, reading T ? Cobb. Clamshell case with leather spine label gilt. An unsophisticated copy of a truly scarce (in publisher’s binding), important, and desirable book, a cornerstone of economic thought and a major influence on other scientific endeavors, including the principles of evolution developed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Goldsmiths’-Kress 22767. Kress C577. Lowndes 1459. The title of Malthus’s final major work is “something of a misnomer, as the book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise. . . . The Principles had only a limited impact at the time, and was severely criticized by J. R. McCulloch and [David] Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received greater recognition, largely as a result of the comments by John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus’s theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment, and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove, the world would be a much wiser and richer place.” (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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Inscribed to Governor Emory Washburn
Batchelder, Samuel, Jr. Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States
$300.0032.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1863. Softcover. Small 8vo., 108 pp. First edition. Bound in heavy brown cloth. Important Civil War-era history of the U..S cotton industry written by Samuel Batchelder, a pioneering American industrialist, who was an inventor and manufacturer and one of the leading figures in the industrialization of the cotton industry in the Northeastern United States. Batchelder’s innovative mills were some of the first factories in the United States, and he was responsible for a number of inventions for improving production. Batchelder’s work serves as a valuable case study of early industrial capitalism in America, itouching on issues regarding machinery, contemporary inventors and patent dates and the international cotton trade [especially with Great Britain]. Writing in 1863, Batchelder noted that the combination of the progress of cotton manufacturing in the North and the massive disruption in cotton production in the South due to the Civil War made it almost impossible to speculate on the future of cotton, though he was confident that slavery would not continue to feature prominently in the industry. Nevertheless, at the time of writing, he noted that prices had increased fivefold in the past two years, an unsustainable rate. Either because of, or in spite of, his prominence in the cotton industry, Batchelder was a longtime abolitionist. From the title page: ‘How strange it is that so few attempts have been made to trace the rise and progress of great branch of industry, The Cotton Manufacture; to mark the successive steps of its enforcement, the solidity of the foundations on which it rests, and the influence which it has already had, and must continue too have, on the number and condition of its people.’ Mr. McCullough, Edinburgh Review. Inscribed by the author to his father in law, Emory Washburn: ‘Hon. Emory Washburn / with the respects of / Sam Batchelder.’ Emory Washburn was an American lawyer, politician, and historian. He was Governor of Massachusetts for one term [1854 to 1855] and served for many years on the faculty of Harvard Law School. His history of the early years of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is considered a foundational work on the subject. Very Good with some fading, discoloration and wear to the covers.
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First edition, Howes O-157, in quarter calf
Ouseley, William Gore Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States
$250.00First Folio
London: J. Rodwell, 1832. First edition. 8vo. xv, 208p. Bound in quarter calf with marbled sides and text block edges, the spine with gilt title on a red ground, the panels densely gilt. Contents quite clean, binding very good with some minor rubbing to sides. Two bookplates. Howes O-157; Sabin 57946.
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Robbins's defining economics essay, in jacket
Robbins, Lionel An Essay on the Nature & Significance of Economic Science
$250.00The Accidental Bookseller
Macmillan and Co. Ltd.: London, 1935. Second edition, revised and extended. An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science is often credited with bringing Austrian economic theory and methodology into English economics, as well as providing the still most widely used definition of economics: “Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses” (Susan Howson, The Origins of Lionel Robbins’s Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science) Uneven toning to free endpapers, cloth abraded to the boards (one area measures an inch wide + a few small spots), very good in like scarce dust wrapper with toned spine and a few small chips.
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Signed first edition by urbanist Jane Jacobs
Jacobs, Jane The Nature of Economies
$150.00The Accidental Bookseller
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2000. First edition, first printing with number line down to 2 and “first edition” stated as per Random House’s convention at the time. The simultaneous Canadian edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust wrapper.
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Hand-kept Connecticut account ledger, 1809–1852
Connecticut) Old Hand-Writen Ledger
$404.20Gene W. Baade Books on the West
n.p. Privately written, 1809. Hardcover. Good. Hardbound, original 1/4 leather & paper over boards. Original handwritten (in ink) ledger, small folio, 8″ x 12″. Non-ruled paper. Unpaginated. 94pp, representing approximately 40% of the pages, are filled out, and also the rear paste down. The rear free endpaper lists births & deaths of about 20 family members (primarily Stocking & Hooker families) from the 1750s to the 1830s. Not every entry has both birth & death listed. One entry: “Elijah Hooker Decr (December) 1769 (presumed birth year) killed by lightning (no date)”. Just browsing the pages we find references to Berlin, Midletown (Middletown), & Southington (Connecticut). This ledger lists activities involving expenditures of one of these family members, whom we might presume to be Luther Stocking. Listings of financial dealings begin in 1809 (with one 1808) & end in 1852, and incorporate an absolutely fascinating number of people, types of work, purchases/payments/receipts, etc. Materials and products include cider, brandy, tallow, potatoes, apples, lard, various grains (buckwheat) building materials & farm animals. Work included a lot of painting, plastering, stone & brick laying. leading us to believe the owner had a home construction, or part thereof, business. Also “sawing pickets for fence”, etc.. “Waggons” are loaned, animals are bought & sold & rented/fed, harvesting is done, and dollar amounts are given for each entry. Two examples: “June the 14th 1833 Gideon Munson Pd For Eight Bushels of potatoes which he is to Return the sam Number of Bushels in my sellar (sic) Next fall.” “July the 14th 1838 Norman Warner turned in his Cow Nov the first took her out fifteen week and three days three dollars”. A remarkable “portrait” of personal/business economic life early in our nation’s history. Covers worn but in real good shape. Front hinge broken but binding nevertheless sound.
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Stock certificate signed by Robert Morris
Morris, Robert Stock Certificate No. 893 Representing 5 Shares 13,653-13,657 of the North American Land Company, Sold to Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu of London, Twentieth of February 1795
$1,850.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Philadelphia: North American Land Company, 1795. Very Good binding. Item #7032 12.25″ x 9.75″. Printed broadside form on paper completed in ink and signed by the secretary of the North American Land Company James Marshall (brother of Chief Justice John Marshall) and president of the company, Robert Morris. Scalloped left edge as issued; vertical crease through the center from an early fold; light edgewear, only. A presentable copy. While Morris is most recognized as a financier of the American Revolution as well as a signer of the three founding documents of the United States—Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States—the North American Land Company was a less than successful endeavor. Late in the 18th century Morris had some early successes with land speculation that drove him. The culmination of that drive, The North American Land Company, was a venture started by Morris and John Nicholson and eventually including John Greenleaf. It was a land trust holding some six million acres from New York to Georgia. Perhaps too large for its own good, the company found itself in legal entanglements and without enough cash to meet its obligations, Morris and Nicholson both declared bankruptcy and both were eventually imprisoned for debt. Despite Morris’s ignominious finale it is hard to overstates the importance of Morris in the founding of the United States. Clarence L. Ver Steeg writes in his biographical sketch in the Oxford American National Biography, “In the line of succession that includes Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, Morris should be considered the first of three great treasury secretaries who laid the financial foundation of the United States.” An interesting document bearing the signature of one of the founding fathers of the United States and one of only two men that signed all three of the founding documents.
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Signed first edition of George’s challenge to Pope
George, Henry The Condition of Labor An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, with Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labor
$300.00The Accidental Bookseller
United States Book Company, New York, 1891. First edition, seemingly issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers, this is the scarce cloth edition. Signed by the author without personalization adding “regards”. Recipient’s small note below signature indicating receipt date. In this book, Henry addresses the issue of labor conditions in the late 19th century, particularly in the United States. He argues that the capitalist system is inherently flawed and that it leads to the exploitation of workers. Henry presents a detailed analysis of the economic and social factors that contribute to the poor conditions of labor and offers solutions to improve the situation. The book is written in the form of an open letter to Pope Leo XIII, who had recently published an encyclical on the issue of labor. Henry’s letter is a passionate plea to the Pope to use his influence to bring about change and to advocate for the rights of workers. Some gingerness to the hinge in middle of the book, spine tips scuffed, corners rubbed. Very good.
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SET OF 6 SIGNED CANNERY STRIKE POSTERS
Kantrowitz, Andrea and the members of Watsonville Canning, Local 912. SIX SILKSCREEN PRINTS OF THE WATSONVILLE, CA CANNERY STRIKE OF 1985-1987.
$750.00Bookfever.com
By the artist, 1987. A complete set of six original two-color silkscreen prints, each approximately 18″ by 14″ with an image size of 13 3/4″ 10 1/2″. All are both signed in the plate and dated 1987 and each was additionally handsigned by the artist. The Watsonville strike was a successful strike of Mexican American frozen food workers (primarily women) in Watsonville, California, in 1985-1987, one of the few successful strikes of the 1980s. With no initial support from the Teamsters Union, it was unique in being led by the mostly Chicana workers who were facing significant wage cuts. “Over a period of 18 months, not one of the 1,000 Watsonville Canning strikers returned to work. This incredible unity was the key to the strikers’ ultimate victory. The strike paralyzed this rural California town. Several hundred maintained the picket line and fifty to several hundred people attended strategy meetings where they argued over the direction of the strike.” It is appropriate that these prints are very empathetic portraits of some of these women and their children or families, with their own words about why they are striking and how they are managing to continue for so long. The artist Andrea Kantrowitz commented that this is “a set of six silk-screen prints based on countless sketches done on the picket line during 1985 and 1986. I spent weeks with the workers, on the picket lines, in the union hall, listening to and transcribing their stories. When I first went to Watsonville, I planned to take photos and work with them in my studio. I soon found that working directly, on site, brought me much closer to the strikers and allowed me much deeper insight into the reality of their lives.” Ironically while the strikers might have won this battle (although the final resolution was, in reality, a compromise), the continuing changes to the frozen food packing industry, including relocating to Mexico after NAFTA, meant that by the year 2000 only one plant remained open in the former “frozen food capital of the world.” The six prints in the original set are in near fine to fine condition with some having minor creasing near the edges, not affecting the images. #93191
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