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178929932Londres Paris: de l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury 1789. Later printing. 208pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf marbled endpapers gilt spine. Very good. Bound with four other titles see below. Later printing. 208pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ESTC notes four other printings of this with different pagination but not this with 208 pages which is possibly a false imprint. Calonne had the dubious honor of being Minister of Finance under Louis XVI and left for England on the outbreak of the Revolution. <br/><br/>Bound with four other titles:<br/><br/>1 VERMOND l'Abbé de. La Cour Plénière Héroï-Tragi-Comédie . jouée le 14 Juillet 1788 . viii 104pp. 8vo Baville: ls Veuve Liberté 1788.<br/>2 _______. La Dernière edition de la Cour Plénière . iii 115pp. 8vo Baville 1788.<br/>3 LE FRANC DE POMPIGNAN Jean-George. Le Lever de Bâville Drame Héroïque . Pour servir de suite à la Cour Plénière . 76pp. 8vo Rome: Chez Barbarini n.d.<br/>4 LINGUET Simon Nicolas Henri. La France plus qu'Angloise ou Comparaison entre la Procédure entamée à Paris le 25 Septembre 1788 contre les Ministres du Roi de France et le Procès intenté à Londres en 1640 au Comte de Strafford principal Ministre de Charles Ier Roi d'Angleterre . Troisième edition. 141pp. 8vo Bruxelles 1789. Kress 1554 & 1555 different issues of the same year de l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury unknown books
19332084New York: Weil McGinniss & Sloman 1933. First Edition. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. Good. 97 pages. 35 x 28 cm.Volume I Number I - Quarterly magazine specifically produced for the drug and toiletry market. Large format and profusely illustrated. Compelling articles include Ephedra Congo Medicine and The Medicine Man; with an early article about "Dr. Seuss" and his early illustrating work for The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The story goes something like this: After one of Geisel's cartoons that appeared in Judge Magazine mentioned FLIT a common bug spray at the time Geisel signed on with The Standard Oil Company and produced illustrations from May 31 1928 through 1941 which in turn helped him gain notoriety and landed him assignments with Life Liberty and Vanity Fair. Additionally a full two-page center spread color illustrated of Garbo in 1915 and again in 1933. This publication seems to be the first and last published. Covers chipped rubbed and soiled. Some pages toning to the interior. <br/><br/> Weil, McGinniss & Sloman paperback books
193916152New York: McGraw-Hill 1939. Second Printing. Two octavo volumes 23cm. Original maroon cloth titled in black and gilt on spines; pp 1-448; 449-1095. Mild external wear with some rubbing to spine ends; scattered marginalia in pencil mostly to first volume; ownership signature of Werner Schott. A solid attractive set about VG. Landmark of 20th-century economic analysis; still in print; early printings are notably scarce. McGraw-Hill unknown books
169616674London 1696. First edition. 1 vols. Sm 4to. Disbound chipping and losses from removed stitching margins closely trimmed and cropped with text loss on the first eight pages the loss is generally a letter or part of a word so that the content is understandable thereafter a line of text is missing on each page as well as the letters or parts of words trimmed from the margins these losses do not seem to greatly affect comprehension of Killigrew's plan two overlay slips to correct text on page 4 and another on page 8 some soiling. First edition. 1 vols. Sm 4to. This is Killigrew's proposal for allaying the national debt by a system of bonds and paper specie. He had presented a similar proposal in the early reign of William and Mary and apparently revives it here with additions and answers to some of his critics. Kress and the DNB give 1663 as the date of publication but he makes references to "the reign of Charles II" and in the "Clause" the notation "To carry on the War the year 97" appears. Killigrew died in October 1695. Following this pamphlet is a single leaf entitled "To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled The Humble Petition of Percivall Brunskell Gent." Kress 1111 giving the date of 1663 as does the DNB; Wing K.466 giving the date of 1696 unknown books
193742456Chicago: University of Plenocracy Publishers 1937. First American Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; 8507pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece full-page illus. by George Clayton Field throughout. A few tiny chips to jacket extremities small stain from previously removed tape at top edge of rear panel else a Near Fine copy in the uncommon jacket. Contemporary photographic ex-libris to front pastedown of a "John J. King" a.k.a. "Buddha" with gift inscription to front free endpaper: "To Dear Lady Moore / High Priestess of Long . From 'Buddha.'" Treatise on so-called "Plenocracy" "The Science of Creating Abundance for All" rear jacket panel by the author of "Unseen Forces and How to Use Them" 1933. Ownership markings as wacky as the contents. OCLC locates five copies in the United States as of October 2018 Cal. State Northridge UCSB LC Illinois and Tennessee. University of Plenocracy Publishers unknown books
27780Folio two pages inscribed on a four page bi-folium paper browned some paper loss on integral address leaf else in good legible condition. Letter from John W. Kittera Federalist member of Congress from Lancaster Pennsylvania to Jasper Yeates 1745-1817 jurist and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court also from Lancaster in which Kittera relates some of the growing tensions arising from the Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793 after the declaration of war by France against Great Britain and the extension of the wars of the French Revolution into a greater maritime war and the resultant seizure of American shipping by the British as well as the French. " At this most critical and alarming period when the public bodies are in a perfect state of uncertainty whether our common country shall long enjoy the blessings of peace or soon be involved in all the horrors of war you will excuse me for intruding on you a few sentiments that have strongly impressed my mind. - While the government have declared this country in a state of neutrality the people by their public rejoicings at the success of the French arms by the secret aid furnished to the French by their town meetings hasty resolves and newspaper publications are evidently endangering the peace of the Country. The depredations committed on our trade particularly in the West Indies have so provoked the mercantile part of the community that their resentments can in many parts of the Union with difficulty be restrained. The Judge of the island of Montserrat an unprincipled rascal who is said to be interested in most of the privateers condemns all the American vessels that are tried in his Court. Injuries to our trade of the grossest kind are not only received from the British who have really received some provocation by the frauds of our merchants and the conduct of our Citizens but the French have detained in Bordeau above one hundred sale of American merchantmen by an imbargo for near six months. sic In this State of things what is best to be done is a question of immense difficulty. Congress have had their doors shut for three or four days past and I am at liberty to inform you that a question was taken respecting the laying of an imbargo sic and carried in the negative by a small majority. At first I confess I felt favorably disposed towards the measure but on the discussion changed my sentiments. I never saw Congress reduced to so many difficulties - You have seen the resolves of our town meeting. Dallas and Swanart harangued the crowd from the State House window and received a general huzza at the conclusion of each resolution. One drunken sailor had the assurance to say No for which he had two of his ribs broken and otherways much abused. But few of the respectable Citizens attended another meeting is to be had this evening. The mob at New York assembled on Sunday week entered the Roman Chapel playing the time of Caira drove the priest from the altar & the worshippers from the Church. These violent measures are productions of the worst of all evils and if instead of intrusting the management of the government in the hands of the Representatives of the people designing men are thus frequently to assemble the people to legislate for themselves the objection made by Despots to a republican form of government that it is good in theory but bad in practice is a good objection. Those things are particularly improper at a time like the present. Excuse the freedom of these sentiments." For further information on Kittera and Yeates see: Dictionary of American Biography vol. x part two p. 606 Who Was Who in America Historical Volume pp. 297; 601 <br /><br /> books
19484697Ithaca NY: Cornell University 1948. Two thick quartos not consistently paginated. A collection of recipes in two volumes collected in fourteen sections most likely issued individually: Sandwiches Salads Breads Deserts Cakes Cookies & Frostings Soups Meat & Poultry Meat Extensions Meatless and Fish Recipes Meat Substitutes Dressings Relishes and Sauces Vegetables. Recipes appear to be assembled for a specific course as each section contains a unique identification code most likely a course number. Recipes are large-scale serving between twenty-five and fifty-five and contain remarks on garnishing possible variations cost and size of serving specifically which size ladle/dipper to use in addition to the ingredient list and instructions. New York State College of Home Economics had its early beginnings in 1900 when Martha Van Rensselaer arrived at Cornell to organize a reading course for farmers' wives and evolved into a fully accredited program of home economics. In 1923 the League of Women Voters named Van Renssleaer one of the twelve greatest women in the country. These volumes belonged to Mary Louise Van Allen née Alstein Class of 1950. Mimeographed recipes are bound with colored tab dividers separating each section. In blue cloth with gold titles stamped to spines and the owner's name to lower right corner of the covers. Some rubbing and edgewear to both volumes volume one has staining/discoloration to front cover. With some very slight food stains to interior and creasing to tabbed dividers otherwise very good. Owner's name Mary Louise Van Allen inscribed on prelims and her initials appear sporadically throughout the text. OCLC records various copies of a commercially printed version of this work or a similar work printed in the 1950s and 60s but no copies of this earlier mimeographed printing. (Cornell University) hardcover books
36310KRESS LIBRARY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS. CATALOGUE. Two volumes. Fairfield: Augustus M. Kelley 1977; Boston: Baker Library 1967. 4to. Cloth xii 414; viii 453 pages. A mixed set: Volume I is a reprint of the 1940 edition; Volume II the first edition of the supplement. Still the standard reference on the subject. Fin. unknown books
189141660V.p. 1891-1899. Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo 18cm.; contemporary half green calf over cloth gilt-ruled spine in six compartments all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners spine toned contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock else Near Very Good internally near fine. Contents as follows:. 1. Henry George. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. - The Remedy. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1889. x406pp.<br/><br/>2. Robert Blatchford. Merrie England. London: Clarion Office 1894. "Cheap Edition." 206pp. Facsimile illus. <br/><br/>3. John Smith. England's Ruin; or John Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Plea for Socialism as contained in the widely-circulated book Merrie England. London: Walter Scott 1895. 31pp. Portrait illus. <br/><br/>4. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Progressive Publishing Company 1891. "Centenary Edition." xiii14-163pp. <br/><br/>5. George Blaiklock. Socialism: False and True. A Review and an Exposure. London: G. Cohen n.d. ca. 1890s. 16pp.<br/><br/>6. Leo Tolstoi alt. spelling Tolstoy; A. Hulme Beaman trans. Master and Man. London: Chapman and Hall 1895. 125pp. unknown books
1957005527London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957. From the personal library of Elinor Ostrom her name and address stamp half- title page. Vincent Ostrom and his wife Elinor founded the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 1973 at Indiana University. Elinor Ostrom was the first and to this date only woman to win a Nobel Prize for Economics. which she won in 2009 " for her groundbreaking research demonstrating that ordinary people are capable of creating rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources" Indiana Univ. website. With her underlining and informed marginal notations. Both volumes are Fine with the aforementioned pencilling in Very Good dust jackets Vol. 1 has a 1" chip at head of spine affecting title and Vol. 2 a 3/8" chip across head of spine 1" chip at base of spine extending 2" across bottom front panel. . Later Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Routledge & Kegan Paul Hardcover books
193335105New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Second Printing. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; xviii2490pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities spine rather toned top textblock edge heavily foxed compliments card of the Michigan Association of Personal Finance Companies signed by the Director of Social Research Russell J. Darling originally paperclipped now loose to front free endpaper with subsequent rust stains. Still a Very Good or better copy in the scarce dust jacket. The earliest such history of the personal finance business authored by a statistician for the Beneficial Management Corporation a company which supervised and audited the largest group of personal finance companies in the country. Neifeld would go on to write a number of small how-to manuals on personal and consumer credit. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
194643451New York: John Day Company 1946. Second Printing. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix3297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities none quite touching text spine very slighty toned later ownership signature to front free endpaper else Very Good overall. Important work on the business and managerial structure of General Motors by the Austrian-American political economist and professor of management. John Day Company unknown books
1785WRCLIT72914Dublin: Printed for Luke White 1785. 2ii200;24pp. plus errata slip affixed to title verso. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Modest tanning at edges and some dusting to title and terminal leaf two old stamps of a defunct mercantile library; a good copy. First Dublin edition this being ESTC's normal state of the title with '86' and 'His'. The concluding 24pp. are separately signed and paginated printing "A Bill for Effectuating the Intercourse and Commerce between Great Britain and Ireland ." ESTC suggests that the various London "editions" are likely related to the same setting as this printing. Woodfall "is said to have visited Dublin by invitation in 1784 to report the debates on the 'commercial propositions' Nichols Lit. Anecd. i. 303. His reporting was an effort of memory; he listened to a speech and then committed to paper a remarkably accurate version of it. His fame had preceded him and crowds followed him in the streets of Dublin because he was supposed to be 'endowed with supernatural powers.' Nichols records that Woodfall's report was printed and prepared for sale as a pamphlet and that 'not more than three copies were ever called for" - DNB. The last observation perhaps explains the efforts to market sheets under the London imprints although the extraordinary abundance of copies reported in OCLC suggests some measure of circulation occurred. ESTC N16791. BLACK 1433. KRESS B.984. GOLDSMITHS 12965. BRADSHAW 2149. Printed for Luke White unknown books
188127063New York N.Y.: Fisk & Hatch 1881. 103 1 blank iv page index 4 pages promoting the various investment services of Fisk & Hatch. Illustrated with a folding color "Map Showing the Movement of the Centre of Population Westward. From the U.S. Census Also the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its connections." Map approx. 8 1/4" x 12 1/2" size overall; also with a folding Statement of the Public Debt of the United States for the Month of December 1880 with interest-bearing debt list mature debts recapitulation bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies interest payable by the United States. With a laid-in separate booklet the "May 13th 1881 Supplement to Memoranda Concerning Government Bonds Eighth Edition in regard to Five Per Cent. Bonds of 1881 and Six Per Cent. Bonds of 1881 With particulars as to those which have been called for redemption and as to the privilege of continuance at Three-and-a-half per cent." 8 pages; also Fisk & Hatch NY blue sewn paper wrappers 4 1/2" x 6" approx. size. The main booklet is slightly larger at approx. 5" x 6 1/2" size; bound in the original printed sewn paper wrappers. Old chipping and chewed laciness to bottom corner of about the first 15 pages; back also chipped at base about 3 pages; no losses to text; some soiling and wear to binding. Contents of both booklets map foldout otherwise clean and in good condition. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Fisk & Hatch paperback books
19112375Edinburgh: Andrew Usher & Co. 1911. Hardcover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Very good. 61 pages. Tribute to the royal family along with detailed list of sporting and athletic competitions including horse racing yachting tennis cycling cricket boxing lacrosse baseball swimming hockey golf and rowing. Unmarked blotter and calendar for 1911. Covers rubbed at edges. Interior clean. <br/><br/> Andrew Usher & Co. hardcover books
1791WRCLIT83235Paris: Imprimerie National 1791. 18pp. Later cloth and boards. Nice copy partially untrimmed. First edition. An uncommon report one of many compiled by the prominent revolutionary and publisher of the POINT DU JOUR. In this case the properties deeded to the king are listed along with values and incomes derived from them hitherto. OCLC: 223318958. Imprimerie National hardcover books
1797WRCLIT72915London: Printed for John Stockdale 1797. 702pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume untrimmed. Manuscript '7' on title leaf some dustsoiling at edges and to title otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Observations on naval impressment domestic financial policy peace negotiations with France universal suffrage and other current matters including reference to Adam Smith in a footnote. ESTC includes two entries for this title one for a single copy lacking the advert leaf and locates a total of ten copies. OCLC/Worldcat locates eight copies spread across three entries ESTC N1307 & T148317. GOLDSMITHS 16901. OCLC: 228758936; 17313149; and 612540379. Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
19770000469Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1977. First edition this copy inscribed & initialed by Galbraith in the year of publication. Hardcover. Slight foxing at the edges of the text block otherwise Fine in rubbed dust jacket with moderate edge wear including nicks & small losses Good or better. Tall 8vo 365 pp. illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. <br/><br/>Professor Galbraith's ambitous & exhaustive history of economics "from Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer through Marx and Lenin to Keynes ." which was the basis for the BBC documentary series. This copy is inscribed almost certainly to Andrea Hill Williams who for 47 years was Galbraith's book editor and personal assistant: "For Andrea with love/ and thanks for making/ it publishable as well/ as good/ once more/ J.K.G. - 1977." Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
19822500Le Havre France: Jobin et. Co. 1982. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards title in gilt. Very good in very good slip case. 463 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Technical but informative presented in list format with 36 color photographs. Bilingual in both English and French. Publishers letter laid in. Interior clean and crisp spine sunned. <br /> Jobin et. Co. hardcover books
192014043Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co 1920. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Cloth boards lettered in red and black; 184pp. Presentation copy warmly inscribed on front endpaper to UMWA President John L. Lewis: "To John L. Lewis Esq / I am with you heart and soul in any honest effort to better the condition of the heroic hardies who work under ground / R.D. Kathrens" dated 1920. Light wear and soil to boards; presentation leaf has been tipped-on to a stub; a few marginal marks in text possibly in Lewis's hand; Very Good. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab steadfastly ignores his requests for the courtesy of a reply: ".it is hardly consistent with the civilities--as we understand them west of the Alleghenies--to shoo me away or send me to the back door or require me to deal with the servants." Kathrens professes his own sanity and good judgment frequently enough that our sympathies fall firmly on the side of Mr. Schwab. Includes a full reprint of Kathrens' earlier effort The Menace of the Millionaire and reprints other letters to and from Samuel Untermeyer and George W. Perkins. Burton Publishing Co unknown books
198615068Amsterdam: North-Holland 1986. First Edition. Two octavo volumes; blue cloth; dustjacket; pp790-1273. Ink hand-stamps and old price-sticker residue to endpapers; Vol I lacking jacket Vol II in moderately rubbed and edgeworn jacket; else tight and unmarked. Very Good. A sound and unmarked working set. North-Holland unknown books
1727WRCLIT52793London: Printed by J. Watson. 1727. 231pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Paper flaw in blank portion of half-title some dust-spotting in gutter of title but a good copy. Second edtion of at least three editions cited by Goldsmiths all dated the same year. Shippen's "probity was best displayed in 1727 when singlehanded he opposed the settlement of the civil list urging its reduction by 200000l. annually in a speech of great frankness. He spoke of the 'frequent journeyings to Hanover' and the 'bottomless pit of secret service;' but no member could be found to second his motion" - DNB. GOLDSMITHS 6558. HANSON 3748n. KRESS 3724. Printed by J. Watson... unknown books
19104739San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company 1910. Octavo 18 19-249 13 pages. Ads. First edition. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on Lemon Remedies. Local advertisements precede follow and are interspersed throughout the recipes. Organized in 1898 San Francisco's Corona Club was a women's charitable and civic organization. At the time of this publication the club's numbers were limited to two hundred women but the limitation was later lifted. Sections including Social Services Book Review Child Welfare Dramatic and Household Economics carried out a wide variety of activities providing funds and support "to make this great city a better place in which to live". In rubbed and slightly bumped white oilcloth with blue titles printed to cover. Some light foxing and edgewear throughout otherwise very good. Manuscript recipes throughout twenty-seven written on blanks and in margins one laid in one tipped-in and one clipping laid in. And with the ownership inscription of "Lilian F. John 1015 Gough St. S.F." OCLC locates twelve copies; Brown 93; Cook page 32. Rincon Publishing Company hardcover books
1925106000<p>Folio pamphlet 14" x 9" green paper covers includes double-page map of Atlantic City 64 pp. Slight edgewear some minor tears around staples rear cover with small edge chip: otherwise very good generally bright and clean. This is a promotional piece put out by the Atlantic City Real Estate Board. It starts off with a health report highlighting the virtues of Atlantic City including information on its hospital the temperatures one can expect and the benefits of bathing in its waters. However most of the 64 pages are dedicated to presenting real estate values in Atlantic City. The brochure shows changes in property values from the early part of the last century to about 1925. There is a double page map of the city that shows the various districts.</p> Amusement Publishing Company, books
1830223585London: Smith Elder and Co 1830. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Tables. Previous owner's name written at top of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Full brown leather binding with black spine label gilt lettering. Previous archival repair to spine. Corners bumped. Some chipping at top of spine with a small loss of leather. Very Good binding. Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
