Cambridge: The University Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 225, [1]; numerous tables and graphs, warmly inscribed to scholar Gwin J. Kolb by the author on front free endpaper; fine in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in a lightly soiled and spotted dust jacket. More
Elgin [and Inverness]: printed by A. C. Brander [and the Inverness Journal Office], 1833. First edition, 12mo, pp. [9], 4-98, 131-170; 4 tables (2 folding, 2 double-page), and 9 table (2 double-page) bound in at the back; original green muslin, printed paper label on spine; a few small cracks and..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 276; illustrations; original cloth in dust jacket; near fine. More
Bombay: The Times of India Press, n.d., [1943]. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 200; 3 maps, 2 folding tables, 22 photographic plates; spine faded and a little spotting, else good and sound in original blue cloth. Agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting and fishing, wealth, poverty, death, the economics of..... More
Edinburgh: John Bell and J. Murray, 1778. First edition, 4to, pp. xx, 431, [2]; contemporary sprinkled calf, red and green morocco labels on gilt decorated spine, edges stained yellow; upper joint starting, bottom of spine with a chip glued back on, fore-edge of labels also reglued; prelims a little browned..... More
[Millville, Providence, et al. 1835-1845]. Forty-nine letters, notes, receipts and other manuscript documents from the records of Preserved S. Thayer, a businessman, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, and landlord in Millville, Mass. The documents primarily concern a business venture between Thayer; John Still of Philadelphia, who was to provide raw..... More
[Worcester, MA: 1838-1868]. A small collection of material concerning the ownership, surveying, and exchange of land in Massachusetts, largely around the Millville area. All in very good condition except as noted. The collection was in the possession of Preserved Smith Thayer, a textile merchant, Justice of the Peace, postmaster, and..... More
[Cambridge Mass.]: Cambridge Press: Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou, 1841. First edition, 8vo, pp. 51, [1]; removed from binding. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883. First edition, 8vo, pp. 54; later plain gray wrappers; very good. Although himself a socialist, Toynbee opposed Henry George's theories. More
Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1822. 8vo, pp. 38, 42, 5, [1]; original orange printed paper wrappers, wrappers sunned and edgeworn, top 2 inches of spine perished, textblock bright and sound. An appeal in favor of the Erie Canal, reprinted in celebration of the successful project with a supplement. Robert..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, [1889]. 8vo, pp. 32; original tan paper wrappers; a scarce title and a near fine copy with only some soiling to the covers, in a new clamshell box. An exchange between Wheelbarrow (Trumbull) and a Sympathizer (Lyman), triggered by an open letter in response..... More
Detroit: Laurance Labadie, printers, 1933. 24mo, pp. 14, original green printed wrappers bound in brown buckram , date stamp on p. 1 and small annotation correcting an errata in ink on p. 7; very good. A paper delivered by Tucker in 1899 before a conference on trusts. More
[Saigon]: [USOM], 1961-65. 4to; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, maps & diagrams; spine titles in ink, some minor shelf wear, overall very good copies in original printed wrappers. Together with USOM Rural Income Expenditure Samply Survey (Preliminary Report, 1965). More
Hanoi: Éditions en Langues Étrangères, 1967. 8vo, pp. 627; map, tables throughout; original wrappers in grey printed dust jacket, half of which has been neatly removed, part of jacket spine a bit discolored from water stain, general shelf-wear; pages uniformly toned with minor foxing. Economic conditions in North Vietnam. More
Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1854. 12mo, pp. 21, [3]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; old fold, contemporary pencil annotation on p. 13; very good. Not found in OCLC. More
Providence: published by John E. Brown, 1837. 8vo, pp. 35, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, all else very good. The depression of 1837 was, according to Wayland, the result of God's wrath for the nation's investing its rapidly increasing wealth in leisure and licentiousness, rather than in cultivating the..... More
![A Dialogue [as contained in]: The Democratic review, vol. XVII, No. LXXXIX. Walt Whitman](/pictures/thumb/57827_1.jpg?v=1609274224)
New York: J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], 324-400, [8]; original green printed paper wrappers; engraved frontispiece of John A. Dix; early owner's signature on upper cover, very good. Included is an essay by Whitman titled "A Dialogue," which argued against the death..... More
Philadelphia: M'Laughlin Brothers, printers, 1865. 8vo, pp. 21, [1]; original printed tan wrappers; very good. It was Alexander Hamilton who famously said, "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." Jay Cooke, the financier of the Civil War took it one step further..... More
[Washington D.C.]: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group Agency for International Development, 1963. 8vo, pp. vii, 126; map & tables; extremities lightly soiled, else very good in original pictorial tan wrappers. CIA and Southern Illinois only in OCLC. More
Collegeville, MN: Saint John's University, 1987. 8vo, pp. [2], iii, [1], 31; original dark blue-grey staplebound wrappers printed in pink and brown; previous ownership label to back wrapper, else fine. Clemens Lecture Series no. 1. More
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1886. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [239]-326 [i.e. 87 pages]; numerous tables in the text; original tan printed wrappers; one or two very small chips out at the extremities, else fine. Reprinted from the 17th Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics..... More
Bangkok, Thailand: Department of Community Development Ministry of Interior and USOM, 1964. 4to, pp. vii, 107; charts & graphs; original white printed wrappers, light wear to extremities, else very good. More
Portsmouth, N. H. Nov. 29, 1845. 8vo, disbound, pp. 24; mild fold through the middle of the block, lower cover lacking, very good in a new clamshell box. With an unattributed signature of the author on title page. More
