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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, this copy inscribed & initialed by Galbraith in the year of publication. Tall 8vo, 365 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
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. 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."

New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. 12mo, ix, [5], 263 pp plus 10 plates & [6] pp of advertisements. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth.
Binding moderately rubbed, spine slightly cocked, front hinge starting, otherwise Good.
The author spent 11 years in China as a missionary educator As he presciently notes in the preface, "After the war, the attention of the world will more and more shift to China and the Far East The greatest potential market in the world lies there: the greatest need for industrial and economic development is there."

London: Cambridge University Press, (1974). First edition. 8vo, xiv & 239 pages. Publisher's maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in printed dust jacket.
Previous owner's chop & date at first blank page, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise near fine."Deals with economic and social change in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Japan, by means of a case study of the cotton trade in Osaka and the surrounding Kinai region."

New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, 1883. First edition. 8vo, vi & 400 pp, frontis portrait w/ facsimile signature of the author. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, the upper cover with pictorial device in black depicting the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art of which the author was the founder. Modest fraying at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed, lightly soiled, hinges cracked, previous owner's name & date at ffep, otherwise good or better The Cooper Union, which offered free tuition until 2014, was the site of one of Abraham Lincoln's most important speeches in which he spoke against the expansion of slavery into the Western Territories & asserted that the Founding Fathers would agree.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1856. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 4 (publisher's advertisements), xxv & 546 pages. Original dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind on the covers.
Brief fraying at spine extremities, margins lightly sunned, foxing/ toning mostly at early & late leaves, previous owner's name in ink at the first blank page, otherwise very good.
The author was an American philosopher, editor of the North American Review and professor at Harvard. He opposed the views of Adam Smith on free trade, Thomas Malthus on population, & David Ricardo on rent.
Reprinted several times, this title is particularly uncommon in the first edition.