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Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850. First edition.. Spine a trifle sunned, fragile label a little darkened and rubbed; some light wear and dust-soiling; some foxing the endpapers; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.56 x 4.75 inches), original ribbed blue cloth, printed paper spine label, xv, [1], 233, [1] pages. I should be happy to believe that there is little at stake, and that the doctrines of free trade do not tend directly to the distress, decay, and political subordination and degradation of this country. . . . But it has not happened to me in thus devoting my attention more particularly to these inquiries." The Harvard trained lawyer turned insurance executive Phillips (1784-1873), who had early published a Manual of Political Economy in 1828, here takes up in turn numerous arguments for and against economic protection (falling soundly on the side of tariffs, etc.). A mildly ex-library copy, with the front free endpaper excised and a small penciled call number and an even smaller ink…
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Propositions Concerning Protection and Free Trade.
by Phillips, Willard.
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Wheelbarrow. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question.
by [Trumbull, Matthew Mark, "Wheelbarrow"].
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Chicago Open Court Publishing 1894 First edition.. Slight scratch to the front board; coated endpapers a trifle spotted; a fine copy.. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull's pseudonym "Wheelbarrow" at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: "While aspiring to more intellectual and higher work, his sympathies with the laboring classes never waned." This copy with a cancel title.
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