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(MARX, Karl.) PARETO, Vilfredo. Le Capital. Extraits faits par M. Paul Lafargue.Paris : 1893
First edition of this selection from Marx's Capital, published in the series Petite bibliothèque économique française et étrangère, the product of a surprising collaboration. Lafargue, a founder of the French socialist party and later Marx's son-in-law, of all the French Marxist writers closest to German orthodoxy, made the selection of the extracts.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122588
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PLAYFAIR, William. An Inquiry into the permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations, illustrated by four engraved Charts...London : 1805
First edition of this important work and a remarkable attempt to present a general and comparative theory of the rise and fall of nations, and thus extract lessons from the downfall of the great empires of history and in so doing "find the means by which prosperity may be lengthened out, and the period of humiliation procrastinated to a distant day"... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 93567
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COLE, G. D. H. (ed.) Studies in Capital & Investment.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. "Cole became a leading light in a variety of organizations designed to prompt a radical renewal in Labour thinking, including the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda (SSIP), founded in 1930, the New Fabian Research Bureau (1931), and the Socialist League (1932)" (ODNB). The Introduction is by Christopher,... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 96225
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(CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.) CALVERT, E. Roy. The Death Penalty Enquiry.London : 1931
First edition in wrappers, first impression. Among their other recommendations, the Committee advocated that capital punishment be suspended for a experimental period of five years, though this was not enacted until 1938. From the publisher's archive. Learn More£25.00Stock Code: 95087
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(CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.) CALVERT, E. Roy. The Death Penalty Enquiry.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Among their other recommendations, the Committee advocated that capital punishment be suspended for a experimental period of five years, though this was not enacted until 1938. From the publisher's archive with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 95094
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(CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.) CALVERT, E. Roy. The Death Penalty Enquiry.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Among their other recommendations, the Committee advocated that capital punishment be suspended for a experimental period of five years, though this was not enacted until 1938. From the publisher's archive with their stamp to the title page. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 95088
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Système des Contradictions Économiques, ou Philosophie de la Misère.Paris : 1846
First edition of Proudhon's magnum opus, his analysis of what he saw to be the economic contradictions of 19th-century capitalism, which he felt would lead in time to an anarchist society. Proudhon sent a copy of the book to Karl Marx, then his friend, for review. Marx read it in two days, and was infuriated. "He therefore determined to destroy it,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129329
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ALLAIS, Maurice. Économie & Intérêt;Paris : 1947
First edition. Économie et Intérêt is Allais's second major publication, a massive work on capital and interest which has formed the basis for the so-called "golden rule of accumulation". This states that to maximise real income, the optimum rate of interest should equal the growth rate of the economy. Allais did not publish in English until late... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 96946
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ISNARD, Achylle Nicolas. Traité des richesses,London & Lausanne : 1781
First edition, "extremely rare" (The New Palgrave), of "one of the most important contributions in the history of the development of mathematical economics" (Theocharis, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics, p. 62). "His book is remarkable for its mathematical treatment of production, capital, money and the theory of exchange" (Blaug). Although... Learn More£11,250.00Stock Code: 100452
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![[In Cyrillic:] Molodaia Rossiia [Young Russia].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/127122.jpg)
BEZOBRAZOV, Vladimir. [In Cyrillic:] Molodaia Rossiia [Young Russia].Stuttgart : 1871
Sole edition of this notably rare and pseudonymously published book by one of the leading Russian economists of the 19th century. It was published in Stuttgart under the pseudonym "Evropeets European" which allowed Bezobrazov (1828-1889), who was in the civil service, to critique the development of the Russian economy, especially agriculture, a decade... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 127122
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LONGFIELD, Mountifort. Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.Dublin : 1834
First edition, the Curry and Longman issue, the other having the imprint Dublin: Richard Milliken and London: B. Fellowes. Longfield was diverted from his interest in economics by a busy and successful career in law, being transferred from the Whately chair of political economy to that of feudal and English law at Trinity the same year as this publication,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 134652
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![Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [-IV].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116257.jpg)
LA JONCHERE, Étienne Lécuyer de. Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [-IV].Amsterdam : 1720
First edition of a very rare work by La Jonchère, one of the most original works of political economy of the 18th century.
Writing after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, La Jonchère puts forward a detailed and comprehensive plan of financial reform. Although he "expressly denies having followed Vauban's Dixme Royale, he starts from the same initial... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 116257
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MARX, Karl. Herr Vogt.London : 1860
First edition of the work which Marx took the best part of a year away from the writing of Capital to complete, bound first in a volume of two works, the other being the second edition of Marx's Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1869).
Herr Vogt is an answer to the slanders against himself,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 126478
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(STALIN, Joseph.) BUKHARIN, Nikolai Ivanovich. Ekonomika perekhodnogo perioda.Moscow : 1920
First edition, an exceptional presentation copy to Joseph Stalin, inscribed by Bukharin on the half-title in Russian (here translated): "Dear Koba Stalin, in memory of my 'heresies'. N. Bukharin". The contents bear various pencilled marginalia in a style consistent with Stalin's usual method of annotation: underlining, exclamation points, and similar... Learn More£47,500.00Stock Code: 137730
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Vested Interests and the Common Man.London : 1924
First UK edition, first impression, originally published in the US in 1919, following publication as articles in 1918-1919. Veblen's book continues his witty critique of modern capitalism, started two decades earlier in his Theory of the Leisure Class. In these articles, he argues that big business has subverted government to its own interests,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 129275
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed Address, To the Electors of Dundee,Dundee : 1909-10
Churchill invokes Lincoln's famous formulation from the Gettysburg Address in his election addresses on the momentous constitutional battle between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. In November 1909, the Lords rejected the "People's Budget" of 1909 proposed by Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. The bill called for higher taxes on the... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 71650
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(ECONOMICS.) HUTT, Allen. This Final Crisis.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Allen Hutt (1901-1973) journalist and political activist. "After a spell at the International Lenin School and two years as chief sub-editor at the newly launched Daily Worker (1930-32), Hutt produced a series of books on British working-class politics, most of them developing historical narratives which seemingly culminated... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 96264
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PATERSON, Isabel. The God of the Machine.New York : 1943
First edition, first printing, of the author's best-known work. A leading Canadian-American journalist and esteemed literary critic, Paterson (1886-1961) is credited as one of the "three furies" of the American libertarian movement alongside Ayn Rand and Rose Wilder Lane (William F. Buckley Jr. quoted by Burns, p. 746). In a lengthy and strongly-worded... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135834
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Typed letter signed, regarding the pronunciation and indexing of his name.10 December 1935
A signed letter from Hayek to Charles E. Funk, editor of The Literary Digest, apparently in response to an enquiry into the proper pronunciation of his name: "In terms of the Phonetic Alphabet of the International Phonetic Association the correct pronunciation of my name would be rendered by 'Hai-ek'". Hayek goes on to say that it would be a great service... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131928
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![Letiyu Sovetskoy Vlasti v Gruzii [For the 15th Anniversary of Soviet Rule in Georgia] - presentation photograph album.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/125466.jpg)
(GEORGIA.) Letiyu Sovetskoy Vlasti v Gruzii [For the 15th Anniversary of Soviet Rule in Georgia] - presentation photograph album.Tbilisi : 1936
Superb album produced to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Georgian Soviet Republic (established 1921), one of perhaps a handful put together and presented to leading dignitaries; this copy with the gilt presentation supralibros of Valerian Bakradze (1901-1971), at the time Second Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party and a protégé of Stalin's... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 125466
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.Hamburg : 1894
First edition of the third volume of Das Kapital. Only the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime, in 1867. Following Marx's death in 1883, the second and third volumes were edited from Marx's manuscripts and seen through the press by Friedrich Engels, with the second volume published in 1885, and the present third volume... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136478
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.Hamburg : 1885
First edition of the second volume of Das Kapital. Only the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime, in 1867. Following Marx's death in 1883, the second and third volumes were edited from Marx's manuscripts and seen through the press by Friedrich Engels, with the present second volume published in 1885, and the third volume in 1894.... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 136477
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(OXONIA.) Britannia Rediviva.Oxford : 1660
First edition of this collection of verses by Oxford men celebrating the restoration of Charles II to the throne, written in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, French and English. Oxford, Charles I's capital during the Civil War, had remained a bastion of royalism, and by all accounts the University welcomed the Stuarts' return.
The collection sees the... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126794
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KAUTSKY, Karl. Die Agrarfrage: eine Uebersicht über die Tendenzen der modernen Landwirthschaft und die Agrarpolitik der Sozialdemokratie.Stuttgart : 1899
First edition, presentation copy from the author to the important French communist Paul Lafargue, inscribed by him, "A son cher Lafargue, K. Kautsky, Berlin 3/1/99". The Marxist theorist's analysis of capitalism in agriculture is a book that Lenin declared "the most important event in present-day economic literature since the third volume of Capital".
Kautsky... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 118919
