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Bison Books, 1967. Paper Back. Good.

New York: Thomas Crowell, No date. Reprint. HC, no DJ. MV Good+. Red cloth, gilt titling & spine decoration, boards spotted, red topstain, FO name/date(1903) to FFEP, B/W frontis w tissue, leaves age-toned, binding sound. Handy Volume Classics series. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

Facsimile Publisher , pp. 202 . Hardback. New.

University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MP3 Audio CD. Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant elements. Let us eliminate the inconstants, and, considering the human being merely as a covetous machine, examine by what laws of labour, purchase, and sale, the greatest accumulative result in wealth is… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant elements. Let us eliminate the inconstants, and, considering the human being merely as a covetous machine, examine by what laws of labour, purchase, and sale, the greatest accumulative result in wealth is… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1888. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reissue. Rear board soiled, pencil name on first blank. 1888 Hard Cover. 134 pp. "John Ruskin, (born February 8, 1819, London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire), English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change." - Britannica. CONTENTS: Preface; The Roots of Honor; The Veins of Wealth; Qui Judicatis Terram; Ad Valorem.

Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1984-02-01. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Cover is different than one pictured. Paperback.Minor marking or underlining to textMinor wear to page edges and corners. Cover a bit worn and rubbed.Binding tight.

University of Nebraska Press, 1984-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1867. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes bound as one. 1867. Hardcover, 4to. in three-quarter tan leather and marbled boards withmarbled edges and endpapers. 250, 138pp. Good. Staining to edge of title page and back page, overall wrinkling to text, otherwise in good condition.

George Allen, 1902. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Blue stamped leather over boards. Raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. Edges have some wear, bumped. All edges gilt. Binding tight. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise clean throughout.

Merrill and Baker. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No date stated, ca. late 1800s. (Economics, Politics) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

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London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington , 1895. early printing; brown c w/moderate wear at exremities; gilt spine titles; owner's plate of alfred Cock, Q.C. London barrister of note who was features int he famous Vanity Fair "SPY" series; 199 clean, unmarked pages/index; lite foxing of end papers. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo.

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