Economics from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item