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Cambridge at the University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1952. 1 edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, hardcover. Near fine condition in good dj. NOT ex-library. Contents clean, binding & hinges firm. dj browned/age-toned around cover edges & spine, few 1/4-inch edge-tears. 534 pp.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Volume five only. 534pp. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Near fine with short tear on bottom edges of pages 38-44 in a very good tanned dustwrapper with faint dampstain on foredges.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Volume ten only. 424pp. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Light stains on page fine edges, else near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with soiling, short tears on spine ends.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951-55. First editions of the works of economist David Ricardo. Octavo, original cloth, 10 volumes. Each are near fine to fine in excellent dust jackets. An very nice set, uncommon in such exceptional condition. David Ricardo became a stockbroker at the age of 21 and slowly became a recognized economic scholar in England. Though he retired at 42, he spent the following years of his life concentrating on his writing and research. "David Ricardo is without doubt the greatest representative of classical political economy. He carried the work begun by Adam Smith to the farthest point possible Ricardo, writing 50 years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system In the opinion of his own contemporaries at home and abroad, Ricardo was acknowledged the leader of the science His most important work is On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, first published in 1817" (Roll, History of Economic Thought, 155-6).