Economic History from Berthoff Books

Vintage Books (Random House), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 191 pages plus Index and translator's Preface. Sixth printing of 1957 Vintage edition, translation by R.R. Palmer first published 1947, the book in French - 1939. Appendix: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Mass-market paperback, water stains and slight waviness to top of the text block, light wear… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages, with index. First printing. Seven b&w illustrations (art reproductions), also maps. History of 18th-century insurgency of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica. 8vo, brown cloth with orange lettering on spine, dark green end papers; the book is cocked, but has minimal shelf… Saber más sobre este artículo

Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 87 pages, with index, list of illustrations. Besides the 40-some b&w illustrations (photos of artifacts and art works) on plates, there is a two-page frontispiece diagram "General Plan of the Excavations" at the site in Sicily. First English Translation stated. Series: Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. Text… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1963. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN (but the images are its main content). Mit einer Einleitung von Friedrich Schnack. Panoramas of 46 European cities and their surroundings, drawn from the 1695 edition of Archontologia Cosmica and the Topographia by the Swiss engraver Matthaeus Merian (the Elder) earlier in the 17th century.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Broadway Books, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 472 pages, with index, Sources and Guide for Further Reading. Trade paperback, light shelf wear along the bottom, back cover and about 1/4" of text block wavy at top near spine. Pages unmarked.

Schocken Books, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 222 pages plus 117 b&w illutrations on unnumbered pages. First Schocken Paperback edition of work first published 1947; version revised and extended by editor Arthur Elton, 1968. Has Editor's Preface, Catalogue of Illustrations, and Index. Large trade paperback (6-5/8" x 9-1/8"), minimal shelf wear, light dust soil to top edge, faint… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pantheon Books (Random House), 1976. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with Subject Index, Index of Persons and Places. Seventeen b&w illustrations (reproductions of artworks, maps, etc.) in an eight-page section. Looking at a time under Hanoverian rule and Whig political dominance, when crimes like deer-stalking incurred the death penalty, the book "radiates into high politics and low, challenging… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dover Publications, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages, with bibliography, index, b&w photographs throughout, many by Armin Landeck. First paperback edition of book published 1974. Trade paperback, crease at bottom corner of front cover, other light wear to wraps, which do not lie absolutely flat to the text block, very faint foxing to top edge and some… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 355 pages. Fifth printing of work published 1914. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), brown buckram, black lettering and decoration, spine sunned, corners bumped, gray topstain. Old price and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout pages 1 - 110 and on rear end papers,… Saber más sobre este artículo

David Bateman, 1987. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 256 pages, with index, appendix which is Economic Chronology July 1984-April 1987. The New Zealand Minister of Finance (Labour, 1980s) recounts the seven years before and during his implementation of neoliberal economic reforms. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gray endpapers, faint foxing to top edge, cocked, scant wear with sharp corners… Saber más sobre este artículo

University of Illinois Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 293 pages, with author index, subject index, glossary of abbreviations, 18 tables. Overview of late-Soviet economic, domestic and foreign policies, written by the future Australian intelligence official when he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vintage Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages, with Index of Sources, Subject Index. First Vintage edition - V-682 (book copyright 1970). From back cover: ". . . what few social scientists would have dared to attempt: . . . an introduction to the economic study of history, in all of its complexity." Mass-market paperback, shelf wear… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vintage Books (Random House), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 269 pages (plus list of Vintage books), with index. First Vintage edition (V-584) of book published in hardcover 1969. Eight chapters of economic history, six-part Appendix containing diagrams of various processes: export-generating, import-replacing, patterns of economic activities, and a list of definitions. Mass-market paperback, average wear and age-toning to wraps,… Saber más sobre este artículo

D.C. Heath and Company, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 90 pages, with suggestions for additional reading. Introduction by the editor. Ten essays on aspects of British economic and social history 1750-1850. Trade paperback, reading crease, creases to corners, rubbed along spine, wraps age-tanned and lightly soiled, foxing to edges/wraps/end papers, small pencil notation on front cover at upper right.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge University Press, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 55 pages, with Appendix showing landed wealth of 23 English Peers under Charles I. The Economic History Review Supplements - 1, published for the Economic History Society. Date inferred, not stated. Polemical pamphlet directed at the arguments of Prof. R.H. Tawney on the causes of the English Civil War. Journal format… Saber más sobre este artículo

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 225 pages, with index, numerous figures and tables, eight b&w illustrations on plates. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible wear, pages bright and unmarked, in clean and crisp DJ with a tad of curl to the top of the flaps.

Cambridge University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 308 pages, with index. A long subtitle informs that the book comprises Fay's lectures at Cambridge in 1919 to students including Royal Navy officers and U.S. Army personnel. 8vo, yellow cloth with red lettering, boards soiled and banged up (dents in spine, bumps to edges), some wavy areas as from damp… Saber más sobre este artículo

Allen & Unwin, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 295 pages, with index, bibliography, illustrated with tables and graphs of economic data. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, a couple of tiny spots of soil to bottom edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Two-volume set. 977 pages consecutively numbered across the two volumes (Volume 1 contains pages 1-500), with index to both volumes at the end of Volume 2. 8vo, blue cloth, slight shelf wear, page-turn soil to bottom edges, Vol. 1 has a few pages chipped or folded at outside bottom corner.… Saber más sobre este artículo