A Discourse Upon Usury By Way of Dialogue and Orations, for the Better Variety and More Delight of All Those That Shall Read This Treatise (1572) de Wilson, Thomas; with an Historical Introduction By R. H. Tawney - 1925

Rio De Janeiro: Petrobras, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 255p. Portuguese text. a pristine copy of the story of the first 50 years of the Oil industry in Brazil. This item was sent only to oil company executives and investors and is seldom seen in North America. OCLC locates one copy at the Library of Congress and another in the Brazilian national library.

Each of these is an offprint pamphlet in stapled wraps of an earlier publication, speech, or lecture by the authors. Condition varies from Very Good to Near Fine depending upon degree of age toning present. All ten are housed in a Fine, green vinyl "Objectivist" binder. The titles by Rand are: Textbook of Americanism; Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise; Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World; Conservatism: An Obituary; Americas' Persecuted Minority: Big Business; The Objectivist Ethics; The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age; and The Fascist New Frontier. Title by Greenspan is Antitrust and that by Reisman is The Revolt Against Affluence: Galbraith's Neo-Feudalism. The two pamphlets that were published by the Institute have had reference to it lined out and have been stamped to indicate publication by The Objectivist.

Washington, D. C.: International Monetary Fund, 1976. Complete in 2 Volumes. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1976, first printing. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 3/4", xxii+699pp., illus; viii+339pp. Terra cotta cloth with gilt titles, cream endpapers. Both volumes fine in fine dust jackets, free of markings. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York, Horace Liveright, 1930, hardcover, 264 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition in publishers brown cloth with maroon decoration, gold lettering, embossing to spine, decorated endpapers, and red topstain. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, some of first 100 pages showing evidence of dampstain to bottom edge, faint spots to boards. The Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, continues the theme of two other novels she wrote in the 1920s, The Singing Season (1924), and The Fourth Queen (1926), each shows how cultures are shaped by an underlying set of moral and political principles.

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Leer más

New York, Vantage Press, 1976, hardcover, xiii-209 pp, First Edition stated, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, spine slightly darkened, in new Brodart sleeve. Written in the 1940s, yet unpublished until 1976, the economic problems and solutions discussed, based on the theories of 19th-century economist and reformer Henry George, are just as relevant now as at any other time. Illustrated with drawn figures and a few cartoons by Frank Manno. ISBN 9780533019687

Bruxelles: J. P. Meline, 1834. A very good hardcover copy with stains on pages (soiling & humidly) edge wearied cover, title worn of from spine has on image. 319p. 22.5X14,3cm. 550gr.

The first six Volumes of this magazine, which followed after Rand's publication The Objectivist ceased publication. All copies are Fine to Near Fine in maroon, stapled wraps that are all 5 ½ inches wide but that were trimmed in heights that range 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. The shades of maroon range from medium to dark. Some issues have slight edge wear, color loss along the spines, with touch of age toning along edges of the white, back cover. All issues are free of address labels. Each Volume is complete with six bi-monthly issues, EXCEPT that Vol. 6 has two copies of issue 2 and is missing issue 3. Total set is made up of 36 issues of the Forum. The set of six volumes is housed in a matching, maroon vinyl magazine file.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, first printing. 8vo., xvi+262pp. Fine, as new in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. Ninth Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. 8vo., viii+298pp., illustrated. Pale green cloth with black titles. Light soil to the cloth, previous owner name on fly leaf, else very good, binding straight and tight, unworn. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.