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Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by SMITH, Adam

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Title: Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Author: SMITH, Adam
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. Full Description: SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In two volumes. The second edition. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. Second edition (first published in 1776) and the only other edition to be published in quarto format. One of 500 copies printed. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 273 x 225 mm). [8], 510; [8], 589, [1, blank] pp. With half-title in Volume II (no half-title called for in Volume I). Full newer speckled calf. Boards tooled in gilt. Spines with red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spines stamped and numbered in gilt. Gilt board edges. Gilt dentelles. Newer endpapers. Volume one with some newly invisible repairs to the title-page, at gutter, along top margin and to a tiny hole, not affecting text. Text of volume I with some foxing throughout. Volume II, with some neat pencil marginalia, and a pin-sized wormhole to outer blank margin from signature 3A through the end. Still volume II internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. The second edition is the rarest of the early editions of The Wealth of Nations. Only 500 copies were printed. The third edition consisted of 1,000 copies and the fourth 1,250 copies. It is unknown how many copies of the more common first edition were published. "The second edition exhibits a number of alterations large and small, some providing new information, some correcting matters of fact, some perfecting the idiom, and large number now documenting references in footnotes" (William B. Todd, in the 1976 Oxford edition of The Wealth of Nations). Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of The Wealth of Nations. "The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months...Whether it be true or not, as Buckle said, that the 'Wealth of Nations' was, 'in its ultimate results, probably the most important that had ever been written'...it is probable that no book can be mentioned which so rapidly became an authority both with statesmen and philosophers" (D.N.B.). "The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory... his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange... Labour represents the three essential elements- wages, profit and rent- and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy, Smith passes to its matter- 'stock'- which compasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control...The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is complete convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (Printing and the Mind of Man 221, describing the 1776 first edition). Kress B.154. Goldsmiths' 11663. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Sabin 82303. Grolier, 100 English, 57 (describing the 1776 first edition). HBS 67993. $28,500.

The Writings of Bret Harte (Autograph Edition in 19 vols) by Harte, Bret

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Title: The Writings of Bret Harte (Autograph Edition in 19 vols)
Author: Harte, Bret
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Thus. Autograph Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author and dated "Septem. 1896." Nineteen octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 142 mm) occupying approximately 32 1/2 inches (83 1/2 cm) of shelf space. Contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers elaborately paneled in gilt within a double gilt fillet border, spines decoratively paneled in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, red crushed levant morocco doublures ruled in gilt and with gilt cornerpieces, red watered silk liners, top edge gilt, others uncut. Minimal fading to spines. Photogravure frontispieces, vignette titles, and plates after drawings and paintings by Frederic Remington, James Montgomery Flagg, Alice Barber Stephens, W.L. Taylor, E. Boyd Smith, B. West Clinedinst, Mary Hallock Foote, and others, all on India paper mounted. Descriptive tissue guards. Each volume with at least one plate signed by the illustrator (the frontispiece of Volume V signed by Frederic Remington). A wonderful set. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an influential "American writer who helped create the local-color school in American fiction. In 1854 Harte left New York for California and went into mining country on a brief trip that legend has expanded into a lengthy participation in, and intimate knowledge of, camp life. In 1857 he was employed by the Northern Californian, a weekly paper. In about 1860 he moved to San Francisco and began to write for the Golden Era, which published the first of his Condensed Novels, brilliant parodies of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and others. He edited the periodical Californian, for which he engaged Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1868... Harte was named editor of the Overland Monthly. For it he wrote The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat. Following The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (1870), he found himself world famous. He furthered his reputation with the poem Plain Language from Truthful James (1870), On it he based his best play, Ah Sin (1877), a collaboration with Twain" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature). A twentieth volume Stories and Poems, was published twelve years after the first nineteen volumes, in 1915 (see BAL 7408).

[Partially-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to Lewis Minor, an African-American Army Soldier in Europe] by [African-American Photographica]: Minor, Lewis

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Title: [Partially-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to Lewis Minor, an African-American Army Soldier in Europe]
Author: [African-American Photographica]: Minor, Lewis
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Mainly Germany, 1964. Very good.. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs in corner mounts, the first forty captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary red fabrikoid, belt bound, paper label on spine. Decorative stamping on front cover has faded significantly. Minor edge wear and soiling, top corner of front cover chipped. A few photos detached. A vernacular photograph album assembled by Lewis Minor, an African-American Army soldier stationed at United States bases in Germany in the early 1960s. The preponderance of the album documents Minor's time in Hanau and Grafenwoehr between 1962 and 1964. Minor includes a few inscriptions to his wife on the front endpapers, such as "rescued for my darling wife Anne Minor" and "1963-64 this is the days of my life I would never forget what a hell of a place this is." Minor's unit worked mainly with missiles and rockets; in one group photograph, Minor appears as a Special Ammunition Support Command (SASCOM) "soldier of the year" award recipient; SASCOM was responsible for maintaining nuclear missiles and other weapons of mass destruction. The album also includes a series of images featuring a 1962 NATO demonstration which featured soldiers on parade, missiles mounted on vehicles, and possibly even a live fire demonstration. In addition to the action shots, the album documents Minor and his fellow soldiers in camp, in tents, and Minor with his "buddies" while socializing, drinking, and generally in downtime. Rounding out the album are a handful of images of Minor while stationed in Denmark, and a series of color photographs of the 18th Artillery Headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A unique view of an African-American soldier's service in Europe in the 1960s.

Ethiopian Studies at the End of the Second Millennium. 3 volumes by Yimam, Baye; Pankhurst, Richard; Chapple, David

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Title: Ethiopian Studies at the End of the Second Millennium. 3 volumes
Author: Yimam, Baye; Pankhurst, Richard; Chapple, David
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 2002. Very Good. Yimam, Baye. Ethiopian Studies at the End of the Second Millennium. 3 volumes. Pankhurst, Richard; Chapple, David. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 2002. 2058pp. Illustrated. 4to. Brown leather. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and rubbing. Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. November 6-11, 2000.

The Enemy Stars by Anderson, Poul

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Title: The Enemy Stars
Author: Anderson, Poul
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson.. Small octavo, 189pp. Gray cloth, title in blue on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, faint toning to endpapers, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.95 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine, tape repairs to verso, a touch of wear to top edge. (Currey, page 10). Jacket design by author and illustrator Eric Carle.

Report of the Secretary of State, pursuant to the act to regulate passenger ships and vessels, of the number of persons arriving in the several ports of the United States, from October 1, 1820, to September 30, 1821. :April 22, 1822. Read, and... by (Adams, John Quincy)

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Title: Report of the Secretary of State, pursuant to the act to regulate passenger ships and vessels, of the number of persons arriving in the several ports of the United States, from October 1, 1820, to September 30, 1821. :April 22, 1822. Read, and...
Author: (Adams, John Quincy)
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington DC: Congress, Gales & Seaton. Very Good. 1822. Disbound. Original Congressional report document complete with 26 folded charts. Some toning but overall charts bright and in nice shape. Includes occupations, ages, gender, where from, custom house etc.. .

THE LOSS OF JANE VOSPER by Crofts, Freeman Wills

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Title: THE LOSS OF JANE VOSPER
Author: Crofts, Freeman Wills
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Dodd Mead, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. An Inspector French detective story. Near fine green cloth, in dustjacket.

Watchman (Signed First Edition) by Ian Rankin

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Title: Watchman (Signed First Edition)
Author: Ian Rankin
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780385418096
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First US Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only moderate sunning to the spine, else as new and unread. SIGNED with the hangman doodle to the title page. An excellent copy of this title, the author's 3rd published work; Rankin of course the author of the Inspector Rebus novels and one of the greatest crime fiction writers of the last 50 years. Original promotional material from Doubleday laid in. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

The Uneasy Sun by Michael Butterworth

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Title: The Uneasy Sun
Author: Michael Butterworth
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Octavo; [viii], 182pp.Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; book in brown cloth with red lettering to spine. Dampstaining to jacket interior along bottom half of spine, not visible from exterior and with no bleed to boards. Jacket otherwise shows a touch of edgewear with fading along top front and down spine, a couple small, faint external waterspots (dime-sized or smaller), rubbing at spine ends, and some smudging to back. Boards nudged at spine ends, with some light fading along edges Glue toning to endpapers along gutters, with previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Medieval Georgian Enamels of Russia by AMIRANASHVILI, Shalva

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Title: Medieval Georgian Enamels of Russia
Author: AMIRANASHVILI, Shalva
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Abrams, 1964. hardcover. very good(+)/poor. Translated by Francois Hirsch and John Ross. 76 mounted color plates. 126 pages. Large 4to, red cloth, tattered d.w.. New York: Abrams, 1964. Very good(+) in poor dust wrapper. The enamels in the Georgian National Museum of Fine Arts in Tiflis, with descriptions of the processes of cloisonne, champleve, and repousse as well as the history, iconography and execution of each piece dating from the 7th through 12th century. "Treats Georgian enamels as a development of local tradition, distinct from that of Byzantium and the art which spread from the East" -- Arntzen/Rainwater P450.

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