A rollicking tale of Swiss bank accounts and money-making adventurers in the roaring '90s. Pp. [xii]+356, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; light blue papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; text block slightly browned; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2006. First edition. *The story of the Australian media network wars of the..... More
A reforming life. Pp. x+420(last blank), 16 plates, text illustrations, notes, references, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper; name & date (2005) in ink at head of upper free endpaper; Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2002. First edition. *Biography of Herbert Cole..... More
Foreword by Bill Emmott. Pp. xx+1020, frontispiece portrait, plus 31 plates (one double page) appendices, notes, index; thick med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, the backstrip faintly faded, piece torn from bottom fore-corner of front panel extending into front flap; faint damp stain..... More
Pp. xii+288, index; demy 8vo; grey papered boards, spine lettered in red, edges of boards slightly bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Readers Union, London, 1961. Book Club edition. *Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, in 1958..... More
An Expose of The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949. Pp. xxiv+278(last blank), selective bibliography, select documentary sources, selected documents, index; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn and split; endpapers slightly offset and foxed, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Delacorte Press, New York, 1983. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David..... More
Pp. 126+[2], frontispiece, text illustrations, appendices, bibliographical note; signature on upper free endpaper; The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Victorian Branch, Melbourne, 1978. More
Pp. xii+418, full page pictorial headpieces, pictorial endpapers, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small bump to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; William Collins, Sons & Company, London, 2015. First edition. More
A biography. In three volumes. 1. Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920. Pp xxiv+448(last blank), 16 plates, bibliography and sources, references, dramatis personae, index; med. 8vo; tan cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, tiny bruise to top edge of lower board; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip faded; 2. The Economist as Saviour, 1920-1937..... More
Offprint of The Economic Record,May, 1955. Pp. 77-89, stapled, edges slightly chipped; [University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1955]. *Inscribed and initialled by the author at head of first page. More
The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance. Pp. x+288(last blank), text figures, notes, references, index; tall demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, back panel slightly soiled; upper free endpaper a trifle marked; The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. Second printing. *An..... More
Some brief sketches of American life toward the close of the last century. Pp. xvi+208(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 10 plates; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled and worn, edges slightly split; Heinemann, n.d.[c.1945]. *Autobiography of the American banker and philanthropist, who succeeded J. P. Morgan as head of the Morgan..... More
Edited from the Bowood Papers by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Pp. xxxii+344(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 2 plates, index; demy 8vo; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, New York, 1967. Reprints of Economic Classics series. *First..... More
Pp. 190(last blank), index; med. 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, the backstrip faintly discoloured; name & date (1991) in ink at head of upper free endpaper, the lower free endpaper slightly creased, small surface graze to bottom fore-corner of lower pastedown; Hodder & Stoughton, London..... More
The Origins of the Modern Economy. The Graz Schumpeter Lectures. Pp. xiv+404(last blank), references, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2017. *'During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across..... More
The story of economic genius. Pp. xvi+560 (last blank), 16 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; cream cloth, spine lettered in red; dust wrapper, small surface graze above barcode on back panel; Fourth Estate, London, 2011. First U.K. edition. *'The story of an idea that was born in the golden age..... More
The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. Pp.xii+344last blank), text figures, appendix, models, notes, references, index; tall demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in blue, boards slightly sprung; dust wrapper; The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. First edition. More
Economic relationships in the 1950s. Pp. [x]+202, index; edges of boards a trifle worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1962. First edition. More
Or, Life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand. By a Bank Official. Pp. xii+180(last colophon), full page facsimile, tailpiece decorations; purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards with blind rule borders, worn and lightly soiled, with a couple of small damp stains to lower board..... More
A New History of Power. Pp. x+332(last blank), appendix, table, notes, further reading, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Allen Lane/Penguin Books, London, 2012. First edition. *Argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of..... More
Pp. x+294(last blank), notes, index; med. 8vo; qr. dark blue paper, spine lettered in gilt, white papered boards; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001. First edition. *'A brilliant analysis of the new economy and how it is affecting our lives, for better and for..... More
Six essay on the elements of political Economy. Pp. [ii]+xxviii+186+[2](colophon, verso blank), half-title page decoration, appendices; demy 8vo; dark blue calf, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, the boards slightly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed and spine lightly faded; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown..... More
Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work. Pp. xii+212(last blank), half-title page decoration, appendices; demy 8vo; dark blue calf, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, the boards lightly worn, spine slightly faded; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, the..... More
Translated by H. A. Fields. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. Pp. 204; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; fore and bottom edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly discoloured; fore-edge of a couple of pages slightly stained; W. W. Norton &..... More
Selected essays. Pp. xviii+446, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, backstrip slightly faded; the half-title page faintly creased; Macmillan, London, 1993. First edition. *Essays 'on subjects including the Commonwealth, the uses of history and the economic decline of Britain and on..... More
