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If you are looking to bone up on your financial acumen, we recommend looking through the rare business books available in the Biblio Rare Book Room. From first edition books on the art of investing to books on the rise of Dairy Queen, there is large range of diversity of business books, and any of these of books would make a great gift to a friend or family member graduating from business school.

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Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of...
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Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth - the Remedy. Author's Edition. - ["UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT BOOK OF THE PRESENT CENTURY"]

by GEORGE, HENRY.

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1879. San Francisco, Wm M.Hinton & Co, 1879. 8vo. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and a bit of blindstamping to boeards. A bit of light spiotting to front board, spine faded, and capitals worn. Hinges internally a bit weak, and a professional closed tear to cloth at spine, barely noticeable. All in all an excellent copy in this fragile original binding. Internally very nice and clean. With the bookplate of Grove L. Johnson to inside of front board. (4), 512 pp. The exceedingly scarce first edition, printed in merely 200 copies (namely the "Author's edition), of one of the most influential books ever published. Henry George's masterpiece of social reform, "Progress and Poverty", founded the ideology known as "Georgism", from which the worldwide social reform movement arose. The work initiated the Progressive Era and had a larger impact and "a wider distribution than almost all other books on political economy put together", as John Dewey put it (John Dewey's Foreword… Read More
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HUMAN ACTION: A Treatise on Economics
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HUMAN ACTION: A Treatise on Economics

by Von Mises, Ludwig

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949, third printing (October, 1949). Large 8vo., xv+889pp. "This book is the counterweight of Marx's Das Kapital and of Lord Keynes' General Theory and of countless other books...In this analysis of the fundamental drives to action of human beings, he shows why only the free market and free enterprise can produce that outpouring of goods and services that is democratically controlled..." Gray cloth with black titles. Previous owner name/offset toning on flyleaf, inscription on free endpaper, small edge spot, else very good, bright and attractive in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket (not price clipped) with a long closed tear at the hinge fold, and minor soiling. Scarce in dust jacket. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
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Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

by Von Mises, Ludwig

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957, first printing. 8vo., ix+384pp. "This is the economic philosophy of one of the original and untrammeled minds among economists of this century. It is the work of a staunch believer in the necessity for the individual to make his own choices..." Blue cloth with gilt titles. Near fine, unworn, crisp, in price clipped, very good plus dust jacket with a closed tear and 2 tiny chips along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo.
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Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des...
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Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. - [THE NEW RELIGION - PMM 359]

by MARX, KARL.

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1867. Hamburg, Otto Meisner, 1867. 8vo. Nice contemporary black half calf with gilt spine. Minor wear to hinges and capitals, which have tiny, barely noticeable professional restorations. Inner hinges re-enforced. Contemporary owner's names (Emil Kirchner and Karl Kirchner (1887)) to front free end-paper. Contemporary book-plate to inside of front board (Ernst Ferdinand Kirchner). A very nice copy with just the slightest of occasional brownspotting. Housed in a very nice custom-made black full morocco box with gilt llettering to spine. XII, 784 pp. Scarce first edition of Marx' immensely influential main work, arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. With its attack on capitalists and capitalist mode of production, this cornerstone of 19th century thought came to determine the trajectory of economics and politics of the Western world. Marx' groundbreaking "Das Kapital" originally appeared in German in 1867, and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime. PMM 358.
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Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie. - [ESTABLISHING THE AUSTRIAN BUSINESS CYCLE]

Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie. - [ESTABLISHING THE AUSTRIAN BUSINESS CYCLE]

by HAYEK, FRIEDRICH A.

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1929. Wien & Leipzig, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1929. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Very light wear to extremities. First and last leaf with light brownspotting. A very fine and clean copy. XII, (1)-147, (1), [Blank] pp. First edition of Hayek's first book, famously stating that there is a business cycle and that it is caused by the organization of the monetary system - it was later to be known as the Austrian Business Cycle. The present work established Hayek's ideological position within the economic community and laid the foundation for his future career. Here, he wrote of the necessity of the trade cycle and that all economic phenomena present that regular wave-like appearance that we observe in cyclical fluctuations. "For Hayek, the cycle was a virtually unavoidable consequence of a credit economy"; "Hayek's fundamental point is that the business cycle is an unfortunate but unavoidable concomitant of a credit economy". (Bruce Caldwell, Hayek's Collected Works).Hayek's principal… Read More
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Legal Foundations of Capitalism
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Legal Foundations of Capitalism

by John R. Commons

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Extremely rare hardback copyright 1924 in good-plus condition; stated first edition, January 1924; well preserved withdrawal from university library with usual stamps and stickers; text block and burgundy boards tight and square; front board shows fading to outer edge (see photo); light wear to head of spine; found two instances of underlining of text (see photo); 394 pages BNB-3.
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The Stock Market Crash - And After. - [THE CAUSES OF THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH]
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The Stock Market Crash - And After. - [THE CAUSES OF THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH]

by FISHER, IRVING.

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1930. New York, Macmillan, 1930. 8vo. In the original red full cloth and with the the original dust-jacket. Dust-jacket price-clipped and missing 2 cm of lower part of spine, spine discoloured. Internally very fine and clean. Binding likewise very fine and clean. xxvi, (2), 286 pp. First edition of this seminal work tracing the causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash, here in scarce original dust-jacket..Irving Fisher is considered one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and the first celebrity economist. Fisher was also the first economist to distinguish clearly between real and nominal interest rates, and Milton Friedman called him "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced."Considered "the father of monetary economics" (Pressman, 91), "Irving Fisher was, in the opinion of many, the leading economic theorist in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. Although his contributions to economic theory and to the development of econometrics ensure him a… Read More
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Luxurious trade catalog of a Paris based bronze-caster
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Luxurious trade catalog of a Paris based bronze-caster: Photographic Album

by Vian, Henri.

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Album with 52 photographs – each ca 220 x 280 mm – on black cardboard mounts showing clocks, mantelpieces, wall appliques, lanterns, chandeliers, bronzes and candelstands cast by the atelier of Henri Vian in Paris. Each photograph with numbers and dimensions of objects in the negativ. A number of plates with pencilled annotations on back of mounts, with numbering and sometimes dimensions of objects. Cont. calf, with an all over decoration of floral elements. Spine on five raised bands. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Foot of spine stamped H. Vian / Paris. Folio (460 x 370 mm). Slightly rubbed, extremeties worn. Henri Vian (1860-1905), a bronze-caster active in the second half of the 19th century, was specialized in the production of bronzes, light fittings, chandeliers, chimney mantelpieces, ormolu and patinated-mounted vases always of very fine quality. The business, located at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris (the Salé Mansion, now the Picasso Museum), was continued by Madame Vian after her… Read More
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A Commercial Dictionary, Containing the Present State of the..
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A Commercial Dictionary, Containing the Present State of the..

by Montefiore, Joshua

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1804. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys. First American Edition of Montefiore's Fascinating Commercial Dictionary Montefiore, Joshua [1762-1843]. A Commercial Dictionary: Containing the Present State of the Mercantile Law, Practice and Custom. With Very Considerable Additions Relative to the Laws, Usages, and Practice of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, 1804. Three volumes. li, [2], 54-562, [6]; [ii], 481, [3]; 479, [1] pp. 4 pp. publisher advertisements at rear of each volume. Subscriber list at beginning of Volume I. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Period-style speckled goatskin, lettering pieces, gilt fillets and gilt volume numbers to spines, speckled edges, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, light foxing and ink spots to a few leaves in each volume. A handsome copy of a scarce title. $4,500. * First American edition, based on the 1803 London edition with a considerable addition of American material.… Read More
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Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre &...
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Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre & marque déposés. Septième édition.

by Académie Nationale, Agricole, Manufactière & Commerciale

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(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural… Read More
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Neu-eroeffnetes Handels-Gericht oder Wohlbestelltes Commercien-Collegium, Worinnen von Dessen...
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Engraved front. by I. G. Beck, (18), 524 pages (pages 361-368 numbered twice ; jump in pagination from 480 to 489) ; 256, (32) pages. Cont. vellum, yapp edges, gilt stamped title to spine. Red sprinkled edges. 4to (215 x 162 mm). Front fly-leaf with manuscript ownership entry Joh. Conradi Gosweileri. Lipsiae 1712. Economisch-Historische Bibl. Amst. 743 and 350 ; Humpert 5758 ; Kress p. 2447; VD18 11244275 ; not in Masui and Stammhammer ; not in Catalog of Historical Accounting Literature. First edition. "Eines der Hauptwerke zur Entstehung der deutschen Betriebswirtschaft sowie zur Geschichte des deutschen Handelsrechts überhaupt. Ohne Zweifel mit das seltenste Werk der sogenannten deutschen Handelswissenschaft im 17. und 18. Jhdt." (Sauer. Cat. V, 1385). A fine and broadmargined copy.
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Certificate of apprenticeship for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg.

Certificate of apprenticeship for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg.: Membership of the guild of merchants of exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs.

by Christian Friederich Herr and the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet.

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German calligraphic manuscript on vellum, richly decorated with colourful ornaments in upper, right and left margins. Berlin 1761. German manuscript on vellum, dated Berlin, 29 November 1761. With beautifully coloured ornamental decorations in right and left margins; with a crown above "FR" (for Fridericus Rex) at the centre of top margin framed by further hand coloured ornamental decorations. Signed by the master Christian Friederich Herr as well as by the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet. Oblong folio (353 x 610 mm). Traces of folds. An incision at the lower margin indicates that a seal was once present. The document was issued for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg, who had been apprenticed to Christian Friederich Herr for six years since Christmas 1755 and now becoming a member of the Berlin guild of merchants for exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs. From the early days of delicatessen shops in Berlin!
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Catalog der Fabrik & Handlung chemischer, pharmaceutischer, physikalischer meteorologischer etc....
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Catalog der Fabrik & Handlung chemischer, pharmaceutischer, physikalischer meteorologischer etc. Geräthschaften & Apparate chemisch reiner Reagentien und chemischer Präparate.: Trade Catalog

by Lenoir, G(eorge) A(ndré).

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Richly illustrated wood engraved title, (8), 276 pages with hundreds of illustations in the text. Cont. half morocco, richly gilt spine. Marbled edges. Second edition. An early and scarce trade catalogue. Divided into five sections: I. Chemical and pharmaceutical instruments, devices and apparatus. II. Chemical substances. III. Physical and mathematical devices and instruments. IV. Meteorological instruments. V. Terrestrial and celestial globes. KVK with only one copy in the National Library of Israel. A fine copy.
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Of Permanent Value (Signed by Buffett, PSA Authenticated)
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Of Permanent Value (Signed by Buffett, PSA Authenticated)

by Kilpatrick, Andrew; Buffett, Warren

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PSA-AUTHENTICATED & SIGNED BY WARREN BUFFET. Includes full PSA Letter of Authenticity. Briefly inscribed as shown in photos. Extremely scarce certified. First Printing in VG/NF condition: corners mildly bumped; "dinged" in one place along upper edge (see photos). Jacket is near-fine and looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Expedited and international shipping are welcome but overseas buyers are asked to request a shipping quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.
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1928 The Law Of Success by Napoleon Hill (Complete & Rare 8 Volume Set)
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1928 "The Law Of Success" by Napoleon Hill (Complete & Rare 8 Volume Set)

by Napoleon Hill

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Discover an exceptional piece of history with this first edition set of "The Law of Success," published in 1928. Authored by the legendary Napoleon Hill, this complete 8-volume set is a cornerstone of personal development and success literature.
Each volume is a testament to Hill's groundbreaking research and insight into the philosophies that underpin achievement and personal fortune. This rare collectible is a must-have for enthusiasts of classic literature, collectors of historical publications, and anyone seeking to enrich their understanding of success principles.
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1. The Master Mind
2. A Definite Chief Aim
3. Self-Confidence
4. The Habit of Saving
5. Initiative and Leadership
6. Imagination
7. Enthusiasm
8. Self-Control

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This set is in good condition, with pages that have aged gracefully, maintaining their integrity and readability. The bindings are secure, and the covers show minimal wear, preserving the original charm and elegance of the publication. You will… Read More
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