stable money von fisher irving (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xxiii, 442 pages. In Good plus condition. Blue spine with faded lettering. Boards are bound in full blue cloth, mildly cocked, has chipping to spine and fore corners, light bumping to head rear fore corner. Textblock has an ink signature and address from a previous owner on the front pastedown, pencil marks on some pages from page 18-55, and 215-276, light plus age toning, light soiling to rear end papers, and mild wear to edges. Shelved in Case 5. 1399491. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Limited First Edition: #873b. Octavo, xxiii, 484 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking issued dust jacket. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear to boards, including rubbing/bumping with slight material loss to head, tail, and corners; sun-fading to gilt lettering on spine (lettering remains clear and legible); age-toning/wear to text block; light age-toning and occasional creasing to interior pages, text remains clear and legible. Signed by Fisher to bookplate affixed to front paste-down, limitation number is 873b. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 5. The limitation bookplate is also signed by Frederic A. Delano (President of the Stable Money Association and uncle of U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and James Rand Jr. (Chairman for the Committee for the Nation). 1398469. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Adelphi Company, New York. 1934. Xxiii, 484 pgs. . Signed and inscribed to Albert H Morrill by Irving Fisher, Frederic Delano (President, Stable Money Association) , and James Rand (Chairman, Committee for the Nation) on a colophon-label tipped to the front paste-down. This copy is Limited Edition Copy No. 908 of the First Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelfwear present (boards rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 442 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. Signature of Frank Cyril James upon front free endpaper. Dr. James earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922 and went on to serve as Principal of McGill University from 1939 to 1962. - online reference. This copy was apparently donated to McGill as its deaccession stamp is placed over Dr. James's signature and faint evidence remains of a label removed from the spine. "No one. can possibly appreciate the great importance of the subject of which this book treats until he has acquired a realizing sense of how, all his life, he has been the victim of the 'money illusion.'" - Introduction. Textured navy boards. Backstrip lettering rubbed but legible. Moderate soiling to edges. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound first edition copy of this monetary classic. Fisher M-2058, Cohen p.186.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058,; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Monetary Policy, Irving Fisher, Frederic A. Delano, Ethan Bates Stanley, Stable Money Movement, Committee For the Nation, Stable Money, Federal Reserve System, Gold Standard, London Economic Conference, Weimar Hyperinflation, Wiemar, Stable Money League,; Signed by Author(s).

First edition of Fisher's classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Laid in is the original publisher's slip which reads "In recognition of pioneer support of the movement for a Stable Measure of Value. Copy no. 660 of the first edition of Stable Money: A History of the Movement is inscribed to Fenton Lawson." The slip is signed by Irving Fisher. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Irving Fisher was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century making important contributions to utility theory and his work on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of economic thought known as "monetarism." Milton Friedman called Fisher "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced." Some concepts named after Fisher include the Fisher equation, the Fisher hypothesis, the international Fisher effect, and the Fisher separation theorem.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. "Stable Money" by Irving Fisher. Adelphi Company, New York. 1934, first American edition, first printing. Bound in blue cloth with fading gold lettering on the spine. Cover has some rubbing along edges and extremities. Binding sturdy. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dustjacket has some significant chipping and tearing; along edges, flap creases, and most notably at base of spine. Now encased in a mylar sleeve. Dustjacket unclipped, with $3.50 price intact. Scarce, especially with dustjacket (very scarce), and on of the famous economist's most influential works.

First edition of Fisher's classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Alden A. Potter with the compliments and good wishes of Irving Fisher November, 1941." Near fineÂin the rare dust jacket that has a small chip to the crown and light rubbing to the exterior. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Irving Fisher was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century making important contributions to utility theory and his work on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of economic thought known as "monetarism." Milton Friedman called Fisher "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced." Some concepts named after Fisher include the Fisher equation, the Fisher hypothesis, the international Fisher effect, and the Fisher separation theorem.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed and dedicated to United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone by Irving Fisher, Frederic Delano (President, Stable Money Association), and James Rand (Chairman, Committee for the Nation) on a limitation slip tipped in on the front pastdown. Justice Stone's ownership signature is in pencil on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's dark blue pebbled cloth. Near Fine with lean to binding, rubbing to titles on spine and light wear to tips. Pages toned, corners lightly bumped and foxing to preliminary and terminal pages.