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Robinson, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. Macmillan and Co., 1937.
Price: US$82.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, manca sovraccoperta Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture
Seller: Miliardi di Parole, Pietra Marazzi, AL, Italy
Robinson, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1937, London, 1937.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: vii, 255 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to spine ends. Neat ink owner's name to front endpaper. Some marginal ink notes & marks. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Grant (A.T.K.). A Study of the Capital Market in Post-War Britain.. Macmillan, 1937.
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting to borders occasionally, a few passages underlined in red pencil and a reader's note at close of text: '4th Feb. 1938, on the day of the setting-in of Spring, Kyoto', pp. xx, 320, 8vo, original blue cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt, a trifle rubbed at extremities, edges and endpapers a little spotted, dustjacket with the backstrip panel browned and a little chipped at foot, very good. Grant attended University College, Oxford - at the time of the present work he was a lecturer at UCL; he subsequently worked at the Treasury. Amongst the publisher's Economics list on the dustjacket's rear panel is J.M. Keynes' recent 'General Theory' and Joan Robinson's 'Essays in the Theory of Employment'. An excellent copy, its original owner resident in Japan.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Robinson, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. First U.S. edition. Macmillan and Co., 1937.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a VG hardcover first New York edition, but printed in Great Britain, in teal blue binding, no DJ. This is Joseph J. Spengler's copy with his pencil under lines and annotations, but he did not sign it. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Robinson, JOan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. Macmillan and Co, London, 1937.
Price: US$448.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Orig. burgundy cloth. vii, 255 pp. Spine tilted, chafing to extremities, bruising to spine ends and corners. Foxing to edges of text block. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is age toned to extremities, chipped to spine ends and top edge, perforation to rear fore edge. In custom brown cloth slipcase. In these essays the methods of Mr. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money are applied to a number of particular questions. On all these questions a clear light is thrown by Mr. Keynes's method of analysis, and the application of that method provides a simple and straightforward treatment of problems which were formerly abstruse and difficult.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Robinson, Joan. ESSAYS IN THE THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT.. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1937.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 255 pages of text. Original maroon cloth binding with minimal shelfwear and a thin strip of sun fading to the top of the spine. The price-clipped dustjacket is moderately browned on the spine and edges, with minor chipping to the spine extremities, a few small creases and tears, and the previous owner's name (Jean L. Copeland) written neatly at the top edge of the front panel; protected in archival mylar. Previous owners name written neatly on the front endpaper. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition, first printing of this important work. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
ROBINSON Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. , 1937.
Price: US$484.17 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo (224 x 144mm). vii, [1], 255, [1] pp. Original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (jacket slightly edge worn, with some minor loss to the corners, crudely price clipped, otherwise a very good copy indeed). London, MacMillan & Co., Limited. ?In 1931, Joan Robinson belonged to the little 'circus' that helped John Maynard Keynes to make the transition from A Treatise on Money to the General Theory. She became an ardent left-wing Keynesian of the first hour. Her Introduction to the Theory of Employment was one of the first expositions of Keynesian doctrine, and the Essays in the Theory of Employment contained original contributions to it, including an early extension to an open economy? (History of Economic Theory, p. 304). Provenance: from the library of the American economist David Schwartz, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$544.37 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Robinson was a prominent Keynesian economist known for her work on Marx and also the economic development of China. In the thirteen essays collected here she applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment. Cicarelli & Cicarelli 032; Fundaburk 10055; The New Palgrave IV, pp. 212-7. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket, price-clipped. Ownership signature, "Ac [?]Fitzgerald", in ink to front panel of jacket and fore edge of book block. Bookseller's stamp, Grahame Book Company of Sydney, to front pastedown. Spine ends bumped and lightly rubbed, a few tiny spots to front cover else the cloth bright and clean, top edge of book block spotted, light offset from jacket panels to endpapers. A fresh copy in the good jacket, chipped, spine and joints darkened, extremities a little creased with a 4 cm closed tear to front panel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
ROBINSON Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. , 1937.
Price: US$605.21 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo (224 x 144mm). vii, [1], 255, [1] pp. Original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (small bookseller's label to front pastedown, spine panel of jacket faintly toned, some minute wear to extremities, otherwise a near fine copy). London, MacMillan & Co., Limited. ?In 1931, Joan Robinson belonged to the little 'circus' that helped John Maynard Keynes to make the transition from A Treatise on Money to the General Theory. She became an ardent left-wing Keynesian of the first hour. Her Introduction to the Theory of Employment was one of the first expositions of Keynesian doctrine, and the Essays in the Theory of Employment contained original contributions to it, including an early extension to an open economy? (History of Economic Theory, p. 304).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom