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Price: US$470.26 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 303pp and 322pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white engravings. A good hardback copy in quarter leather with embossed titles and designs to spine. Leather frayed and worn to extremeties. Tanned and foxed fore edges. Marbled endpapers. Light stain to prelims as well as foxing which is occasional throughout. Second volume has tanned more appreciatively than first.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$471.95 + shipping
Description: viii, 303 & 324 pages plus four pages of ads. Two volumes cloth bound in good condition; Seams cracked; Foot of Volume I spine worn.
Seller: By The Way Books, Richmond, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$541.40 + shipping
Description: 303 und 322 Seiten. Abgleich des Titelbildes bitte bei nika-books. Das Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand. Für sein Alter in einem sehr guten Zustand, lediglich auf einem Einband ein kleiner Fleck und jeweils ein Exlibris-Aufkleber auf dem Vorsatz. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720 8° , Lederausgabe mit Goldprägung auf dem Rücken,
Seller: nika-books, art & crafts GbR, Nordwestuckermark-Fürstenwerder, NWUM, Germany
MACKAY, Charles. MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS. , 1852.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: MACKAY, Charles. MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, 2 VOLUMES. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. 2nd edition. Two volumes bound as one: viii,303,vi,322 pp. Frontispiece and a vignette title-page at the start of each volume, with wood-engraved text illustrations throughout. Octavo, publisher's green cloth binding, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, blocked in blind on sides, dulled gilt lettering on spine. Slight wear to forecorners, but a sound and attractive copy overall. Text leaves are clean, though some of the paper has toned. Engraved bookplate of G. I. Fisher to front pastedown and a library stamp on the recto of each frontisp. and on the vignette t.p. for Volume 1. No other marks. A very good copy of this early, ground breaking study of crowd behavior, whose topics include John Law and the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, tulipomania, the crusades, witch mania, haunted houses, duels and ordeals, etc., and whose influence extends through today. A scarce title in the less common one-volume format, housed a custom clamshell box.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Two volume set. Published in 1852. Both volumes octavo. Gilt lettering and decorations on spines; blindstamped decoration on boards. Top edges are gilt. Illustrated with numerous engravings throughout both volumes. Both volumes have weak, cracked bindings with the textblock of the first volume being detached at the spine. Textblock is generally clean throughout the set.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition. Octavo. Two volumes. viii, 303; vi, 322 pp. Hardcovers, bound in original blind-stamped cloth with gilt spines. Light edge-wear. Bookplates and a stamp on the pastedown of vol. 2, the first few leaves of each with a blind-stamped monogram; the text is bright with very few and minor blemishes.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: SecondÂedition of this important, entertaining and influential early study of crowd behavior, subsequently used to explore popular psychology and to chart the stock market, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in original cloth. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with numerous engravings throughout. In near fine condition, names to the title page. Uncommon in the original cloth and in this condition. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is divided into three broad categories, including 'National Delusions,' 'Peculiar Follies,' and 'Philosophical Delusions.' The author discusses and usually debunks a wide variety of subjects and events. These include economic bubbles like the tulip craze of Holland in 1637 or the Mississippi Company financial bubble of 1719; alchemy, which was of particular interest to individuals who wanted to create gold out of lesser-valued materials; the Crusades, also known as the Middle Ages mania; witch hunts, the persecution of thousands of innocent victims that arose from either supernatural ill fortune or neighbors with a score to settle; duels; the political and religious influence on beards; and several others. The impact of Mackays work has been remarkably far-reaching, influencing such fields as popular psychology and the stock market as noted by The New York Times, which urged: "Any investor who has not read Charles Mackays "Tulipomania," from his classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions, first published in 1841, should grab this book for that exercise alone."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1159.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852, Second Edition. Publishers original embossed cloth and gilt decorated cloth binding, in remarkably good condition for books that are 125 years old, cocked back to front. Pages 275-288 of Vol I with bottom corners creased. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. The book was first published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. In the 21st century, the mathematician Andrew Odlyzko pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as a leader writer in The Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash". [Wikipedia]. Pagination: Vol I viii, 303pp; Vol II viii, 324pp, 4pp adverts. Provenance: ink inscription for William Higgs Jr (1852) and Anne Elizabeth Higgs (1894) to the front of both volumes. Approximately 7 ¾ inches tall (19.6cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration to the spine, very bright, cloth folded to the top and base. Joints good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards good condition embossed cloth boards. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, others tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow with brown printed text. End papers good condition yellow with brown printed text. Title good condition lightly tanned. Pages good condition illustrations, lightly tanned throughout with minor foxing, pages 275-288 of Vol I with bottom corners creased. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1852 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. viii, 303, [1]; viii, 324, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, elaborately blindstamped with gilt-stamped spines, gilt topstain, yellow endpapers with publisher's ads. Complete in two volumes. Very Good+, lightly worn at head and tail, slightly bumped corners, rubbing to endpapers, stain and tiny tear to front board of second volume, a little foxing to text. Former owner's name written on title page of first vol. in ink. Bookseller's emboss to rear endpaper. A very nice, unsophisticated set.A classic study of human behavior covering hundreds of years of panics, fads, fallacies, mobs, and crazes in society and markets. The first profusely illustrated edition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.