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Price: US$30.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 1 only, of 2. 2nd edition. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large clothbound octavo, blind stamped boarders front and back cover, sticker with book name on spine, cover badly worn scuffed and with staining, corners worn,foxing, pen and pencil markings in margins. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2 hardcover volumes. Both worse for the wear. First volume has Original gray spine and back cover, but a mismatched front cover held on with clear packing tape (which will probably ruin the spine, if it's removed). 611 pages. Title page missing. First page present is the first page of the preface. Text block is broken in two pieces at page 288/289. Library checkout card tipped to the inside back cover. Volume 2 has its original binding, with handwritten library numbers at the top of the spine. 552 pages + 4 pages of ads. This volume is complete, with title page dated 1849, and stated Second Edition. Two bookplates on the inside front cover. The original one has the name 'Charles E. Haynes.' Below that one, sideways, is a Harvard College Library bookplate, stamped Released in red. Binding bumped and scuffed. MIll's Political Economy was first published in 1820. This is the second UK edition (there was a Boston edition in 1848). It's bumped and bruised, but complete except for the title page and cover of volume 1. Scarce, even in this condition.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$477.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 23x15.cm. Collation, xvi, 611,[1]pp, xv552pp, [4]pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with paper title labels. Cloth rubbed, worn on corners, head and tail of spines, age darkened. Generally bindings in good condition. Internally, two Royal institution stamps to each volume, one on fixed endpaper, other on title page. Pages in good clean condition. A good set. Size: 8vo
Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$700.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~No ownership marks. 2 volume set. 19c full tree calf, decorative gilt frame to boards. Rebacked in plain brown cloth with original gilt-decorated spines laid down. Red gilt labels included. Marbled page-edges. Board corners worn. New endpapers, uncracked at gutters. Contents fresh and unfoxed. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: xvi, 612 + xvi, 552pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$872.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes, octavo: xvi, 611, (1), 4(adverts); xv, (3), 552, (4 adverts)pp. Ownership inscriptions of Charles J. Taylor Trin. Coll. and Wm. W. Walker Christ's College. A few early marginal annotations. End papers a little foxed but otherwise very good internally, Original publisher's cloth, rubbed, and some wear to corners and ends of spines. This second edition, a year after the first, was largely unchanged. The most significant additions were to the sections on socialism and the future of the working class. These are regarded as important evidence of the influence of Harriet Taylor on Mill's thought.
Seller: Mark Westwood Books PBFA, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$955.53 + shipping
Description: Second edition of Mill's principal work on economics, which he revised from the first of 1848 at Harriet Taylor's wishes and direction, marking a significant change in his approach to socialism. "From the moment of publication, Mill's Principles was hailed as a classic, far more congenial to the public than earlier economic textbooks, and far more readable than the Logic. Yet in Mill's eyes it was out of date almost before it appeared, because of the eruption in 1848 of the 'year of revolutions', which brought with it widespread experimentation in co-operative, socialist, and public works schemes in many parts of Europe. Mill later claimed that, if he and Harriet [Taylor] had anticipated the changes in public opinion that occurred in that year, they would have composed the Principles in much more ambitious and 'socialist' terms" (ODNB). The second edition was revised accordingly. Taylor "told Mill to abolish in the second edition, all his objections against Socialism and Communism. She demanded a complete reversal of his economic treatise in its most essential feature. And she obtained it, though the process cost him infinite pain and worry. The work which had set out to expose all schemes of communal ownership as wild fancies, came within a year to regard them as 'the most valuable elements of human improvements now existing'. His disavowal of Socialism so confidently expressed in 1848 was replaced in 1849 by the brief contradiction: 'On the Communistic scheme, supposing it to be successful, there would be an end to all anxiety concerning the means of subsistence: and this would be much gained for human happiness'" (St. John Packe, pp. 312-313). Goldsmiths' 36183.1; not in Einaudi. Michael St. John Packe, The Life of John Stuart Mill, 1954. 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, printed paper spine labels, frames to boards in blind, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers of one James Showers. Spines a little sunned, some wear to labels, light rubbing. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom