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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good to near fine copy with bright silver lettering on black backing on spine in brown boards with author's initials on front board. The dust jacket is unclipped showing a price of $6.95 and is in very good condition with one closed tear on spine of jacket that carries over to back panel. Minor edge wear and one chip. This is a first edition, first printing, so stated on the copyright page. SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION ON THE FFEP " FOR CLAUDE BISSELLWITH ADMIRATION AND WARM GOOD WISHES FROM JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH 1967". Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto and his notes in pencil are on the ffep, the half title page and the title page. A UNIQUE ASSOCIATION COPY.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this major work by John Kenneth Galbraith in which the influential mid 20th Century economist examines the implications of the concentration of economic power by giant multi-national corporations. Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith to a previous owner on the front endpaper. This copy includes a looseleaf note card typed by a previous owner that notes this copy was signed on Dec. 10, 1967 following a Vietnam War related talk in Boston. Cloth, 427 pages. The book has a bit of tanning of the page edges, otherwise minimal sign of previous use. The dust jacket is price clipped and has a bit of foxing.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State (Signed). Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiv, [2], 427 p. 22 cm. Signed by Author Sound and square binding in gold, cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to the corners and edges. Top edge stain has faded and has a tiny spill spot on it. Bottom fore-edge of text block has a little soil. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked (with the exception of the author's inscription). Dustjacket has 1.5 inch chip across the head of the spine, and a 1.5" closed tear along the bottom of the rear spine fold. The spine is somewhat darkened overall. The folds and conrers have some soil, wear and softening. It is not price clipped. A study of the economics of corporations by noted American economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Continues on with the ideas first presented in his earlier work "The Affluent Society". The book has been inscribed to Murray R Chapman by the author on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus/near fine first edition book in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Tan cloth covered boards with black text on front panel and black and gold text on spine. Boards are clean with minimal creasing on corners at head and tail of spine. Fore-edge corners tips just barely rounded. Two small faint smudges on side page edges. Book is internally clean and tight. Dust jacket is a bit soiled overall, more so on the spine which is also sunned. Head of jacket spine has crescent-shaped stain across the width. Edges at head of spine are creased and chipped; old tape repair along the edge on the reverse side for stabilizing 3/8" closed diagonal tear on back corner. Front panel of dust jacket has several small scuffs running vertically down the left side approx. 1" from the fore-edge fold. Back panel has three small closed vertical tears; two on the upper edge of 3/8" and 1/4", one on the lower edge in right corner of 1/4", all with small tape repairs on reverse side. Spine and fore-edge folds are creased; fore-edge fold has 1/8" closed horizontal tear. All fore-edge corners are rubbed and with a small amount of loss. Upper and lower edges on front and back panel have occasional light creasing. Inside front flap has 1 1/4" by 9/16" price clip. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State. Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing; light edgewear, soiling and one small chip to front bottom corner of dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; light wear to book with faded topstain; o/w VG+/VG+; signed bookplate by John Kenneth Galbraith loosely laid in
Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Galbraith landmark work. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows only the lightest of wear. A very sharp example of this economic highspot. Galbraith's ideas often addressed the influence of the potential market power of large corporations (Dunn and Pressman, 2005). He believed that corporations could become price makers, rather than price takers, by weakening the accepted principle of consumer sovereignty (Galbraith, 1970). This, in turn, allowed corporations to efficiently increase the production of their goods if they could achieve the strongest market power.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Galbraith landmark work. Octavo, original brown cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Larry Owens from John Kenneth Galbraith." Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows only the lightest of wear. Galbraith's ideas often addressed the influence of the potential market power of large corporations (Dunn and Pressman, 2005). He believed that corporations could become price makers, rather than price takers, by weakening the accepted principle of consumer sovereignty (Galbraith, 1970). This, in turn, allowed corporations to efficiently increase the production of their goods if they could achieve the strongest market power.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.. The New Industrial State.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967, 1967.
Price: US$1940.42 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British prime minister, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Harold Wilson, a man with some important experience with these matters. With admiration & regards John Galbraith 1967". Galbraith wrote after Wilson's death in 1995: "I knew him rather well and he was an exceptionally able and intellectually perceptive politician. He had learned to hide some of these qualities under a rather commonplace cloak. When you lifted the latter, you saw how much more there was present" (Selected Letters, p. 578). The New Industrial State was developed from Galbraith's Reith Lectures of 1966 and greatly expands on his 1958 work The Affluent Society. Galbraith argued that the planning and bureaucracy of large corporations has introduced a level of control into the economy, which means that the classical model of an entirely free market is no longer applicable. This view was surely shared by Wilson, who similarly deemed the laissez-faire economy had morphed into one dominated by major economic power blocs, which he as an economic technocrat could unite into a common economic policy. The book was given by Wilson to his key political aide Marcia Falkender with much of the rest of his library and papers and has since been acquired directly from her son. Richard P. F. Holt, ed., The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, 2017. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, author's initials to front cover in black, top edge red. With dust jacket. Early leaves with impression at head from paperclip (Wilson had a habit of using paperclips in his books); jacket rather worn and soiled, unclipped: a good copy in good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom