Dickson Pgm (57 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. pp.xviii, 375 pages, portrait frontispiece, a good plus hardback in a like dust-jacket, ex-library but hard to tell [0198223781].

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has mild edgewear and soiling. Sticker on dust jacket. Tops of pages have mild toning. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Condition: Good. 1960. 1960 Reprint. 324 pages. Orange pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.

Condition: Good. 1960. No Edition Remarks. 324 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oxford University Press, London, 1960, first edition; 8vo, 150 x 240mm; pp xiv, 324; coloured frontispiece and 12 plates one of them coloured and showing a Sun fireman of the early 17th century; ex-Norfolk County Libery with a few relevant stamps but sill in good condition, the dust wrapper protected by a clear plastic sleeve. The Sun Insurance Office is the oldest independent insurance company in the world and this work was commissioned as a history of the company's 250 years. The work includes a useful bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1973 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Like new except for neat library markings. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Very nice charcoal cloth cover.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's inscription inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

octavo, orange boards with blue and gilt lettering to spine & front, viii + 324 pp (VG+) with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear and edge-wear; closed tears to d.j. Else clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The jacket is a touch rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Boards have some staining, light wear.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (britain, insurance, sun insurance office) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. NOTE FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS: HEAVY BOOK TO SHIP FROM THE UK WHICH WILL REQUIRE AN INCREASED POSTAGE FEE IN ADDITION TO OUR STANDARD RATES SHOWN, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PRICE-DETAILS IF RELEVANT. Vg clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions but does have some light foxing specks to rear e/papers, contains a colour f/p plus a further colour plates, b&w photos and drawings, toned to page block, vg clean firm boards, just a tiny knock to lower rear edge, all tight; d/j has standard shelfwear/usage, grubby/dulled to rear and spine area, nicks to extremities, but no large tears and all intact./.

Condition: Good. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.

Condition: Good. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.

First edition. xiv, 324 pp. Colour frontispiece, & 14 other plates. 3 line drawings in text. Written to commerate the 250th anniversary of the world's oldest insurance office. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on blue spine label. Gilt emblem of Sun Insurance on front board on blue background. Overall condition VG+. In VG yellow dust wrapper.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. a good condition vintage book. No edition listed so potentially first. An ex-library copy with the usual amount of stamps. The dust jacket has been protectively laminated. A clean and well-bound copy inside.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. The world's oldest insurance office, previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, 324pp, VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first edition; yellow publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; 324 pages; illustrated; all 14 full page plates are present in excellent condition; yellow dust jacket; lettering in black on spine and front cover; hinges tight; spine is square; minimal edge wear; light age browning to outer fore edges of page block and inner top of dust jacket; laid in is a gift presentation sheet from the Chairman of the Company.

Firs Edition: Orange bds., gold titles, blue and gold decs., 240x155mm., 950grms., 324pps., with index, illustrated colour frontis, 14 bw. plates, textual line drawings, pictorial dw., with some shelf marking, foxed eps., VG/VG, copy.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

Condition: VG. London 1995 first edition. Issue for April, no 436. vol CX. octavo wraps. Dickson article pp. 323-367. Other articles in issue as well. VG plus. no ownership marks.

Hardback. Condition: Good. There are books that casually mention taxation, there are books that briefly discuss state borrowing, and then there is Finance and Government under Maria Theresia 1740?1780 Vol 2: Finance and Credit , which arrives at your desk with the quiet confidence of a man wheeling in an entire eighteenth-century treasury archive on a reinforced cart. PGM Dickson?s monumental study of Habsburg finance is one of those gloriously intimidating academic works whose sheer physical presence alone suggests that somewhere, sometime, somebody spent several consecutive years reading handwritten Austrian fiscal records by candlelight and emerging only occasionally for soup. This is not merely a history book. It is an excavation of the financial bloodstream of an empire. Maria Theresia ruled a sprawling, argumentative and permanently cash-hungry collection of territories at a time when European states had developed the charming habit of funding civilisation, bureaucracy and near-constant warfare with increasingly elaborate systems of debt, taxation and hopeful accounting. Dickson guides the reader through this maze with immense scholarship, dissecting the mechanics of imperial credit, public borrowing, administrative reform and fiscal survival with a level of detail that would probably make modern finance ministers quietly leave the room. And yet, oddly enough, it becomes fascinating. Beneath the formidable academic exterior lurks the timeless human story of governments desperately trying to find money while avoiding complete collapse. Some things, it seems, never truly go out of fashion. The eighteenth century may have lacked spreadsheets and televised budget announcements, but it certainly understood deficits, panic, creative borrowing and the eternal belief that one more loan might somehow solve everything. There is a wonderful irony in the fact that the machinery of empire so often comes down not to grand speeches or battlefield heroics, but to ledgers, bond markets and exhausted officials trying to calculate how many florins are theoretically still available somewhere in central Europe. Dickson treats this world with immense seriousness and astonishing command, producing a work that has long been regarded as a major scholarly achievement in economic and imperial history. This is very much a book for serious readers, historians, economists, researchers and collectors of heavyweight academic publishing. The Clarendon Press production carries all the reassuring authority of a volume designed less for casual beach reading than for permanent residence in university libraries where students whisper fearfully in its general direction. An essential work on Habsburg administration, eighteenth-century finance and the hidden economic machinery behind European power politics. Also ideal for anyone who has ever looked at a modern national budget and wondered whether governments have actually changed very much since 1740. Condition: Good. Sold by Crappy Old Books, where empires rise, borrow heavily and eventually end up shelved alphabetically.

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0198228821.

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780198228820.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

London: O.U.P. 1960. Roy.8vo. Or.cl.d.w. (XIV324pp.). With col. frontisp. 14 full-page plates and text-illusts. Fine ex-libr. copy.