Earl L Smith (66 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor wear visible. The dust jacket exhibits minor wear but remains intact. The binding is strong, and the pages are clean and free from inscriptions or library marks. The book is printed on acid-free paper, preserving its quality over time. Daniel Earl Thaxton (cover illustration and design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1989. 214 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Some dog-eared pages. Daniel Earl Thaxton (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Endpages and page edges are slightly browned. Dust jacket is browed and chipped, with a couple small tears.

Very good minus, light shelf wear Cloth Lightly worn, edgetorn jacket.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

hardcover. first edition. 8vo 298pp. from front flap: "This interpretation of Roger W. Babson's extraordinarily varied career in business, church work, politics, education, and in science presents the life and philosophical views of a persevering and inventive man as well as the success story of a pioneering venture into the investment advisory business." #01140. very good: mild offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight very good: corner/edge wear, spot of chipping, NOT clipped ($5.00).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Vol 27, No 2, pp. 79-120+ Couple FoldOuts, Orig Offprint bound in ex lib Stiff Bds, perfs title page else Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. NY: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1954. First Edition. viii,298 pages. Illustrated. 9.5x6.5", cloth, dj. Daniells, Studies in Enterprise, 1768. VG/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Yankee Genius: A Biography of Roger W. Babson. pioneer in investment counseling and business forecasting who capitalized on investment patience Smith, Earl L. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1954.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Vol. XXXVI, No. 5. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Timmins for "The Fairy Chessmen" (pt. 1 of 2) by Lewis Padgett [Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore]. Includes "Veiled Island" (novelette) by Emmett McDowell; "Fine Feathers" (novelette) by George O. Smith; "N Day" by Philip Latham [R. S. Richardson]; "A Matter of Length" by Ross Rocklynne; "The Plants" by Murray Leinster. Articles: 'Hearing Aid" by George O. Smith; "Electrical Yardsticks" by Earl Welch. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: - But Are We?" by John W. Campbell, Jr.; "In Times to Come". Illustrated by Kramer, Orban, Raymond and Williams. Old tape covering spine; losses at spine ends; edge and corner nicks and wear; tanning; twine dents. Magazine.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good with very good dust jacket. Small very light scuff on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners, is rubbed at some edges and has a 1/2 inch tear at top back edge. 298 pages with index plus illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1964 PUBLICATION; includes 3 folded maps in rear pocket (complete for this publication); softcovers; light browning of covers; o/w in very good condition. Journal.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A LIKE NEW BOOK.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 27, No 2, pp. 79-120+ 2 FoldOut Plts, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 300pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of slight jacket wear; endpapers a tad age toned. A tight, nice later printing.

Condition: NF in price clipped VG dj. 300pp. black & white photos & other illustrations.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. As new. No markings. Flat spine with no cracks or creases.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. (Pioneer in Investment Counseling and Business Forecasting Who Capitalized on Investment Patience) (A-I) Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering very fine on spine, light brown inside first front end paper and back cover, 300 lightly browned pages, two photo sections. Frontispiece photo with facsimile signature of Babson. DJ heavy paper, dark blue background with white lettering and white design, white back lightly browned and very slightly soiled. DJ has slight wear at top front tip, light wear at top front bookfold edge and bottom front tip, very tiny tear and micronicks along top front edge, nicks and microtears with slight wear at spine top edge, light wear at spine bottom edge, spine very lightly rubbed. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.…

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. dj. A New Era Book. xiii, 238 pp. God: The Contemporary Discussion Series. Dustjacket. LCC: 8830126 Good condition; light foxing on top edges of papers.

Condition: New. 2019. Paperback. . . . . .

Hard Cover. 300pp. Pioneer in investment counseling and business forecasting who capitalized on investment patience. Very good; foxing on fep. DJ is good. (loc 1046).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 372 pp., x. '1' in number line; Stated: "In part a revision of Toward a steady state economy, 1973". Following the Preface and the Editor's "Introduction to the Steady-Sate Economy," Contents are divided into three Parts and 22 Essays (with Notes or References at the end of an essay): Part I ECOLOGY: ULTIMATE MEANS AND BIOPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS Editor: "Introduction"; (1) Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, "Humanity at the Crossroads"; (2) __, ___, and John P. Hildren, "Availability, Entropy, and the Laws of Thermodynamics"; (3) Nicholas Georgescu--Roegen, "The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem"; (4) __. "Selections fro' Energy and Economic Myths"; (5) Earl Cook, "Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources"; (6) Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons"(7) __ "Second Thoughts on ' The Tragedy of the Commons ' "; Part II: ETHICS: THE ULTIMATE END AND VALUE CONSTRAINTS Editor, "INTRODUCTION";(8) E. F. Schumacher, "The Age of Plenty: A Christian View"; (9) _. "Buddhist Ethics"; (10) Robert L. Sinsheimer, "The Presumptions of Science"; (11) John Cobb, "Ecology, Ethics, Theology"; (12) C. S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man"; Part III: ECONOMICS: INTERACTION OF ENDS AND MEANS" Editor, "Introduction"; (13) Peter A. Victor, "Economics and the Challenge of Environmental Issues"; (14) Gerald Alonzo Smith, "The Teleological View of Wealth: A Historical Perspective"; [Editor] "On Economics as a Life Science"; (16) Kenneth E. Boulding, "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth"; (18) E.J. Mishan, "The Growth of Affluence and the Decline of Welfare"; (19) Bruce Hannon, "Energy Use and Moral Restraint"; (20) Talbot Page, "The Severance Tax as an Instrument of Intertemporal Equity"; (21) [Editor] "The Steady-State Economy: Toward a Political Economy of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth"; (22) [Editor] "Postscript: Some Common Misunderstandings and Further Issues Concerning a Steady-State Economy". Glossy, pale green wrappers with Title and Subtitle lettering in black letters across top half front cover, above black and white photo-illustration of a polluting industrial plant; Editor name lettering in smaller black letters across bottom front cover. Micro-tip wear at corners and a few pages with news clippings having been inserted (documented below) and leaving offsetting (text still eminently readable, binding unstretched): Binding strong (NO cracks); previous owner name, date, and place discreetly at top left inside cover; NO remainder marks; NO rubbing wear but at tips. Clean text. Still timely discussions. News items laid in [offsetting between pages cited; all text eminently readable: (1) Philip Shabecoff, "Temperature for World Rises Sharply in the 1980's" (New York Times, 3 29 1988); (2) David Doniger and Alan Miller, "Fighting Global Warming is Good for Business" (NY, 8 6 1990) [between pp. 112-116]; (3) Andrew R. Solow, "Pseudo-Scientific Hot Air" (NYT, 12 28 1988) [120-121]; (4) Michael Oppenheimer, "Will the Planet Remain Habitable?: Climate Control is a key" (NYT, 6 30 1986) [126-127]; (5) Tom Wicker, "Battered and Abused: Global threats to the environment" (NYT, 11 25 1988) [136-138]; (6) Mary Kate Cranston, "Mitchell optimistic on acid rain bill" (Boston Globe, 8 2 1987), (7) UPI "US, in 1985, feared NRC cover-up of wrongdoing by nuclear utilities" (Globe, 8 23 1987), (8) AP "EPA accused of ignoring pollution law" (Globe 11 24 1987): [158-59]; (8) Matthew L. Wald, "Utility Is Selling Right To Pollute" (NYT, 5 12 1992) [168-169]; (9) AP "Ozone Team To Brave Arctic Night" (NYT, 6 23 1986), (10) JAMES GLEICK, "Hole in Ozone Over South Pole Worries Scientists" (NYT 7 29 1986), (11) N. E. Environmental Conference,Tufts U., Medford, Mass, "Global Effort Urged for Ozone" [263-267]; (12) William K. Stevens, "With Cloudy Crystal Balls, Scientists Race to Assess Global Warming" ((NYT, 2 7 1989), (13) Philip Shabecoff, "Man Said To Tax Earth's Systems" (NYT 2 14 1987) [306-311]. Also, 5 NO-offsetting items: 1988-2014.…