Edited Piero Sraffa (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. lxii,447. Very good- (minus) condition. Exterior shows a fair amount of shelfwear, but is free of nicks, chips, and tears. Two pencil markings on the half-title. Two blue smudges on the title page. Text is clean and entirely unmarked. Spine is tight, uncreased and uncocked. Binding sound. Book stands square. A very solid copy awaiting scholarship. If you order this from outside the United States, we are likely to request an additional payment to help cover the postage. Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good +/Good +. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Good +/Good +. (1976). Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., xviii, 463 pp., DJ rubbed, lightly frayed, shelfwear, blindstamp .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume five only. 534pp. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Near fine with short tear on bottom edges of pages 38-44 in a very good tanned dustwrapper with faint dampstain on foredges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. "First Edition 1951 Reprinted 1957 1966" stated. Latest date on title page. Fine hardback in very good plus, if not near fine dust jacket ($8.50 in U.S.A. 45s ne {sic} in U.K.). Dust jacket has moderate darkening/offset along top 2 inches and 1.5 inches along fore-edge of front panel; moderate, if not minor darkening/offset to 2 inches along top edge and fore-edge of rear panel; and slight, if not very slight darkening to spine. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. TEN Volumes. Lacks the General Index Volume. Volumes I through IV published 1951 with no additional date given at copyright page. Volumes V through IX published 1952 with no additional date given at copyright page. Volume X published in 1955 with no additional date at copyright page. Only Volumes I, III & IV have dust jackets and these are somewhat edgeworn and soiled especially the top of Volume IV at the spine which is missing a small piece. The spines of the of the other volumes are sunned, but the embossing remains quite legible. Boards of all volumes shown moderate wear with an occasional bump to a corner. Small ink dot at side of page of Volume VII. Volume V bumped at top of spine causing short split at very top of front hinge. All hinges tight. All texts clean. Various foldout facsimile reproductions present and in excellent condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, cloth, complete. 11 volumes including index. With 7 plates and facsimiles. copy formerly in posesssion of a distinguished italian economist, with interesting pencil underlinings and marginalia. original blue cloth, last two volumes also dj.

First editions of the works of economist David Ricardo. Octavo, original cloth, 10 volumes. Each are near fine to fine in excellent dust jackets. An very nice set, uncommon in such exceptional condition. David Ricardo became a stockbroker at the age of 21 and slowly became a recognized economic scholar in England. Though he retired at 42, he spent the following years of his life concentrating on his writing and research. "David Ricardo is without doubt the greatest representative of classical political economy. He carried the work begun by Adam Smith to the farthest point possible Ricardo, writing 50 years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system In the opinion of his own contemporaries at home and abroad, Ricardo was acknowledged the leader of the science His most important work is On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, first published in 1817" (Roll, History of Economic Thought, 155-6).