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Published by Dell Magazine, New York, 2004
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of the Collection of 20 Short Stories. Featured are: His Deadliest Enemy by Kate Wilhelm, And If He Sees His Shadow by Jeremiah Healy, Valentino's Valediction by Amy Myers, The Widow of Slane by Terence Faherty, The Fruit Cellar by Joyce Carol Oates, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Josh Pachter, Road Bomb by James H Cobb, The Ferryman by Paul Bishop, White Pigs by Joseph Monninger, Slow-Motion Tornado by Kimberly Colley, The Fourth Way by Neil Schofield, Paul Revere's Bell by Edward D Hoch, Something Fishy in Pompeii by Steven Saylor, The Woodcarver by Peter Turnbull, The Foreigner's Watch by Patricia McFall, To Catch a Falling Star by Barbara Callahan, Sunset City by Martin Edwards, Guilty by Luis Adrian Betancourt, Fore! by Katherine H Brooks and The Mystery Crossword by Ruth Minary. In Fine Condition.
Published by Printed by Benjamin Flower: for J. Deighton et al., Cambridge, 1797
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. [4], 290pp, [2]. With a final publisher's advertisement leaf (not recorded by ESTC). Contemporary dark green calf-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, loss to head of spine. Head of title page shaved (sadly, to remove an early ownership inscription), foxed. The rare first edition of the first work of economics, in English, consciously intended for use as a textbook. As the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' which heaps justifiable praise on the magnum opus of Adam Smith, the work was designed to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education, in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce (1763- 1816) of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations, it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition (London, 1776) - or the by then well-known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth-century - into a single convenient octavo volume. As Joyce himself notes in a footnote to the final page of text, the developments suggested by Smith relating to alleviating the national debt (by introducing the British system of taxation to 'all provinces of the empire') were superseded by events in America during the 1770s, and, any hope for the 'discharging of the national debt' brought even more into doubt by the 'present melancholy situation of Ireland'. ESTC locates only 11 copies in the UK, and just 12 further elsewhere. ESTC T95379. Size: 8vo.