Collected Scientific Papers by Paul Samuelson, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is a sound and attractive set of the first five volumes of Samuelson's collected works, volumes I-IV of which inscribed by him at the title page of each volume to his fellow economist Hal Varian: "For Hal Varian / Paul Samuelson / MIT April 1982." The volumes are sturdily bound, with minor wear only to their extremities; the contents of each are fine. Volume I (fourth printing, 1977): xii, [772]; Volume II (third printing, 1972): xii, [773]-1813; Volume III (1972): vi, [6], 930 pages; Volume IV (second printing, 1979): xiv, 977 pages, bumping to lower corner of textblock; Volume V (1986), xii, 1052 pages, not inscribed, Prof. Varian's stamp at front free endpaper. Volume I has no dust jacket. The jacket for Volume II is edgeworn and chipped; that for Volume III is shelfworn and edgeworn, with short tears to the head of its spine and to the head of its front flapfold; that for Volume IV is shelfworn and edgeworn, with short tears to the head of its spine and to the head of its front flapfold; that for Volume V is shelfworn and edgeworn, with sunning to its spine. 7560 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Editions, First Printings. Octavos, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition, lacking dust jackets. Bound in publisher's full green cloth with silver lettering to spines. Some mild shelf wear and scuffing to boards. Volume one inscribed on the title page by Samuelson in Cambridge, December 1966. Scarce signed. Shelved in Case 5. Paul Samuelson received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970. His 'Economics: An Introductory Analysis' is the most widely used economics textbook ever published. The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson was published in five volumes between 1966 and 1986, with volumes six and seven posthumously published. 1364961. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition, early printing of Volume I of the Nobel Prize-winning economists papers. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page,ÂÂ"For Doug Burrows, Paul A. Samuelson, Endicott House, June 21, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. "It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken for granted," observes a reviewer in the "Economist" who goes on to note that "a cynic might add that it would have been better for Professor Samuelson to write less merely to give others a chance to write at all." In fact, Samuelson's output, his "extraordinary mastery of methods, both mathematical and linguistic" (review of Volume 4 of "The Collected Scientific Papers"), have not diminished. Volumes 1 through 4 encompass more than 280 articles. The first two contain virtually all of Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964; Volume 3 contains all the scientific papers written from mid-1964 through 1970, and the last volume brings his work up to through 1976.

First editions of each volume of the collected papers of Nobel Prize-winning economists papers. Octavo, 7 volumes, original cloth. Volumes 1-5 are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Volumes 1-5 are signed by Paul A. Samuelson; volumes I & II are signed by fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, who served as editor of these volumes. Volumes 6 and 7 are fine in a fine jackets, and were published posthumously. A very attractive set, rare and desirable signed. "It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken for granted," observes a reviewer in the "Economist" who goes on to note that "a cynic might add that it would have been better for Professor Samuelson to write less merely to give others a chance to write at all." In fact, Samuelson's output, his "extraordinary mastery of methods, both mathematical and linguistic" (review of Volume 4 of "The Collected Scientific Papers"), have not diminished. Volumes 1 through 4 encompass more than 280 articles. The first two contain virtually all of Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964; Volume 3 contains all the scientific papers written from mid-1964 through 1970, and the last volume brings his work up to through 1976.

First editions, first printings, signed on the title page of each volume by Paul Samuelson, and on the title page of the first two volumes by one of the editors, Samuelson's fellow Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz. Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics. In his citation for the award in 1970, he was credited as having "done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". This collection contains nearly all his economic papers through 1985, in their original forms, with his own corrections and additions added in postscripts. Among the editors of these volumes were Stiglitz, known for his critical views of globalization and the free market, the Nobel-winning economist Robert Merton who introduced the Merton and ICAP models and worked with Scholes on stock options, and the economists Kate Crowley and Hiroaki Nagatani. A further two volumes were published after Samuelson's death in 1999. 5 vols, octavo. Table of contents for vol. IV laid in as issued. Original variously coloured cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. Ownership signature to front pastedown of vol. III. Some light soiling to book edges; jackets a little worn with some rubbing and soiling, ring stains to front panel of vol. I, sunning to spine panels, not-price clipped: near-fine copies in very good jackets.