Worldly Philosophers, First Edition (15 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Twelfth Printing. Cover is lightly rubbed with edgewear. Pages are tight and tanning in margins. Prior owner name on front reverse. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Fair copy, lacking dust jacket. Some highlighting and underlining to text, former owner's name on front free endpaper, rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book is clean and intact. There is no dust cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition Stated. Although the words 'First Printing' appear on the copyright page, this might be a book club edition, as it is smaller in size. Grey cloth cover, backstrip sunned and wrinkled. 342pp. Interior very good. No jacket. (loc 956/1).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, Fourteenth Printing. Not price-clipped ($1.95 price intact). Published by Clarion/Simon and Schuster, 1968. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Third printing. VG+/VG. Moderate wear to dust jacket, now in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. Name on ffep. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Later Printing. Ed Libris with normal library block on ffep. No DJ. Cover worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Printing. 342 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light staining, tears at edges, and sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Clean and crips within.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket. Spine is slightly faded. Otherwise excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good copy of the stated First Printing in a Good price clipped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), faded at the spine and with a chip to the top inch, bumped and with some short tears and shallow chips throughout, soiled at the back panel. Black cloth, bumped at the corners, with a green ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, clean internally. Heilbroner's best-seller about the various "academic scribblers" that have shaped economic theory since Adam Smith.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (As stated on copyright page.) Near Fine in Good dust jacket with wear along edges, small closed tear to front panel, toning and crease to spine panel, a few pieces of archival mending tissue on verso. Jacket is mylar-protected.

first edition, 1953. a bestselling classic and introduction to the primary economic thinkers of western history by an economist and historian of economic thought. new york: simon and schuster. hardcover. book condition: some toning. near fine. jacket condition: some shelfwear and toning. near fine.

First edition of this bestselling classic, which has went on to sell more than 4 million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Aline - Who combines all the advantages of a philosophical worldliness and a worldly philosophy. Fondly Bob Heilbroner Oct. 4, 1953." The recipient, Aline Bernstein Saarinen was a well-known critic of art and architecture in the United States, an author and a television journalist, who married the architect Eero Saarinen. She was given the International Award for Best Foreign Criticism at the Venice Biennale in 1951. She received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for best newspaper art criticism in 1953, and the American Federation of Arts Award for best newspaper criticism in 1956. In 1964 she turned down an offer from PresidentÂLyndon B. Johnson of the post of ambassador to Finland.ÂAline was awarded an honorary degree by theÂUniversity of MichiganÂin 1964 and another by theÂRussell Sage College in 1967. In near fine condition. The Worldly Philosophers elucidates historically popular economic theories. The author's ability to do so with ease and effectiveness is a mark of its appreciation, and it remains an indispensable text for students of economics today. John Kenneth Galbraith stated "[i]f ever a book answered a crying need, this one does. Here is all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish by a man who writes with immense vigor and skill, who has a rare gift for simplifying complexities." Galbraith's approval is all the more relevant considering that this copy was inscribed to him.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Robert Heilbroner on the front free endpaper, inscribed to the former owner. [viii], 342, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with crimson spine stamping, lettered in silver. Very Good+ with toning to spine, light wear, in Very Good+ dust jacket with dulled spine panel, toned, light wear. An attractive signed copy of the surprise bestselling history of economics told through the life stories of great economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, Thorstein Veblen, and Karl Marx. Signed.