Stable Money History Movement by Fisher Irving Hans Cohrssen (6 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 442 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. Signature of Frank Cyril James upon front free endpaper. Dr. James earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922 and went on to serve as Principal of McGill University from 1939 to 1962. - online reference. This copy was apparently donated to McGill as its deaccession stamp is placed over Dr. James's signature and faint evidence remains of a label removed from the spine. "No one. can possibly appreciate the great importance of the subject of which this book treats until he has acquired a realizing sense of how, all his life, he has been the victim of the 'money illusion.'" - Introduction. Textured navy boards. Backstrip lettering rubbed but legible. Moderate soiling to edges. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound first edition copy of this monetary classic. Fisher M-2058, Cohen p.186.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058,; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Monetary Policy, Irving Fisher, Frederic A. Delano, Ethan Bates Stanley, Stable Money Movement, Committee For the Nation, Stable Money, Federal Reserve System, Gold Standard, London Economic Conference, Weimar Hyperinflation, Wiemar, Stable Money League,; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Rubbing, stray offsetting to the endpapers, light spine end bumps. ; Signed by the author and Frederic Delano and J. H. Rand in ink on a tipped-in colophon on the front pastedown, numbered 610 of the "first edition" to inscribee Charles A. Meyer. Irving Fisher was an American economist and Progressive social campaigner who made important contributions to utility theory, general equilibrium, markets capital and interest rates. He was equally an advocate of vegetarianism, prohibition, and eugenics. Scarce economics title, even in light of presumed 100s of limited editions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Collection of Signatures.