Washington, DC: Consumer's Council of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, 1937. Softcover. Octavo, 61 pp. Stapled wraps. Retired from Harvard University's Baker Library. Punch-holed paper strip affixed to spine. Library stamp inside front wrap. More about The Consumer speaks on bituminous coal prices: Excerpts from statements made at 1st Consumer...
Boston Municipal Research Bureau / Abt. Associates, Inc., 1974. Comb Binding. 1974 cost benefit study of the effect of high-rise development in Boston with the hope of influencing city policy toward urban growth and high-density development. Paginated by section, but approximately 100 pages total. From private collection. Wraps are yellowed; pages clean and unmarked. More about The Effect of High Density Development on Municipal Finances in the City of Boston
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1983. Softcover. Octavo, 8 pp. Illustrated booklet briefly explains the evolution of of paper currency and how historical themes are portrayed in their design. Stapled wraps. Booklet's wraps show faint foxing (spotting). Pages remain clean and unmarked. More about "History at Your Fingertips" and "Spirit of the Nation"
London: Hutchinson University Library, 1965. Hardcover. 12mo, 224 pp. Brown cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Inscribed by author to Donald on ffep. Clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket is a little yellowed on the spine. More about The Roots of American Economic Growth, 1607-1861
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Hardcover. Octavo, 258 pp. Red paper-covered boards. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. No ownership ink or bookplate. Donald's notes and underlining in pencil throughout. In clean dust jacket. More about Robert F. Bruner: The Panic of 1907 : Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949. Hardcover. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Includes 10 pages of dense notes in Donald's handwriting plus 1950 American Economic Review offprint with same name as book. Octavo, 631 pp. Maroon cloth. Name stamped on ffep... More about The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance
Privately Printed, 1989-1990. Collection of 107 single-sided newsletters present Xerox trivia, tips on photocopying and budgeting office supplies, cartoons and humorous blurbs, etc. We know little about the newsletter's background except that these back issues belonged to the inventory of Cambridge bookdealer Jeffrey Worrall. More about Xerox Repair Newsletter, Volumes I & II
The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Softcover. Octavo, 260 pp. In wraps. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked copy. More about The Panic of 1837: Some Financial Problems of the Jacksonian Era
Cleveland, Ohio: Phonographic Institute, 1861. Hardcover. 12mo, unpaginated. Brown cloth with title gilt-stamped on front board. Front hinge starting. More about The Phrase Book
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Octavo, 328 pp. Brown cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Dust jacket shows a little rubbing and wear along edges. More about Banks or No Banks: The Money Issue in Western Politics
Privately Prepared, 1892. Hardcover. Quarto, 83 pp. Many of the pages are crossed out in blue pencils (sections that did not have to be submitted to the state). Backstrip is tattered and boards are separating from the binding. More about Annual Report of the Shore Line Railway (Lessor) to the Railroad Commissioners of the State of...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Hardcover. Complete Two Volume set. First Edition. Octavo-sized volumes bound in green cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked set. More about American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II
Princeton University Press, 1964. Softcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history. Octavo, 467 pp. In wraps. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked copy. More about The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879
