FOUR EDITIONS OF SAMUELSON'S LANDMARK FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. SAMUELSON, PAUL ANTHONY....

FOUR EDITIONS OF SAMUELSON'S LANDMARK FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. SAMUELSON, PAUL ANTHONY. 1915-2009. Foundations of Economic Analysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. (Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LXXX). Publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1959, Economist, pioneer of Balanced Growth Theory); Hon. Stanley C. Wisniewski (pencil inscription) to each volume in this lot. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SAMUELSON'S IMPORTANT MATHEMATICAL SYNTHESIS OF GENERAL ECONOMIC THEORIES, with a notable provenance. Samuelson became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. WITH: Foundations of Economic Analysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's cream and red printed dust jacket, minor chipping to jacket. Second printing, with SIGNED ('Paul A. Samuelson / MIT June 1979') notepaper, headed in print, 'Paul A. Samuelson' laid-in. WITH: Foundations of Economic Analysis: Enlarged Edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. Publisher's brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, publisher's printed dust jacket. ENLARGED EDITION, with a new introduction on the origins of the original and tracing the associated developments in the field over the last 35 years, with two new appendices: mathematical tables, and an extensive bibliography. WITH: Foundations of Economic Analysis. Dusseldorf: Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 1997. (Klassiker der Nationalökonomie.) Maroon morocco, spine lettered in gilt. LIMITED FACSIMILE OF THE 1947 EDITION, SIGNED BY SAMUELSON ON AN INSERTED LEAF, numbered on the colophon '221' from an edition of 500 copies. A fine copy. WITH: commentary volume, Vademecum zu einem Klassiker der Gegenwart. With essays in German by Samuelson, Jurg Niehans, and C. Christian von Weizsacker. Housed together in a custom slipcase. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing