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121 RICORD, Elizabeth Stryker. Elements of the Philosophy of Mind. Geneva, New York: John N. Bogert, and sold by Collins, Keese and Co., [& others], 1840 Octavo. Original brown vertical-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards panelled in blind with elaborate centrepieces in blind. With the errata slip tipped-in at rear. Spine faded, ends and corners a touch bruised, contents foxed, overall a very good copy. first edition of “the first American philosophy and psychology textbook written by a woman and the first book-length academic work to explicitly address gender” ( Dictionary of Early American Philos- ophers , pp. 889–90). In 1829 Ricord (1788–1865) opened a seminary for young women in Geneva, New York, where she directed and taught at until the early 1840s. Her curriculum was highly advanced for women’s education at the time, offering subjects such as math- ematics, physics, and geology alongside rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. Three years into her directorship Ricord added a course in “intellectual philosophy”, later renamed “mental philosophy”; set texts included Kames’s Elements of Criticism , Hedge’s Elements of Logick , and Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science . It is this course which formed the basis for Elements of the Philosophy of Mind , published by her long-term supporter John N. Bogert. See Shook, John R. (ed.), Dictionary of Early American Philosophers , 2 vols., Blooms- bury, 2012. £575 [130075] 122 ROBINSON, Joan. Economics is a Serious Subject. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1932 Octavo, 16 pp. Wire-stitched as issued in original buff stiff card wrappers printed in black. Ownership inscription of American economist F. Taylor Os- trander dated December 1932 at head of title, with his extensive underlining and marginalia in ink throughout; in 1932–33 Ostrander was attending lecture courses at Oxford University by A. E. Zimmern, G. D. H. Cole, and A. D. Lind- sey. Extremities a little rubbed, occasional spotting; a very good copy. first edition, genuinely rare, of Robinson’s first separately pub- lished work, her “stunningly ambitious” methodological pamphlet produced, as she described it, in “a trance (it was almost automat- ic-writing)” (Aslanbeigui & Oakes, pp. 41, 49). It was preceded only by her review of Henry Clay’s The Problem of Industrial Relations in the
Political Quarterly of April 1930. We can trace no other copies on the market or in auction records. With the purpose of writing a concise and convincing summa- tion of her ideas on the foundations of economic theory, Robin- son produced this pamphlet in a state of considerable excitement; Keynes likened her behaviour to that of Coleridge while composing Kubla Khan . Five days after completing it she had found a publish- er—the Cambridge student bookstore Heffer’s—and it appeared in October 1932, and was positively received by the academic commu- nity. Robinson used her new-found popularity and respect to pub- lish The Economics of Imperfect Competition with Macmillan the follow- ing year, which, alongside The Accumulation of Capital (see next item), is considered one of her greatest works. Cicarelli and Cicarelli [002]. See Aslanbeigui, Nahid, & Guy Oakes, The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist , Duke University Press, 2009. £1,750 [131550] 123 ROBINSON, Joan. The Accumulation of Capital. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1956 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Card bookmark explaining the tables to pages 107 and 413 laid in as issued. Dust jacket lightly spotted, small abrasion to rear joint, endpapers darkened in places. Book seller’s ticket to front pastedown. Side-ruling to 3 pages in blue ballpoint, a very good copy in a very well-preserved dust jacket. first edition, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, of Robinson’s magnum opus. This is “her second major contribution to economic theory . . . the work of her maturity and the one that expresses Joan Robinson’s genius at her best. Here she has chosen to move on new and controversial ground” ( The New
Palgrave IV, p. 215). Cicarelli & Cicarelli 111. £550
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124 [ROSSETTI, Olivia, & Helen.] MEREDITH, Isabel. A Girl Among the Anarchists. London: Duckworth & Co., 1903 Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine lettered in black, front board panelled in black. Spine slightly slanted and dulled, ends bruised and extremities rubbed, front board a little marked, hinges cracked but firm, front free end-
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