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[ECONOMICS]. HENRY, George (1839?1897). Protection or Free ...

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[ECONOMICS]. HENRY, George (1839?1897). Protection or Free Trade. An Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial Regard to the Interests Labor. New York: Henry George & Co., 1886. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt?lettered spine, floral endpapers; morocco?backed folding box gilt (spine sunned). Provenance: contemporary gift inscription from Albert L. Johnson to G.O. Black. FIRST EDITION. Regarded by American economist Milton Friedman as ?the most rhetorically brilliant book ever written? on the subject.