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Paris: Alexandre Johanneau, 1831. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (197 x 127 mm). [4], xxiv, 334, [2] pp. Includes half-title and errata leaf bound at end. 20th-century calf-backed marbled paper boards bound by Ateliers Laurenchet, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (light rubbing of board edges). Custom cloth folding case. Text clean and bright throughout with only very minor light spotting to prelimiary pages, tiny hole in p. 107/8 and paper flaw in p.105/6 not affecting text, short tears at fore-margin of p. 29/30, 31/2 and 101/2 without loss (the former als repaired). Provenance: Stanley C. Wisniewski* (pencil inscription). Exceptional, wide-margined copy, collated and complete. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION (PARIS ISSUE) OF ANTOINE WALRAS'S WORK, CONTAINING THE SEEDS FOR HIS SON LEON'S MARGINAL UTILITY THEORY. In this seminal work, Walras rejects the existing theories of value (including utility, labor and production costs) and for the…