book-money

Whether for the state or for the bankers, book-money pricing was based on unique and imaginary units of measurement.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Five dollars seems to most of us a large sum to pay for a child's book, but after seeing Mr. Rackham's remarkable work I think we shall all agree that there can be no better way of spending our book-money than in purchasing this fine edition of the famous tale, with its fifty full-page pictures in color.

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

It was wonderful that he had paid twenty-eight shillings a term for his son's schooling, in addition to book-money.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

8Braudel's argument that book-money prices represent a form of temporary credit that is convertible into real money when an account was settled through a final payment of some sort is useful here. 11 Accepting that premise, the significance of government and bankers 'price schemes were that they revolved around credit, a form of money theoretically distinct from cash.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

From Tette he writes to Sir Roderick Murchison, 7th February, 1860, urging his plan for a steamer on Lake Nyassa: “If Government furnishes the means, all right; if not, I shall spend my book-money on it.

The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

From Tette he writes to Sir Roderick Murchison, 7th February, 1860, urging his plan for a steamer on Lake Nyassa: "If Government furnishes the means, all right; if not, I shall spend my book-money on it.

The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie 1859