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KEYNES,John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. London, Hogarth Press, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$121.79 + shipping
Description: Second impression, the same month as the first. 12mo. Original cloth backed boards with paper spine label. A little sunning to boards, neat ink inscription, a very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926.
Price: US$153.84 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: UK hardback first impression. Scarce. Ex-library copy, solid and in original binding, but with signs to boards and pages. Clean overall internally. No jacket.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages clean and bright, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing on endpapers, binding firm, light shelf wear, foxing and sunning to boards, Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
KEYNES, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$352.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stiff boards, underlining on eight pages otherwise clean text. Title complete on spine with remarkably little edge wear. 54pp Scarce.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$437.75 + shipping
Description: Legatura editoriale in mz. tela con titolo a stampa su etichetta cartacea al ds. Ex libris di collezione privata al contropiatto anteriore. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Prima edizione, non comune. 16mo (cm. 18,5), 53(3) pp.
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Price: US$448.70 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this slim volume based on Keynes's Sidney Ball lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924, as well as a rewritten version given at Berlin in 1926. It offers an historical analysis of laissez-faire economic systems and the reasons they are impractical for modern societies. "Keynes's epitaph for laissez-faire is a revealing and neglected pamphlet that documents his early conversion to the idea of a managed economy. He was interested in 'possible improvements in the techniques of western capitalism by the agency of collective action.' He admitted that 'material progress between 1750 and 1850 came from individual initiative, and owed almost nothing to the direct influence of organised society as a whole,' and that 'Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised as powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history.' Nevertheless, he rejected the general principles of laissez-faire and recommended a formidable extension of the agenda of government" (Hartwell, pp. 12ff). Moggridge C.6; Woolmer 97. Ronald Max Hartwell, A History of the Mont Pelerin Society, 1995. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, printed spine label, blue paper-covered sides. Early bookplate of Cheltenham College to front pastedown. Spine a little rubbed, slight wear to tips, contents a little spotted with a few minor pencil annotations. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Keynes, John Maynard. THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 54 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good later slip case. Bound in quarter light green cloth and blue paper boards with blue lettering on spine label. Mild shelf wear. Fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine. Sunning around edges of boards. Tanning to endpapers. Age-toning to interior pages. LA consignment. Shelved in Case 10. 1378245. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Keynes, John Maynard. THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE. The Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 54 pages in very good, clean condition. Endpapers lightly foxed. Previous owner's name on the ffep. Green cloth over grey boards. Black titles on a spinal label. Label is a little worn. Boards are stained on the bottom and fore-edges of both covers. Edges yellowed. Corners bumped and a little frayed. Scarce. GOOD+ Size: 5 x 7 1/2
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$480.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed by Frances Partridge (1900-2004) on the front free endpaper. Partridge, a diarist and author, was the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. From 1926, she lived with, and later married, Ralph Partridge, who had until then been in a complex relationship with Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey. Her friendship with Keynes began through her position at Birrell & Garnett, the favoured bookshop of the Bloomsbury Group. Keynes's slender volume is based on the Sidney Ball lecture he delivered at Oxford in 1924, as well as a rewritten version given at Berlin in 1926. It offers an historical analysis of laissez-faire economic systems and the reasons they are impractical for modern societies. "Keynes's epitaph for laissez-faire is a revealing and neglected pamphlet that documents his early conversion to the idea of a managed economy. He was interested in 'possible improvements in the techniques of western capitalism by the agency of collective action.' He admitted that 'material progress between 1750 and 1850 came from individual initiative, and owed almost nothing to the direct influence of organised society as a whole,' and that 'Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised as powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history.' Nevertheless, he rejected the general principles of laissez-faire and recommended a formidable extension of the agenda of government" (Hartwell, pp. 12ff). Moggridge C6; Woolmer 97. Ronald Max Hartwell, A History of the Mont Pelerin Society, 1995. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, printed spine label, blue paper-covered sides. Light wear and sunning, minor loss to spine affecting text, faint browning to endpapers and contents: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
John Maynard Keynes. [1st ed] The End of Laissez-Faire. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1926.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this formative and influential John Maynard Keynes essay, basically a brief (and favorable) historical review of laissez-faire economic policy, but landing on the suggestion that the government can play a constructive role in ameliorating the worst harms of business cycles, especially in regard to unemployment, and so an important stepping stone in the Keynsian Revolution and its exploration of the idea of a managed economy. Published in 1926 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in London. Small 8vo, 54 pages, paper covered boards with green back strip and paper spine label. Bumping and damp staining to boards. Staining to cloth spine; chipping to paper title. Contents bright and clean.
Seller: Weinberg Modern Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$961.49 + shipping
Description: First edition, second impression (printed the same month as the first), rare in the jacket, of this slim volume based on Keynes's Sidney Ball lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924, and a rewritten version given in Berlin in 1926. It offers an historical analysis of laissez-faire economic systems and the reasons they are impractical for modern societies. "Keynes's epitaph for laissez-faire is a revealing and neglected pamphlet that documents his early conversion to the idea of a managed economy. He was interested in 'possible improvements in the techniques of western capitalism by the agency of collective action.' He admitted that 'material progress between 1750 and 1850 came from individual initiative, and owed almost nothing to the direct influence of organised society as a whole,' and that 'Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised as powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history.' Nevertheless, he rejected the general principles of laissez-faire and recommended a formidable extension of the agenda of government" (Hartwell, pp. 12ff). Moggridge C.6; Woolmer 97. Ronald Max Hartwell, A History of the Mont Pelerin Society, 1995. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, printed spine label, blue paper-covered sides. With dust jacket. Board edges lightly faded, endpapers a little spotted; dust jacket dust soiled, jacket flaps without price as issued, lightly rubbed along top edge, with a small ring stain to front panel: a very good copy in a well-preserved jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2563.97 + shipping
Description: The Hogarth Press. 1926. First edition. No DW. Slim 8vo. Original blue paper covered boards, green backstrip, lacks small portion to head of spine. Paper label slightly rubbed and foxed. Boards sunned and slightly marked, pages lightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy of a very scarce and important work.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
John Maynard Keynes. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The End of Laissez-Faire" by John Maynard Keynes. London: Hogarth Press, 1926 fist UK edition. endpapers lightly toned (small shelf number to front endpaper), original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine (some fading to extremities of covers), dust jacket, spine toned and split along one fold, a few nicks, a couple of small ink stains to rear panel.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$3830.33 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 53, (1) pp. Publisher's original blue and green cloth-backed boards. With printed dust jacket. First edition. A concise and critical review of laissez-faire capitalism, based on the author's Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924, and a lecture given by him at the University of Berlin, June 1926. 2,000 copies were printed by his friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf. - Rare in the dust jacket. - Boards dust-soiled and discoloured; dust jacket and spine toned and worn at edges with a small chip to jacket's spine. - Woolmer 97.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, E-163, 1926.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, UK. 1926. 53 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue-grey cloth backed grey boards, white paper title label to spine printed in black. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards discolored to the edges of the boards). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) he presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that a marketplace of free individuals pursuing their own self-interest without government interference has a better chance of improving societys economic situation than socialist alternatives, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst harms of capitalisms cycles, especially as concerns unemployment. Other useful government functions are the dissemination of information relating to business conditions, encouraging savings and investment along "nationally productive channels," and forming a national policy about the size of population. EB
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Keynes (John Maynard). The End of the Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$4422.85 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. 8vo, (188 x 128mm). Publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, printed paper label to spine (the label in fine condition); publisher's advert to the rear of the half-title, 54pp. A VG+ copy (some discolouration to the edges of both the front and back boards, the customary browning to the end-papers). Internally the book is clean. The D/W is priced 2s net to the spine v(as called for). The D/W has a short (14 mm) closed tear to the top edge of the front panel which also has a slither of loss that stretches to the tip of the spine. The author's critical review of laissez-faire capitalism based on his Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924 and a lecture given by him at the University of Berlin, June 1926. 2,000 copies were printed by the author's Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Woolmer 97, Uncommon in D/W in nice condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$4807.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, rare in the jacket, of this slim volume based on Keynes's Sidney Ball lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924, as well as a rewritten version given at Berlin in 1926. It offers an historical analysis of laissez-faire economic systems and the reasons they are impractical for modern societies. "Keynes's epitaph for laissez-faire is a revealing and neglected pamphlet that documents his early conversion to the idea of a managed economy. He was interested in 'possible improvements in the techniques of western capitalism by the agency of collective action.' He admitted that 'material progress between 1750 and 1850 came from individual initiative, and owed almost nothing to the direct influence of organised society as a whole,' and that 'Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised as powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history.' Nevertheless, he rejected the general principles of laissez-faire and recommended a formidable extension of the agenda of government" (Hartwell, pp. 12ff). Moggridge C.6; Woolmer 97. Ronald Max Hartwell, A History of the Mont Pelerin Society, 1995. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, printed spine label, blue paper-covered sides. With dust jacket. Extremities a little sunned and rubbed, endpapers a little browned else contents clean; slight chipping at jacket extremities, spine a little darkened and rubbed, a few spots, jacket flaps without price as issued: a very good copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Keynes, John Maynard. THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with Rare Dust Jacket of THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE. Size: 8vo, 7 3/8" x 4 7/8" 54 pp. with original publisher's cloth-backed blue, greenish grey boards with an excellent printed white label printed dark blue on the spine. The cream dust jacket printed in blue has some sunning and staining with age and a small chip on the head and bottom of the spine and folds. Otherwise in very good condition. No restoration on jacket or edition. Slight fading to boards, minor rubbing to corners with some light overall use. Published July 1926 at 2s; 2,000 copies printed. Woolmer 97. A very important and rare Hogarth Edition based on John Maynard Keynes' Sidney Ball lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
John Maynard-Keynes. The End of the Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$10255.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An extremely well preserved copy of this important work of economics history. The influential economist, John Maynard Keynes, provides a historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. With the very scarce original dust wrapper in a lovely condition. The paper label to the spine remains complete, and very clean. This work was Keynes' Sidney Ball Lecture delivered at Oxford in 1924. Extremely scarce with the dust wrapper in such a smart condition. To this work, Keynes agrees in principle that a marketplace of free individuals pursuing their own self-interest without government interference allows for the improvement of a society's economic situation than a socialist alternative. However, he also finds that a government can be constructive in protecting people from the worst of capitalism's cycles. An important work in the Keynesian cannon. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart, with minor shelfwear to the extremities. Dustwrapper is very smart. Only a few light marks to the wraps. Small hole to the title at the spine. Minor chip to the head of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright. A few light spot to the front endpapers. Otheriwse, pages are very clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom