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John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory of Employment. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, 1936.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The rare 1st American edition of the seminal work and the Bible of modern Macro Economics. the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. published the same year and time as the 1st english edition which sells in dj for 8000 or more. This is a rare book, the condition is good to very good, the gilt title is strong, the original black cloth is quite nice and internally lovely, some marks of previous ownership, however, makes this copy good to very good, Printing and the Mind of Man by John Carter, part of that famous exhibit of great books at the British Museum which became a great book by Percy Muir and John Carter. Item 423 in that great catalogue. We all now live in a Post Keynesian Age.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 403. Dark blue publisher's cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine. With index followed by erratum. Printed in Edinburgh. Light stains to the cover, spine and gilt moderately darkened, leaves minimally age toned, pencil annotations, summary of equations inked on blank preliminary (please see last photo), and a New York Times obituary clipping affixed to rear endpaper. During its composition the author predicted this book would largely revolutionize economic thinking. And so it did.Now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.62 + shipping
Description: (2) Bl, XII 403 S., Ln., etw. bestoßen, hint. Rckn.Gelenk m. kl. Läsur, Exl., tls. Anstr. -- Erste amerikanische Ausgabe.- [ Wirtschaftswissenschaft Volkswirtschaft SpracheEN J| 1936 N| John M. Keynes ] --
Seller: Antiquariat Hohmann, Schemmerhofen, Germany
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xii, 403, [1]; with half-title; a very good, clean copy in the original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; the corners of and edges of the spine a little scuffed; ownership inscription of 'Marle S. Massel' in ink on the first free end-paper.First American edition (includes the Erratum printed on p. 403) of Keynes' path-breaking work, perhaps the most pervasively influential twentieth-century contribution to the social sciences, responsible for instilling the notion that 'national budgets are major instruments in a planned economy, that financial booms and slumps are controllable by governments' (PMM Catalogue, 609). The General Theory caused shock waves at the time. Its revolutionary impact was due in part to the economic circumstances in the 1930s when it was published, specifically the impact of widespread unemployment on public confidence in democratic institutions. Keynes' work both provided an explanation for the crisis and proposed a solution that made use of existing systems of government, thus constituting a viable alternative to the rise of totalitarian strongmen that contemporaries witnessed in continental Europe. See Printing and the Mind of Man 423.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 403 pages, no additional printing information is mentioned just 1936 on title page. "This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists. Its main purpose is to deal with difficult questions of theory, and only in the second place with the applications of this theory to practice." VERY GOOD+ HARDCOVER. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23 cm; xii, 403 pages. In original blue cloth, original dust jacket. 2.5 sq.cm chip in dust jacket at head of spine, price clipped, otherwise minor frays, preserved in mylar. Binding and pages effectively pristine. Old bookplate on pastedown. Reference: PMM 423. Keynes's magnum opus, the basis of Keynesian economics, and of Western economic policy through the latter stages of the Great Depression toward the end of the 20th century. A fundamental text.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition of Keynes classic economic book - from the library of Theodore W. Schultz, (Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1979). Prof. Schultz signed on the first free end paper, above his bookplate. Prof. Schultz has added extensive marginal notations, and underlined text, reflecting differences between economic theory in 1936 and in more recent years. Gilt on blue covers. 8vo, 403pp. (Erratum at the bottom of page 403).
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the most influential social science treatise of the twentieth century, signed by six Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul A. Samuelson, Kenneth J. Arrow, Edmund Phelps, Robert J. Shiller, John Nash, and Robert C. Merton. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities. An exceptional example of the utmost scarcity signed by this extraordinarily influential group of Nobel laureates, who were deeply influenced by the work of the economist J.M. Keynes. The General Theory ranks with Smiths Wealth of Nations as an intellectual event and with Malthus Essay on Population as a guide for public policy. The London Review of Books has grouped The General Theory "among the glories of modern publishing, edited with exemplary authority and lack of fuss." Many innovations of The General Theory remain central to modern macroeconomics. It was placed on Time's 2001 top one-hundred non-fiction books written in English since 1923.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.