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Keynes (John Maynard).. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. Reprint of the first edition, 8vo, xii, 403 pages, 21cm, Macmillan and Co., London, March 1936., 1936.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue-green pebbled cloth wiith gilt spine titling. Lacks dust-jcket. Ownership signature of Adrian Peters, Pembroke College, Cabridge. Ticket of J.Hall & Son, New & Secondhand Booksellers, Trumpington Street. A very good copy. First published February, 1936.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

John Keynes. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. Macmillan, london, 1936.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money,John Keynes 1936.First edition Ex-Library , with library treatments. Published by Macmillan and Co. London 1936. 403 pages Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt spine title lettering. Moderate shelf wear, Spine Sunned corners and spine ends bumped. Front end paper has previous owner writing at top edge along with a few pencil markings. Neatly pasted on the rear end papers a review of the book from the March 7, 1936 Financial Times. The Hinges are cracked but text blocks secure. Other than library treatments, pages are very lightly edge toned deeper toning at the end papers.

Seller: Brainbooks, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.

Keynes, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London Macmillan, 1936.

Price: US$501.17 + shipping

Description: XII, 403 S. Orig.-Leinwand. Kapitale berieben. Geringf. gelockert, geringf. gebräunt. Zweiter Druck der Erstausgabe vom Februar im März 1936. PMM 423. - Hs. Widmung am Vorsatz: "For further keen study of a most important problem. - For a better future of European peoples! - Xmas 1936 from Fritz". Sprache: Englisch Sprache: Englischglisch

Seller: Antiquariat Schmetz am Dom, Aachen, Germany

John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory Of Employment Interest and Money. Macmillan and Co, 1936.

Price: US$523.39 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1936. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover. GOOD First Reprint. Gilt titles on blue spine. Clean inside and out. Minor foxing. Corner wear. 9x6.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. London, Macmillan 1936., 1936.

Price: US$556.86 + shipping

Description: 2. Druck / 2nd. impress. gr.-8°. XII, 403 S. OLn. In gutem Zustand, mit einigen wenigen Markierungen u. hs. Anmerkungen. Carter/Muir 423 - Zweiter Druck im Jahr der Erstausgabe (1 Monat nach der EA, Reprinted March 1936). - John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), war ein britischer Ökonom, Politiker und Mathematiker. Seine Gedanken haben Theorie und Praxis der Makroökonomie und die Wirtschaftspolitik von Regierungen insbesondere in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg grundlegend verändert. Gewicht in Gramm: 1000

Seller: Antiquariat Burgverlag, Wien, Austria

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan and Co, London, 1936.

Price: US$758.14 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. First Canadian edition of Keynes' most influential book. Single word "Copyright" on copyright page, erratum at the end of p. 403. Orig. green cloth, gilt titles. xii, 403 pp. Sunning to spine, minor spots to upper board, more significant spots to lower board. No notations, bookplates, library treatments, or signatures. Some foxing in gutter of first few pages, otherwise text block is fine. Rarely seen in this condition.

Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1936, 1936.

Price: US$1336.46 + shipping

Description: 8°, blauer, blindgepr. OLdrbd. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel, farbigem Kopfschnitt und weißem Leseband; xii, 403 Seiten. 1. Auflage. - Sehr sauberes, unbenutztes Exemplar.

Seller: Antiquariat Ulrich Doege, Köln, NRW, Germany

Keynes,John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$1429.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Pp xii, 403. Original cloth, reasonable & light shelf-wear. Signatures, addresses & dates to ffep. An unsightly newspaper cutting has been pasted to the rear endpapers. Outbreak of light to moderate foxing from page 368 to the end. Not bad.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan & Co., 1936.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing of Keynes' magnum opus and one of the most important books of the twentieth century, giving macroeconomics a central place in economic theory and contributing much of its terminology the "Keynesian Revolution". London: Macmillan & Co., 1936. Publisher's original green cloth boards, gilt titles to spine; pp. [4], xii, 403, [1]. A very good or better copy. Binding is sturdy and square, traces of shelfwear and rubbing to boards, softening to spine tips, spine lightly sunned, a touch of foxing to foredge. Professor's small stamp to flyleaf, else internally clean. A very presentable copy.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Macmillan and Co, New York, 1936.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The most influential economics book of the 20th century. First edition (first printing with 1936 on the title page and no indication of later printings on the copyright page). A solid copy, a touch faded at the spine and a bit musty, but otherwise very nice with minor bumping to the spine ends. Lacking the scarce dust jacket and the corresponding terminal 0 in the price. There is an early lined out ownership signature on the front flap, with the ink ownership stamp of H. S. Kirkaldy above it. Harold Stewart Kirkaldy was the chair of the industrial relations department at Cambridge University.

Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London Macmillan 1936, 1936.

Price: US$2274.21 + shipping

Description: First edition of Keynes' greatest work and one of the most influential texts of twentieth-century economics 8vo., Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Neat ink name on front- free endpaper, gilt on spine a little dulled, otherwise a very good copy. This is the book 'on which [Keynes'] fame as the outstanding economist of his generation must rest' (DNB). PMM, 423; Moggridge A10.

Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$2404.16 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx's theories of the 19th century. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes's theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double rules to spine gilt and to covers in blind. Somewhat intrusive contemporary ownership signature across title, a few minor ink annotations across the first two pages, contents afterwards clean. Spine very lightly sunned, minor white marking and a few scratches to cloth. A very good copy, tight and square.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$2534.11 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx's theories of the 19th century. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes's theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double rules to spine gilt and to covers in blind. Bookplate of Dutch economist Arnold Heertje and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Spine lightly faded; a crisp, clean copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

KEYNES John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. , 1936.

Price: US$2599.09 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. 8vo (220 x 145mm). [2], xii, 403, [1] pp. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind (recent bookplate to front pastedown, just a hint of faint spotting to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; the cloth remains unmarked and a virtually unworn, a near fine, notably bright copy). London, Macmillan and Co., Limited. Keynes' greatest work and surely the most influential text of twentieth-century economics. Prompted by the world wide-slump following 1929, Keynes set upon an ?explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found seriously inadequate and inaccurate. . [Keynes'] programme for national and international official monetary policies [was based on the premise that the] national budget, over and above its function of providing a national income, should be used as a major instrument in planning the national economy. The regulation of the trade-cycle - that is to say the control of booms and slumps, the level of employment, the wage-scale and the flow of investment - must be the responsibility of governments. Lost equilibrium in a national economy could and should be restored by official action and abandoned to laisser faire? (PMM). The grip of Keynesian economics took hold almost immediately, informing aspects of Roosevelt's 'New Deal', the formation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as many of the policies of the post-war British Labour government. PMM, 423; Moggridge A10.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. , 1936.

Price: US$2884.99 + shipping

Description: Macmillan and Co. 1936. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine blocked in gilt; pp. [i, advert.] + xii + 403; bookplate of William Deacons Bank to front pastedown, spine a little sunned otherwise an exceptionally good copy, near fine. First edition of the author's greatest and most influential work. It revolutionised the approach to unemployment and became the major framework in the formation of the Welfare State.

Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. Macmillan and Co., London., 1936.

Price: US$2923.98 + shipping

Description: 8vo. (220 x 146 mm). pp. xii, 403. Leaf with 'By the Same Author' verso, half-title with imprint verso, printed title with copyright verso, 'Preface', 'Contents' and Book I - Book VI of Keynes' text and 'Index', 'Erratum' at foot of final leaf of 'Index'; some slight spotting, pencil annotations to initial blank Original publisher's blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. A good copy of the first edition of Keynes' 'General Theory'. ' . in his 'General Theory', he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate . 'Theh General Theory' threw the economists of the world into violently opposed camps. Yet . Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; and his influence during the ensuing decades, even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that 'we are all Keynsians today'.' (Printing and the Mind of Man). [PMM 423].

Seller: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Keynes, John Maynard. General theory of Employment, Interest and Money. MACMILLAN & CO LMTD, LONDON, 1936.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: General shelf wear, dustjacket has some small tears/chip & spine darkened, a 1 1/4" piece of dustjacket missing on foot of spine, no printing on inner jacket flaps, rubbed extremities. Book has general shelf wear, god, clean and unmarked, copyright page says, first edition February 1936, reprinted March and December 1936. Fine Specimen! DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 403

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. London Macmillan, 1936.

Price: US$4235.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, a very good copy xii, 40 pp. stock23 The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is regarded as one of the most influential social science treatises of the century; it quickly and permanently changed the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society. This is the book 'on which [Keynes'] fame as the outstanding economist of his generation must rest' (DNB). After the 1929 crash, Keynes analysed the classical school of economists, 'and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate. [.] A national budget, over and above its function of providing a national income, should be used as a major instrument in planning the national economy. The regulation of the trade-cycle [.] must be the responsibility of governments. Lost equilibrium in a national economy could and should be restored by official action and not abandoned to laisser (sic) faire. [The General Theory] threw the economists of the world into two violently opposed camps. Yet eight years later Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; and his influence during the ensuing decades, even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that 'we are all Keynesians today' (PMM). About speculation especially, Keynes dismisses conventional wisdom, and the fundamentalist's dream, that the fund manager should base his investment decisions solely on the probably long-term yield of any investment: 'He who attempts it must surely lead much more laborious days, and run greater risks than he who tries to guess better than the crowd, how the crowd will behave; and given equal intelligence, he may make more disastrous mistakes." Keynes was speaking from experience. During the Twenties and Thirties, he looked after several institutional funds -- highly leveraged, and highly speculative -- dealing in commodities, currencies, and equities. Like Livermore he was no stranger to loss, and during the 1929 crash his funds lost seventy-five per cent of their value. He managed to recoup, and, amazingly, six years later increased his fortune twenty-three times with a series of judicious investments. As Barton Biggs recently wrote: 'there are many brilliant and bizarre characters in today's hedge fund world, but Keynes surpasses them all. Hedgehogs would have liked and appreciated him.' PMM 423; Moggridge A10.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936.

Price: US$4678.37 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, (ii), xii, 403, (1) pp. Original gilt titled cloth, small scuff to the foot of the upper cover, d.w. with corresponding loss to the upper wrapper plus the spine ends and corners. Printing and the Mind of Man 423.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$7147.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century. This copy was gifted by the politician, economist, Governor of the Bank of Italy and afterwards second President of the Italian Republic Luigi Einaudi to one of his secretaries, and is accompanied by two letters from Einaudi (dated 1943) inserted in the book, the letterhead of one ("Poderi del Senatore Luigi Einaudi - Dogliani") cut out and pasted on the front pastedown; along with an additional letter from writer, poet and MP Arnaldo Frateili to an unknown recipient. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx's theories of the 19th century. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes's theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rules continuing to covers in blind. Spine lightly sunned with slight lean, minor rubbing and bumping at extremities, a few minor marks to cloth, contents clean. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. London, Macmillan, 1936., 1936.

Price: US$7239.18 + shipping

Description: 2 Bl., XII 403 S., Ln., OU. etw. beschädigt, NaV., tls. Anm. u. Anstr. -- Braeuer 213. PMM 1968, 423. - ". Fellow of King's Kollege, Cambridge". - Erste Ausgabe. - ". the increment of aggregate investment multiplied by the marginal propensity to consume. ." (123).- [ Wirtschaftswissenschaft Volkswirtschaft SpracheEN J| 1936 N| John M. Keynes ] --

Seller: Antiquariat Hohmann, Schemmerhofen, Germany

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$7800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, xii, 403pp. Blue pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. Dust remnant along top edge of text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, light foxing to rear endpaper and outer edge of text block, solid text block. Period ownership inscription dated Feb. 1936 on front free endpaper. Bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper. Housed in custom brown leather clamshell. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, "5/-NET" retail price on front flap, archival tissue repairs to spine ends and flap folds, newspaper clipping affixed to front flap, a bright and attractive example of this scarce dust jacket. This work is the last book by influential British economist, John Maynard Keynes. It introduced many of the concepts that remain central to the study of macroeconomics, such as the impact of government spending, central bank monetary policy and a general distrust of free-market economic decision making. It was viewed as an attack on the "classic economic orthodoxy" of the 1930s. (PMM 423).

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. London Macmillan, 1936.

Price: US$8167.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket, rather marked and somewhat rubbed and missing pieces at the spine ends, otherwise very good; xii, 403pp., stock23 The first edition of Keynes' masterwork, scarce in dust-jacket. Written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, The General Theory is regarded as one of the most influential social science treatises of the century; it quickly and permanently changed the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society. This is the book 'on which [Keynes'] fame as the outstanding economist of his generation must rest' (DNB). After the 1929 crash, Keynes analysed the classical school of economists, 'and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate. [.] A national budget, over and above its function of providing a national income, should be used as a major instrument in planning the national economy. The regulation of the trade-cycle [.] must be the responsibility of governments. Lost equilibrium in a national economy could and should be restored by official action and not abandoned to laisser (sic) faire. [The General Theory] threw the economists of the world into two violently opposed camps. Yet eight years later Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; and his influence during the ensuing decades, even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that 'we are all Keynesians today' (PMM). About speculation especially, Keynes dismisses conventional wisdom, and the fundamentalist's dream, that the fund manager should base his investment decisions solely on the probably long-term yield of any investment: 'He who attempts it must surely lead much more laborious days, and run greater risks than he who tries to guess better than the crowd, how the crowd will behave; and given equal intelligence, he may make more disastrous mistakes." Keynes was speaking from experience. During the Twenties and Thirties, he looked after several institutional funds -- highly leveraged, and highly speculative -- dealing in commodities, currencies, and equities. Like Livermore he was no stranger to loss, and during the 1929 crash his funds lost seventy-five per cent of their value. He managed to recoup, and, amazingly, six years later increased his fortune twenty-three times with a series of judicious investments. As Barton Biggs recently wrote: 'there are many brilliant and bizarre characters in today's hedge fund world, but Keynes surpasses them all. Hedgehogs would have liked and appreciated him.' PMM 423; Moggridge A10.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. Macmillan and Company, Ltd., 1936.

Price: US$8200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Macmillan and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Amazing condition for its age and rarity! Rare first edition in great shape. Pages clean and unmarked. Very little shelf wear. Very rare hard to find, perfect for any collector.

Seller: Boston Book World, Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.

Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. Macmillan & Co, London, 1936.

Price: US$9800.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the economist's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice example in the uncommon dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with Smith’s 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 and The Times Literary Supplement 100 greatest books of the twentieth century.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.] [Robert M. Solow]. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$9800.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the economist's masterpiece, generally regarded as the most influential social science treatise of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, "Modern macroeconomics began with this book, no wonder it's not easy to read Robert Solow." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique example. The General Theory ranks with Smith’s 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.

KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan, 1936.

Price: US$10396.37 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition; 8vo; original blue cloth and dust jacket. One of the most influential economic works of the Twentieth Century. Described as "the chief of his [Keynes'] major theoretical works. a new and radical analysis of economic instability" (ODNB). Keynes provided support for government spending in general, and for budgetary deficits, monetary intervention and counter-cyclical policies in particular. It is pervaded with an air of mistrust for the rationality of free-market decision making. A lesson which it would seem has yet to be learnt! A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, which is a little toned to the spine, with a couple of small water spots and slight loss to the foot.

Seller: York Modern Books PBFA ABA, York, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$11046.14 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century, scarce in the jacket. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx's theories of the 19th century. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes's theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rules continuing to covers in blind. With supplied dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Slight rubbing to binding, one string loose following title with offset, light creases to pp. 63/4, a very good copy in very good jacket, light ring stains to front panel, spine panel a little soiled and abraded, price intact and without repair.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan and Co., Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. xxii, 403pp. 1 vols. 8vo. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. First edition of Keynes' last major work, the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an intellectual event and with Malthus' Essay on Population as a guide to public policy. "The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate" (PMM). PMM 423 Original blue-green cloth, original unclipped printed gray dust jacket, Japan tissue repair to jacket spine

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

John Maynard Keynes, C.B. (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge). THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY (First impression - a pristine copy in a near fine dustwrapper). Macmillan & Co., Ltd., St. Martin's Street, London, 1936.

Price: US$16244.32 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A first printing of the true first edition, published in 1936. A pristine copy and extremely rare thus. John Maynard Keynes' last major work, and the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in the scarce original dustwrapper, in near fine condition with no restoration. ***Near fine in navy blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders to the spine and blind borders extending to the front and back boards. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The book is virtually perfect, with hardly any rubbing even to the head and tail of the spine or to the edges of the boards. The exterior of the book is in near fine condition. No bumping to the boards. Corners sharp. The dark-blue colour is only slightly sun-faded on the spine. Internally, the book is also near fine - clean and unmarked. There is just a hint of creasing to the fore edge of the first few pages where the pages have been turned - otherwise the book feels largely unread. No tears. None of the usual foxing or offsetting to the endpapers - just the lightest of fox spots to one of the preliminary blank pages. Spine tight. ***In a near fine plain printed dustwrapper, that is not price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of 5/- net on the front flap. Unusually, there is virtually no wear to the dustwrapper - just a crease to the bottom corner of the rear flap where the flap has been folded over at some point over the last 85 years. There is virtually no wear or tear to the edges at all, even to the spine, and the spine remains clean and hardly browned at all. Extremely rare thus. ***220mm x 150mm. With a four-page preface by the author to the fore, dated December 13 1935, plus 403 text-pages. ***Contents: Preface; Book I - Introduction, Book II - Definitions and Ideas, Book III - The Propensity to Consume, Book IV - The Inducement to Invest, Book V - Money-wages and Prices, Book VI - Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory, Index. ***'John Maynard Keynes, CB, FBA (5 Jun 1883 - 21 Apr 1946) was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, his ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots.' ***'"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" was first published in Feb 1936. It caused a profound shift in economic thought, giving macroeconomics a central place in economic theory and contributing much of its terminology – the "Keynesian Revolution". It had equally powerful consequences in economic policy, being interpreted as providing theoretical support for government spending in general, and for budgetary deficits, monetary intervention and counter-cyclical policies in particular. It is pervaded with an air of mistrust for the rationality of free-market decision making."' (Wiki) ***A first impression of the true first edition, dated 1936, with no further printings noted, of John Maynard Keynes' "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", in really beautiful collectable condition. Copies of this important work in this condition, in the original dustwrapper, are virtually unobtainable now. Of interest to collectors of the works of John Maynard Keynes, and of landmark twentieth century Economics titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom

KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$17868.76 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century, scarce in the jacket. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx's theories of the 19th century. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes's theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rules continuing to covers in blind. With dust jacket. Housed in dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Very light discolouration to cloth else bright and square, endpapers a little toned and contents somewhat foxed, still near-fine in near-fine jacket, spine panel darkened and a little rubbed with nick at head, minor rubbing at extremities, a clean example without repair, price intact.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.. Macmillan & Co, London, 1936.

Price: US$22500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the economist's masterpiece, with a rare autographed letter by Keynes laid in. Octavo, original cloth. The signed letter from Keynes, with his 46 Gordon Square Bloomsbury letterhead, was sent the month following the publication of the General Theory. Keynes write to the recipient, "Dear Captain Humberstone, I am sorry that I was not free when you called this morning, but I am happy to sign your manifesto, and return signed copy herewith. Yours truly, J. M. Keynes." The recipient, Thomas Lloyd Humberstone was an academic at the University of London, who campaigned on the subject of education and related Liberal political issues; he published University Reform in London in 1926, with a preface by H. G. Wells. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable in this condition and with the signed letter. The General Theory ranks with Smith’s 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 and The Times Literary Supplement 100 greatest books of the twentieth century.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.