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John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash 1929. Hamish Hamilton, 1955.

Price: US$20.94 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1955. First Published in GB. 186 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine. Light marks to panels.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash 1929. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955.

Price: US$64.94 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: ex library rebound hardback, no D/J, usual stamps/markings. Published in 1955 by Hamish Hamilton, London. Light wear to boards & slight lean to spine otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-5A*

Seller: Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, United Kingdom

GALBRAITH, J.K.. THE GREAT CRASH 1929. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955.

Price: US$75.81 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: pp: 186. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Light brown dust jacket with lettering in red. Blue cloth covered boards. The first edition with 'First published in Great Britain, 1955'. 'A striking study of the greatest speculative boom in history and of the catastrophe which followed it.' (subtitle). The author wrote the book as a warning about the dangers of an unrestrained speculative mood without proper government oversight. This is a very good copy with the book plate of a previous owner on the front paste down. The jacket has about a half-inch chipped from the base of the spine, a lesser amount chipped at the head of the spine, edge wear, and the remains of a name sticker at the top of the front panel. The jacket is now protected with a Brodart cover.

Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada

Galbraith, John Kenneth (J.K.). The Great Crash 1929 (British First Edition, First Printing). Hamish Hamilton, 1955.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: British First Edition, First Printing of this classic discussion of the stock market crash of 1929 by one of the leading liberal economists of the 20th century. Blue cloth, 186 pages. The book has a bit of a slant, foxing on the page edges and endpapers and a previous owner name inked on the front pastedown page. Dust jacket is in quite nice condition with moderate edge wear and small chips at edges of spine and corners.

Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.. Great Crash, 1929.. Hamish Hamilton,, London:, 1955.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First British edition. Ink underlining and marginalia on sixteen pages, foxing on edges and endpapers, previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper, else good in a very good (age darkened, minor edge wear at the spine ends and corners) dust jacket.; 186 pages

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955.

Price: US$300.30 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: spine lightly faded. everybody should read galbraith on the crash.

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. THE GREAT CRASH 1929. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955.

Price: US$335.65 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Rubbing on spine edges. Bumping at spine crown and flap folds. Lightly toned throughout.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006). The Great Crash 1929. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955.

Price: US$365.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Neat manuscript ex-libris in red ink to fly leaf of Clive Gimson, house master of Bradfield College, dated November, 1955. An excellent example, tightly bound (top edge dust-soiled) and clean throughout. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Originally published the same year, in Boston. The 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation. This, one of Galbraith's first bestsellers, coincided with the 25th anniversary of the crash, when the crash and the Great Depression that followed were still raw memories, and stock prices were only then recovering to pre-crash levels. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.