Keynes, John Maynard | First edition, in jacket

Keynes, John Maynard

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

In 8s (215 x 135 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edge a little dust-spotted, some very light discoloration to endpapers. Publisher's blue-printed gree-gray dust-jacket; spine darkened, a few tiny holed.

First edition in jacket of one of the most influential economic works of the twentieth century, "the chief of his [Keynes'] major theoretical works … a new and radical analysis of economic instability" (ODNB). A very good, bright copy.

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