Lot 50
Marshall (Alfred and Mary Paley) Economics of Industry, first edition, 1879.
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Marshall (Alfred and Mary Paley) Economics of Industry, first edition, light toning to margins, front free endpaper detached, Statistical Society library label to front endpaper verso, pastedown and upper cover, blind-stamp to head of preface, original cloth, spine darkened, Statistical Society label to upper cover, a little rubbed, bumped and marked, 8vo, 1879.
⁂ Alfred Marshall's excessively rare first book, we can only trace one other copy in the last 40 years at auction.
"If we are to have an elementary text-book at all, this one was probably, in relation to its contemporaries and predecessors, the best thing of the kind ever done." John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Biography.
Description
Marshall (Alfred and Mary Paley) Economics of Industry, first edition, light toning to margins, front free endpaper detached, Statistical Society library label to front endpaper verso, pastedown and upper cover, blind-stamp to head of preface, original cloth, spine darkened, Statistical Society label to upper cover, a little rubbed, bumped and marked, 8vo, 1879.
⁂ Alfred Marshall's excessively rare first book, we can only trace one other copy in the last 40 years at auction.
"If we are to have an elementary text-book at all, this one was probably, in relation to its contemporaries and predecessors, the best thing of the kind ever done." John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Biography.
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