KEYNES (John Maynard). Et al.
Books and the Public.
"Are books too dear?"
A collection bringing together ten articles variously responding to the state of the publishing industry and book trade, originally published as a series of weekly articles in The Nation and Athenaeum between February to May, 1927. The present Hogarth Press collected edition was originally published in September 1927, with the present second impression appearing in April the following year.
Keynes’s contribution, titled ‘Are Books Too Dear?’, blame for falling book sales squarely on the shoulders of the book-reading public, “with their wrong psychology towards book-buying, their small expenditure, their mean and tricky ways where a Book, the noblest of man’s works, is concerned.”
Moggridge, D8; Woolmer, 134 (first edition, with no mention of the present second impression).
