First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 466, 2 [publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; slight lean to text block; jacket unpriced with rubberstamped price of ‘$5.00’ to front flap, minor chipping to head of spine panel and corners, faint residue from professional removal of old tape reinforcements to verso, notwithstanding a near fine, notably bright copy). London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.
An economic history of British trade and commerce by the socialist intellectual and prolific writer George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959), ranging from the late eighteenth-century up to the international financial chaos of the interwar years.
