First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 388 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (small amount of faint spotting to endpapers, contens otherwise generally clean; spine panel of jacket toned with some minor chipping to head and tail, small area of faint residue from old price label to rear panel, notwithstanding a very good copy example of the rare jacket). London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1944.
Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975) was a personal friend and occasional antagonist of John Maynard Keynes, being one of the few authors to whom Keynes acknowledged an intellectual debt in the Preface to his General Theory.
