First edition. 8vo. 333, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in brown, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; spine panel of jacket only the merest shade faded, a near fine copy). London, George Allen and Unwin, 1978.
The last major work by the Nobel Prize winning Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis, ‘a deeply original piece of theoretical, statistical and historical research in the manner of Schumpeter and Kuznets’, regarded as ‘a classic since it was first published’ (New Palgrave).
