First edition. 8vo. xvi, 674 pp., frontispiece portrait and seven black and white photographic plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in red, dust jacket (partial offsetting to endpapers, small spotting to fore edge of text-block, contents otherwise generally clean; jacket price clipped with light shelf wear to extremities and minor chipping to head of spine panel, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed). London, MacMillan & Co. Ltd, 1951.
A ‘compelling and magisterial account of Keynes’s career and achievements’ (ODNB) by the economist Roy Harrod (1900-1978), a friend and colleague of Keynes.
