First US edition. 8vo. xvi, [6], 674, [2] pp., frontispiece portrait and seven black and white photographic plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, embossed facsimile of Keynes’ signature top front cover, top edge in red, dust jacket (minor spotting to fore edge, contents otherwise clean; jacket price clipped with shelf wear to extremities and chipping with small loss at foot of spine panel, notwithstanding a very good copy). New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 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.
