First edition. 8vo. xliv, [1], 503, [1] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed (neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, spine faded, still a good copy overall. New York, Viking Press, 1936.
A selection of Veblen’s essays and extracts from his most important works which also includes a lengthy introduction by Wesley C. Mitchell (1874-1948), one of the co-founders of the American school of institutional economics along with Veblen and John Roger Commons