Description: Reprint of the 1940 edition; tall octavo, 288 pp., portrait frontispiece, plates, very good in original quarter cloth *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies, second revised edition
Date Published: 1980
Description: Very Good. Cloth, 8vo, 293 pp, 11 plates, 3 facs. This second edition is reproduced photolithographically from Keynes' own copy of the first edition which included his few ink corrections. There are 61 new entries from a classified catalogue in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: second issue of the first edition originally published by Jonathan Cape..., Bibliographical Society, London
Date Published: 1950
Description: Signature of previous owner (Prof. George Story) on front free endpaper, covers slightly discoloured, Very Good. Original linen-backed boards, 8vo. 288 pp, 14 ills. Though Gibbon's library was dispersed after his death, the catalogue probably lists "quite five-sixths of the books composing Gibbon's 'numerous and select library' ". The preface-which Keynes clearly took pride in having written in Gibbonian style-describes Keynes' research and sources and the value of attempting to reconstruct ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: second issue of the first edition originally published by Jonathan Cape..., Bibliographical Society, London
Date Published: 1950
Description: A Fine unopened copy of the scarce second issue. Original linen-backed boards, 8vo. 288 pp, 14 ills. Though Gibbon's library was dispersed after his death, the catalogue probably lists "quite five-sixths of the books composing Gibbon's 'numerous and select library' ". The preface-which Keynes clearly took pride in having written in Gibbonian style-describes Keynes' research and sources and the value of attempting to reconstruct Gibbon's library. The introduction sketches Gibbon's life in terms ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, first edition (scarce first issue)
Date Published: 1940
Description: Head of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good in a somewhat torn dustwrapper which is heavily tape-repaired on the reverse. Cloth, 8vo, 288 pp, portrait, 12 collotype plates. This is the rarely-seen 1940 first issue of the first edition. Keynes himself, in his autobiography, describes it as "an attractive volume, well-illustrated" but goes on to explain that its publication in the dark days of the war meant that "very few copies were sold. A few months later most of the stock was destroyed by ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, first edition (scarce first issue)
Date Published: 1940
Description: Near Fine in a slightly faded and edgeworn dustwrapper. Cloth, 8vo, 288 pp, portrait, 12 collotype plates. This is the rarely-seen 1940 first issue of the first edition. Keynes himself, in his autobiography, describes it as "an attractive volume, well-illustrated" but goes on to explain that its publication in the dark days of the war meant that "very few copies were sold. A few months later most of the stock was destroyed by German bombs. Cape's bound volume became much sought after and had ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Paul's Bibliographies, Great Britain
Date Published: 1980
Description: 8vo, pp. [4], 293; frontispiece portrait, 10 plates (1 double page), 3 full-page illustrations in text; some annotations throughout (mostly corrections); original black cloth, gilt spine; near fine copy. read more
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