Documentary History of Banking & Currency in the United States (4 Volumes) by Krooss, Herman E. (Ed.) with introduction by Paul A. Samuelson - 1983

New York: Chelsea House, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright page gives a different ISBN from cover-- 0-87754-209-0. Green paper covers with white titles. Vol. 1: [xxiv], 371 pp; bump to spine. Vol. 2: [vii], 394 pp. Vol. 3: [v], 413 pp; front cover sunned along bottom edge. Vol. 4: [vi]. 414 pp; front cover and first few leaves bumped at fore-edge. All volumes have spines sunned (green faded to blue), slight edge wear, otherwise crisp as new. According to Kross's preface, "These volumes contain over 300 documents [that]...trace the history of currency, from the 1637 establishment of wampum as legal tender in Massachusetts to the abandonment of the last remains of the domestic gold standard in 1968, and the history of banking, from the efforts of the Pilgrim Fathers to create a stable bank to the attempts of Chairman William McChesney Martin's Federal Reserve Board to control the money supply." (Introduction by Paul A. Samuelson, misspelled on the cover as Paula A. Samuelson.) Shipping weight 6 lbs.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.