The Great Depression (SCARCE FIRST EDITION) by Robbins, Lionel - 1934

New York: Macmillan Company, 1934. hardcover. Book G: ex library with pencil markings on endpapers and title page, stamps on pastedowns and endpapers, mild foxing to endpapers and edge of text block, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 238pp. from Preface: "The following pages make no claim to present an exhaustive account of the events with which they deal. Nor do they set out in full rigour the various analytical theorems upon which they are based. They are merely an attempt, with the aid of what is sometimes called "orthodox" economics, to furnish a succinct commentary on the more conspicuous features of the slump and its antecedents." an interesting look at the Great Depression, written as if in retrospect when in fact the Depression lasted another five years. . #01454.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Economic History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Macmillan, London, 1935, fourth impression,. 1935. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xiv,238pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, text otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth, gilt titles, spine browned, some pale staining and soiling on boards, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

New Brunswick/London, Transaction Publishers 2009. (XXVI) 238 p. Paperback (Fine copy.)

Paperback / softback. New. Examines the nature and the causes of the 1929 depression, tracing its background and the broad conditions from which the depression emerged. This book sees World War I, and the political changes that followed it, as a series of shifts in the fundamental conditions of demand and supply, to which economic activity had to adapt.

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1934. Book. Good. Hardcover. Later Printing.. Later printing from November, 1934. Blue cloth binding, with frayed spine ends. Charts, and tables in a thorough statistical appendix at the end. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1935. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. mainly to endpapers. Prelims clean. Publisher's original boards with spine reinforced with broad clear lib tape and green lib tape to boards' outer edges. Boards shelfrubbed. 238pp. with sporadic pencilling. Binding sound.

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