– 24 – N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s First Edition Of Alfred Marshall’s Money, Credit & Commerce 25. (ECONOMICS) MARSHALL, Alfred. Money, Credit & Commerce. London, 1923. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $7500. First edition, by one of the most important turn-of-the-century economists, in the rare original dust jacket. The founder of “diagrammatic economics,” Alfred Marshall was arguably the most important economist of the 19th century. The third of a series by Marshall, succeeding Principles of Economics (1890) and Industry and Trade (1919), this work “contains a quantity of materials and ideas, and collects together passages which are otherwise inaccessible to the student or difficult to access” (John M. Keynes). “More than anyone else, Marshall helped make economics a field of study in its own right” (Pressman, 68, 64). With rear leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Ink owner signature. Book with scattered foxing to interior, light wear, toning, and foxing to extremities. Rare dust jacket with paper offsetting to flaps and a bit of wear and toning to extremities. An extremely good copy. “The First And Greatest Classic Of Modern Economic Thought” 26. (ECONOMICS) SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1799. Three volumes. Octavo, 19th-century half brown calf gilt. $3800. Ninth edition of Smith’s landmark work—“probably the most important book which has ever been written” (Buckle), handsomely bound. “Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work… it is the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM 221). Buckle’s History of Civilization calls Wealth of Nations “probably the most important book which has ever been written.” First published in 1776. Bound with half titles. Small booklabel. A clean and handsome copy in fine condition.
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