8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (minor spotting along top edge); original dust jacket (a bit of expert restoration to folds and extremities, spine panel with slightly soiled); quarter green morocco folding case gilt. Provenance: K. S. Venkatoaman, J.C.S. (signature dated 8/6/38).

FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20th CENTURY. "The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate" (PMM 423).