The Great Crash 1929
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
First edition, first printing with date on title page. Association copy signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper and inscribed to "the Burnses," Arthur F. Burns and his wife Helen. [xii], 212 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth, dampstaining to lower corners, and light foxing to upper textblock edge. Faint foxing and discoloration to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, moderate rubbing, and light foxing. Two short tears to folds, dampstaining to lower fold ends.
A signed association copy of the oft-cited history of the 1929 financial crash by John Kenneth Galbraith, a renowned Harvard professor and political activist. The recipient Arthur F. Burns was a key player in American economic policy for thirty years, serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1970 to 1978. He was a personal friend of President Nixon, who — as it emerged during the Watergate scandal — had placed Galbraith on his notorious Enemies List.
Price: $8,000