How to Pay for the War: A Radical Plan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer by John Maynard Keynes - 1940

Macmillan, 1897. First edition. 224pp, dark blue cloth covered boards with a couple of small light marks. A couple of small spots of foxing to the flyleaf foredge, otherwise internally clean. The political work of the Empress Maria Theresa from the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 to the co regency with Joseph in 1770. Part of the Foreign Statesman series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: : Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1940. First edition. Printed Paper on Boards. Good +. 12mo (19cm) vii, [1], 88. Printed tan paper over boards, hence the corrected issue, released some months after the first in turquoise. Keynes' analysis of how the burden of the war should be funded. He offers a thorough examination of the economic problems at the macro and household level faced by the Goverment. Its publication came as Keynes's reputation soared in the wake of his masterpiece, 'The General Theory,' of 1936. Some staining to front and rear board adjacent to head of spine, fragmentary loss to paper along front joint. One page with a turn down to corner, else internally, a bright, fresh copy, clean and unmarked.

Harcourt, Brace and Company. Fair/No Dust Wrapper. 1940. Underlineing on a Pages. Hard Cover. (G476) .

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1940. 88 pages. Pages are good condition. Previous owner's name top of ffep. Blue paper boards with black titles. Boards lightly stained and worn at edges. VG+. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1940. 88 pages. 7.5" X 5". Orange card covers, black titles on front and spine. Inside pages are white, no writing, no underlining. Top corner of page 88/87 has a water mark. Spine is slightly sunned o/w VG.. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1940. First edition, corrected second printing of this wartime work by Keynes. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition. In How to Pay for the War, John Maynard Keynes describes a macroeconomic strategy of how Britain, a nation with a population at the time of 40 million people, could conduct a long war against Germany, a nation of 80 million. At the time How to Pay for the War was written, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were at war with either Germany or Japan. As a result, the first step for Britain to effectively conduct a war against Germany was to mobilize all its resources for production. Thus, the first two chapters of How to Pay for the War, are an argument for the need for full employment and chapter 3, Our Output Capacity and The National Income, is a manual to achieve full employment.

vii + 88 pp. Printed by Purnell and Sons, Ltd., Paulton (Somerset) and London
First impression of the true first edition, published in 1940. There were two issues of this book - the first was in blue-green paper covered boards, as with this issue, and there was a second printing in pale orange paper covered boards, which incorporated some corrections to the text, and is less common than the earlier uncorrected version. With a four page Preface by J. M. Keynes, King's College, Cambridge, February, 1940.Very good in blue-green paper covered printed boards with black titles and borders on the front board. Spine complete but with one 1.5 inch tear to the base (see photo) The bottom right-hand corner of the rear board is slightly creased. Light grey or blue pencil underlinings on several pages of text as well as marginal notes on the appendix. No foxing. Spine tight. No dustwrapper was issued as this was a cheap war economy production. It is priced at 1 shilling net (on front cover). 190mm x 125mm. vii +… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5 x 7.5 inches (12.5 x 19 cm). The uncorrected first printing. Blue-green paper covered boards. Light browning and slight creasing to spine. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper (dated 7.3.40). A very nice example. (Moggridge C 11.1.). Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches (12.5 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: vii, 88

London : Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Corrected 2nd impression. Very good copy in the original title-blocked boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 88 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Finance Great Britain. Finance, Public Great Britain. War, Cost of. Great Britain Economic policy 1918-1945.

London: Macmillan and Co, Limited,, 1940. First edition, the corrected second impression, less common than the first impression, which was published a few months previously in green boards. How to Pay for the War was Keynes's most successful essay in persuasion, applying the ideas of his General Theory to the wartime economy. "Apart from suggesting ways of adding greatly to the financial resources of the government, this inaugurated the idea of an iron ration at low, fixed prices of a list of necessities in lower-income budgets, with government subsidies if required. He proposed also to assist families with low incomes by introducing family allowances payable directly to the mother. The net effect of these concessions would have been to effect an actual improvement in the condition of the worst-off compared with pre-war years" (ODNB). Octavo. Original orange card boards printed in black. Ink stain at foot of spine and lower edge, of book block, slight sunning and soiling to covers, contents clean… Read More