Author: Keynes, John Maynard.
Title: Essays in Biography.
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1933). (1933). - Octavo, blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The covers are unevenly darkened with some light spotting to the bottom edge of the rear cover. The spine is spotted. The dust jacket chipped with tears & pieces out and with its spine & extremities darkened. The jacket spine is rippled & discolored from humidity. x & 318 pages plus colophon. There is some light staining to the pastedowns & endpapers. 8 black-and-white plates [portraits of economists] with tissue guards. Good in a fair dust wrapper.

First American edition. Advance copy with the publisher's slip tipped onto the front flap of the dust wrapper.

Among the essays are biographies of Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Robert Malthus, Alfred Marshall, F. Y. Edeworth, and F. P. Ramsey. Also included is Keynes's review of Trotsky's book "Where Is Britain Going?. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS; BRITISH AUTHOR; BRITISH ECONOMIST; JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY; POLITICIANS; ECONOMISTS; LLOYD GEORGE; BONAR LAW; WINSTON CHURCHILL; ROBERT MALTHUS; ALFRED MARSHALL; F. Y. EDGEWORTH; F. P. RAMSEY; T

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