[FRIEDMAN, MILTON; SCHWARTZ, ANNA JACOBSON]. A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Hardcover. First edition, first printing of this classic work - a publication from National Bureau of Economic Research. Ex-library of the Royal Statistical Society. Cloth-bound with original dust jacket. Thick octavo (240 x 160 x 60 mm.), pp. [xxiv], 860. Publisher's original green cloth with titles to spine silver. Charts and tables throughout, some fold-out. Footnotes. Rear index in double columns. Supplied with original dust jacket. Contents: The Greenback Period -- Silver politics and the secular decline in prices, 1879-97 -- Gold inflation and banking reform, 1897-1914 -- Early years of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-21 -- The high tide of the Reserve System, 1921-29 -- The Great Contraction, 1929-33 -- New Deal changes in the banking structure and monetary standard -- Cyclical changes, 1933-41 -- World War II inflation, September 1939-August 1948 -- Revival of monetary policy, 1948-60 -- The postwar rise of velocity -- A summing up. Contents: FAIR to GOOD. Ex institutional library copy [Royal Statistical Society] with one stamp verso title-page, private owner bookplate to fep, collated complete, binding tight and secure, contents very clean, some spotting to fore edge and dustiness to top edge, dust jacket with some shelf wear and piece lacking at spine. Scarce.
Notes: Rare first edition, first impression. "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues" (The Economic Journal). "The leading and most persuasive explanation of the worst economic disaster in American history" (Ben S. Bernanke).
