Economics: An Introductory Analysis

Samuelson, Paul A. (Signed)

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1948

About this Item

Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. A first printing example of "the best-selling economics textbook of all time, now in its 19th edition and having sold nearly four million copies in 40 languages. In 1970 Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the 'Father of Modern Economics', and the New York Times considers him to be the 'foremost academic economist of the 20th century'." - Wikipedia. Signature upon half-title appears to be that of Professor Emeritus and Rhodes Scholar G. Coleman Woodbury (1903-1994), "one of the three-person team which drafted the legislation establishing America's public housing program, the Housing Act of 1937". - University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Document 1108. pp. xx, [2]-622. Tight, clean and unmarked with moderate peripheral wear to publisher's original teale cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Few small bits of loss to edges of the rare unclipped dust jacket which otherwise bears average wear and is now in archival protection. Housed in attractive new custom two-color acid-free clamshell box with marbled paper lining and leather title label on spine. Fundaburk 2037, Pressman (2nd Edn) p.243.; Sm 4to; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economics: An Introductory Analysis
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
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