The Great Crash 1929 by Galbraith, John Kenneth - 1955

The book is badly sunned on the spine where there are also three abrasions where the underlying paper shows through the cloth. Otherwise clean and tight. Price-clipped jacket shows spine sunning and light rubbing. Houghton Boston 1955 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. (xi), 212 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine in publisher's dustjacket. First printing, so indicated by publication year on title page. Warmly inscribed to Walt and Elspeth Rostow, and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Galbraith and Rostow served in the Kennedy administration together. Walt Rostow later served as Lyndon Johnson's national security advisor, his wife Elspeth as dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. The book was likely a gift from the time before their opposing positions on the Vietnam War divided them. From the library of Walt and Elspeth Rostow.