That copy showed quite a bit of browning to the spine and upper edge of the jacket, but the copy seen right, with an ink ownership inscription on an endpaper but in a better looking jacket, brought £2750 (19th Century Shop) in their sale of June 17.
At that Fortunoff Library sale, the Baltimore dealers had paid £1500 for a good copy of Keynes' A Treatise on Money, two vols. 1930, while heading a group of better known works by Thomas Wolfe was The Crisis in Industry of 1919, a prize winning undergraduate thesis in which he analyses the impact of labour and capitalism on post-WWI America, was sold for £2600 (Heritage). One of only 200 copies, this was an ex-Bradley Martin copy in original wrappers that in 1990 made $4500, then £2680, at Sotheby's New York.
