by Paul Einzig

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1949).

First edition, first printing.

Laid in is a publisher's printed receipt slip, numbered & dated 28 Apr 1949.

Einzig, an expert authority on money, authored numerous books on modern money, and researched for years, gathering detailed information for this in-depth study on primitive currencies with historical related and effected events, its evolution, detailed descriptions of the money items, regional types of commodity units, related economic theory, and more.

The study is now considered a modern economic classic.

Thumbprint size surface puckering to the front and rear covers, a few faint soil spots to the rear cover, else very good in green linen with gilt embossed titles and rules to a plum-brown panel to the spine, upper page edges colored dusk-plum; in a near fine light-brown thick-parchment paper dust dust jacket with green printed titles to the front panel and to the spine, green printed advertisement to the rear panel, two very short nicked tears to the upper spine edge, mild crimp-line to the upper front panel; original printed 2 5s. net price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 517 pages; bibliography; index.

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