The Road to Plenty

by William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings 

First edition, signed by the authors.  Boston & New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Navy cloth covers have blind tooled frame and gilt at spine. 
• Boards show some bumps, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text and is darkened with crushed, frayed ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining, bookseller marks, gift inscription. 
• Ex libris Sam A. Lewisohn, with bookplate on front pastedown.
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning, corner turn-downs.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a few marks.
• PS2025.1112

231 pages. 5 3/8 x 8 inches

First Edition.  Publications of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, Number Eleven.  Publisher's navy superfine boards with gilt text on spine.  Some wear to periphery and corner turn-ins, unmarked and solid in its binding.  Signed and inscribed by the authors, with an interesting association.  Condition is overall Very Good-.

William Trufant Foster (1879-1950) and Waddill Catchings (1879-1967), classmates at Harvard University, were American economists who collaborated on a series of economics books that were highly influential in the United States in the 1920s.  Pre-Keynesians whose work would be overshadowed by the impact of Keynes and The General Theory, Foster and Catchings worked on the problem of underconsumption, the paradox of thrift, and the role of economic intervention.  

The provenance is notable.  Sam A. Lewisohn (1884-1951), native of New York City, Princeton University Class of 1904, was a financier, philanthropist, patron of art and music, penologist, and author.  His interests and contributions in many fields were notable.  With regard to this volume, Lewisohn, in an advisory role to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped to frame the Social Security Act.  It would seem that his economic views were friendly to those of Foster and Catchings, who inscribed this copy "For Sam A. Lewisohn, From William T. Foster and Waddill Catchings," in January 1928.

Printed at The Riverside Press Cambridge.  Signed and inscribed by authors on free end paper.

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