A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960.

FRIEDMAN, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz.

Item Number: 1323

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a near fine rare dust jacket. Signed by both authors, Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. “The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement–monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues.” (The Economic Journal)