Curiosities of Early Economic Literature.

San Francisco: Privately printed for the author by John Henry Nash,, 1920. A private press economics book First edition, number 13 of 100 copies only, set in Cloister Oldstyle type on Van Gelder paper. The private press movement nearly passed by economic literature entirely; this is one of the few exceptions. "This very interesting discourse on some early English and American Curiosities was read by the author at the fourteenth quarterly dinner of the Hobby Club of New York, in 1914. It was not printed until six years later, 1920, due to the outbreak of the World War. The frontispiece is a full-page reproduction of the menu card, a very elaborate production showing pictorially some of the characters and books with which the address was concerned. This is a very scarce item" (O'Day, Catalogue of Books printed by John Henry Nash, pp. 19-20). Library Hub lists just four copies in British institutions. Folio. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, title printed in red and black, caption title and side-headings in red, title device, page numbers and end ornament in blue. Original cream quarter cloth, paper label, light blue paper sides. Minor bumping and wear to tips, initial leaves loosening a little, some pages unopened with a few tiny blemishes. Nonetheless, a very nice copy.