signed
1947 · New York
by Schumpeter, Joseph A.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. Second American edition. Near Fine. Second American edition. Signed by Joseph A. Schumpeter and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and publisher's colophon in blind on the upper board. Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, stain to rear cover, bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, which is rubbed, lightly browned and edge-worn. The author's best-known, important and perhaps most controversial work. A revision of the 1942 first edition with new material appraising the social changes (truncated)