Keynes, John Maynard — Indian Currency and Finance [first edition]

London, Macillan, 1913, firdt edition, red cloth, title in gold on spine, 8vo, viii+263 pp., first book by famous economist Keynes (King's College London); between 1906 and 1908, Keynes served as a civil servant with the India Office in Whitehall; while he did not find the work to his liking it did contribute to his first published book on economics; very good condition (tilte on spine sl. faded but readable; two wormholes on left side of front endpaper and french titlepage not affecting text; clean, no annotations or stamps)