The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company. 1936. First American edition. 8vo. (i), 403 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt; endpapers foxed; from the library of McGeorge Bundy, with his ownership signature on front free endpaper; lacking dust-jacket

First American edition of Keynes' classic work on economic theory, written during the Great Depression.

Part of a family with roots in education and public service, McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996) served as a young intelligence officer in World War II. After graduate work, he became a professor of Government at Harvard, and later served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences there. From 1961-66 he was the National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was involved in many of that era’s major foreign policy decisions and controversies, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the sharply increasing U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. From 1966 to 1979 he served as president of the Ford Foundation, where his team led work supporting civil rights, the national expansion of public television, environmental action, ethical investing, and international development and cooperation. As professor of history at New York University from 1979 until his death in 1996, he studied and wrote about the history of nuclear weapons, becoming a forceful advocate for global arms control.