Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955
First edition. First printing, with 1955 on the copyright page and no mention of later printings. A fine copy in a very good or better unclipped dust jacket (second issue variant with $3.50 on the front flap), showing light rubbing, minor edge wear, and a 1-inch closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel near the spine. An excellent copy overall of the Harvard professor’s definitive narrative history of the mass illusion, unchecked leverage, and deep systemic failures in leadership that led to the 1929 stock market crash - a seminal account that shaped how the modern public understands that and future financial meltdowns.