Taxation: The People's Business
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 229 pages.
Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, lays out his "Mellon Plan" for reducing the national debt following World War I while simultaneously reducing taxes on the highest earners.
The book is a first printing while the dust jacket states, at top of front panel, "2nd Large Printing Before Publication."
Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. Slight wear at extremities, a couple of small chips along bottom edge of front free endpaper. Jacket has light soiling, minor edge wear, a 2" closed tear at bottom edge of front panel parallel with upper joint fold, and a faintly pencille address on rear panel.
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