ANGELL, Norman.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Money Game. First edition, second printing (December 1928, first November), of this striking instructional game-book, designed by the British economist and Nobel laureate to teach schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and banking. It is rare in the dust jacket.Published after sixteen years of private trial and error (it was copyrighted in 1912), The Money Game "had been elaborately tested on adults, including the philosopher and educationalist John Dewey in addition to friends Lippmann and Wrench, as well as on a younger generation, including 'long-suffering nieces and nephews'... This first version was produced as a substantial hardback volume, containing 168 pages of endorsements, explanation, and rules, with the back part hollowed out as a container for cards and notes. It was novel, and may conceivably have influenced the board game 'Monopoly', which appeared six years later. It was also ambitious, aspiring to inculcate the principles of monetary economics... when it appeared in late November 1928, with the Christmas market in mind, its first edition of 2,000 was exhausted in three weeks" (Ceadel, p. 271). It was reprinted in December 1928, and the revised edition appeared in 1931, also published by Dent.

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