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New York: A. Newton Plummer, 1932. First edition, limited to 2000 copies, this copy unnumbered. Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound illustrated boards, 318 pp. Very good condition, upper and lower covers scuffed and soiled, board edges rubbed and worn, corners bruised, paper edges dust-soiled, front free endpaper ink marked. A. Newton Plummer's self-published historical study of securities and stock fraud at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1920s. The author supplied data and research to La Guardia to aid his testimony during the Pecora Investigation by Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in March 1932. The aim of the hearings was to reveal how financial institutions knowingly misled investors while consulting values, behavior that was revealed to have led to the 1929 stock market crash. Behaviors that have proved irremediable on Wall Street in the 90 years since. Full-page satirical cartoons at each chapter break.
The Great American Swindle, Incorporated by Plummer, A. Newton - 1932
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The Great American Swindle, Incorporated
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New York: A. Newton Plummer, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. A post 1929 crash work, uncommon, and illustrated with cartoons caricaturing the "scandalous stock jamboree" of the time. One of two thousand copies, this copy is unnumbered. The author, a corporate publicist who played a part in falsely inflating stock values through a variety of publications and radio outlets, outlines "a few sensible rules" for reform in the New York Stock Exchange (Chap. XX) but wonders whether the institution will in fact reform. Chapter titles include phantom billions, jugglers and jigglers, financial follies, paid press, hired men, "golden wings" Gibson, "no bid" Boesel, Gillette razor's close shave, scalping Indian stockholders, etc. 8vo, 318pp Illustrated with cartoons. Black cloth spine and paper over boards, illustrated with facsimile of a stock certificate. A few minor dents at base of front and rear cover. OCLC: 2452974.
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- Date Published 1932
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New York: A Newton Plummer, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. 318 pp. Illustrated with cartoons. One of two thousand copies (this copy unnumbered). Tape-backed illustrated boards. Boards heavily worn. Bookstamp to front endpaper. A fair to good copy of this uncommon volume. Wall Street mischief and misdeeds in the early 1930's. Things never change.
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