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Jim Fisk by Swanberg, W.A - 1959

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Jim Fisk

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Charles Scribner, 1959. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Jim Fisk by Swanberg W.A. The career of an improbable rascal Scribner's, 1959, lst. Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket in mylar. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover is clean in mylar, owner's bookplate inside cover, booksellers stamp inside cover. This is the story of Jim Fisk well known financier of the late 1800's. People either loved or hated him more of the later. He gained his ill fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where he and his partner Jay Gould befriended the unsuspecting President Ulysses S. Grant in an attempt to use the President's good name in a scheme to corner the gold market in New York City. In 1872 Fisk was murdered by a disgruntled business associate. A good fast moving read on business tactics of the time

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  • Publisher Charles Scribner
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords JIM FISK, WALL STREET, ERIE RAILROAD

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Jim Fisk: _ The Career of an Improbable Rascal

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/fair. black cloth, white cloth spine, dust jacket, 310 pp, dj soiled, torn at the edges and sunned at the spine, edges lightly soiled, cloth soiled Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First Edition. very good, fair to good. 310, illus., bibliography, index, several tears and small chips/small pieces missing to DJ edges. Jim Fisk (1835-1872) was an American stockbroker and corporate executive, and one of the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age.
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