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An American Hero

An American Hero

by BRONSON, F.W.

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1933]. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and green dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [4],298pp. A few tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, green spine lettering a bit faded, brief dampstaining to rear panel extremities not affecting cloth, else Very Good and sound. "Satirical account of one man's progress from football hero to millionaire stockbroker" - HANNA 460.
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American Social Conditions: an Address Delivered by Henry Clews, L.L.D. at the '08 Graduation...

American Social Conditions: an Address Delivered by Henry Clews, L.L.D. at the '08 Graduation Exercises of the Rhode Island Commercial School, Providence, Rhode Island

by CLEWS, Henry

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Providence: Rhode Island Commercial School, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed wrappers; 23pp. Fine, unmarked copy. Advice to young business school graduates from the noted financier and bond trader. Touches briefly on labor unrest, advises that students pay no attention to the "agitators and pessimists," there is alway a need for young men with brains and energy. Not found in OCLC (2018).
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By Law of Might, or The Campaign in Sunset. A Romance of The Real Wall Street

By Law of Might, or The Campaign in Sunset. A Romance of The Real Wall Street

by RIDGELY, Newton

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New York: H.A. Simmons, (1908). First Edition. Octavo (18cm). Publishers blue ribbed cloth, pictorially stamped in white on spine and front cover; frontispiece; [viii], 398pp. Titling partially flaked away on spine, with mild fading to pictorial elements on front cover; scattered mild foxing to text (heaviest to prelims); Good to Very Good. Presentable copy of this scarce Wall Street novel, in which the thrill of high finance provides a backdrop to extra-marital shenanigans and murder. Frontispiece and several text illustrations by M. Jaediker. Truly uncommon; OCLC gives 4 locations only; not in Hanna. SMITH R-315.
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank

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New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Blanck's issue "B", with sheets bulking to 3/4". Octavo (23cm). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (hardcover); 272pp; teg; frontis and three inserted leaves of plates. Fore edge untrimmed. A clean, solid, bright copy, gilt still bright on spine; easily Near Fine. Small printed bookplate of H.C. Matzke to front pastedown. Short story collection, including six stories with a California setting. The title story was the source for D.W. Griffith's 1909 silent film "A Corner in Wheat." Blanck notes that the earliest copies in the first printing, those submitted for copyright, were on slightly thicker paper, bulking to 7/8". BAL 15039. BAIRD 1877.
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank

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New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. First Edition. First printing.Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8". Octavo (23cm). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (hardcover); 272pp; teg. Fore edge untrimmed. A clean, solid, bright copy with some mild dulling & discoloration to spine; Very Good. Ownership signature to front endpaper, else clean and fresh internally, with frontis. and three plates, one by Frederick Remington. Short story collection, including six stories with a California setting. The title story was the source for D.W. Griffith's 1909 silent film "A Corner in Wheat." BAL 15039. BAIRD 1877.
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Economic Problems of Modern Society

Economic Problems of Modern Society

by [ECONOMICS] [GREAT DEPRESSION] ANDREWS, John N. and Rudolf K. Michels

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New York: Ronald Press, 1938. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket; 798p. Volume in Near Fine condition, with dusting & faint foxing to text block edges. In original dustjacket which is however somewhat worn, with small marginal losses and closed tears, age-toning to spine; Good only. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of the Great Depression, clearly intended as a primer for an American public forced for the first time to comprehend economic dysfunction on a catastrophic scale. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending, etc, as well as discussion of the failures of Wall Street. Uncommon.
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The Gold Standard and the Administration's General Economic Programme / Some Fallacies Underlying...

The Gold Standard and the Administration's General Economic Programme / Some Fallacies Underlying the Demand for 'Inflation'

by ANDERSON, Benjamin M.

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New York: The Chase National Bank, 1933. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 35pp. Mild external soil, else Very Good. Two articles reprinted from the Chase Economic Bulletin, vol. XIII, nos. 1 and 2. Anderson was the chief economist of the Chase National Bank.
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House Scraps

House Scraps

by ATKIN, G. Duckworth; George Cruickshank, F.C. Gould, Lucien Davis et al., illus

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London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned, else Good or better, interior about fine. Published "For Private Circulation Only" (title page heading).
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The Napoleon of Gotham: A Study of the Life of Charles Broadway Rouss

The Napoleon of Gotham: A Study of the Life of Charles Broadway Rouss

by MULLIN, Larry A.

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Winchester: Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 99pp; illus; bibliog. Fine. A key figure in Winchester history, Rouss made a fortune on Wall Street following the Civil War, then returned to become one of his home town's largest benefactors.
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Odd Lots 1 Thru 99

Odd Lots "1 Thru 99

by CARLISLE & JACQUELIN

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New York: Carlisle & Jacquelin, 1951. First Edition. 16mo (14.25cm.); original cream decorative staplebound card wrappers, yapp edges, printed in green and black; 55pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit toned and lightly dust-soiled, very minor wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound. "It is the purpose of this booklet to outline in general the method of handling odd-lots and to describe the execution of all types of odd-lot orders on the N.Y.S.E." - p. [5]. Unlocated in OCLC as of October, 2016.
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People's Capitalism: Stock Ownership and Production

People's Capitalism: Stock Ownership and Production

by BUDISH, J.M.

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New York: International Publishers, [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original yellow card wrappers printed in green; 64pp. Near Fine, partially unopened copy.
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Samuel The Seeker

Samuel The Seeker

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN FICTION] SINCLAIR, Upton

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New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4], 315, [1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial rubbing to lower corners, with mild offset to endpapers and pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket shows even sunning to spine and panels, light shelfwear overall, with a few small tears, nicks to base of spine and corners, and a small chip to upper right corner of rear panel, affecting a single letter; Very Good+. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world." AHOUSE A15.a; HANNA 3244; RIDEOUT p.293.
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Samuel The Seeker

Samuel The Seeker

by SINCLAIR, Upton

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New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; [4], 315, [1]pp. Slight forward lean, rough erasure to previous owners name and price at upper front endpaper, with some mild external wear and pinpoint rubbing to spine lettering; Very Good+. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world." AHOUSE A15.a; HANNA 3244; RIDEOUT p.293.
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The Story of A Street: A Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908

The Story of A Street: A Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908

by HILL, Frederick Trevor

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Original green cloth boards, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [xvi], [1]-171pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Cloth slightly rubbed at spine ends, with a few faint surface scratches to boards; pencil ownership signature, else a tight, Near Fine copy, with cover gilt bright and hinges tight and sound. Described as a "Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908," though only the final chapter deals with Wall Street in the brokerage era. Nicely illustrated with sepia halftone reproductions of contemporary views and documents. Sharp copy.
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The Time Is Noon

The Time Is Noon

by HAYDN, Hiram

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New York: Crown Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 561pp. Tight, straight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), rubbed at margins and slightly sunned on spine; Very Good. Haydn's third novel, an epic set in the American South during the last spasms of the Twenties and the Crash of 1929. In a glitteringly dismissive review in Commentary, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote of The Time Is Noon: "...a weary novel whose earnest mediocrity makes one weak with melancholy....it wants, in its optimistic, endless fashion, to be good, honest, and profound, to say something honorable and significant. But it suffers from much love and little policy, for Haydn has very little to say and yet he has written a very long book" ("The Progressive Jew as Hero," in Commentary, May 1948). Other critics were more welcoming, or at least less savage, but it is probably no accident that Haydn didn't publish another novel for… Read More
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Wall Street. A Story of the Greatest Street in All the World, with Its Intrigues, Plots,...

Wall Street. A Story of the Greatest Street in All the World, with Its Intrigues, Plots, Counter-plots, Its Gains - Its Losses - Its Hopes - Its Despairs. Based on the Motion Picture Story by Jack Karkland and Paul Gangelen

by KARKLAND, Jack and Aileen PRINGLE

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New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo (20cm). Glossy pictorial wrappers; 98pp. Pulp text paper toned (as expected); light wear to covers; still a complete and well-preserved copy, Very Good. Novelization of the 1929 Columbia Pictures feature film, directed by Roy William Neill and Starring Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle. The film was released just a month after the Crash and features, in its climactic scene, the suicide of a Wall Street big-wig by jumping from his office window. Uncommon; none others in commerce (2013); OCLC gives two locations (NYPL, BL).
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Wealth and the Common Man

Wealth and the Common Man

by GREW, Frederick J.; Fred Frymire, illus

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New York: Philosophical Library, [1959]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white and yellow pictorial dust jacket, pale green topstain; [8],184pp.; illus. 1.5" tear at jacket spine crown touching one letter without loss of sense, else a Very Good, sound copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. "An inquiring look into the simple physics of booms and recessions, inflation, automation and other uncomfortable puzzles" - title page.
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