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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good / no dustjacket. 595 pages, 7" x 10", illustrated.
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1840. Ephemera. Very good condition. Attractive view of the street scene, carefully drawn to show brokers on the street, the buildings, a horse & carriage, street merchants. Uncommon view. 7 3/4 x 5" plus margins, b&w steel engraving.
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Hartford: Courant, 1817. Broadside, oblong 10" x 8-1/2". Light uniform toning, old folds. Irregular edges. Good+. A rare survival of Connecticut's intense, early 19th century political conflicts. The 'American Mercury', a Hartford Democratic periodical during 1784-1833, reported "that it will be necessary, this spring to lay a State tax of ten cents on the dollar, to clear the State from debt. Whether the platform folks really have it in contemplation to lay this enormous tax at once, or by piece-meal, we cannot say..." Andrew Kingsbury, Connecticut's Treasurer since 1794, refutes the dastardly claim: "There are ample funds in the Treasury to meet any outstanding claims against the State." The broadside closes, "After so complete a refutation of the statement in the Mercury, it is hoped that no further cautions will be necessary against giving credit to Democratic Electioneering Statements." OCLC 79110053 [1- AAS]. Not in American Imprints, Sabin, or CT Historical Society as of March 2018.
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New York: George H. Doran, 1922. Very Good. Later printing. Very good with a faded spine, some soiling on the boards, light wear at the spine ends. lacking a dustwrapper.
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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. Disbound. 41, [1blank] pp. Scattered spotting. Good+. Signed at top margin, 'Hon. Rheuben H. Walworth M.C. Washington.' Walworth was a New York Congressman at this time. A Massachusetts Whig closely allied with John Quincy Adams, Davis urges Congress to exercise its express constitutional power to enact a uniform bankruptcy law. Emphasizing the risks of commerce that well-meaning individuals must incur, Davis urges that those who fail be given the opportunity for a fresh start. FIRST EDITION. BEAL 2484.
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Worcester, MA: Worcester County National Bank, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Fine in a near fine dj.. 183 pp. Illus. Sm. 4to. Bank and local history.
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[London: Printed by W. Molineux, Published by W. Cobbett, 1817. viii, [2]-470, [1 blank] pp. Printed in two columns per page, with each column counted as a page [as issued]. Bound in original paper-covered boards. Rather crudely rebacked with waste paper, else Very Good with light foxing. Cobbett's thesis is that "The Paper-Money System has mainly contributed towards our present miseries...In all countries, where a Paper-Money, that is to say, a paper which could not, at any moment, be converted into Gold and Silver, the consequence, first or last, always been great and general misery." To prove his point, Cobbett inquires "into the origin of money, how it acts upon the affairs of men, how prices depend upon its quantity, and how money itself is changed in its quantity and value." He then discusses the origin of the Bank and its Paper, "from their fatal birth." Much the same argument raged in the United States between Hamiltonians, who wished to expand credit extensions, and Jeffersonians, who were deeply suspicious of paper currency. This book comprises 32 letters originally written between 1810 and 1815, and originally published in Cobbett's Political Register. This is their first collection and separate publication. FIRST EDITION. Kress B6891. Pearl 81.
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Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1989. 1st Ed 2nd Pr. Hardbound. 8vo. 444 Pgs.. Fine in Good DJ/Good. The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1989. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. 444 Pgs. ISBN 0316222852. by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich & Barry J Rehfeld. The saga of enterprising Jewish men from ordinary circumstances who, without immediate access to the Wall Street Establishment or major corporations, benefited from the new economic and social opportunities after World War Ii and in the course of four decades outdistanced the previous generations of Wasp and German-jewish gentlement bankers. Description text copyright 2015 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 30875.
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Philadelphia: Published by Samuel P. Town, 1874. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title, as issued. 8pp. Stitched. Light wear, Very Good. Brindle was a Democrat who had served with Franklin Pierce in the Mexican War. President Pierce appointed him Indian Land Agent in the Kansas Territory, at Lecompton. He resigned when Abraham Lincoln was elected President. A critic of Lincoln's war policies, Brindle was arrested at Lecompton in July 1862 and briefly detained. After his release, he returned home to Muncy, from which several years later he penned this critique of Witte's monetary proposals. Witte had been a Pennsylvania Congressman. Brindle supports placing U.S. Treasury Notes on a par with specie payments, and denies that payment of bondholders with such notes would constitute a repudiation of the federal debt. He emphasizes, in opposition to Witte, "JEFFERSON, MADISON AND CALHOUN IN FAVOR OF UNITED STATES TREASURY NOTES AND IN OPPOSITION TO BANKS OF ISSUE." This position of the Democratic Party, opposing a "Monied Tyranny" of Banks, has been Democratic dogma since its inception. OCLC 191278885 [1- AAS] as of November 2017.
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New York: Homans Publishing, 1885. Third edition. Hardcover. Very good. Contents include: Deposit and Discount Banking, Savngs Banks, Clearing-Houses, & Loan and Trust Companies. Large 8vo, xii, 316 pp. Medium brown cloth covers with stamped decorative elements on front cover and gilt title on spine. Covers are dusty and marked with damp. Spine is sunned and rubbed at top and base, but title still legible. Internally, pages toned, o/w very good, with small owner's name in pencil on ffep.
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Philadelphia: Draper, Welsh & Co., 1854. Folio broadside, 8.75" x 14.75". A beautifully printed bond, with an ornamental border and ten engraved vignettes, including a large one of Independence Hall; and a locomotive, a waterfront scene, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and other portraits. Signed by the City Treasurer and the City Controller [each signature has a circular punch through it]. Blindstamp seal of the City of Philadelphia. Minor wear, Very Good. The Loan Certificate evidences the indebtedness of the City to Nathan Nathans, as guardian of George and John Lockhart. Nathans [1798-1877], a Jewish Philadelphia attorney, was admitted to the Bar in 1819; in addition to his legal work, he was a controller of the Philadelphia public schools for many years. Center for Jewish History, Philadelphia City Bonds Collection, PID #364970.
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New York, 1865. Folio. A consecutive run of this weekly commercial and literary newspaper, from April 15, 1865 through December 30, 1865. Volume I, No. 15 through Volume I, No. 26 [the final issue of Volume I]; and Volume II, Nos. 1 through 26 [the final issue of Volume II]. Pages [113]-208, 1-208. Printed in three columns per page. Light scattered wear [inner margin of page 113 (first count) reinforced with archival tape; rubberstamp]. Very Good, in worn later buckram, chipped morocco spine labels [gum label at base of spine]. A Journal of the activities and decisions of the newly created Office of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, under the leadership of Treasury Secretary Chase. A wartime measure, the Internal Revenue Acts established a progressive income tax, and excise and other taxes to fund the War. "The decisions began to be published in 1865, in [this] volume. With the second volume [July, 1865], the name was changed to The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal" [Edwin Seligman, 'The Income Tax.' (New York: MacMillan. 1914), page 469 note 1]. The April 22 issue memorializes Lincoln in its first article, bordered in black. Indexes, retail advertisements, and articles on a variety of goods and taxes are printed. Not in Lomazow. Sabin 34919 [Vol. II].
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New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 53, [1 blank] pp. Very Good. Lord argues that "a uniform National currency is indispensable to the interests and welfare of the people." Congress ought to make Treasury notes legal tender. Lord had a roller-coaster career. Initially quite successful in business, he founded the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, the New York Sunday School Society, the University of the City of New York and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the first president of the New York & Erie Railroad. But he lost everything during the Panic of 1857. During the Civil War years, when he wrote this pamphlet, he was forced to depend on the kindness of relatives for his support. DAB's sketch of Lord's life notes that this pamphlet attracted the attention of the Lincoln Administration; William Seward consulted with him on national fiscal policy. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 42024.
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Washington: Government, 1860. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good minus hardcover. First edition. Taken from a larger volume, bound at spine, no covers. Pages are water stained.
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[Washington, D.C.: Printed by Rufus H. Darby, Publisher of Greenback-Labor Documents., 1882. 3, [1 blank] pp. Folded to 6" x 9-1/4". Near Fine. This Party sought to unite farmers and other advocates of cheap money with the industrial laboring class, in opposition to the "national bank monopoly," "railroad monopolies," "telegraph monopolies," "land monopolies," and "the concentration of vast fortunes in the hands of a few men, who now exercise dangerous influence over our free institutions and threaten the liberties of the people." Seeking to unite blacks and whites on the basis of their similar economic condition, the Party blamed Republicans and Democrats for deliberately stoking the fires of racial hatred by "appeals to sectional and race prejudice, which should not be tolerated any longer among our people." Not located on OCLC as of July 2014.
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Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Teg. 1910. First Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 312pp. .
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Chicago, 1868. Broadsides of various sizes, no printers listed. Some occasional minor wear, Very Good. The financial sheets quote daily prices for stocks and bonds in Chicago. They suggest Chicago's emergence as a center of trade and finance before the Great Fire. The sheets include Tyler, Ullman & Co., Daily Quotations; and Opening Quotations from the Banking House of Lunt, Preston & Kean. These banking firms were established during the early 1860's and quickly became an important financial force in building and, after the Great Fire, rebuilding the City of Chicago. Scripps, Preston & Kean was involved in the first government loan issued for the prosecution of the Civil War. [Howe: CHICAGO COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, BANKING AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. Chicago: 1884.].
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Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, [1996]. Paperback. Very Good in wrappers; a few bends and wrinkles. 1 x 6 x 8.9 inches. Sixth Printing Many great names included here: Guggenheim, Lehman, Straus, Goldman, Sachs, Rothschild, et al
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Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1796. 412; 430; 387, [1 blank], [53], [1 blank] pp. Contemporary tree calf [some chipping], rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down. Scattered toning, generally light foxing, lightly worn. Good+. The second American edition, the first having issued in 1789, also published by Dobson. 'Printing and the Mind of Man' describes this work as "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." Evans 31196. PMM 221 [London, 1776]. Kress 3288.
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1982-02-03. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Northern Rock. VG: in very good condition with dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Yellow hardback cloth cover. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). 144pp. Colour and b/w illustrations. .
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Harper's Weekly, 1890. Ephemera. Very good overall. A woodcut print from the Harper's Weekly, 1890. Amusing series of views from above, caricatures of "Great Gun with his two brokers, Checkermore and Smeevy", who are premeditating a "terrific onslaught on Chickweed and Aguardiente preferred." 7 x 10 1/2 on 8 1/2 by 14 1/2 paper, with the amusing text on the same page.
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New York: New York and Suburban Co-Operative Building and Loan Association, 1915. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy.. Unpaged [16 pp.]. 16mo.
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Athens: Printed by "Pyrsos", 1931. Very good overall. The author's copy. Contents include: The Don Louis Plan is for sale; The International Land Dollar; The Definition of Money; Labor and Capital; the International Commonwealth; Charter of Incorporation; By Laws; Members; Referendum; Loans; National Insurance; National Council; the Barter System; and Table of the New Monetary System in Lands. Tan printed paper wrappers. 8vo, frontispiece photographic portrait, 180pp. With an oval "Don Louis" stamp inside the front wrapper, numbered in pencil No 1756. Wrappers detached, chipped at spine and corners. Internally very good. OCLC: 6397368.
