Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 423 pages, x, [2], indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt. Frontis portrait of Woodrow Wilson. Endpapers toned and foxed. The text is generally clean. Carter Glass (1858-1946) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson. He helped establish the U.S. financial regulatory system and was instrumental in setting up the Federal Reserve System.

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Bookseller: Dawson (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 129
Title: An Adventure in Constructive Finance
Author: Carter Glass
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1927
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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