Stock Market - Wall St - Speculation from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Hooker Publishing Co, (1929). First Edition. 12mo (20cm). Original flexible boards of gilt-stamped leatherette; iv,117pp. Scattered foxing to text, else a tight, square copy in bright, original binding, Very Good or better. This rather emphatic denunciation of Wall Street, written by a Pennsylvania hotelier, offered little new in terms of exposing the risks of speculation.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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. … Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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 and spine panel, green spine lettering a bit faded, brief dampstaining to rear panel extremities not affecting cloth, else Very Good and sound. "Satirical account of one… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item