A city man (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1932. Reprinted. 194 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN.

Zustand: Poor. 1st edition. Cloth, P+viii+261pp+2pp publishers adverts, cloth very won & rubbed, the binding has come apart at page 16 leaving the stiching exposed, occasional marking to the text, a copy in need of restoration. Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason [ 1820 - 1889 ] military offier who served in the second Afghan and Gwalior campaigns. After leaving the Army he turned to journalism, with the bulk of this work having appeared in Charles Dickens' 'All the Year Round'. He was noted for publishing books on fraudulent financial practices, particularly those of joint stock companies : The Bubbles of Finance, [1865], The Profits of Panics, [1866], Turf Frauds and Turf Practices; or, Spiders and Flies, [1868], Sir William's Speculations; or, The Seamy Side of Finance [1886]. 450 grams.…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp viii, 261. Recently rebound in half dark brown morocco with marbled boards lettered and decorated gilt at the spine. Very good indeed with clean text. The author is not named in the book except as the 'City Man'. Worldcat identify him as Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason. As the 'City Man' he had first written these articles for 'All the Year Round' a magazine edited by Charles Dickens who it is noted has given his 'kind permission' to reprint. Much mention of joint stock companies, fraudulent practices the Bank of Levant, the Bank of Patagonia, the final chapter is called 'How to Enforce Payment.' Dickens had Meason's later book Profits of Panics in his own library.…