alexander d noyes (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, x, 459 pages. In Very Good condition. Dark blue spine with gilt lettering. Boards have light bumping and wear to the spine head/tail and fore corners. Textblock has stickers on the front free end page, light splitting along the front hinge, light pink ink staining to front end papers, light smudge marks along page iii, mild age toning, and light soiling to edges. Shelved in Room A. 1399690. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1926. 459 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Alexander Dana Noyes (1862-1945) was a distinguished American financial columnist born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1862. The son of a merchant, Noyes got his start in journalism with , where he reluctantly became the paper's Wall Street correspondent in 1884 when the banking house Grant and Moore failed and he happened to be the only reporter in the office not on assignment. . Forty Years of American Finance The War Period in American Finance oyes warns against the belief on Wall Street that America had entered a New Era that (adv 88). Always critical of unchecked speculation and current trends, Noyes consistently emphasized his belief that clues to the contemporary marketplace are revealed by a historical knowledge of finance: The Speculative Markets, differs so greatly from any in the past that old-fashioned precaution is out of date [The speculative 1901 bull market assumed] that we were living in a New Era; that old rules and principles and precedent of finance were obsolete; that things could safely be done to-day which had been dangerous or impossible in the past. This illusion seized on the public mind in 1901 (in New York at any rate) quite as firmly as it did in 1929. It differed only in the fact that there were no college professors in 1901 who preached the popular illusion as their new political economy. ( 195) The Market Place This style of historical analogy, illustrated above by his comparing the speculation of 1901 and the Depression of 1929, is a staple of Noyes' prose. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.