buckitt walter (2 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (19cm). Original yellow cloth, titled and decorated in red on spine and front cover; 128pp. A tight, Very Good copy, lacking the pencil and with the "seal" on pp.17-128 broken. Scattered pencil marginalia; paper-clip stain to upper margin of title page, still a quite nice example. A rather jubilant guide to playing the stock market for the common investor, configured as a "game" in which the reader has inherited $10,000 from an uncle they have never seen, with the caveat that they will inherit the uncle's entire million-dollar estate if they can increase the $10,000 to $15,000 with a week's judicious trading. "The Wall Street Game as it is played in this book, is so simple that anyone can play it without technical knowledge of the market.as in real Wall Street, luck plays a prominent part. But you will have to use common-sense in buying and selling stocks or you will not win the million under your Uncle's will." In what may be the most monumental case of bad timing in publishing history, the book was announced in Publisher's Weekly for October 26, 1929, just two days before the Crash. Originally issued with a black Eagle Mikado pencil, lacking from this copy.

First edition. First edition. 128 pp., p. 17 onwards with original paper seal, partially torn. Issued with an Eagle Mikado pencil, lacking in this copy. 8vo. "Disguised and designed in the form of a book, Speculation! stands out as a vivid memento of the Twenties bull market. It reproduces stock reports, city pages, and the movement of the tape, 'For Wall Street sharks it may be played, however, on margins, using stop orders, selling short etc.' Published in 1929, we'll never know how many copies survived after the crash" (Dennistoun). Dennistoun 763 Publisher's cloth. Near fine in scarce dust-jacket, chipped and waterstained, loss to spine ends and portion of front panel and folds 128 pp., p. 17 onwards with original paper seal, partially torn. Issued with an Eagle Mikado pencil, lacking in this copy. 8vo.