poole augustus (4 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart collection of three volumes of illustrated diocesan histories. Three volumes. From the Diocesan Histories series produced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Each volume is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece. Providing a detailed and comprehensive history of each district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church. With chapters on the different reigns of English and British monarchs and the changes in church processes across centuries. This set contains: Norwich, 1884. Written by Augustus Jessopp, an English cleric and writer. Peterborough, c1881. Written by George Ayliffe Poole, an English Anglican cleric and a writer on religion, church architecture and history who strongly advocated the Gothic Revival. Worcester, 1883. Written by Rev. I. Gregory Smith, a British clergyman and writer. With the publisher's catalogue to the rear of each volume. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines with the odd mark to the cloth. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine resulting in light fraying. Residue from library stickers to the tail of the spines of Norwich and Worcester. Hinges starting but firm to Peterborough volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of Peterborough. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 128 pages. Illustrated with stock market charts. Square octavo. Original chrome yellow cloth with diagonal red title and ticker tape markings. Edges and corners are a bit rubbed, a little grubby, spine joints starting but still holding fine. Interior has a number of stamps from the Merchant Marine library, paper toned with some old marks and stains but generally respectable. A couple of pages have old strengthening at the fore-edge. A few of the game pages have been filled in with pencil -- this could be erased but we liked the evidence that someone had played the game in the past. Issued in the Roaring Twenties right before the Great Crash that ushered the Great Depression, this book asks its readers to play the Wall Street game and speculate, giving you information on the market and specific stocks upon which you are expected to trade to win or lose. An interesting relic. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages.

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.