Critical Praise. "In my interviews with over 30 of the best traders of our time, there were some questions that I raised in each conversation. One of these was: Are there any books that you found particularly valuable and would recommend to aspiring traders? By far, the most frequent response was Reminiscences of a Stock Operator-a book that was ...
This is the 1901 investment masterpiece from the bestselling author of "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". The rarest and most-prized work published by Edwin Lefevre, "Wall Street Stories" is a delightful literary romp through the habits and customs of 19th century Wall Street. Now, this timeless work is being reissued in a fantastically lush new ...
Edwin Lefevre (1871-1943) was an American journalist, writer, and statesman most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. As an independently wealthy investor, living in Hartsdale, New York, Lefevre pursued a literary career, publishing short stories and novels drawn from the world of investing. His first full-length novel and third ...
This volume contains the story behind the making of a stockbroker, that being John K. Wing, the senior resident partner of Bronson and Barnes, a Boston firm which had risen to the top rank of stock commission houses in the early 1900s. Wing was a young man, with pleasant manners and an air of sincerity as well as good nature and good sense. This ...
"I led the conversation round to Wall Street and incidentally said I didn't know which was easier for a man, to be a fool or to make money in the stock-market. I... had always found folly extremely easy-but successful stock speculation infinitely easier." -from "The Panic of the Lion" This collection of four interrelated short stories relates the ...
The 1907 landmark work from the author of "Wall Street Stories" Lauded throughout the financial community as the first "real" novel of Wall Street life, "Sampson Rock of Wall Street" presents a "wheels within wheels" look at stock market games. Written in Edwin Lefevre's inimitable style, "Sampson Rock of Wall Street" is a thinly veiled composite ...
Edwin Lefvre (1871-1943) was an American journalist, writer, and statesman most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. An independently wealthy investor, while living in Hartsdale, New York a collection of Edwin Lefvre's short stories were published in 1901 under the title "Wall Street Stories." This was followed by several novels about ...
The young man with his deposits of nineteen and one-half millions-and more to come-troubled the president. With that much cash, Grinnell already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests. -from The Golden Flood This financial mystery novels revolves around an ...
"I led the conversation round to Wall Street and incidentally said I didn't know which was easier for a man, to be a fool or to make money in the stock-market. I... had always found folly extremely easy-but successful stock speculation infinitely easier." -from "The Panic of the Lion" This collection of four interrelated short stories relates the ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Description: FAIR. 6X9. A graphic description of the stock market at its time of most intense activity-how the lastest and greatest boom of all was started, the men who manipulated it, and the far reaching results that followed it....cover missing, unmarked pages, edges and corners are smooth, few corners bent, illustrated. _PAB_ read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Date Published: 1925
Description: Collectible; Very Good. A nice example of this early and uncommon 1924 edition of Edwin Lefevre's "The Making of a Stock Broker". VG in its original green cloth with somewhat faded gilt-lettering to the spine. Internally crisp and clean. 12mo, 341 pgs. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Black hardback cloth cover
Publisher: W. Clowes and Sons
Date Published: 1839
Description: Rebound. Text in very good condition without dustwrapper apart from very occasional annotations in ink. Folding chart somewhat worn but complete. 416pp: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"): The commission was required to inquire into the establishment of county police forces in England and Wales. read more
Binding: HARD BACK GREEN
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO
Date Published: 1925
Description: VERY GOOD. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4. Gilt lettering on spine, book covered in plastic for protection, portion of dustjcket tipped in on front free end, previous owners sticker neatly attached to inside front cover, very nice, clean & tight. _PAB_ read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: Cosmopolitan Magazine
Date Published: 1903
Description: VG. 8vo. 4pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, Volume XXXV, No. 4, August, 1903. Meyer Guggenheim and M. Guggenheim's Sons smelting and mining enterprises. Illustrations include portraits of Meyer, William, Benjamin, Murry, Isaac. Part XVI of the Captains of Industry series. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Company
Date Published: 1925
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. moss gross hardcover, lightshelfwear and edgewear, no writings on pages, bumps to corners, uniform toning, foxing on pages ends common with older books, read more
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