SLOAN (Laurence H.)

Everyman and His Common Stocks. A Study of Long Term Investment Policy.

First edition. 8vo. viii, 306 pp. Original red ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (pencilled underlining to pp.279-286, contents otherwise generally clean; gilt lettering to spine dulled, front hinge split but holding firmly; jacket heavily worn with a few short closed and nicks to extremities, spine panel toned with loss at ends, a good copy only). New York and London, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1931.

£475.00

Inscribed by the author ‘For my friend J.B. Lloyd from Laurence H. Sloan Dec 10, 1931’ in black ink to front free endpaper.

Sloan’s classic guide to long-term investing written in the wake of the Great Crash, emphasising the importance of caution and patience in playing the ‘long game’.

Not in Dennistoun, Bubbles, Booms and Busts.

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