RICHARDSON (Thomas D.)

Wall Street by the Back Door.

First edition. Small square 8vo. 129, [1, blank] pp., frontispiece and eight plates of caricatures by Homer C. Davenport. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (contents generally clean; superficial split to front hinge but holding firmly, cloth slightly mottled, tips of spine and corners worn, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). New York, Wall Street Library Publishing Co, 1901.

£450.00

‘A wry and backward look at the many of the games played by the major American market operators at the turn of last century, including Jay Gould, James R. Keene, Daniel Drew, and J.P. Morgan, with amusing caricatures sketched by Homer Davenport’ (Dennistoun).

Dennistoun, Bubbles, Booms and Busts, 622.

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