Wall Street Stories.

LEFÈVRE (Edwin).

Wall Street Stories.

First edition, first printing. Small 8vo. [8], 224, [6, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, front cover lettered in gilt within a single blind fillet border (small patch of faint damp-staining to blank fore-margins of terminal leaves, contents otherwise generally clean; extremities rubbed with mottling to spine, lean to text-block, notwithstanding a good copy overall). New York, McClure, Phillips & Co, 1901.

£1,250.00

The scarce first book by the legendary finance writer Edwin Lefèrve, a collection of eight short stories on life on Wall Street, several of which include fictionalised versions of Wall Street characters such as James R. Keene and Daniel Drew.

Lefèvre is best-known for his Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), one of the great classics of American business literature, generally accepted to be the fictionalised biography of stock market whiz Jesse Livermore.

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