Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1856. Octavo, 7.75 x 4.75", printed wrappers, 208, [8] pp. An early Chicago imprint, and guide to businessmen in navigating the laws of the Midwest and the United States. A good copy with foxing to pages, stain to upper portion of front wrapper and first 55 or.....
No Place of Publication: 1848. Bifolium measuring 6.5 x 4" when folded, with 2 pp of handwritten text, signed "J.J. Astor Jr" and dated November 1848 on the back. Astor Jr. writes to businessman, planter and slaveowner Francis P. Corbin, offering regrets for not seeing him that morning, inviting Corbin.....
Oakland, California: Published by the Author/Pacific Press, 1878. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth with gilt titles, 326 pp. A novel about stock fraud during the days of the California mining boom. Early Sacramento news agency stamp to front endpaper. Wear to corners and edges, cloth chipped at spine ends, rear.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. Octavo, brick cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration, text block edges gilt, 59 pp, portrait frontispiece of the author. This copy inscribed by Dodge on the front endpaper, dated May 1880. Dodge was a prominent businessman known as the "Merchant Prince".....
Miami, Florida: W.D. Gann, Publisher, 1949. First Edition. Octavo, 9.75 x 6.5", blue cloth with gilt spine titles, 149, 94 pp. First edition, first printing, issued in one volume with Gann's "New Stock Trend Detector." A nice copy with a hint of wear to covers along edges, slight waviness to.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, 216 pp. Inscribed by author to front endpaper. An economics book by John B. Jervis (1795 to 1885), a leading civil engineer in the United States before the Civil War, who designed.....
Cincinnati and Chicago: Hannaford & Company, 1872. 8vo, 633pp, unusual American binding of tooled leather illustrated in gilt, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Gilded age history of great American industrialists and other prominent figures. Hint of toning to pages, rubbing to binding, damp stain to lower margin of text.....
Boston: Bradley, Dayton and Co, 1860. First Edition. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt stamped titling to spine, cover blind stamped, 393 pp. Pinkham's detailed discussion on proper science-based farming techniques as it appled to pre-Civil War New England farmers. Owner inscription to title page, historical society stamp to front pastedown and.....
New York: Graphic Record Corporation, 1921. 6.25 x 4.25", tan wrappers with black lettering, 95 pp. Third Printing. In fair condition with tape over spine, text creased, bit of staining to covers, front cover creased and chipped.
Honolulu/Hong Kong: Wong Buck Hung/San Ming Tak Printing, 1952. First Edition. Octavo, 7.75 x 5.5", tan stapled wrappers with black lettering, 86 pp, photographic illustration pages. Title in Chinese to front cover and English to rear cover; inscribed by author in Chinese on rear cover. Text in Chinese except for.....
New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1924. Octavo, 8.25 x 5.5", flexible leatherette covers with gilt titles, 190 pp. "Special Edition," first published in 1922. A classic work on investing by a stock market investor, founder and editor of Magazine of Wall Street, and editor of Stock Market Technique.....