High Cost Living.
Dreamworld, Massachusetts, Nathan Sawyer & Son (printers), 1913
Lawson was one of his generation's most brilliant and eccentric stockbrokers. At the age of twelve, he left school to work as an office boy with a brokerage firm in Boston, and early in his career he began speculating in stocks. 'He made a considerable "killing" in railroad shares when he was only seventeen but lost his profits a few days later in another deal... He is said to have accumulated a million dollars by the time he was thirty... Despite his lack of formal education, he acquired by his own efforts an excellent command of English and a considerable degree of literary culture' (DAB).
First edition, limited edition of 1000 (this copy unnumbered); folio (35.5 x 24.5 cm); armorial bookplate to front free endpaper verso, illustrations including 4 full-page colour plates retaining original tissue guards, ads. to half-title verso, lettered in red and black; publisher's red reverse limp calf gilt, top-edge uncut, spotting to prelims, calf faded to extremities; 180pp.
Dennistoun 720.
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