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Bond-Certificate Campaign.
[American Commission on Irish Independence].Original price $956.00 - Original price $956.00Original price $0.00$956.00$956.00 - $956.00Current price $956.00'God Irrevocably Fixed the Boundaries of IRELAND'. A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared ...
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Books by Babson. [Mail Order Booklet].
BABSON, Roger W.Original price $96.00 - Original price $96.00Original price $0.00$96.00$96.00 - $96.00Current price $96.00A scarce mail order booklet for 'Books by Babson', the American economist and temperance campaigner who founded the eponymous Babson's Reports in ...
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Our Campaign for the Presidency in 1940.
BABSON, Roger W.Original price $574.00 - Original price $574.00Original price $0.00$574.00$574.00 - $574.00Current price $574.00Inscribed by the author to prohibitionist leader Earl Dodge. A reflection on electoral defeat by Roger Babson (1875-1967), an economist and tempera...
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The Maelstrom.
BASS, William Louis.Original price $478.00 - Original price $478.00Original price $0.00$478.00$478.00 - $478.00Current price $478.00A curious post-crash guide urging novice investors to undertake a 'course of practical instruction' before entering the 'man-made machine known in...
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The Real Wall Street.
BLACK, William Harman.Original price $574.00 - Original price $574.00Original price $0.00$574.00$574.00 - $574.00Current price $574.00The first edition of this helpful guide to stock trading aimed at the novice investor. William Harman Black (1868-1955) went on to have a successf...
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Safeguarding Your Investments.
[CARLISLE INVESTMENT TRUST].Original price $446.00 - Original price $446.00Original price $0.00$446.00$446.00 - $446.00Current price $446.00A rare investor's guide published by the Carlisle Investment Trust as promotional material, with a useful glossary of technical terms, tables of s...
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How to Read the Money Article.
DUGUID, Charles.Original price $637.00 - Original price $637.00Original price $0.00$637.00$637.00 - $637.00Current price $637.00The first edition of this fascinating work aimed at demystifying financial journalism for the 'uninitiated' investor. The author, Charles Duguid (...
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The Town and Country Magazine:
[ECONOMIC PANIC].Original price $287.00 - Original price $287.00Original price $0.00$287.00$287.00 - $287.00Current price $287.00An issue of Town and Country published in the run-up to the Panic of 1796-1797, the last in a series of economic crises which shook the Anglophone...
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Origin, Growth, and Usefulness of the New York Produce Exchange.
EDWARDS, Richard (editor).Original price $446.00 - Original price $446.00Original price $0.00$446.00$446.00 - $446.00Current price $446.00The first edition of Richard Edwards' review of the New York Produce Exchange, a history of the commodities market from its foundation in 1861, wi...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
