The second edition of this early day-trader's guide, revised from the 1924 issue to take into account the crash of 1929. The Hess Collection notes...

The first edition of this early cautionary lecture on stock market speculation 'its tricks and its tragedies' by the New York based lawyer Frankli...

[economics] extraordinary attack on the 'money kings'. A signed copy of Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) extraordinary exposé of greed and corruption in...

House Democrat Courtney Hamlin's copy. The first edition of Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) High Cost Living, an amusing 'insider's account of the pecu...

Author's personal copy. Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) personal copy of High Cost Living, his amusing 'insider's account of the pecuniary guile of an ...

Speculation's greatest story. The first edition of this investment classic, a fictionalised biography of the day trader Jessie Livermore, to whom t...

The first edition of this scarce investment guide which first appeared as a series of articles in The Magazine of Wall Street, the newsletter and ...

An early reference guide aimed at the novice investor, defining key terms such as 'Bear... used opprobriously, and deservedly so, to those persons...

A scarce introductory course to grain trading offering practical advice to the novice investor. Pugh, the author of several works on outsmarting t...

The first edition of this insightful work on the leading classes of investment bonds by William Lee Raymond (1877-1942), an investment banker and ...

The corrected first edition of this useful glossary defining over 300 investment terms. Examples include 'Backwardation... a London Stock Exchange...

The first edition of Robert Rhea's contribution to the development of Dow Theory, named for the eccentric founder of The Wall Street Journal, Char...

A continuation of Robert Rhea's development of Dow Theory, demonstrating the consistency with which it predicted the future course of business act...

A wry and backward look at many of the games played by the major market operators at the turn of last century, including Gould, Keene, Drew, and M...

Satire attacking government and stock-jobbers. A satirical riff on the English nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built, criticising the economic po...

Insider trading. The first edition of this early work on insider trading by Frank Percy Smith, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University o...

An early guide and exposé of the stock market written for would-be speculators warning them of its dangers and offering advice on how to succeed.'...

A scarce history of the New York Stock Exchange from its early days in Manhattan to its move to the New Exchange building in 1903, edited by the A...

The first edition in English of Adolphe Thiers' (1797-1877) classic biography of the Scottish economist John Law (1671-1729), who served as Contrô...

A fascinating survival from the Taishō Democracy, a period of liberal reform and political renewal in Japan lasting from 1912 until 1926, which ul...