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).
Limited edition, this copy being number 392 of 1000, presented to the Hon. Courtney W. Hamlin (1858-1950), the Democratic representative for Missouri in the 58th and 59th Congresses.
First edition, number 392 of 1000 copies; folio (34 x 24 cm); the Presentation for this copy inscribed in pen to the Hon. Courtney Hamilton, text in red and black, lacking the 4 full-page colour plates, old bookseller's note to front free endpaper recto, ads. to half-title verso; later red cloth retaining original free endpapers, gilt title-piece to spine; 180pp.
Dennistoun 720.
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