On this page we have listed 11 business fraud books that were on our shelves in Walpole, New Hampshire on March 6, 2008. Enjoy browsing through, and feel free to place your order at any time with Ray Boas, Bookseller.
1. Adams, James Ring and Frantz, Douglas, A FULL SERVICE BANK: HOW BCCI STOLE BILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD, Pocket Books, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, 381pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 067172911X The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was the favorite bank of dictators, drug dealers and arms merchants. It was one of the world's largest privately owned banks...a vast network that powered the flow of hot and hidden money around the globe., (Order No: 8750 ), $8.00
2. Astor, Gerald, HOT PAPER: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A FANCY NEW YORK BANK IS RIPPED OFF FOR $13,000,000, Saturday Review Press, New York, (1975) 1st ed, 212pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841504059 The story of the theft in 1969 of $13,194,000 in negotiable securities from the seventeenth floor of 23 Wall Street, which happens to be the "custody section" of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company., (Order No: 17973 ), $5.00
3. Bidwell, Austin (who was tried at the Old Bailey for the L1,000, 000 Forgery on The Bank of England), FROM WALL STREET TO NEWGATE VIA THE PRIMROSE WAY, Bidwell Publishing Company, Hartford, CT, (1895), B&W illustrations, 590pp, good, dark green cloth (hardcover) light edgewear, tight copy, Nice clean and tight copy. Bidwell, "who was tried at the Old Bailey for the 1,000,000 Pound forgery on the Bank of England and Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. This story shows that the events of his life surpass the imaginations of our novelists. Its scenes and adventures are not a record of crime, but are proofs that 'in the world of wrongdoing succes is failure'.", (Order No: 43595 ), $20.00
4. Ducovny, Amram M., THE BILLION $ SWINDLE: FRAUDS AGAINST THE ELDERLY, Fleet Press Corporation, New York, (1969), B&W illustrations, 252pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Exposes the sale of disease cures, land plots, pre-burial contracts and other fraudulent products and services. Educates reader on how to spot the schemes., (Order No: 2016 ), $12.50
5. Frasca, John, CON MAN OR SAINT? THE STORY OF A SHARECROPPER WHO TURNED $5,000 INTO $100,000,000 IN 24 MONTHS, Droke House, Publishers, Anderson, SC, (1969) 1st ed, 223pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0837567475 Slightly acidic pages as usual., (Order No: 43424 ), $5.00
6. Greising, David & Morse, Laurie, BROKERS, BAGMEN, AND MOLES: FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN THE CHICAGO FUTURES MARKETS, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, (1991) 1st ptg, 15 B&W photos, 337pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0471530573 In an attempt to break the clubhouse rules which run the Chicago commodities exchanges, in 1987 the FBI sent four undercover agents into the pits to work as traders and collect evidence of illegal practices. Two years later, when this most ambitious and expensive FBI sting was revealed, it was front page news which rocked the futures markets. As a result, 48 traders were indicted. Here is the authoritative account of the probe., (Order No: 11563 ), $30.00
7. Hyde, H. Montgomery, JOHN LAW: THE HISTORY OF AN HONEST ADVENTURER (AMAZING STORY OF JOHN LAW: SCOTTISH FINANCIER AND GAMBLER - ON DUSTJACKET), Home & Van Thal, London, (1948), B&W illustrations, 214pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the amazing story of John Law of Lauriston, the Scottish financier and gambler, who left Britain to becomefor a time, in the early years of the 18th century, the most powerful minister in France. A pioneer in the use of paper money, he gave the word millionaire to the language of both countries, while in the famous Mississippi Company, which he promoted, his name will always be associated with the greatest mania of financial speculation ever known. This edition printed on "yellowing newsprint.", (Order No: 13165 ), $12.50
8. Johnson, David R., ILLEGAL TENDER: COUNTERFEITING AND THE SECRET SERVICE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, Smithsonian Institution Pr., Washington, D.C., (1995) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 222pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1560983590 With colorful vignettes of criminals and their gambits, the author explores the evolution of counterfeiting as a peculiarly urban crime, detailing its markets, advertising, and distribution networks--as well as such schemes as the "green-goods game," which netted some outfits $40,000 a month in profit., (Order No: 27086 ), $10.00
9. McClintick, David, STEALING FROM THE RICH: THE HOME-STAKE OIL SWINDLE, M. Evans and Company, New York, (1977) 1st ptg, 335pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871312409, (Order No: 40591 ), $5.00
10. Palmer, Edward E., FORTY YEARS OF HUSTLING, published by the author, Wooster, OH, (1942), B&W illustrations, 363pp, good+, wraps (softcover) signed by the author, "The man that has helped many men and women out of the rut, and started them on the high-road to success in a business of their own, through his own efforts. This little book should prove interesting to thousands of readers. If you like it, tell others, if not tell Palmer...." The adventures of a salesman., (Order No: 42460 ), $20.00
11. Tygiel, Jules, THE GREAT LOS ANGELES SWINDLE: OIL, STOCKS, AND SCANDAL DURING THE ROARING TWENTIES, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994, B&W illustrations, 398pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 019505489X "In Los Angeles in the 1920, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call 'a decade of debauchery of group selfishness,' but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s.", (Order No: 9583 ), $7.50