On this page we have presented 12 interesting books about the lives and lifestyles of the rich 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. Bylinsky, Gene, THE INNOVATION MILLIONAIRES: HOW THEY SUCCEED, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1976), B&W illustrations, 237pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0684145642 A book about the new industries and companies being created by little-known men who, through their brains and imagination alone, are transforming our lives and becoming millionaires in the process. These men are our new Edisons, Fords, and Carnegies, and this fascinating book tells how they have succeeded and why., (Order No: 15676 ), $6.00

2. Camplin, Jamie, THE RISE OF THE RICH: HOW THE RICH AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WON THEIR FORTUNES AND HOW THEY SPENT THEM, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1979), 25 B&W ill., 340pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312684355 As the 20th century approached, England became the staging ground for an astonishing upheaval. Her enduring traditions were challenged by businessmen who had acquired a wholly new kind of power: the power of money. This book provides an intimate picture of these men and their society: how they won their fortunes and how they spent them in pursuit of power and influence., (Order No: 1898 ), $10.00

3. Churchill, Allen, THE SPLENDOR SEEKERS, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, (1974) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 278pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0448023199 "An Informal History of America's Multimillionaire Spenders, Members of the 50 Million Dollar Club.", (Order No: 2092 ), $5.00

4. Clark, William H. and Moynahan, James H. S., FAMOUS LEADERS OF INDUSTRY: SIXTH SERIES, L. C. Page and Company Pub., Boston, MA, (1955) 1st ptg, portraits by Daniel G. Fox, 249pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Here are concrete examples of the road to success., (Order No: 43723 ), $15.00

5. Drummond, Maldwin, SALT-WATER PALACES, The Viking Press, New York, (1980), B&W illustrations, 140pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670616362 Views of the private yacht as the ultimate in shipbuilding during the Victorian and Edwardian eras., (Order No: 5901 ), $15.00

6. Gunther, Max, INSTANT MILLIONAIRES: THE SECRETS OF OVERNIGHT SUCCESS, Playboy Press, Chicago, IL, (1973) 1st ed, 210pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A study of three dozen impatient people. They weren't satisfied with the slow, plodding, dime-saving route to financial security. They chose faster riskier routes. They wanted instant wealth - and they got it., (Order No: 4592 ), $5.00

7. Kirstein, George G., THE RICH: ARE THEY DIFFERENT, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1968 1st ptg, 266pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39338 ), $5.00

8. Myers, Gustavus, THE ENDING OF HEREDITARY AMERICAN FORTUNES, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, (1939), 395pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Advocates the prevention of the inheriting of great fortunes just as the Americans early did away with primogeniture and entail. Great fortunes are regarded as the result of exploitation, and their continuence as privilege for their owners at the expense of the rest of society. Does not recognize inheritance as the price paid for the benefits of free private enterprise. Frankly pleading a cause and turning the material to that end, the book is challenging. Larson 4657., (Order No: 2050 ), $20.00

9. Parker, Eric, HESKETH PRICHARD D.S.O., M.C. - HUNTER: EXPLORER: NATURALIST: CRICKETER: AUTHOR: SOLDIER, E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, [1924], B&W illustrations, 272pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), Uncommon memoir of the versatile Hesketh Prichard. A nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 27180 ), $125.00

10. Phillips, Kevin, WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RICH, Broadway Books, New York, (2002) 9th ptg, 473pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0767905334 Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth., (Order No: 52222 ), $6.00

11. Rand, Peter (stories by); Bird, Elizabeth (photographs edited by), THE PRIVATE RICH - A FAMILY ALBUM, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1984) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 184pp, good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0517554496 THE PRIVATE RICH juxtaposes photographs and fiction to contrast the external and internal lives of the wealthy and gives us a rare glimpse of the kind of people they are and how they live., (Order No: 43378 ), $5.00

12. Richards, Laura E., STEPPING WESTWARD: THE STORY OF A LONG LIFE, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1932, B&W illustrations, 406pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Among the friends Richards grew up with were the Hawthorne family, Louisa Alcott, and many other literary figures of Boston, Cambridge, and Concord., (Order No: 44626 ), $10.00