On this page we have listed 32 books on Wall Street and Stock Market history 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. THE FINANCIERS OF PHILADELPHIA: A PRACTICAL DIRECTORY OF DIRECTORS AND A GALLERY OF MEN OF AFFAIRS, The Financial Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1900, B&W illustrations, 263pp, very good, 3/4 black leather, marbled boards, aeg (See Note), "Particular care has been exercised by the publishers to collate, not alone the entire financial directory of Philadelphia, but to include the railroad, railway, insurance and general commercial connections of the finanacial directors." Included is "a portfoloio of original photogravure portraits of a selected list of Philadelphia's foremost financiers." Wonderful advertisements before and after main text. Condition note: we have had this copy internally rebuilt to ensure the integrity of the boards and the book block. Spine has raised bands with 6 compartments with gilt stampings. Faintest of water stain on bottom edge, not affecting anything., (Order No: 36864 ), $150.00
2. Baruch, Hurd, WALL STREET: SECURITY RISK, Acropolis Books Ltd., Washington, D.C., (1971), 356pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0874913209, (Order No: 39332 ), $7.50
3. Blumgarten, James, UP AGAINST THE WALL (STREET): A WITTY BUT DEADLY SERIOUS LOOK AT THE WALL STREET GAMES AND THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY, Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York, (1972) 1st ptg, 208pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Let James Blumgarten, a self-confessed plunger who lost but learned, take you into the maelstrom of systems and strategies, ploys and counterploys that are Wall Street. Let him show you how the individual and not the system determines success or failure., (Order No: 14527 ), $5.00
4. Brimelow, Peter, THE WALL STREET GURUS: HOW YOU CAN PROFIT FROM INVESTMENT NEWSLETTERS, Random House, New York, (1986), 239pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394542029 "Witty and irreverent survey of the netherworld of investment newsletter, which constitute and influential and intriguing social as well as financial phenomenon.", (Order No: 5094 ), $2.50
5. Brooks, John, ONCE IN GOLCONDA: A TRUE DRAMA OF WALL STREET 1920-1938, Harper & Row, New York, (1969), B&W illustrations, 307pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "A narrative of extravagant events and extraordinary men", including: Stutz stock, House of Morgan, the Irish (Joseph P. Kennedy - master manipulator of 'pools'), role of Benjamin Strong, vignettes of the crash, and more., (Order No: 1894 ), $3.00
6. Brooks, John, THE 7 FAT YEARS, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1958) 1st ed, 240pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "Chronicles of Wall Street - Wall Street during the boom years of the fifties, portrayed in terms of men and events.", (Order No: 2095 ), $15.00
7. Brooks, John, THE GAMES PLAYERS: TALES OF MEN AND MONEY, Times Books, New York, (1980), 376pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812908643 "Tales of Men and Money" during the 1950s through 1970s. Some of the classic business conflicts, clashes and acquisitions are recreated by Brooks., (Order No: 2097 ), $10.00
8. Carpenter, Donna Sammons and Feloni, John, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HUTTON, Henry Holt and Co., New York, (1989), 322pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805009469 In this book the authors untangle a web of intrigue unlike anything Wall Street has experienced in recent years. E.F. Hutton, one of the oldest and best-known names on Wall Street, did not fall victim to a stock market crash or the industry's relentless drive toward consolidation. The story of E.F. Hutton is a reminder that corporate culture more than anything else determines the success of failure of a company., (Order No: 7147 ), $5.00
9. Frantz, Douglas, LEVINE & CO. - WALL STREET'S INSIDER TRADING SCANDAL, Henry Holt and Company, New York, (1987) 1st ed, 370pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805004572 This is the story of an illegal network that functioned without detection for more than five years. It is the story of millions of dollars of ill-gotten gains. And it is the story of a too-clever kid from Bayside, Queens, with a second-rate MBA and no connections to speak of, who pushed his way into the high-stakes world of investment banking. Dennis Levine managed to parlay $40,000 into a profit of $12.6 million over the course of little more than five years of insider trading., (Order No: 11679 ), $3.00
10. Hamilton, William Peter, THE STOCK MARKET BAROMETER, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1922) 8th ptg, B&W graphs, 347pp, index, good+, black cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB never circulated, A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow's Theory of the Price Movement. With an Analysis of the Market and Its History Since 1897. Ex-Lib copy with minimal marks and never circulated from a small town library., (Order No: 18459 ), $15.00
11. Hirst, Francis W., THE STOCK EXCHANGE: A SHORT STUDY OF INVESTMENT AND SPECULATION - HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Henry Holt and Company, New York, (1911), 256pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), Simultaneously published in London. Contents include: Early History of Banking and Stock-Jobbing; The London Stock Exchange, 1800-1910; London's Foreign Market and the Foreign Bourses: Wall Street; Good Securities and Modes of Speculation; Why the Prices of Securities Rise and Fall, The Creatin of New Debt and Capital; Cautions and Precautions; Glossary; and, Bibliography., (Order No: 52075 ), $25.00
12. Hoffman, Paul, LIONS IN THE STREET: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE GREAT WALL STREET LAW FIRMS, Saturday Review Press, New York, (1973), 244pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841502358, (Order No: 5268 ), $5.00
13. House, Jack, LADY OF COURAGE: THE STORY OF LURLEEN BURNS WALLACE, League Press, Montgomery, AL, (1969) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 164pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0876950225 Contents include: Lurleen Burns; Wife and Mother; Out of the Background; Alabama's First Lady; A Fateful Decision; "Ma" and "Pa" Wallace; A Time to Fish; The Inauguration; Her Excellency, the Governor; The Way of a Woman; A Long, Hard Struggle; The Final Journey; Epilogue; and, Footnotes., (Order No: 40188 ), $7.50
14. King, Jos. L., HISTORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD, Jos. L. King, Sanfrancisco, CA, 1910, B&W ill., 373pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) pictorial cover w/stock certificate, "My reason for appearing before the public as the author of the following pages is that all of the records of the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board were destroyed in the great fire that visited San Francisco in April, 1906. Consequently the historical facts here recorded would possiblly be lost to posterity, unless so preserved." NOTE some cracking to exterior of cloth on spine edges., (Order No: 32329 ), $75.00
15. Levine, Dennis B., INSIDE OUT: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF WALL STREET, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 431pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 039913655X Story of one of the biggest corporate and financial dramas of our time - what really happened in the insider-trading scandal that brough down Wall Street in 1986., (Order No: 4875 ), $2.00
16. Martin, Ralph G. and Stone, Morton D., MONEY, MONEY, MONEY: WALL STREET IN WORDS AND PICTURES, Rand McNally & CO., Chicago, (1960) 1st ptg, B&W and color illustrations, 223pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), How your money flows through this financial labyrinth to pay for the securities you purchase. One of the first behind the scenes pictures (in photographs) of the inner workings of The Street., (Order No: 2045 ), $5.00
17. Mayer, Martin, THE GREATEST-EVER BANK ROBBERY: THE COLLAPSE OF THE SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1990), 354pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684191520 The most cogent, comprehensive, and comprehensible account yet of the savings-and-loan debacle that will cost American taxpayers upward of $500 billion over the next half-century., (Order No: 4518 ), $5.00
18. Mayer, Martin, STEALING THE MARKET: HOW THE GIANT BROKERAGE FIRMS, WITH HELP FOR THE SEC, STOLE THE STOCK MARKET FROM INVESTORS, Basic Books, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, 208pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0465053629 Martin examines the fundamental forces which are reshaping our securities markets. The history and implications of these disturbing changes underlie all the insider trading scandals, including Levine, Boesky, and Salomon Brothers., (Order No: 7710 ), $7.00
19. Neilson, Winthrop and Neilson, Frances, WHAT'S NEWS - DOW JONES: STORY OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA, (1973) 1st ed, 171pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801957354 Book measures the power of the WSJ against TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and other important publications., (Order No: 8810 ), $10.00
20. Neumark, John Arthur (editor), WALL STREET 20TH CENTURY, Investment Association of NY, New York, (1960), B&W illustrations, 194pp, good, wraps (softcover), A republication of the Yale Daily News' WALL STREET 1955. Contents include: Economics and Finance; Wall Street; Inventment Banking; Analysis and Evaluation of Securities; The Money Managers; How the Marketplace Works; and, bibliography., (Order No: 40280 ), $6.00
21. Noble, H. G. S., THE STOCK EXCHANGE: ITS ECONOMIC FUNCTION, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1933) 1st ed, 91pp, good, light blue paper covered boards (hardcover), The practices of the Stock Exchange written by a member of the New York Stock Exchange for half a century., (Order No: 39921 ), $30.00
22. Prescott, Marjorie Wiggin, SECURITIES AND DIVIDENDS OF A BANKER'S DAUGHTER, Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, Boston, MA, (1935), B&W illustrations, 105pp, very good, 3/4 red cloth, marbled boards (hardcover), One Hundred and Fifty Copies printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston., (Order No: 28437 ), $75.00
23. Preston, Charles (edited by), THE NEW WORLD OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1963 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 381pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A collection of good reading from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, the country's only national business daily. Selected stories, articles, editorials and cartoons covering the astonishing range of subjects of interest to business and in which business has an interest., (Order No: 24954 ), $5.00
24. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, A WOMAN GOES TO MARKET, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, (1931), 28pp, very good+, paper covered boards (hardcover) original tissue dj, Uncommon reprint of Rinehart's article originally published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST on January 31, 1931., (Order No: 39930 ), $60.00
25. Rogers, Donald I., THE DAY THE MARKET CRASHED, Arlington House, New Rochelle, NY, (1971), 316pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "A log book of that black day in 1929 when the stock market touched bottom. Can it happen again?", (Order No: 2725 ), $12.00
26. Ruff, Howard J., HOWARD RUFF FROM A TO Z, Target Publishers, San Ramon, CA, (1980), 769pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) errata slip laid in, A timeless moneymaking odyssey through the first four years of America's leading financial advisory service., (Order No: 10922 ), $3.50
27. Schmidt, Karl M., HENRY A. WALLACE: QUIXOTIC CRUSADE 1948, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1960, 362pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An account of the Progressive Party and of Wallace's presidential campaign in 1948., (Order No: 37426 ), $10.00
28. Sobel, Robert, NYSE: A HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 1935-1975, Weybright and Talley, New York, (1975), 398pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679401245, (Order No: 1744 ), $14.50
29. Sobel, Robert, THE CURBSTONE BROKERS: THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1970) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 296pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 2849 ), $7.50
30. Sumner, William G., A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1884, 391pp, very good, clay colored cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB minimal marks, "with chapters on The English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money; to which is appended 'The Bullion Report'." Originally published in 1874. An Ex-Lib copy with minimal marks and never circulated at a very small town library., (Order No: 7383 ), $25.00
31. Weiner, Eric J., WHAT GOES UP - THE UNCENSORED HISTORY OF MODERN WALL STREET..., Little, Brown and Company, New York, (2005) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 503pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316929662 "...As Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOS, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen." The schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed and the glory - the story of Wall Street, told by the men and women who made it happen., (Order No: 52969 ), $7.00
32. Westbrook, Wayne W., WALL STREET IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL, New York University Press, New York, (1980), 213pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814791948 "When a novelist creates a financier he turns to Wall Street for a model. Why conceive a new character when Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers stalked the Exchanges from New York to San Francisco, personalities with dimensions beyond which the individual imagination could reach?", (Order No: 6046 ), $15.00