First Edition. B. Cory Kilvert dustjacket art. A Few Remarks About Wives by Ring Lardner [bound dos a dos with] SAY IT WITH BRICKS. A Few Remarks About Husbands by Nina Wilcox Putnam. Near Fine, in Very Good plus dustjacket, some soiling to panels. Item #20421

First Edition. E. C. dustjacket art. Bleiler listed fantasy title, of a business man who develops 'sunsap', sugar extracted from the air. "A savage book, not only in its dissection of contemporary industrial methods but in its relentless probing of the human or inhuman, motives that actuate the financial lords of creation". Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, modest edge wear, very light stains at verso of flap edges. Item #25859

First Edition. Hubin listed mystery novel set in New York City that involves "a disappearance of a financier on Park Ave, a ransom plot, a murder system, innocent prisoners in a skyscraper death trap". Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket with wear along spine ends, minor surface abrasions to panels, shelf wear. Scarce. Item #12636

First Edition. Business fiction about a high-powered man of International Big Business and his battles, travels, love affairs and ambitions. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket with few short closed tears, shallow chipping to top spine end, spine darkened and some darkening to white of panels. Item #18494

First Edition in original first issue dustjacket. Lewis's classic novel of Sam Dodsworth who "has just sold out his automobile business to a great motor trust and now has money... It raises the question of what successful business men are going to do with their leisure when they have made their pile and retired". Almost Near Fine in Good dustjacket, inch of loss off top spine end, three inch split at lower front flap edge, nicks and wear at edges. Item #34279

First Edition. Harold Brett dustjacket art. New England set novel of a self-made magnate. 'Headstrong, tyrannical, selfish, generous, lovable contradiction that he was'. Near Fine, contemporary owner signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, bit of wrinkling at lower spine end. Item #35389

First Edition. Roy Spreter dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery novel of a wealthy city clubman, speedily acquitted for the murder of a twenty year old photographer's model yet “finds himself in second jeopardy before the pitiless jury of society.” This copy nicely inscribed and signed by both authors at front endpaper. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some scotch tape mends at verso, few closed tears. Item #25489

First Edition. Campagna dustjacket art. Uncommon Hubin listed collection of criminous and humorous stories surrounding a city pawnshop. "The pawnbroker is robbed with his own revolver and later, the robber returns the gun, the money, and the interest on the enforced loan. An artist without physical or financial resource, makes the supreme efforts and paints a masterpiece in the pawnbroker's back room." Publisher's promotional pamphlet laid in. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips. Item #23588

First Edition. Alonzo Kimball dustjacket art. Rare business themed novel in which the dustjacket copy reads: "To any man: Is your business driving you, or are you driving your business? John Hadden was a size four man in a size two job - but he was a number six man in a number ten job. - Why? To any wife: Are you sufficiently alert to discover that your husband is working too hard properly to do his work?" Very Good to Near Fine in Very Good rather soiled dustjacket with few shallow chips. Item #20344

First Edition. Philip Simmonds dustjacket art. Something of a nautical adventure novel of a "thrilling talk of insurrection in a Central American Republic, against which highly-coloured background matter of fact James Wishart, the young Scotch Engineer of the old tramp steamer, Candelshoe, wrestles with the perplexities of love and life. The dramatic solution of his problems is unexpectedly found in a small hotel kept by a queer, unrespectable English widow in disreputable Puerta Balboa, where the deep undercurrents of expanding American business activities and local political aspirations converge in turmoil." Near Fine in Very Good plus bright dustjacket. Item #20121

First Edition. Morgan Dennis dustjacket art. "A post-crash analysis of the human side of stock market investing. By explaining not only the basic principles of investing but the emotional side of the enterprise as well, the author hopes to prevent his readers from losing sleep over their investments." The author says, "One can imagine that with these conditions our investor, especially if he had been accustomed to having his money in good safe bonds, was lying awake nights wondering whatever induce him to go into common stocks. If his wife knew the details she probably was losing plenty of sleep and doing plenty of nagging, asking him a thousand times why he ever got into such a mess and what was going to become of their savings." But if the investor hung on there were better days ahead for two years later came the stock boom of 1905-6 when on January 1, 1906, his stocks showed a value of $16,930, almost 100 per cent more than he could have obtained for them in 1903. He could then remind friend wife of the supreme wisdom of man". A very uncommon stock market investment book to be found in original fragile illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine but for first several pages with small dampstain at top fore-edge corner, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some closed tears and wear, some dampstaining to rear panel. Item #26686

First Theater Edition, illustrated with stills from the Broadway play starring W. J. Brady, Cecile Breton and Louise Drew. "A modern comedy on the power of advertising, and has plenty of action which hinges chiefly on a wager of thirty thousand dollars made between two rival millionaire soap manufacturers, on the business acumen of their respective sons". Very Good, light stain to front cover at lower corner, in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top spine end, some soiling and few small stains. Item #24760