51. Murder Below Wall Street. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1934.
First Edition. Dr. Arthur and lieutenant Judson solve the case of a murdered financial magnate. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #37101
First Edition. Dr. Arthur and lieutenant Judson solve the case of a murdered financial magnate. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #37101
First English Edition. "Glenn has been brought up in the traditions of American idealism. Living for the most part in the Eastern States, he suffers from a congenital sense of right and wrong; is at once tantalized and worried by problems of sex; finds himself harassed by all manner of movements to change society and save the world. As an official in a boys camp, a bond salesman, a bank clerk, a factory worker, a labor organizer and a Washington lobbyist". Near Fine in very attractive almost Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #27840
Second Printing of the Second Edition 'Completely Revised Edition'. First published by Harper and Brothers in 1912. Rare Boni and Liveright edition to be found in attractive condition. Novel of big business in America. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some minor loss at edges. Item #23659
Early Reprint Edition.F. Graham Cootes dustjacket design. First published by Harper and Brothers in 1912. Novel of big business in America and more specifically, Charles T. Yerkes, a traction magnate and organizer of companies. An uncommon printing. Near Fine bright copy, in Very Good modestly soiled dustjacket, small chip at lower spine end. Item #34880
First Edition. C. H. Taffs dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous short novel of a bird store, a dog and a veterinarian. Very Good, small chip at top spine end, in Very Good dustjacket, few edge chips, white of panels mildly darkened. Item #11787
First Edition. Novel of a business woman in London whose boyfriend is offered the job of his dreams, but needs to be married to get it. Being a smart business woman she pretends to be his wife. Very Good plus in Very Good dustjacket with nickel size chips to front panel edges, light chipping to spine ends and rear top edge. Item #14971
First Edition. George Hauman dustjacket art. Lawyer Fiction. Story of a young and rising lawyer, and his idealistic and unselfish love for a woman he believes to be in love with his friend. Very Good with vintage bookstore sticker to inside rear cover, in a Very Good dustjacket, light surface wear, few nicks to edges and spine, few short closed tears, “296C” stamped in violet twice to inside front flap. Item #18896
First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art and illustrations. An Uncommon Ferber title. Jock McChestesney, just out of college, serene in his English fitting suit and the perfection of his shirt, tie, collar and scarf-pin. Jack went looking for a job with an advertising agency. Jock dazzles them with his keen business sense and exemplary work ethic, but goes overboard on the charm and ends up alienating clients, unnerving his boss, and even patronizing his business-savvy mother. Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative to business manager and partner of the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and top front panel, some fairly small internal chips at lower spine area ('mended' at verso with clear tape), modest soiling and wear. Item #32696
First Edition. George Annand dustjacket art. The story of a well-respected millionaire businessman who left his life and identity behind to take a cross-country journey. Map endpapers, pictorial title page. Near Fine with modest foxing to endpapers, in a Very Good or Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket, with modest edge wear. Item #19730
First Edition. Art Young dustjacket art. 'In this vastly amusing mock trial Mr. Floyd turns the spotlight on various absurities in the world of finance. Big Business is grilled as it never has been during a Senatorial investigation'. Very Good but for open cloth tear at top spine end (could probably be repaired somehow) in remnants of the dustjacket, wide piece of clear tape at verso of spine, split along both flap edges, top quarter of rear flap (and adjacent area at rear panel) missing as is top spine area. Item #37809
First Edition. "Powerful novel of life today amongst the so-called 'white-collar' class, the clerk, and the salaried man and woman, generally... What would you yourself do, if you were a clerk in an office, with hopes and desires which your salary would not pay for? What would your feelings be if you met a girl with more money than you had, who thought you ought to take her out to parties and dances... An intriguing sort of tale [with] universal appeal to all of us who belong to what might be called the great middle class". Perhaps one of the earliest novels to address middle income earners as "Middle Class". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #17333
First Edition. V.D. dustjacket art. Fantastic example of an extremely uncommon fiction genre, that of the life inside the gates of the great American amusement park. The novel tells of the exploits of one family born into the amusement park business, a father killed during its construction, a mother weary of the park's appeal, a son who becomes an administrator, another son who rides the walls of the motorcycledrome and a third son who exploits the seedy side of carnival life. Fantastic dustjacket art of a couple dancing in the foreground of a collage of park activities including a Ferris wheel, carrousel, jazz music, hucksters, etc. Near Fine in attractive Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket with mild shelf wear and tiny chip to top rear panel. Item #13366
First Edition. 66 pp. Rare Wall Street title. From the preface: "In what more or less follows, the connecting thread is a purpose to show how familiar illusions refract upon the Wall Street lens, and how the Stock Exchange mind may be affected by the material in which it works. Except as they practice the trade of money with strange, three-edged tools, Wall Street folk are like other folk who happen to be anywhere else. The secret of understanding is to get their point of view.The easiest way into Wall Street is by the Hall of Delusions, through which many have entered who forgot to return. That door stands always wide open. No legend of warning affronts the eye. There ought to be one, and it should read: 'No Safe Conduct Here.' The easiest way out is at the end of the book. Between here and there are a Hoodoo, a Banker, a Wolf; descriptions of things and of people only as queer as true, hearsay of things which perplex the belief, and a conclusion which ought to appear of itself, to wit: That everywhere life's illusions are all of the same sheer stuff; variety is a trick of refraction. G. G." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, long closed vertical tear at rear panel. Item #20304
First Edition. 66 pp. Rare Wall Street title. From the preface: "In what more or less follows, the connecting thread is a purpose to show how familiar illusions refract upon the Wall Street lens, and how the Stock Exchange mind may be affected by the material in which it works. Except as they practice the trade of money with strange, three-edged tools, Wall Street folk are like other folk who happen to be anywhere else. The secret of understanding is to get their point of view.The easiest way into Wall Street is by the Hall of Delusions, through which many have entered who forgot to return. That door stands always wide open. No legend of warning affronts the eye. There ought to be one, and it should read: 'No Safe Conduct Here.' The easiest way out is at the end of the book. Between here and there are a Hoodoo, a Banker, a Wolf; descriptions of things and of people only as queer as true, hearsay of things which perplex the belief, and a conclusion which ought to appear of itself, to wit: That everywhere life's illusions are all of the same sheer stuff; variety is a trick of refraction. G. G." Near Fine in Very Good Plus dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, few tiny closed tears. Item #24433
First Edition. Intrigue and adventure surround a couple of wildcatters who take on a giant South American oil corporation. Tom Gill was a popular Hollywood actor. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, rubbing and tiny chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #8566
First Edition. Three stories of a Jewish immigrant boy who works his way up at a clothing manufacturer from assistant cutter to partner in the firm. Near Fine in slightly faded, lightly foxed Very Good plus dustjacket, modest surface wear, couple tiny chips and short closed tears. Item #19777
First Edition. Author's first book. Novel of two partners in the cloak and suit business. This copy inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Basis for the First National Silent Film starring Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr. Very Good cloth binding with spine faded, moderate wear and closed tear to cloth at top spine end, spine cloth bowed inward, and general shelf wear. Item #16088
First Edition. Humorous novel of a laughable villianess which delves into the feminine mind to extract gems of thought concerning nightgownless sleeping, nude bathing, and old ladies with whiskers on their legs. But Diana has another interest besides her Aunt in the shape of her fiancé, Athelstan Bunbury, who gains particular fame in Norfolk, when he arranges to sell his boss, an American Motor Magnate, a famous Norfolk broad, complete with a floating island, more or less historic windmill, and the makings of Tummy Tickles". Scarce. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chips at spine ends and rear panel edges. Item #24053
First Edition. Novel of an American mining engineer in South America, where "gringos spent their days sweating to produce results from hundreds of lackadaisical natives and their evenings in trying to recreate the social life of their distant homes". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #10261
First Edition. Novel of an American mining engineer in South America, where "gringos spent their days sweating to produce results from hundreds of lackadaisical natives and their evenings in trying to recreate the social life of their distant homes". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket but for light stain to upper part of front panel, shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23309
First Edition. Novel of an American mining engineer in South America, where "gringos spent their days sweating to produce results from hundreds of lackadaisical natives and their evenings in trying to recreate the social life of their distant homes". Very Good plus, bit of wear at front cover, in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #35584
First Edition. Romance novel of a woman in business who falls in love with her boss's son. Very Good but for mild cocking, druggist stamp at front endpaper, some small glue spots at pastedowns, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, spine colors faded, shallow edge chips, wear and short closed tears. Item #22165
First Edition. Romance novel of a woman in business who falls in love with her boss's son. This copy warmly inscribed and signed by Graf at front endpaper. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipping at edges, inch deep chip at lower spine end. Item #27604
First Edition. Original green decorative dustjacket, matching dustjacket. Very scarce business and Wall Street novel of a working woman [Found in Julie Beredbitsky's Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power and Desire] and murder mystery missed by Hubin, with chapter headings that include: The Professor's Murder, A Brother's Death, A Typewriter Employment Office, A Twelve Dollar Job, The Stock Broker's Ward, The Broker's Delusion, etc. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #35362
First Edition. Bergdorf-Goodman hat featured in photographically rendered dustjacket art. Uncommon themed novel of the Parisian fashion industry and a woman who becomes a prosperous milliner (designer of hats). Near Fine in lovely example of the dustjacket, Very Good or Near Fine but for some modest wear at spine ends and flap corners. Item #14908