Author: Fowler, Wm. Worthington
Title: Inside Life in Wall Street; or How Great Fortunes are Lost and Won, with Disclosures of Doings and Dealings on 'Change [...]
Publication: Hartford, CT: Dustin, Gilman and Co, 1874
Description: Cloth. Good.
Cloth cover faded with ornamentation and titling in blind. 603 pp. With a few illustrations. An account of stock trading and finance on Wall Street, including a 'secret history' of speculations since the 1857 crash, a discussion of various rises and panics, the black Friday of 1869, etc. With a chapter on whether women speculate and those women who keep their own accounts, etc. GOOD condition. No exterior marking. Heavy fading to the front cover and spine, with the rear cover also rather faded. Minor damage to bottom of binding, with some mottling and minor soiling to the cloth.