first edition Hardcover
1935 · New York
by Allen, Frederick Lewis
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. xii, 483 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good unclipped ($3.00) metallic gold dust jacket, chipped along edges with a bit of wrinkling and dulling to spine panel, some scuffs. Faint stamp to front free endpaper, book may have been a review or publisher's file copy. Rare in jacket.A secret history of American finance from 1900 to the Great Depression, covering Wall Street's misdeeds and connivings. In 2014 it was reissued by media critic and scholar Mark Crispin Miller's Forbidden Bookshelf imprint.
(Inventory #: 180626006)