KICK HIM DOWN HILL; OR, UPS AND DOWNS IN BUSINESS ... GOLD WINS.

by Miss M. M. Smith

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: United States Publishing Company, 1875. Octavo, original decorated blue cloth stamped in black and gold, yellow endpapers. First edition. Sensation novel mixed with advocacy of economic reform, set mostly in New York City. Considerable criminous content -- murder, suicide, thievery, stock manipulation and other financial skullduggery, etc. Prominent individuals from society and finance appear as characters in the

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