Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange
by FRANCIS, John
$1,000 · Offered by Between the Covers
Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1850. Hardcover. First American edition (originally published in London in 1849, the work also appears, probably simultaneously, in the U.S. in the *Bankers' Magazine for 1850*). Publisher's cloth. Contemporary owner's name ("Isaac W. Blain, Brooklyn"), rebacked, saving all but the top 1.5" of the..... More
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