LEFÈVRE, Edwin.

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. First edition, exceptionally scarce in the jacket, unclipped. We can trace only two other copies with the jacket at auction or in the trade in the last 25 years (Swann Galleries, 2016 and another copy handled by us in 2018.Presented as the supposedly fictional "Reminiscences" of a stock operator, the work is in fact the result of a series of interviews made by Edwin Lefèvre, a Wall Street journalist, with the renowned stock broker Jesse Livermore, whose own manual of stockbroking, How to Trade in Stocks, was not published until 1940, the year of his suicide."More than any other Wall Street writer, Edwin Lefèvre provided America with a peek at what really makes Wall Street tick - human nature … Described as being 'equipped with a genius for speculation - plus the brains not to pursue it', Lefèvre chose to educate his public about the stock market over some 40 years of financial writing, some fiction and some non-fiction. One point of praise about Lefèvre is that it was always hard to tell fiction from fact. With pointed, logical views about how the market runs its course, he did his best to describe its function and technological mumbo-jumbo, leaving the biggest decision - whether or not to invest - up to his readers … Lefevre was a great source for juicy Wall Street gossip, presenting a wonderful, insider's account of the wild life of wild speculator Jesse Livermore in his book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. This book is one of my all-ti

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