GANN, William Delbert.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Tunnel Thru the Air, or, Looking Back from 1940. First edition of this science fiction novel by the renegade financial trader, remembered for his dubious investment advice based on geometry, astronomy, astrology, and ancient mathematics.The novel predicts a second world war fought in the air, but the author uses it more broadly as a setting to expound his esoteric theories, especially his belief that the Bible reveals the universe's hidden order. The jacket notes that it "Gives a forecast on the 1928 Presidential election and some valuable hints on how future cycles on stocks, cotton and wheat will run up to 1932".Although derided by professional traders, Gann's pronouncements were eagerly followed by amateur investors during the 1920s boom, who sought meaning and strategy amid rising prices and market fever. "Gann's works are the subject of much controversy. True believers abound and still follow many of his arcane methods of forecasting, which emphasise timing, rather than price or volume, cycles, vibrations... what is evident is that, in certain circles, his work and life are as much revered today as they were fifty or more years ago" (Dennistoun, p. 128).

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