Men and Mysteries of Wall Street
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. Black and white engraved plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 344 pages.
Detailed exploration of the workings of Wall Street's financial markets in the days before the advent of modern technology. Medbery details the habits, schemes, and operations of speculators and stockbrokers just after the Civil War, casting light on the mechanisms of speculation and the influence of powerful financiers of the day.
An uncommon and enlightening account of Wall Street as it consolidated its power and influence as the nation's financial center after the Civil War.
Bound in dark green pebbled cloth over bevelled boards, spine and upper board stamped in gilt, dark brown endpapers. Minor extremity bumps, small chip at head of spine, small prior owner bookplate at top fore corner of front pastedown. There is a small puncture at lower fore edge of upper board, which in turn impacts the first several leaves with no loss. Hinges sound. Overall a clean, bright, near fine copy.
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