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1928 Investor’s Pocket Manual

$400

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Scarce Investor’s Pocket Manual From Just Before The Great Depression.

Van Dyke, J.E. The Investor’s Pocket Manual. Current Statistics, Records, High and Low Prices of Securities of Railroad, Industrial, Public Utility, Mining and Oil Companies. Also, Grain, Cotton, Coffee, and Provisions. January, 1928. New York: Financial Press of New York, 1928. First Edition.

Original 1928 investment manual printed for employees of the now-defunct Kidder, Peabody, & Co, providing a full snapshot of the US economy on the verge of the Great Depression. Although widely printed and distributed in their time, most of these pocket manuals have not survived and were not collected by private individuals or archival institutions.

336pp, small 8vo, staple bound with printed wraps. Corners bumped. Wear to edges. Creases at corners on front wrap. Crinkling near spine, with indentations from binding staples visible on both front and back. Spine rough from glue and creasing from past reading. Wear along back bottom spine with minor losses. Back lower corner creased. General signs of past wear on back wrap. Top corner of pages 1-3 damaged, with corner missing entirely on pg 1, and pitted with holes on pp 2-3. Pages clean. Very good condition.

 

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