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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages; 1907 Doubleday, Page & Co. HC 1st edition. Bound in original slate black cloth with title designs in mixed cream and black to cover and spine. Rubbed and worn with moderate fraying to cloth at spine ends; gilt and white title design rubbed and faded at spine and dulled to cover. Cloth rubbed through at corner tips; a small shallow worm hole front edge. Binding sound but shaken with tender hinges. Fair to Good only reading copy of this novel of Wall Street disaster.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages; Soundly bound in original slate black cloth with title designs in mixed cream and black to cover and spine. The cover title design with flaking and rubbingto the rectangular cream colored field and author lettering generally seen with this book, though the titles remain distinct. Gilt lettering at spine dulledand rubbed but easily legible. Haunting, evocative color frontispiece by Ivanowski. Cloth crimped with just light fray at spine ends; top front corners lightly shelf bumped - lower board corner poking through some light fray. Thin shallow area of mottling to the lower edge of the cloth of the cover board. Contents bright and clean. Externally dulled and a little tired but sound and clean. Uncommon 1st edition of this novel of Wall Street disaster. G++.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. , New York. 1907. 236 pages. Frontispiece by Sigismond De Ivanowski. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Thomas William Lawson's 1907 novel, a stock broker picks Friday the Thirteenth as the day in which he will set about events that bring Wall Street to its knees. When originally published, the novel was a resounding success, selling more than 60,000 copies in the first month of sales. After the novel's success, stock brokers around the world allegedly refused to trade on any Friday the 13th. E-091; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.