With Boyden Sparkes (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brown cl. w. gilt signature on cover, corners bumped. Backstr. Brown w. gilt lettering on black field, top and bottom sl. rubbed. HS library stamp inside front cover and copyright p., remnants of pocket, etc. on rear endpapers. Frontis. 219pp. Clean ex-lib. Nice copy. …

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Great copy, clean and tight textblock; Covers lightly edge-rubbed; 232p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photos (illustrator). Paperback.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Ed. 5.5" x 8.5" 8, 232 pps. with b/w period photographs in text. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Glossy black DJ with white type and b/w photograph very clean; inor wear on back cover. Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. This is a paperback of the 1936 original.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1950 ISSUE, SMALL EDGE CHIPS TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company.1928 First edition. Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 143 pages, illustrated and with stories by J. U. Giesy, Judson Philips, Boyden Sparkes, Fred MacIsaac, John Wilstach, Laurance M. Hare, Joseph T. Kescel, Leo Margulies, Beatrice Ashton Vandergrift, Albert Chenicek, Eric Heath. A Good only copy with the spine ends chipped, usual edge wear and light chipping to the covers, old piece of clear/cellophane tape re-inforcing a long near-vertical tear of the front cover, text paper toned. See Photo mag11E. cover by Robert A. Graef (illustrator).…

single issue magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company 1928 First edition. Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers 141 pages, illustrated and with stories by J. U. Giesy, Judson Philips, Boyden Sparkes, Fred MacIsaac, Garret Smith, Mazie V. Caruthers, Charlton L. Edholm, John Wilstach, Laurance M. Hare, Will Thomas Withrow, John H. Thompson. Cover by Howard V. Brown Good copy with the spine ends chipped, usual edge wear and light chipping to the cover, piece of clear or cellophane tape to the lower right corner of the front cover, cheap text paper lightly toned. See Photos mag11E. Cover by Howard V. Brown (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good plus copy in blue cloth with silver titles. Spine is faded, fading along edges of boards. Edge-wear, light shelf-wear. Binding solid and square, clean inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 316 pages, illustrated. 2nd printing. Fading to the spine and cover edges, bookplate inside; pages yellowed; a good solid book overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 212474.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 8vo, 208 pages, blue cloth, discoloration from the binding glue inside; dj edgeworn, one scuff affecting spine title. Presentation Copy inscribed by Sloan on the half-title page to Lieut. Franklin M. Kreml "With my very best regards . NY. June 3, 1941". Lt. Kreml was a motorcycle officer in Evanston who was inspired by a nasty traffic accident to found the Traffic Institute at Northwestern University. Kreml was its Director from 1936 to 1955. He was intensely interested in solving automobile fatalities. Surprise, Surprise, he served in the Transportation section for the War Department as a Lt. Colonel. Post-war he also served as President of the Automobile Manufacturer's Association. Sloan, of course, graduated from M.I.T. before starting as an obscure draftsman for General Motors long before he became the President, CEO, and Chairman of GM. Illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. 219 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black. First Trade Edition 1950, Reprinting Chrysler's 1937 Privately Printed Memoir With A New Preface By Keller And New Postscript By Sparkes. Signed By Keller On Front Endpaper, And With His Signed Letter On His Chrysler Corporation Letterhead Dated November 9, 1950, Acknowledging His Signature On The Book. Not Signed By Chrysler. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Photo research by Thomas F. Mahar, Jr.196pp. Faint foxing on the page edges else near fine.

219 pp, b&w photographic frontispiece, top edge tinted, previous owner's name on front end-paper, d/j spine faded, small losses to d/j, d/j edges chipped and torn, else very good copy in good, pictorial d/j. With presentation slip.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original silver-titled cloth. First edition; published March, 1936. Spine/edges sunned, edges foxed. Frontis portrait. Tight and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 316 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Reprint. Softcover, pictorial (vintage-look) photo wrappers, Exact Facsimile Reprint of the Original 1936 First Edition. (Originally self-published by the author in 1936), 85 pp., Book Condition: New, Contents: Autobiography of the author, a trader who traded the largest number of wheat contracts of any trader in history. A spell-binding detailed account of the author's experiences in trading and observing the industry from the time he arrived at the Chicago Board of Trade building in 1890 to the end of his career in the early 1930's. About the Author: Cutten's first major market success is said to have been in 1906, in Soo Line rail stock in which he made a profit of $220,000. A Canadian Press report describes how Cutten cornered the wheat market in 1924: "Forearmed with the knowledge of weather and crop conditions, he foresaw an impending world grain shortage.he bought grain futures slowly and unobtrusively and held them as prices climbed rapidly, eventually reaching more than $1 a bushel over normal price in eight months. Estimates of his profits ranged from $12 million to as high as $30 million." Not all of Cutten's time was spent in Chicago's corn pit. In 1925, Cutten moved his market operations to the New York Stock Exchange. In 1928, Cutten was reportedly involved in a gigantic investment scheme headed by the seven 'Body by Fischer' brothers of Detroit. From this, Cutten was said to have made, at one time, a paper profit of more than $50 million. Some years before his death in 1936, Cutten described himself as "a cash grain merchant and dirt farmer." He was far too modest. The dirt farm was an 800-acre estate located 25 miles from downtown Chicago. As to being a 'cash grain merchant', one wonders if Cutten wasn't being ironic in his use of the word 'cash'. The great stock market collapse happened when speculators turned out not to have the cash necessary to pay for their high flying ventures. After his death, Cutten's Will was officially proven and it seems his estate was worth only slightly more than $350,000. The terrible depression of the 1930s set in after the stock market crash. Not unreasonably, people felt these two events to be somehow related. They demanded to know who was to blame for these disasters. In 1933, Cutten and other famous market speculators were summoned to Washington to participate in the Stock Exchange Practices Hearings. With much tongue in cheek, the economic historian John K. Galbraith claims that ''as a market operator, Arthur Cutten surmounted substantial personal handicaps. He was very hard of hearing, and some years later, before a congressional committee, even his own counsel conceded that his memory was very defective." " Cutten was not the only Wall Street tycoon whose hearing and memory proved defective at the Stock Exchange Practices Hearings. The hearings showed that in 1929, more than 100 issues of stock on the NYSE had been subject to manipulative operations. The same games had been played in 1928. Radio stock, in which Cutten invested heavily, went from $85 to $420 - and this without ever having paid a dividend. Although few outside of the wheat markets remember Cutten, his story is compelling and memorable, giving us another look at the days when one man was capable of cornering a commodity market. Reprint, 85 pp., EXTREMELY SCARCE, Highly Recommended.…

First edition, one of 1500. First edition, one of 1500. Illustrated. x, [ii], 570, [1] pp. Thick 8vo. The autobiography of William Larimer Mellon, founder of Gulf Oil, and nephew to Andrew Mellon. Original blue cloth. Fine in slipcase Illustrated. x, [ii], 570, [1] pp. Thick 8vo.