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The Stock Exchange from Within. Illustrated from photographs.

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First edition of this historical account of the New York Stock Exchange.

According to Markham’s A Financial history of the U.S. (2002), Vol. 1, p.157, Antwerp, a broker at E.F. Hutton, advised and represented Winston Churchill on the stock market just before a crash.

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WALKER, Francis Amasa.

Discussions in Economics and Statistics.

First edition of this collection edited by Professor Dewey of more than fifty articles by Francis Amasa Walker, some published here for the first time, classified under the heads of Statistics, National Growth, Social Economics, Finance and Taxation, Money and Bimetallism, and Economy Theory.

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THE EARLIEST DEFENCE OF AUTHORS’ FREEDOMAGAINST THE BULLYING FORCES OF MARKETS AND PATRONS [RALPH, James].

The case of authors by profession or trade, stated: with regard to booksellers, the stage, and the public. No matter by whom.

First edition, ‘the first protest raised in the eighteenth century against the treatment of authors and dramatists by booksellers and theatre managers’ (ODNB). From this work Isaac D’Israeli extensively quoted (without acknowledgement) in his Calamities of authors, and it is very likely that Oliver Goldsmith drew upon it on writing his Essay on the present state of polite learning in Europe. For the first time writers’ creative dilemmas are laid bare, the low profile of a writer’s profession is lamented, and the public is made aware of the unavoidable fate of servitude that awaits any author: to be enslaved to publishers, or to theatre producers, or to parties: all market forces which, in order to survive, must pander to popular taste.

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