Acres of Diamonds

Chicago: Oxford Institute, 1936. Soft cover. Good. Promotional publication of this lecture from Conwell, 12mo, [3], 36pp. Staple-bound in blue textured wraps with gilt lettering to front cover. Good condition with heavy rubbing to wraps near spine, lightly curled corners, and very slight worm damage to foredge of page block, not affecting the text. Interesting little booklet containing the famous self-help speech from the Baptist church minister, Conwell, published by the commerce school, Oxford Institute, Chicago Illinois. No date, but ca. 1936, as recorded in a cease and desist agreement for false and misleading advertising of courses of instruction and textbooks, in volume 24 of the Federal Trade Commission Decisions for 1939 (the last in a long list of offenses): "...publishing and distributing the lecture by D. Russell H. Conwell, entitled "Acres of Diamonds," so dressed as to make it appear that the same was delivered for the benefit of students of the Oxford Institute; and/or without disclosing that the same was not so delivered. (Dec. 2, 1936.) (Stipulation 1884, pg. 1407). Due to the cease and desist, this pamphlet is uncommon. I do not locate any holdings in OCLC.