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The great Los Angeles swindle : oil, stocks, and scandal during the Roaring Twenties
by Jules Tygiel
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 019505489X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195054897
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in an equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line. xviii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. Octavo. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call "a decade of debauchery of group selfishness," but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s." -- Worldcat From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1363
- Title
- The great Los Angeles swindle : oil, stocks, and scandal during the Roaring Twenties
- Author
- Jules Tygiel
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 019505489X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195054897
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Roaring twenties, stock market, schemes
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Number Line
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