Search Results: Finance & Banking from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy boards, burgundy spine with copper foil titles, [viii], 531 pp, 16 ff b & w plates, footnotes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Personal and professional memoirs of the former Federal Reserve Board chairman. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy boards, grey spine with gilt titles, [viii], 531 pp, 16 ff b & w plated, footnotes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Personal and professional memoirs of the former Federal Reserve Board chairman. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). 4th ptg. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1931 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles, dec., & device on spine, xiii, 245 pp, 6 color charts, notes, index. Top edge dusty, cloth slightly worn top & bottom, owner's name on fpd, a pair of leaves browned by clipping. DJ browned, soiled, chipped at corners & spine ends, moderately rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Dr. Rogers "shows the conflict of our interests as a great creditor nation with our traditional tariff and foreign trade policies, and our grave responsibility for much of the present world-wide distress which has revived the question of war damages and debts and even of the gold standard." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 21 X 14 cm.

New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue linen, gilt titles on spine, gilt device on front board, xix, 380 pp, 72 figures including 1 fold-out, 89 tables, index. Ink underlining on 4 pages, slight wear to corners and spine ends, faint stain to fore-edge. DJ rubbed, creased, & torn at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: gathering the data (sources of information; a tour through one bank's financial statements; patterns of data); perceiving the policies of a bank (liquidity, credit risk, interest rate & profitability policies); viewing the management of a bank (banking strategies; management controls); preparing an evaluation (forecasts; market valuation; composite valuation). The author "has seen banks from the viewpoints of a banker, regulator, consultant, and investor. Prior to his current position in the World Banking Division with the Bank of… Read More

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind decoration on front board, blind device on rear board, decorative endpapers, [vii], 246 pp. Price-clipped DJ has four closed tears, 1 cm to 11cm long, light rubbing at corners and spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Today, like every other working day at First Mutual..., millions of dollars are changing hands; hundreds of thousands of checks are bouncing, kiting, or being cleared for payment; and 10,000 conservatively dressed bank officers and employees are trying to figure out where the money is coming from and where it is supposed to go. And if the friendly people at First Mutual Trust often wonder what they're doing (and they wonder about that a lot), it's nothing compared to the confusion of their customers...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Truman Tally Books/Dutton, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, white spine with gilt titles, burgundy endpapers, x, 514 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Completely re-written and expanded version of The Bankers, originally published sans subtitle twenty years earlier. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Printing. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Columbia University, 1913 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Re-bound by library in full brown cloth with gilt titles on spine, iv, 239 pp. Covers worn, contains all the usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, pencil notes on the contents pages, otherwise internally very good. Text of 21 papers presented at the conference under the general headings of The Federal Reserve Bank Plan (papers by Robert L. Owen; Carter Glass; Robert J. Bulkley; Nelson W. Aldrich; H. Parker Willis; A. Barton Hepburn; O. M. W. Sprague; Arthur Reynolds; Alexander D. Noyes; Edwin R. A. Seligman); The Elasticity of Credit (papers by Frank A. Vanderlip; Joseph French Johnson; E. W. Kemmerer; Edward L. Howe; Irving T. Bush; & A. Piatt Andrew); and Foreign & Domestic Exchange Functions of the Regional Banks (papers by W. M. Van Deusen; Fred I. Kent; Joseph T. Talbert; John E. Gardin; & J. A. Neilson). The establishment of the… Read More

Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue leather-textured cloth over flexible boards, gilt titles on spine, titles & decoration on front board, charts, tables, footnotes, index. Corners bumped, blue coating flaking off at spine ends and joints. Discussions of the failures and successes of actual businesses illustrate the meaning and uses of various financial ratios (three each of capital, inventory, sales, and net profit ratios). Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 4th ed. . VG/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, black spine with green foil titles, xix, 266 pp. DJ has original bookseller's discount sticker on front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, black & gilt titles on spine, 919 pp, index. Rear paste-down torn along shaken hinge (now repaired using acid-free PVA), otherwise VG, slight wear to corners and spine ends. Detailed instructions on how to handle various aspects of business finance, by 22 experts, including (much condensed): provision & management of working capital; budgetary control; obtaining credit; credit sales & collections; analyzing financial statements; cash management; managing fixed assets; forecasting; planning; raising equity & long term debt capital; mergers; turnarounds; insurance. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . G+/VG. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, gilt titles on spine, 288 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Pino explains the cash flow business, which "deals with the buying and brokering of future payments...from private indivuals who want to trade [them] for a lump sum of cash." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, gold ink titles on front board & spine, vii, 226 pp, notes, bibiography, index. Titles rather dull, two pages browned by original sales receipt, which is still present. DJ browning at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Banking was illegal in Wisconsin from 1839 to 1852. The author describes how this came to be, how the prohibition was reversed, and how banking developed in Wisconsin in the century after 1852. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 15½ cm.

New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, xix, 356 pp, charts, tables, bibliography, index. Underlining or marginal notes on a couple dozen pages, else near fine, just a bit of edge wear and light bumps. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Covers such topics as basics of bankruptcy law, how bankruptcy works in practice, how to assess value of distressed securities, statistical models for predicting bankruptcy. Contents: legal, economic, and investment dimensions of corporate bankruptcy and distressed restructurings; techniques for the classification and prediction of financial distress and their applications; case studies (Duplan Corporation; Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation). Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ed, 1st ptg. . VG/Fine. 23½ X 16½ cm.

Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon buckram, gilt titles on spine, vii, 946 pp, index. Light edge wear, top edge slightly faded, faintly musty. DJ spine faded, rubbed and chipped, especially at corners and spine ends, a 1 cm tear to top of rear panel near fore-edge; in Brodart archival cover. Basics of corporate finance: corporate organization, debt, equity, marketing securities, internal financing, reorganization, secondary market, taxation, regulation. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 23 X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth with titles in (simulated) silver & gold on front board, xiv, 606 pp, 41 figures, 82 tables, references at end of each chapter, index. Edges of a few leaves damaged with very small (< 1 mm) closed tears and associated creasing, extremities rubbed, pencil marks in margins of many pages, otherwise solid and clean. Contents: nature and functions of money and credit; commercial banking; central banking; monetary theory; international monetary relations; monetary policy. Written as an introductory text for college undergraduates. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 4th ed. . G+/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Times Books, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, red paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, xiv, 336 pp, charts, tables, index. Top corners bumped, smudge on front board, slight edge wear. DJ has a very small (4 mm) tear with creasing at top of rear panel, minimal edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. "...how the Fed engendered the very crisis of inflation it has had to redress...and how political pressures have in fact prevailed disastrously over this theoretically independent institution...." The author, financial editor of the New York Post, argues that the Fed should be a sub-department of the Treeasury. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Singapore: The Free Press, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon boards, gilt titles on spine, xv, 350 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Mayer explains, in plain language, the mysteries of the Federal Reserve system and its influence on your life & money. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stiff paper wrapper, brown with grey spine, xviii, 297 pp including 33 (mostly color) illustrations, list of publications, index. A bit of rubbing to edges of spine has removed the grey color in spots, but otherwise the book is as new. Published by the Fed to explain its structure, purpose, functions, and history to the public. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 5th Ed. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

Washington, D. C: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stiff paper wrapper, brown with grey spine, xviii, 297 pp including 33 (mostly color) illustrations, list of publications, index. A bit of rubbing to edges of spine has removed the grey color in spots, but otherwise the book is as new. Published by the Fed to explain its structure, purpose, functions, and history to the public. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 5th Ed. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

Tokyo: Research (Japan) Ltd., 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles and blind device on spine, charts on endpapers, xiii, 328 pp, numerous tables. Errata sheet and printed presentation slip laid in. Corners and board edges bumped. DJ spine faded, worn and chipped at corners and spine ends, a few tears (largest is 1"); in Brodart archival cover. Covers the period from the opening of Japan to the West in the 1850s to the beginning of 1964. The table of contents is sufficiently detailed to fulfill much of the function of an index. Topics include "general economic background at the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), the creation of financial and securities institutions such as banks, stock exchanges, etc., the consolidation of capitalism and the establishment of policies, the First World War and the subsequent boom and depression, and a detailed analysis of conditions and policies which led to Japan's resurgence as… Read More