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Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-38
by John Brooks
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1970. No Edition Remarks. 307 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. File copy; stamp to front pastedown. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is very slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has subtle sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.
Synopsis
The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era's most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the '20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of '29, and the bitterness of the years that followed.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1694172564BWG
- Title
- Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-38
- Author
- John Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Date Published
- 1970
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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