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WALL STREET [GREENE (ASA)] The Perils of Pearl Street, including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. By a late Merchant, FIRST EDITION, New York, Betts & Anstice, 1834 image 1
WALL STREET [GREENE (ASA)] The Perils of Pearl Street, including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. By a late Merchant, FIRST EDITION, New York, Betts & Anstice, 1834 image 2
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WALL STREET [GREENE (ASA)]
The Perils of Pearl Street, FIRST EDITION, New York, Betts & Anstice, 1834

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WALL STREET

[GREENE (ASA)] The Perils of Pearl Street, including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. By a late Merchant, FIRST EDITION, first and last few leaves lightly spotted, endpapers foxed, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving original spine [Sabin 28584], 8vo, New York, Betts & Anstice, 1834

Footnotes

Early Wall Street novella in which an innocent upstate New York carpenter's son, Billy Hazard, is ruined by a failed short-selling trade: "It is one of the most ingenious arts of modern speculation, that a man may sell what he has not, and grow rich upon the proceeds" (p.224).

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