Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator.

LEFEVRE, Edwin.

Item Number: 102845

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923.

First edition of this Wall Street classic. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine in the original dust jacket with some professional restoration. The dust jacket to this volume is of legendary scarcity. Only one other modern finance title, Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd in the dust jacket would compare in scarcity and collectibility and only a handful of dust jackets are known to exist for Reminiscences of a Stock Operator and Security Analysis. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people than years of experience. It tells the thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore, a remarkable character who first started speculating in New England bucket shops at the turn of the century. Livermore, who was banned from these shady operations because of his winning ways, soon moved to Wall Street where he made and lost his fortune several times over. What makes this book so valuable are the observations that Lefèvre records about investing, speculating, and the nature of the market itself. "A must-read classic for all investors, whether brand-new or experienced" (William O'Neil).