Reminiscences Of Stock Operator.

LEFEVRE, Edwin.

Item Number: 2441

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923.

First edition of this Wall Street classic. Octavo, original orange cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket that shows some heavy chipping and wear. The dust jacket to this volume is of legendary scarcity; it is the only copy that we know of in existence. Only one other modern finance title, Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd in the dust jacket would compare in scarcity and collectibility. A handful of jacketed first editions of Security Analysis have appeared on the market, whereas this is the only known example. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is 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.