[Finance] [Jackson, Frederick]
A Week in Wall Street. By One Who Knows.
New York: Published for the Booksellers, 1841. 8vo. First edition. (i)-x, (ii), (1)-152 pp. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over tan paper-covered boards, white paper spine label lettered in black, boards variously soiled with some rubbing to extremities, backstrip with some separation at spine ends, bottom edge particularly fragile with a two-inch portion of cloth holding only at rear hinge, binding otherwise sound; with spotting to endpapers and tidemark to bottom corner of first few leaves, light scattered foxing throughout. Rare in original boards.Written just after the Panic of 1837, this work is one of the first books on the American stock market, illustrating the author's cynical take on Wall Street.