The Making of a Stockbroker

The Making of a Stockbroker
by Edwin Lefevre

Book Description: Doubleday & Company, Inc. for Spear & Staff, Babson Park, MA, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Tan cloth boards with gilt title (faded) to spine, 1949, (originally published 1924).

Book Condition: Very Good, spine faded, light soil to boards, corners bumped, general shelfwear, spine straight, binding intact, light tanning to end papers and pages otherwise free of marks. No dust jacket.

Contents: First published in 1924, this book is dedicated to John Wing Prentiss, a new breed of stockbroker of that era. This fictionalized version of the other side of Wall Street covers the story of a brokerage firm from its founding through 1924 and shows how the stockbroker works from the inside and what he did to make millions without whitewashing and propaganda. This is a good teacher in a personal form where you learn a lot more about human nature and business after the age of the buccaneer but still before the great depression and security regulations which followed. (Lefevre is, of course, the author of the greatest book on trading of all time "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" which was first published in 1923).

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