by Spencer Fleming (aka: C.M. Flumiani)
Book Description: The Library of Wall Street, Albuquerque, NM, 1970. No Binding. C.M. Flumiani (illustrator). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. REPRINT, Loose pages 8.5 x 11 in., standard white paper with black text, PHOTOCOPY REPRINT of the Original published in 1970. Color Reprint of cover (Yellow, Black, White) provided, numerous scribbled illustrations by Flumiani, 31 pp. Written by Carlo Maria Flumiani under the pseudonym, "Spencer Fleming." Extremely Scarce Title, we're aware of only two copies in North America and we were lucky enough to obtain a photocopy of the first edition, first printing.
Book Condition: Very good, excellent reproduction of original, graphics and text clean and sharp, no binding, loose pages only, no binding, pagination is funky, (as expected with Flumiani titles) as the first chapter starts at page 9 even though it's 6 pages in from the front cover, guaranteed complete facsimile of original.
Contents: Chapter 1. Man The Barbarian, 2. The Tyranny of the Emotions, 3. Love and Power, 4. Indifference, Donation & Possession, 5. The Intima & Perversions, 6. Exaggerations and Perversions, 7. Self-Destruction, Life & Sex, 8. Ignorance, Success & Failure, 9. The Stock Market Advances, 10. The Stock Market Declines, 11. The Reclining Positions, 12. The Law of the Extremes, 13. Moronic Beatitudes & Destructive Dejections, 14. Duality: the Double Contrary & the Concordant Action, 15. Sex-for-Pleasure and Sex-for-Procreation, 16. The Rapidity of the Action, 17. Perfection and Imperfection, 18. The Orgasm as a Vaticinatory Experience. -- end. 31 pp.
Summary: This 1970 title, published a year after the summer of love, is Flumiani at his eccentric best. The awkward prose and skewed perspectives Flumiani had on the markets in the 60's and 70's are now a welcome diversion to what is otherwise a generally straight jacketed approach by other authors to explain stock market price movement. The Secret Sexual Life of the Stock Market is probably the most entertaining of the Flumiani Collection, and in my opinion actually one of his most coherent. This was the first book Flumiani authored as Fleming, the 2nd was "The Failure of the American Democracy," in 1973, and at least one more in 1977. We thank very much the Collector that was kind enough to let us make this available for more to enjoy. PHOTOCOPY REPRINT of Original, Extremely Scarce, Collectible.
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Do you have any more information on Carlo Maria Flumiani? We have three of his rarest books (I cannot find our titles anywhere online at all), which consist of photocopied excerpts from old art books, with genuine art postcards literally pasted on blank pages, plus his hand drawn advertisements at the back. I am guessing that he was a vanity press / outsider artist.
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