Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co., 1920. First Edition. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab, who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel, seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab..... More
Marengo, IL: Colcord Institute of Professional Sales Training, (1944). First Edition Thus. Christmas keepsake from this popular motivational author of the Thirties and Forties. The author rhapsodizes on the glories of Free Enterprise, using as his objective correlative the Carnegie Steel Corporation and its long history of elevating "common labor"..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1912]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); maroon cloth embossed in blind and cream; [10],385pp.; frontispiece with tissue guard, 4 leaves of plates. Fine. "Unflattering portrait of a business tycoon" - HANNA 1774; BAL 9336; SMITH H-878. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1905. First Edition. 12mo. Tan cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 104pp. Apparently the author's copy, with his ownership signature and address to front free endpaper, a sheet of manuscript laid in and heavy marginal annotations throughout text matching the author's hand..... More
Hull: Whitefriars Press, [ca 1900]. Ferens rose to eminence in the 1880s as a principal of the firm of Reckitt & Sons, a prominent manufacturer of household goods and cleaning products. He served 13 years as an M.P. for Hull, beginning in 1906, and was a member of the Privy..... More
New York: Exposition Press, (1953). First Edition. The author was a former Vice President at General Electric and first Chairman of the Board of the GE Finance Division. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 321pp. Bump to upper front board edge; pencil ownership signature; else tight and..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker, touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); light blue cloth, with..... More
N.p. [Chicago?]: by the Author, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed card wrappers; 39pp. Just mild external wear; Very Good to Near Fine. Satire, in Biblical language, of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rail Trust, including thinly-veiled depictions of Morgan, Rockefeller, Landis, etc. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Edition. A lowly cashier climbs the social and business ladders, all on the strength of a new suit of clothes. This was the first of the author's five "Skinner" novels, a series of lighthearted satires that carried Alger-esque themes of pluck, luck, and common sense..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. First Edition. Novel attacking the unscrupulous methods of the trusts. Not particularly common, and this a compelling association copy, bearing the ownership signature of Teddy Roosevelt's first Secretary of Commerce, who was himself instrumental in helping to put TR's trust-busting policies into action. Metcalf..... More
[Boston: Tavern Club, 1896-1933]. The Tavern Club was founded in 1884 by a group of upper-crust Bostonian artists, authors and intellectuals; conceived as a more creative and less formal alternative to the typical gentlemen's clubs of the period, the club's festivities were characterized by amateur theatricals, salons, musical performances and..... More
