Mergers and Acquisitions of Privately-Held Businesses
[Toronto]: Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Second edition. [n.d., ca. 1989]. Soft cover. 572 pp. Creasing to spine, rubbing to extremities. More
Banking & Commerce
Black Markets..and Business Blues
Montreal: FI Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY with inscription from Yvan Allaire to Michael Ignatieff to ffep, dated June 2009. First edition. Full navy cloth. 301 pp. Note inserted on McCarthy Tetrault stationery, written in French, with instructions for an employee to give the book..... More
The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition with full number line. xxiii, 343 p.p. Sixteen unnumbered pages of B&W photos. Quarter bound in black cloth with brown paper boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine ends, else fine. Small spot of soiling to fore..... More
Creating Investor Demand for Company Stock: A Guide for Financial Managers
New York: Quorum Books, 1988. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full black cloth. xv, 398 pp. Fine condition. Flaps of dust jacket creased, a few short tears. This lively book focuses on smoothing the road to success for the emerging small, publicly-held company through equity valuation strategy. More
Standard Banking
New York City: American Institute of Banking, 1928. Hard Cover. 8vo. 513 p.p. Black cloth boards, gilt titling and AIB device to spine. Bumping to spine ends, offsetting to pastedown, erased pencil notations to endpapers, offsetting from title to FFEP verso. An interesting volume on the history of banking in..... More
Consumer Credit
New York: American Institute of Banking, 1945. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Prepared by John H. Lucas. v, 442 p.p. Includes B&W images and maps. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Some underlined passages in blue pen on pp. 313. A few patches of..... More
Payback. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Toronto: Anansi, 2008. Soft Cover. 18mo. 230 p.p. paperback. No jacket. Inscription by Margaret Atwood to title page. Small marks along edges of covers. Light rubing to spine ends. Near fine condition. More
The Infallible Index to What Makes a Buyer Buy
New York City: Master Service Inc., 1927. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 1st Edition. 104 pamphlets, complete, bound in publisher's attractive red pebbled cloth with gilt devices and border panel. Marbled endpapers. Screw post binding. Wear to spine ends and rear board. Tabbed pages. From the introduction: "Do not look..... More
The Romance of Savings Banks
London: S.W. Partridge and Co., 1898. First Ediition. Hardcover. 16mo. The "World's Wonders" Series. Original teal cloth with illustration of a post office savings bank on front board and spine. Publishers monogram stamped on rear. 160 p.p., [20] p.p. ads. Includes frontispiece, and illustrations throughout. A Christmas Greetings booklet from..... More
Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor
New York: Rawson Associates, 1997. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth, tan paper boards. 320 pp. Fine. This breakthrough book offers a full-blown explanation of how Buffett uses Business Perspective Investing as a wealth-building tool. More
Tentative Draft Proposals of Canadian Experts for an International Exchange Union
Ottawa: [Canada Department of Finance], 1943. Soft Cover. 8vo. Orig. cream paper wraps, staple bound. 19 pp. Creased to wraps. Stamp to head of front cover. Draft proposals for a post-war international monetary organization tabled in Ottawa on June 9, 1943. More
The Wealthy Paper Carriers: A Story of Financial Motivation for Young Adults
Calgary: Springbank Publishing, 1993. Wicks, Ben. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page. Soft cover. XI, 219 pp. First printing. B&W illustrations. Financial lessons for young adults. More
Public Money, Private Greed: The Greymac, Seaway and Crown Trusts Affair
Toronto: Collins, 1984. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by Terry Corcoran to title page. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. 384 p.p. Bruising to spine ends. Dust jacket is chafed to cover, a few bumps, else fine. The true story of the rise and fall of three men - Larry..... More
Wall Streets Shady Side
Washington, D.C. Public Affairs Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. red cloth, viii, 198pp. Small marker covering name on ff/ endpaper, staining verso and half-title (not affecting text). Light rubbing to edges and extremities, some markings to cloth o/w very good in a very good but soiled d/w, with..... More
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Canada's First Bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal [2 vols]
Toronto and Montreal: McCleland and Stewart, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). Orig. green cloth, white and red spine labels, and armorial device labels to front board with gilt lettering. Pictorial endpapers. Volume One: xix, 472 pp. Volume Two: xiii, 454 pp. Copiously illustrated, many illustrations in colour and several fold-out..... More
Waterfront Warlord: The Life and Violent Times of Hal C. Banks
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, blue cloth boards. ix, 214 p.p., [16] p.p. B&W photos. Light rubbing to corners, else fine in a near fine jacket. In his sixteen-year reign over the nation's waterfronts, Hal Banks became the most infamous union boss..... More
The Art of Investment
London: Bowes & Bowes, 1961. Hard Cover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 199 p.p. B&W charts. Damp staining to edges of text block, interior clean. Dust jacket has light wear to front joint, bumping to extremities with a few short tears, some staining to rear cover..... More
Elements of Accounting: Test Papers, Practice questions and Problems
Toronto: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1936. Soft Cover. 8vo. Dark green wrappers lettered in black, vii, 95pp. Light fraying to spine wear o/w fine. More
Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It - Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full red paper boards. xxi, 234 pp. Fine condition. Want to be become a better investor? Fisher demonstrates debunkery on 50 of Wall Street's widely accepted "truths" and details in an easily accessible (and always entertaining) way why they..... More
Graham Towers and His Times
Toronto: McCleland and Stewart, 1986. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full green cloth. 348 pp. [16 pp.] B&W photos. Dust jacket is sunned to spine and edges, some bumping to extremities. A biography of the extraordinary man who was the first Governor of the Bank of Canada, a world financial figure, and..... More
The Contrarian Investor's 13: How to Earn Superior Returns in the Stock Market
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2002. 1st Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First Canadian edition, full number line. Black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. x, 230 p.p. Slight sunning to spine head, else a fine copy. Written with his trademark flair and financial expertise, Benj Gallender's The Contrarian Investor's 13 explains..... More
New Stock Trend Detector: A Review of the 1929-1932 Panic and the 1932-1935 Bull Market, With New Rules and Charts for Detecting Trends of Stocks
New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Co., 1936. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. x, 191 p.p. Original purple cloth boards with black titling to spine. Sunning and foxing to spine, bumping to ends and corner. Spine slightly tilted, but binding is firm. Ink ownership inscriptions to FFEP. A few stains to..... More
How to Borrow Your Way to a Great Fortune
West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing, 1970. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. 227 pp. Some foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is toned and bumped to extremities, foxing to fore edges of flaps. Anyone can build a fortune fast - starting with no money of his own -..... More
Training for the Business of Advertising
New York: George B. Woolson & Co. Publishers, 1922. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 16mo. 125 p.p. Quarter brown cloth and brown paper boards with gilt titling to front and spine. Rubbing to spine ends, wear to corners, a few small indentations to front boards. Tanning to edges of pages, but..... More
The Bubble and The Bear: How Nortel Burst The Canadian Dream
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 474 pp. Some light bumping to edges of dust jacket, else fine. A cautionary tale of stock market mania, drawing on interviews with Canadian investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars, Nortel employees who were swept..... More