An Adventure in Constructive Finance de Carter Glass - 1927

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 423 pages, x, [2], indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt. The binding is a bit rubbed and bumped. The spine is dulled, and there is a rubbed white spot on the front cover. Early signature of "Lucian St...(?)" on the front flyleaf is dated 1927. Lacks the frontis portrait of Woodrow Wilson, and the gutter between the Half Title and the Title Page is cracked. The rest of the text block and the inner hinges are sound. Endpapers toned and foxed. The text is generally clean. Early (original?) bookseller's ticket at the bottom of the rear flyleaf reads, "The Book Shop, Inc. / 110 S. Greene St. / Greensboro, N.C." Carter Glass (1858-1946) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson. He helped establish the U.S. financial regulatory system and was instrumental in setting up the… Leer más

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is no man living who, from the beginning or in the progress or at the ending of federal reserve legislation, was more closely or constantly than I privy to and identified with the consideration and enactment of the law under which the federal reserve banking system was set up. Ever since the enactment of the federal reserve law it has been my intention to write, some day, a story of the many inside events, word of which never reached beyond a closely restricted circle and had no such thing as current newspaper attention. Very likely my desire to tell the dramatic story would have abated if not for the recent publication of the 'Intimate Papers' in which the paternity of the Federal Reserve Act and its particular management are placidly ascribed to Colonel E.M. House." - Introduction. Accordingly, Chapter III of this book is devoted to a scathing critique of the veracity… Leer más

Stated First Edition. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "This book is inscribed to my friend and associate - Russell Winfree with the cordial regards and best wishes of the author. Sincerely, Carter Glass - April 2/27".
Book is in Good condition, with front hinge starting, cracking between the last table of contents page and beginning of the introduction. All pages intact. Pages unmarked, bit of yellowing/light foxing in rear endpaper/pastedown. Some light foxing on page fore edges. Cover has minimal edgewear, some foxing present to edges, but hard to see against the navy boards.
Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with edgewear, chipping, open and closed tears (mostly at corners/spine ends). All four jacket flap corners trimmed (but price intact: $3.00). Soil mark on rear corner of jacket near spine. General fading/discoloration. Now in a Brodart dust jacket protector.
Carter Glass was born in Lynchburg, VA and was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson.