Burnside Rare Books

The Art of Speculation

Carret, Philip L.

New York: Barron's, 1927.

First edition, first printing. x, 365 pp. with fold-out chart at p. 186. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in blind; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to spine, sunning to spine and unevenly to rear cover, cloth lightly scratched, rubbed at extremities. Pages toned, prelims foxed and rear endsheet lightly soiled.

Philip Carret was a Wall Street legend and a pioneer of one of the first mutual funds in the Untied States.Warren Buffett said of him that he had "the best long term investment record of anyone I know." Item #140941239

Price: $2,500