Anyon, James T (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 68pp., portrait frontispiece. Ex-library with light stamping only. Coloured pencil tick markings throughout. Good in original cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. [New York]: Privately Printed, 1925. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. A square, tight copy, with a small spot of discoloration at one corner of the cover. The glassine dust jacket appears to be original. It has a few small chips and closed tears. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original brown cloth, with gilt lettering still bright and shiny. This is a history of the beginnings of American accountancy and its evolution as a profession. The author was the first treasurer of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA) in 1887 and helped to establish the first CPA exam in 1895. Anyon came to America from England and in 1886 joined Barrow, Wade, Guthrie. He gives a brief history of that firm's founding (in 1883) and their contributions to various breweries, banks, the Otis Steel Company, as well as to the firm's biggest client, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. Anyon says he "left on the other side a profession full of vitality; one that was looked upon as an essential element of business life." He arrived in America to find "that public accounting was in its infancy and that it was little known or understood as a distinct profession." See: McMickle & Vangermeersch 35 [in THE ORIGINS OF A GREAT PROFESSION, which includes a reproduction of this book's title page]. Cited by Bentley and Leonard as one of only 3 books [in 1935] "which treat of the history of accounting in this country." [p. 368 in BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, Vol II]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 68pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. [New York]: Privately Printed, 1925. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. A square, tight copy, with a small spot of minor discoloration at one corner of the cover. The glassine dust jacket appears to be original. It has a few small chips and closed tears. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original brown cloth, with gilt lettering still bright and shiny. This is a history of the beginnings of American accountancy and its evolution as a profession. The author was the first treasurer of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA) in 1887 and helped to establish the first CPA exam in 1895. Anyon came to America from England and in 1886 joined Barrow, Wade, Guthrie. He gives a brief history of that firm's founding (in 1883) and their contributions to various breweries, banks, the Otis Steel Company, as well as to the firm's biggest client, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. Anyon says he "left on the other side a profession full of vitality; one that was looked upon as an essential element of business life." He arrived in America to find "that public accounting was in its infancy and that it was little known or understood as a distinct profession." See: McMickle & Vangermeersch 35 [in THE ORIGINS OF A GREAT PROFESSION, which includes a reproduction of this book's title page]. Cited by Bentley and Leonard as one of only 3 books [in 1935] "which treat of the history of accounting in this country." [p. 368 in BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, Vol II]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition./Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 68pp.