Schabacker Richard Wallace (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with the scarce DJ and fold-out frontispiece plan of New York's financial district, Stated Second Printing June, 1930 Barron's 875 pages. Very Good, in a VG DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles - corners sharp. Moderate shelf/edge wear, light damp stains and a few closed tears to original DJ - now in mylar. Previous owner name on FFEP. All other pages are clean and unmarked. Binding solid. 27 chapters, 12 appendices, bibliography (4 pages) and index. 105 illustrations (of which 12 are plates), two fold-out charts plus the fold-out frontispiece plan of New York's financial district. In the 1920s and 1930s, Richard W. Schabacker (Financial Editor of Forbes Magazine) published several books which continued the work of Charles Dow and William Peter Hamilton in their books Stock Market Theory and Practice and Technical Market Analysis. Handsome vintage copy in the very scarce DJ. LOC SSS-FB-02.…

First edition, second printingÂof the first of Schabacker's three major works on the stock market. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some rubbing and wear. Stock Market Theory and Practice is a comprehensive survey of current mechanism, practice, and theory, by the financial editor of Forbes Magazine' (Larson). Schabacker, the youngest financial editor of Forbes magazine, published three major works on the stock market considered 'among the most influential ever written on the technical side of the market' by Schultz and Coslow in his short life. This book, his first, purposes to offer a complete background of basic knowledge with which to pursue market activities. Schabacker says, 'so long as he plays courageously fair with his sincere study there seems no reason why the average student should not reap the rewards of successful stock market operation'. The book also lays the foundations for technical analysis, a science which Schabacker helped develop to a fuller extent in the more famed Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits: A Course in Forecasting (1932).…

First editionÂof the first of Schabacker's three major works on the stock market. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the original dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. First printings are uncommon. Stock Market Theory and Practice is a comprehensive survey of current mechanism, practice, and theory, by the financial editor of Forbes Magazine' (Larson). Schabacker, the youngest financial editor of Forbes magazine, published three major works on the stock market considered 'among the most influential ever written on the technical side of the market' by Schultz and Coslow in his short life. This book, his first, purposes to offer a complete background of basic knowledge with which to pursue market activities. Schabacker says, 'so long as he plays courageously fair with his sincere study there seems no reason why the average student should not reap the rewards of successful stock market operation'. The book also lays the foundations for technical analysis, a science which Schabacker helped develop to a fuller extent in the more famed Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits: A Course in Forecasting (1932). …

First edition, first printing, with the scarce jacket. This is the first of Schabacker's three major works on the stock market. The youngest financial editor of Forbes Magazine, Schabacker writes, "so long as he plays courageously fair with his sincere study. there seems no reason why the average student should not reap the rewards of successful stock market operation". The book aims to give a complete background of basic knowledge with which to pursue market activities, documenting important charting patterns and discussing trends, support, and resistance. "Schabacker was the first to make technical analysis and charting an organized discipline" (Linda Raschke). With over a hundred charts and illustrations, and a frontispiece featuring a detailed map of the New York financial district. Dennistoun & Goodman 258; Larson 1598. Octavo. With 105 illustrations, charts and diagrams, 3 of which are folding. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, decoration to boards in blind, top edge brown. With dust jacket. A fine copy in the slightly faded jacket, with extremities rubbed and some shallow chips to extremities.…