Satan's Bushel (INSCRIBED TO DETROIT NEWSPAPERMAN WILLIAM JOHN CAMERON)

Garrett, Garet, Author of "The Driver," "The Cinder Buggy," etc.

Published by E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1924

About this Item

Signed by the author and inscribed in pen to the free front endpaper to "W. J. C", clearly William J. "Billy" Cameron (1878-1955) , who worked as a reporter for The Detroit News 1904-1918 and subsequently edited Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, including "Ford's Own Page," 1920-1927. Bookplate to front pastedown reports this was one of several books donated to the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, Michigan, by Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Cameron in 1951. NO edge-stampings, and NO dust jacket, but both a manila card-holder and a set of "Library Rules" have been attached to the Rear Free Endpaper."This dazzling work in economic fiction is the third of Garet Garrett?s novel trilogy, written and first published in 1924," comments the Mises Institute. "Like the others, 'Satan?s Bushel' is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a piece of literature. What is Satan?s Bushel? It is the last bushel that the farmer puts on the market that 'breaks the price' -- that is, reduces it to the point that wheat farming is no longer profitable. The puzzle that afflicts the wheat farmers is that they sell their goods when the price is low and have no goods to sell when the price is high. Withholding goods from the market is one answer, but why should any farmer do that? . . . And for financial historians, there is the very special treat of observing great drama of the early years of the Chicago commodities market. . . . There are scenes in the wheat trading pit that just take your breath away. This novel demonstrates yet again that no one can make the stuff of enterprise dramatic, tragic, and heroic like Garet Garett. . . . The question that must be confronted is how to make farms profitable in times of falling prices, and the novel shows that speculation, even with all its human foibles, makes a contribution to stabilizing the market." 207 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Satan's Bushel (INSCRIBED TO DETROIT NEWSPAPERMAN WILLIAM JOHN CAMERON)
• Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1924
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed fiction
  • Austrian Economics
  • Business