by Edward Mott Woolley

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1912).

First edition.

Originally published in Curtis Magazines in serial form.

Contains nine captioned, detailed scene illustrations on quality plates by Charles D. Mitchell and by H.T.S. Watson.

A fictionalized novel containing the financial stories that at least seven successful business men told to an up-and-coming young man, who is courting Dorothy Dowe, while on a lengthy Overland Limited train trip.

The financial success stories are imparted by Banker Dowe, Sam Green, Hopkins, Van Dyke, Buddie Barnes, Greenleaf, Gale, and more.

The business and financial details are about garments, factories, stocks, manufacturing, business ventures, pink soap, real estate, borrowing, merchants, interpreting people, investing, and more.

Woolley wrote two non-fiction books on gaining wealth, two biographies of poor men who became wealthy, a novel, a juvenile book featuring a young reporter, a book on hats, numerous magazine articles, and more.

Former owner's vintage bookplate to inside front cover, short surface tear to spine fold at crown, slight soiling to covers, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, rear inner hinge line-cracked but holding sturdy, else about very good in red linen with raised titles to a decoratively bordered gilt panel to the front cover, and with tarnished gilt embossed titles to the spine; no dust jacket.

Octavo; 324 pages.

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