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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The seventh printing stated, 325 pages, with one folded illustration. "A study of the Stock Market's forecast value based on Charles H. Dow's theory of the Price Movement. With an analysis of the market and its history since 1897." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, Red cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine and cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.10 + shipping
Description: Un volume (20 cm) di 278 pagine, con schemi e tabelle ripiegate fuori testo. Fourtheenth Printing: copyright 1922, ma aggiornamento 1937. Tutta tela editoriale blu con titolo dorato al piatto. Ottime condizioni.
Seller: Libreria BACBUC - Studio bibliografico, Roma, RM, Italy
Hamilton, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1922.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twelveth printing (ca 1927). Original full blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Lettering faded at the spine. Fold out chart of the Dow Jones average which has dates to 1927 (hence the ca 1927 date). No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Hamilton, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1922.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Stated first edition, and code E-W. Red cloth. Book is intact, but infused with moisture. Rear cover has evidence of moisture staining. Owner name.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fold-our chart. A later printing with A-Z code (January, 1925) on copyright page. Sheet of average closing prices for 1923-24 laid in. Octavo, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Very good. No dust jacket. ; 325 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hamilton, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1922.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is a later printing. On the verso of the title page appears "First edition" and "L-Y." The final page number is 325. OCLC, the on-line Union Catalog, shows copies dated 1922 with the following page counts: 278, 325, 347, and 354. In this copy, p. 273 contains the following note: "The following pages give the average closing prices 1897-1923."
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: VG/NONE. THIS IS THE EIGHT PRINTING OF OCTOBER 1925 DARK BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WTIH GILT TITLES TO TH SPINE AND THE FRONT COVER. BOOK'S SPINE TITLES ARE MOSTLY PERISHED BUT STILL VISIBLE WITH MODEST CORNER WEAR, BLANK PAGE ADJACENT TO THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER IS CREASED AND SLIGHTLY CHIPPED, SOME MODEST FOXING TO THE PRELIMINARY LEAVES. A VERY NICE COPY OF THIS 1925 PRINTING WITH FRONTIS CHART AND APPENDIX CHARTS UPDATED THROUGH AUGUST 31, 1925. AUTHOR ALSO ADDED AN 11 PAGE CHAPTER 21 "RUNNING TRUE TO FORM, 1922-1925". REVISED EDITIO. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition w/E-W code, hardcover, has slight bumps to spine ends and corners, slight sunning to spine and along upper edge of boards, and a touch of shelfwear to edges, otherwise a solid VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hamilton, William. Stock Market Barometer. Harper, 1922.
Price: US$120.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "A study and its forecast value based on Charles H. Dow's theory on the price movement. With an analysis of hte market and its history since 1897." Stated first edition, E-W [May, 1922].Clean, bright copy bound in red cloth with gilt titles. This copy with what looks like two faded ink spots on the spine, the larger being approximately 1/2 the size of a nickel. Front hinge is starting, one page of text and a few of the appendix with corner creases. All in all still an attractive copy.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: NY: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First edition, early printing. (Code K-X underneath first edition statement.) Red cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth a little grubby and soiled, worn at head. Clean pages. Good condition overall.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hamilton, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHER, 1922.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1922 F-h.Title gilted. General wear and rubbed cover. No bookplate. DATE PUBLISHED: 1922 EDITION: 278
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition with K-X code (November, 1923). Octavo, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Age darkened along the spine, previous owner's name and date (1926) on front free endpaper, else very good. No dust jacket. ; 325 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth cover. Corners bumped and have wear. Pages yellowed and tanning on edges. Light foxing on endpapers. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.Small stain on outside bottom edges and some finger prints.
Seller: Hill Country Books, Boerne, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with a folding frontispiece of the Dow-Jones Averages, 1897 - 1926. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Lacking the dust jacket. A previous owner has written his name at the top of the front and rear inside boards and the front and rear blank leaves. Very good condition. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; Folding chart; 8vo.; 354 pages
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
HAMILTON, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1922.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Eighth Printing (October, 1925). An uncommon book on the stock market to be found in dustjacket. 'A study of its forecast value based on Charles H. Dow's Theory of the Price Movement. With an analysis of the market and its history since 1897. Near Fine, mildly bumped at lower front cover, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, partial splitting along front spine edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Hamilton, William Peter. The Stock Market Barometer. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHER, 1922.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1922 A-Z.Gilt title on spine and cover fading. Pages browning. Minor wear. DATE PUBLISHED: 1922 EDITION: 325
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$435.45 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 325 pages; Description: 6 p. L. , 325 p. , 1 l. Front. , charts (part fold. ) tables. 21 cm. Subjects: Stock exchanges --United States. Securities --United States. Speculation. Bookplate of Geoffrey Mayo. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, later printing 'K-X'; 8vo (20 x 14 cm); illustrated with charts and appendix of Dow Jones stock averages, 2 half-titles; publisher's red cloth, blindstamped, title in gilt to upper panel, spine ends rubbed, minor staining; [12], 325, [3]pp. stock23 William Peter Hamilton (1867-1929) was editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1908 to 1929 and a leading proponent of the Dow Theory, a trend-following trading strategy which called for 'soulless barometers, prices indexes and averages to tell us where we are going and what we may expect' (p.4). The Stock Market Barometer is advertised alongside other works on Dow Theory on the jacket of Harris Nelson's Commonsense Speculation (1938): 'This book. contains many reminiscences and sophisticated suggestions, all interesting to students of the price movement, and should be read by all those who may wish to become familiar with every authoritative work on the subject of Dow's theory'. Denistoun 404; Larson 1947; Zerden, p.4; Hess Collection.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 325 pages; Description: 6 p. L. , 325 p. , 1 l. Front. , charts (part fold. ) tables. 21 cm. Subjects: Stock exchanges --United States. Securities --United States. Speculation. Bookplate of Geoffrey Mayo. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Dj has plastic protective cover, however, corner torn, spine torn, closed tears, tanned, rubbed cover, chipped spine edges. General shelf wear, good binding, clean body and unmarked text. DATE PUBLISHED: 1922 EDITION: 8TH PRINTING 347
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: States First edition, K-X. Dj has plastic protective cover, however, torn, soiled, rubbed cover, chipped at corners. General shelf wear, tanned spine, foxing on endpages, slightly tanned pages. Good binding, clean body and unmarked text. DATE PUBLISHED: 1922 EDITION: FIRST ED 325
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.