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My Adventures with Your Money, 1913 SOLD
[George Graham Rice, Richard G. Badger] The Gorham Press Boston. 363 pp. "To the American Damphool Speculator, surnamed the American Sucker, otherwise described herein as The Thinker Who Thinks He Knows But Doesn't -- Greetings!"
Master swindler George Graham Rice operated at the zenith of America's golden age of con artistry with plenty of illicit competition, but he stood apart from all others thanks to the sheer audacity, pure nerve and nefarious brilliance of his scams. Against the dark rise of American greed in the early 20th Century into the Roaring Twenties, the dapper but devious "GG" feasted on a nation of gullible prey with the flair of circus showman P.T. Barnum and on a financial scale comparable to modern fraudster Bernie Madoff.
Green cloth cover dark green lettering on front and gold lettering on spine. Bumping to the corners & spine. Very good condition.