First printing of this bestselling and classic insider account of 1980s "greed is good" Wall Street.
Very good plus in a very good plus jacket.
Price: $350.00
"The first thing you learn on the trading floor is that when large numbers of people are after the same commodity, be it a stock, a bond, or a job, the commodity quickly becomes overvalued."
One of the defining business and finance books of the Me Decade, LIAR'S POKER details Lewis's time at Salomon Brothers and its crude, fratboy culture. Much like BREAKING BAD and THE SOPRANOS, however, the book (intended as a cautionary tale) has become for better or worse a widely admired cult text among finance insiders. (Your humble cataloguer cannot remember if this joke is in Lewis's account of Salomon's development of the mortgage bond, but I can't look at the book without thinking of it: "What's the difference between a bond and a bond trader? The bond matures.")
First edition. New York / London: W.W. Norton Company, (1989). 9'' x 6''. Original navy half-cloth over beige boards. In original unclipped ($18.85) color pictorial jacket designed by Andrew M. Newman. 250, [6] pages. Crease to front flap. Minor rubbing, toning; a few patches of faint soil to verso (only). Book has slight lean, bit of pushing at spine tips. Previous owner name to front pastedown. Overall, sound.
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