Holiday 2020 Catalogue

H o l i d a y G i f t s 88 “Profits Always Take Care Of Themselves, But Losses Never Do” 125. LIVERMORE, Jesse L. How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price. New York, 1940. Octavo, original blue cloth. $7000. Rare first trade edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most flamboyant stock traders, this scarce work featuring the first in-depth explanation of the famed Livermore Formula, his highly successful trading method still in use today, and containing 16 full color charts. Without the exceptionally scarce dust jacket. Fine. “One Of The Most Elegant Works Of The 19th Century” 126. LIZARS, John. A Systemof Anatomical Plates of theHuman Body. Accompanied with Descriptions, and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations. Edinburgh, 1822-27. Atlas volume only. Folio, contemporary three-quarter calf rebacked. $6000. First edition of this highly successful medical sourcebook, a collaboration between innovative 19th-century surgeon John Lizars and his artistic brother William Home Lizars, with 101 folio plates of the human body, 15 vividly hand-colored. Plates generally clean, occasional light foxing, faint marginal dampstain toward rear not affecting images, some scuffing to contemporary boards. An extremely good copy of this impressive folio volume. Original World War II-Era Army News Photograph, Signed By General MacArthur And General George C. Kenney 127. MACARTHUR, Douglas. Photograph signed. Washington, 1945. Black-and-white photograph, measuring 5 by 4 inches. $1600. Original black-and-white U.S. Army news photograph of General MacArthur wading through the marshes of Borneo, signed by both Douglas MacArthur (as D. MacA.) and George C. Kenney. Tiny file number printed at bottom corner of image. Fine. Signed By Mickey Mantle 128. MANTLE, Mickey and GLUCK, Herb. The Mick. Garden City, 1985. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1400. First edition of #7’s autobiography, with 16 pages of candid photographs, signed by Mickey Mantle. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.