HIND-SIGHTS OR LOOKING BACKWARD AT SWINDLES by DILLON, John J

New York: Rural Publishing Company. Fair. 1911. Softcover. There are very small dents impressed in the front cover and front pages. Creasing to many outer corners. Covers and front blank have slight soil. Wear to the top spine end. Front cover pulling away from the pages a bit. Staples are lightly rusted. Owner's information written on front blank. ; Approx. 5" wide by 7 1/4". ; 128 pages .

Rural Publishing Company, New York, 1911. 7 1/4" X 5" in paper covers. Some soiling of both covers: About GOOD PLUS to VERY GOOD MINUS condition. CONTENTS: Seed Trade Tricks; Tricks of Tree Agents; The Hen Business; Live Stock Frauds; The Dairyman's Danger; Commission Men's Tricks; Real Estate Games; Wall Street & Its Methods; Stock Investment Pits; Co-Operative Fakes; The Press as an Implement of Rogues; Horse Trickery; Book Agents' Tricks; Swindlers of all Sorts. 128pp.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

E-189: The Rural Publishing Company. Very Good. 1911. Hardcover. Paperback. 12mo. The Rural Publishing Company, New York. 1911. 128 pgs. Originally issued in wraps, previous owner has attached the board of another book by way of tape to the front wrapper. Wrappers worn and chipped with some shelf-wear to the extremities present and a taped spine present to the wraps. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An expose of popular cons and swindles of the era, aimed at the rural citizenry of Upstate New York. Fourteen such are analyzed (e. G. , seed trade tricks; tricks of the tree agents; the hen business; live stock frauds; the dairyman's danger; commission men's tricks; real estate games; Wall Street and its methods; stock investment pits; co-operative fakes; the Press as an implement of rogues; horse trickery; the book agent's tricks; and swindlers of all sorts). E-189; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages .

New York 1911 1st Rural. Mostly agricultural swindles: seed trade tricks, hen business, live tock frauds, dairyman's danger, real estate games, stock investment pits, horse trickery, etc. Hardcover. Small octavo, 128pp., cloth. Good, many page have verticle wrinkle. .