Arthur Cheney Train

A signed first edition Association Copy of Paper Profits.

• Arthur Cheney Train (American).
• New York: Horace Liveright, [1930].
• 347 pages.
• Octavo.
• Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Edwin Lefevre with the sincere regards of Arthur Train March 24 1930."
• Bound in the original black cloth, pictorial dust jacket designed by Hynd.

Arthur Train began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan before becoming a best-selling author of courtroom thrillers. In Paper Profits, he turned his attention to Wall Street and the crash the year after it happened.

Lefévre was the preeminent documentarian of Wall Street and its personalities in the thirty years leading up to the crash of 1929. His Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), a fictionalized account of the life of stockbroker Larry Livermore, is perhaps the most famous Wall Street novel ever written; his other works included Wall Street Stories (1901) and The Making of a Stockbroker (1925).