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Street of Adventure
by Edward Jerome Dies
A cornerstone of early American financial literature and an exceptionally scarce work that blends history, biography, and narrative storytelling with the momentum of fiction. Published in Boston in 1935 by The Stratford Company, this first edition with original dust jacket transports the reader to New York’s Wall Street and Chicago’s LaSalle Street during the most volatile and formative years of American finance.
Written in the aftermath of the great speculative era, Street of Adventure chronicles the lives of fourteen influential figures—industrialists, capitalists, and speculators—whose ambitions, fortunes, and failures shaped the American financial system. Some rose to extraordinary heights and died famous, while others collapsed spectacularly after reaching dizzying levels of power and wealth. Through vivid prose, Dies captures the psychological drama behind speculation, risk, and economic upheaval with an immediacy rarely found in financial literature of the era.
This work stands among the earliest narrative explorations of American stock market culture, offering dramatic portraits of legendary figures such as Armour, Insull, Legge, Livermore, and others. It is widely regarded as a foundational text for understanding the human forces that drove early twentieth-century markets. Five years after publishing Street of Adventure, Edward Jerome Dies was selected to write the preface for Jesse Livermore’s How to Trade in Stocks, further cementing his credibility and influence. He later authored Behind the Wall Street Curtain, The Plunger, and The Tale of the Wheat Pit, all respected works within the canon of classic financial writing.
This copy is in very good condition. The interior pages are clean and well preserved with only light, age-appropriate toning, and the original owner’s name appears on the inner cover. The original dust jacket is present, an exceptional rarity, showing expected edge wear and small chips. The cover remains bright and structurally sound with light shelf wear at corners and edges. This offering represents an opportunity to acquire a cornerstone piece of American financial history at a fraction of its true retail potential.
For collectors of rare financial literature, historians of American capitalism, or investors seeking tangible cultural assets, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to acquire a truly exceptional volume.
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