The Book Shed

Second edition after the first 1907 edition. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, Christmas sticker to front endpaper, title page lacks upper corner, pages browned. How to avoid getting swindled in mining scheme, quite useful. Dr. Francis C. Nicholas began his working life as an office boy on the New York Stock Exchange. Within eight years he rose to the position of cashier. After receiving a degree in economic geology from Columbia University much of his professional career was spent in the mining industry primarily in the Caribbean and Latin America. Moody's Magazine described him as "perhaps the only technical geologist who has had a thorough business training in finance." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!