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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.
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Very Good. 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.