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The Myth of Ephraim Tutt: Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
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Product Description: The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history. Arthur Train was a Harvard-educated and well-respected attorney. He was also a best-selling author...read more
By John Train (foreword by)
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9780817317874 | Univ of Alabama Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.

The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money
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Product Description: There are only a handful of great collections of personal thoughts, opinions and conclusions based on the author's rich experience of the world. This one, the harvest of a large life in dozens of countries and situations, has been accepted as one of the unique accumulations of wisdom and experience in recent centuries...read more
By John Train
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9781616583194 | Maria Teresa Train, August 16, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: There are only a handful of great collections of personal thoughts, opinions and conclusions based on the author's rich experience of the world.

The Craft of Investing: Growth and Value Stocks  Emerging Markets  Funds  Retirement and Estate Planning
By John Train
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9781462052622 | Iuniverse Inc, April 2, 2012, cover price $18.95

Animals and Us: A Very Special Relationship
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Product Description: Our reactions to the creatures that share our world include love- sometimes reciprocated- curiosity, wonder, fear. Here are some writings on this theme that have particularly taken our fancy.
By John Train
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9781905377527 | Maria Teresa Train, January 16, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Our reactions to the creatures that share our world include love- sometimes reciprocated- curiosity, wonder, fear.

The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor
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Product Description: Second edition featuring a brand new foreword.If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969...read more
By John Train
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9781906659189 | Reprint edition (Harriman House Pub, June 1, 2009), cover price $23.38 | About this edition: Second edition featuring a brand new foreword.
9781897597293 | Harriman House Pub, July 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969.

Comfort Me With Apples
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Product Description: Tells the origins, myths, symbolism and the many practical uses of the apple.
By John Train
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9781905377275 | Maria Teresa Train, July 1, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Tells the origins, myths, symbolism and the many practical uses of the apple.

The Craft of Investing: Growth and Value Stocks, Emerging Markets, Funds, Retirement and Estate Planning
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Product Description: "The best book in the investment field I've read in years." -- Paul Erdman, New York Times Book Review "The best...The book is eminently sensible and a pleasure to read." -- Kiplinger's John Train founded Train, Babcock Advisors and is chairman of Montrose Advisors, both of New York...read more
By John Train
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9780595472123 | Iuniverse Inc, December 19, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "The best book in the investment field I've read in years.

The Craft of Investing
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An investor and founder of a private counseling firm summarizes key investment principles, describing the psychology of the market, growth investing, establishing objectives, managing a portfolio, and more. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour.
By John Train
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9780887306266 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An investor and founder of a private counseling firm summarizes key investment principles, describing the psychology of the market, growth investing, establishing objectives, and managing a portfolio

The Orange: Golden Joy
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Product Description: This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the story of the orange from earliest times. Brought back from India by Alexander the Great, citrus proved to be a lifesaver on long sea voyages, since it was the antidote for scurvy, which could incapacitate an entire crew...read more
By Mark E. Smith (photographer) and John Train
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9781851495252 | Maria Teresa Train, October 30, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the story of the orange from earliest times.

Reflections: On Life, Love, Art, Money, Statecraft, and Other Topics
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By John Train
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9781568332574 | Madison Books, April 30, 2006, cover price $16.95

The Olive Tree Of Civilization
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By Mark Edward Smith (photographer) and John Train
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9781851494736 | Scala Books, October 30, 2004, cover price $25.00

Money Masters of Our Time
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Examines the investment strategies of seventeen leaders including Peter Lynch, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Michael Steinhart, and Warren Buffett, while focusing on the principal schools of investing.
By John Train
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9780887307911 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Examines the investment strategies of seventeen leaders including Peter Lynch, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Michael Steinhart, and Warren Buffett, while focusing on the principal schools of investing.

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9780887309700, titled "The Money Masters of Our Time" | Reprint edition (Harperbusiness, May 1, 2003), cover price $15.99

Dance of the Money Bees: A Professional Speaks Frankly on Investing
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Product Description: The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance of the Money Bees-- Survival is competition. What you have, including your savings, others want, and will struggle to get. The push to take it back from you is as relentless as that of the sea to overcome the dikes that contain it or the jungle to enfold a patch of cleared ground...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Train
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9780870341458 | Revised edition (Fraser Pub Co, June 1, 2000), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance of the Money Bees-- Survival is competition.

Investing and Managing Trusts Under the New Prudent Investor Rule: A Guide for Trustees, Investment Advisors, and Lawyers
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Product Description: By 2010, baby boomers will pass ten trillion dollars to their children. This unprecedented transfer of wealth will boost the need for executors and trustees, many of whom will not know how to manage and invest the assets in their care as required by the New Prudent Investor Rule...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Thomas A. Melfe and John Train
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9780875848617 | Harvard Business School Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: By 2010, baby boomers will pass ten trillion dollars to their children.

Oriental Rug Symbols: Their Origins and Meanings from the Middle East to China
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Product Description: Oriental carpets, from Turkey and Persia in the Middle East to China in the Far East, are amazingly rich in symbolism. This fascinating book will delight and enligh ten everyone who enjoys oriental carpets ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Train
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9780856674648 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, May 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Oriental carpets, from Turkey and Persia in the Middle East to China in the Far East, are amazingly rich in symbolism.
9781588860620 | Art Media Resources Ltd, April 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Oriental carpets, from Turkey and Persia in the Middle East to China in the Far East, are amazingly rich in symbolism.

Crazy Quilt: Remarkable Comic Confusions Including Sinister Dishes and Weird Arrangements, High Life, Bureaucracy Gone Mad, Antilog
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By Pierre Le-Tan and John Train
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9780060955038 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1996, cover price $14.00

Crazy Quilt: Remarkable Comic Confusions Including Sinister Dishes and Weird Arrangements High Life Bureaucracy Gone Mad Antilogies and Other Threats to Public
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The author of Most Remarkable Occurrences gathers witty commentaries and anecdotes on such subjects as travel, high life, food, bureaucracy, manners, business, and language. 15,000 first printing.
By Pierre Le-Tan (illustrator) and John Train
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9780060174019 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Gathers commentaries and anecdotes on such subjects as travel, high life, food, bureaucracy, business, and language

Famous Financial Fiascos
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Product Description: Foreword by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. A classic study on different ways not to succeed. Everything from Mr. Ponzi, Tulipomania, the Kuwait Stock Exchange Explosion, Bernie Cornfeld, Ivan Krueger, and others...read more
By John Train
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9780517545836 | Random House Value Pub, December 1, 1985, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: Recounts the nineteen most notorious financial fiascos in history, from the great Dutch tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the Xerox Corporation's recent entry into the computer market

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9780870341205 | Reprint edition (Fraser Pub Co, October 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Foreword by Professor C.

The Craft of Investing: Growth and Value Stocks, Emerging Markets, Market Timing, Mutual Funds, Alternative Investments, Retirement and Estate Planning
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An investor and founder of a private counseling firm summarizes key investment principles, describing the psychology of the market, growth investing, establishing objectives, and managing a portfolio
By John Train
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9780887307614 | Harperbusiness, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An investor and founder of a private counseling firm summarizes key investment principles, describing the psychology of the market, growth investing, establishing objectives, and managing a portfolio

The New Money Masters
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Product Description: John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely read investment books in history. In The New Money Masters, Train describes the technique of today's investment wizards, from Peter Lynch to George Soros. Revealed are the advantages of over-the-counter issues, the best ways to invest in foreign stocks and in newly industrialization countries, how the masters determine when the market is too high or too low, and how to lay out the key facts about a company in order to understand it most easily...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780887306372 | Reissue edition (Harperbusiness, September 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely read investment books in history.

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9781559942720 | Harperaudio, October 1, 1990, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This follow-up to Train's bestseller The Money Masters profiles the 1980's most brilliant and successful investment wizards and presents their methods and strageties.

The Money Masters
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Product Description: Here are insights into nine of the most successful investors of our time -- Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, John Templeton, and Philip Fisher, among others. In these fascinating profiles John Train reveals the unique investment styles that have made each a master: the traits that distinguish them from the crowd and the techniques that create the single characteristic unifying them all -- consisently profitable investments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Train
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9780887306389 | Reissue edition (Harperbusiness, September 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Here are insights into nine of the most successful investors of our time -- Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, John Templeton, and Philip Fisher, among others.

Love: Considered by Casanova, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, Byron, LA Rochefoucauld, John Updike, and Many Others
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A collection of observations on love features the words of James Joyce, Helen Hayes, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stendahl, Bertrand Russell, and the Duchess of Marlborough.
By Pierre Le-Tan (illustrator) and John Train (editor)
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9780060182373 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1993, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A collection of observations on love features the words of James Joyce, Helen Hayes, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edna St.

John Train's Most Remarkable Occurrences
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Product Description: Over the years, Train's remarkable books have gathered a dedicated following for their hilarious deadpan humor and their stylish literary grace. Now John Train's Most Remarkable Occureences introduces even more remarkable stories and brings back the rarest gems from the first volume...read more
By Pierre Le-Tan (illustrator) and John Train
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9780060164713 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Over the years, Train's remarkable books have gathered a dedicated following for their hilarious deadpan humor and their stylish literary grace.

Valsalva's Maneuver: Mots Justes and Indispensable Terms
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A collection of etymological trivia and unusual or specialized terminology
By Pierre Le-Tan (illustrator) and John Train
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9780060161859 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of etymological trivia and unusual or specialized terminology

The New Money Masters: Winning Investment Strategies of Soros, Lynch, Steinhardt, Rogers, Neff, Wanger, Michaelis, Carret
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Profiles the most successful investors of the past decade, discusses their strategies and predictions for future investment opportunities, and offers advice on putting their examples to use (view table of contents)
By John Train
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9780060159665 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1989, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Profiles the most successful investors of the past decade, discusses their strategies and predictions for future investment opportunities, and offers advice on putting their examples to use

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