The Birth of the Oil Industry

Paul H. Giddens; introduction by Ida M. Tarbell

Verlag: N.Y.: Macmillan, 1938

Beschreibung

1st printing stated. Boards show light overall wear; spine text slightly faded; binding tight; pages clean; tiny bookshop tag to bottom of inside cover. Inscribed on front endpaper by author Paul Giddens to R.D. Locke, and additionally autographed by Ida M. Tarbell. Letter stapled to the following page, opposite the half-title page, from Giddens to Locke's widow, dated February 1943; Locke was an elderly Pennsylvania oilman who Giddens had interviewed for the book. Giddens was then a young Allegheny College history professor who befriended veteran muckraking journalist Tarbell, an Allegheny trustee, and worked closely with her on 'The Birth of the Oil Industry,' since she had authored the classic 'History of the Standard Oil Company.' He went on to write hundreds of articles about the oil industry. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. 216 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7995

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Birth of the Oil Industry

Verlag: N.Y.: Macmillan

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition