The Birth of the Oil Industry

by Paul H. Giddens, Ida M. Tarbell, Introduction

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by author Paul H. Giddens and famous muckraking journalist Ida M. Tarbell on the front free endpaper. xxxix, 1 , 216pp. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Frontispiece of Drake Well. Very Good with darkened spine lettering; light edge wear. Rear cover afflicted with damp stain at bottom

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