Oil

by Walter Gilkyson

$40 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

Chicago: The White House, 1924 but later . Reprint. Octavo. Tan cloth boards, printed in brown; dustjacket; 286pp. Very Good in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper. A novel of the early 20th century oil industry, with a Texas setting. First published by Scribner's in 1924; this an early re-issue by a Chicago reprint house. Clean, bright example of the striking pictorial jacket

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