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Editore: New York: Doubleday, 1957, 1957
Da: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .
Editore: New York: Doubleday, 1957, 1957
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Good.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957
Da: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. G/G, used hc, 369pp. Grey colored cloth over boards with gilt text on upper and spine; edge wear to head and tail of spine. Dust jacket has blue, red and black colored text on upper and spine; edge wear and shelf rubbing. Interior pages clean, unmarked. This volume is part of the "Mainstream of America" series. Binding is tight.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Da: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: USED Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor Jacket.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957
Da: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. G/G, used hc, 369pp. Grey colored cloth over boards with gilt text on upper and spine; edge wear to head and tail of spine. Dust jacket has blue, red and black colored text on upper and spine; edge wear and shelf rubbing; 3 closed tears on lower; encased in protective mylar wrapper. Interior pages clean, unmarked. This volume is part of the "Mainstream of America" series. Binding is tight.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, 1953
Da: Veronica's Books, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. Baby blue cloth with gilt and brown stampings, dust jacket is toned and chipped with the author's name faded from spine. 373pp.
Editore: Doubleday and Company, 1957
Da: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover, no dustjacket "Mainstream of America" series edited by Lewis Gannett.
Editore: Doubleday and Company, 1957
Da: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover, with dustjacket, Some wear to DJ, "Mainstream of America" series edited by Lewis Gannett.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1957
Da: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very good condition blue cloth boards with gold front cover lettering and decoration with gold spine lettering enclosed within a red and gold block border. Includes List of Other Books by Stewart H. Holbrook; Author Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. The front hinge is weak but wholly intact with the spine/binding still relatively tight and square and front two endpapers missing (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition. "The men in this book have been described variously during a century as giants and Titans, and more often as rogues, robbers, and rascals. But never as feeble. The least of them had a splendid audacity and a vital energy that erupted in astonishing ways. They had certain traits in common. They have usually been treated as a class. Yet all were men of devout and adamantine individualism, hence differed from one another in greater degree than was the case with the mass of their fellow Americans. Each had an overpowering sense of acquisitiveness. None subscribed to the dogmas of the philosophers which deal with what ought to be, but held stoutly to the proposition, that what is all shall be is determined by the forces at work. That they understood the forces at work must be clear from their accomplishments. A few were foreign-born. The first Astor was a German, the first Guggenheim a Jew from Switzerland, the first Du Pont a Frenchman. Carnegie was a native Scot, James J. Hill virtually a Scot though born in Canada. Marcus Daly came from Ireland, Insull from England. The others were native Americans, mostly of the so-called Puritan or New England stock. Exceptions include the Vanderbilts, who were Dutch; Frick, Schwab, and Heinze of German; and Cyrus McCormick and Thomas Lawson of Scotch-Irish ancestries. Jay Gould was descended from Nathan Gold, an English Jew who settled in Connecticut in early colonial days and married a Yankee girl. The group may be arbitrarily divided into the three categories of promoters, bankers, and industrialists, with merchants in the latter group. Cooke, Morgan, and Stillman were primarily bankers. Among the promoters were Fisk, Gould, Gates, Lawson, Rogers, Flagler, and Insull; among the industrialists Carnegie, Rockefeller, McCormick, Armour, Frick, Ford, and the Du Ponts. The Guggenheims were both promoters and industrialists. Mellon covered the entire field. Hill, Harriman, Villard, and the first two Vanderbilts belong, as great railroad men, in a special niche. The Astors were the most successful real estate operators.The present book is not overly concerned with the comparative business ethics of these men of money. The best of them made "deals," purchased immunity, and did other things with in 1860, or 1880, or even 1900, were considered no more than "smart" by their fellow Americans, but which today would give pause to the most conscientiously dishonest promoter. The rules have a way of changing every decade or so. In 1934 a jury found Insull guilty of nothing. Twenty years later his methods would land him behind bars. Indeed, under present-day rules, almost every man in this book would face a godd hundred years in prison. My account will not attempt to pass judgments on matters that have baffled moralists, economists, and historians.These were tough-minded fellows. they were a motley crew, yet taken together they fashioned a savage and gaudy age as distinctively purple and that of imperial Rome, and infinitely more entertaining. Stewart H. Holbrook, March 1953." - excerpt from the Foreword.
Editore: Doubleday, Garden City
Da: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[1957], BOMC. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 369pp. Index. Owner stamp, minor edgewear to dust jacket. Edited by Lewis Gannett. Publisher series: Mainstream of America. (History--United States).
Editore: Doubleday, 1953
Da: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.
Editore: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1953
Da: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Inscribed to an individual on top of ffep. Inside front flap is clipped. Some discoloration to pages and DJ. Some wear to DJ including light rubbing wear, light scratches, and small creases. Binding is not tight but all pages are intact.