signed first edition Hardcover
2006 · New York
by Cannadine, David
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by David Cannadine on the half-title. The first full-scale biography of Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), the powerful American financier, secretary of the treasury, and art collector. Like Rockefeller and Carnegie, Mellon came to symbolize the era of the U.S. rise to industrial might, with all the benefits and abuses that entailed. Octavo: xvi, 779 p. with 16 pages of color and 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.
(Inventory #: 77291)