About this title: "No Help Wanted" signs decorated the doors of Cleveland storekeepers and merchants in early September, 1855, when sixteen-year-old John Rockefeller set out to seek employment for his budding talents. It was a hard year in the West. For days and weeks the youth tramped the streets, grave, self-centered, tenacious in his quest. -from "A Pious Youth Gets a Flying Start" What was the world's first billionaire really like? This highly entertaining work, by an acclaimed business biographer, seeks to explode the "shadowy myth" of John D. Rockefeller and reveal the "rare and astonishing personality" ...
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Description: Hardcover Reading copy condition only. Blue Ribbon 1929. No jacket. Book has front and back end papers torn out(not text). Fading of spine and part of cover. some edge wear. Binding bit loose. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good- No Jacket. 8vo 7.75-9.75'' tall. Biograhy of John D. Rockerfeller and his standard oil trust. Green cloth boards, black lettering. Spine cloth sunfaded, top of spine has pull damage, ripped, missing large chip. 256 pages. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. ---256 pages. Interior is clean and tight. Nice overall condition. PO name on inside board. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY, Blue Ribbon Books, 1929.
Description: 8vo., 256pp., green cloth. Biography of John D. Rockefeller. Boards lightly soiled and sunned around the edges, corners worn, spine sunned. Chandler B. Grannis' signature and date on front endpaper. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: June 1929
Description: Fair in none jacket. No DJ, green boards with bumped corners and spine. Spine is faded and boards are fraying at top, bottom and edge of spine and at the corners. Book needs a cleaning. " John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Trust have provoked a literature and a litigation of their own" read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Spine faded. Pages have roughcut edges. All pages clean and tightly bound. ix, 11-256 p. 22 cm. Green boards with black lettering. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. This copy was pub. by BLUE RIBBON BOOKS, corners have been bumped, top and bottom of spine have been rubbed and bumped, some croyon marks on first few pages, the bind is still tight and clean. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard Press, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Near Fine in Good jacket. Sunned chips small tears DJ in protective mylar cover. Chip on front free end paper. There is a circular cut-out revealing a 1929 silver penny affixed to the front board. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: VANGUARD., NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very good+ or better copy in red cloth, with the Liberty Head dime still present on the front cloth cover, in a Vg. + dj. (Foxing at edges. Endpapers offset. Lightly discernable 3"-nch razor cut at head of spine on dj. Green hued dj. has discolored to beige at spine & edges of covers) Much better than usual copy in the uncommon dj. with the even less common dime still intact. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: First edition. The Mercury-head dime intended to be inset on then front board of the book is lacking, probably having fallen prey to a penurious booksellers, else very good in good, spine-faded dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. The jacket is die-cut (by the publisher) so the dime will show through in the illustration of John D. giving a dime to a golf caddie (the tycoon was famous for passing out dimes to children). Scarce in jacket. $.10 rebate available to the eventual purchaser ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Jacket. Binding G, Edge & shelf wear. Bottom front corner & edge "chewed". A 1" x 3/4" piece missing from top edge of front free endpaper. No DJ. Former owners Bookplate on FPE. 1st Edition. Personal Name: Winkler, John K. (John Kennedy), 1891-1958. Main Title: John D.; a portrait in oils, by John K. Winkler. Published/Created: New York, The Vanguard Press, 1929. Description: ix, 11-256 p. 22 cm. Notes: Dime mounted on cover. NOTE: Dime missing, just indent. Subjects: Rockefeller, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Previous owner's name on inside. The spine is faded but the letters are very readable. Greenb oards and spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good hardcover. Hinges are cracked. Pages light yellow from age, clean text. Top corners on cover bent. Spine browned. Top end of spine frayed. Round imprint on front cover. read more
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