paul giddens introduction ida tarbell (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing stated. Boards show light overall wear; spine text slightly faded; binding tight; pages clean; tiny bookshop tag to bottom of inside cover. Inscribed on front endpaper by author Paul Giddens to R.D. Locke, and additionally autographed by Ida M. Tarbell. Letter stapled to the following page, opposite the half-title page, from Giddens to Locke's widow, dated February 1943; Locke was an elderly Pennsylvania oilman who Giddens had interviewed for the book. Giddens was then a young Allegheny College history professor who befriended veteran muckraking journalist Tarbell, an Allegheny trustee, and worked closely with her on 'The Birth of the Oil Industry,' since she had authored the classic 'History of the Standard Oil Company.' He went on to write hundreds of articles about the oil industry. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. 216 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 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 corner and margins of textblock. Light staining and foxing to fore edge. Heavy offset from previously laid-in newsprint at 126-127pp. Newspaper article related to oil drilling laid-in at rear gutter. A scarce history of oil companies by Allegheny College history professor, Paul H. Giddens. He befriended veteran muckraking journalist Tarbell, an Allegheny trustee, and worked closely with her on this work since she had authored the classic History of the Standard Oil Company. He went on to write hundreds of articles about the oil industry.