John Markle Robert Spence (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION, 1/300, SIGNED by Markle following inscription. Mild rubbing and edgewear to covers. Some fraying to top edge of f.fe.p. Check mark to leaf following f.f.e.p. Light rubbing to edges of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully bound in full leather; binding signed Stikeman & Co NY on the inside back cover. Gold decorations, raised cords, silk endpapers. Blue slipcase protects book. Only flaw in the binding is the very faint start of some wear to the hinges. A limited edition of 300 copies of which this is numbered 225, and signed on the limitation page by John Markle. Frontispiece portrait of Markle with signature beneath. 167 thick pages. Illustrated with plates with tissue guards. Protective box is bumped at the corners. Markle was a wealthy industrialist who established a philanthropic foundation in the mode of the Rockefellers and the Morgans, and dedicated himself to giving back to the communities where he lived and worked. This copy belonged to Dan Martin, was the director of Environmental Programs at the MacArthur Foundations and the Moore Foundations. He maintained a collection of books on philanthropy. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book (although they sometimes get right). Oversized and overweight books will require extra shipping for safe delivery. Signed by Author(s).

No. 56 OF 300 COPIES. 260 x 182 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/8"). XIV, [2], 167, [1] pp. LOVELY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with multiple straight and decorative rules, decorative cornerpieces, raised bands, compartments with central floral motif surrounded by foliate frame and double rules, gilt lettering, gilt ruled turn-ins, light blue watered silk pastedowns and endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a light blue cloth slipcase. With frontispiece and 23 plates, with original printed tissue guards. SIGNED by Markle on the limitations page, with an inscription (probably in a secretarial hand): To Karrick M. Castle / With my compliments. Spine very lightly sunned, hint of rubbing to corners, but in very fine condition inside and out. This is a finely printed and beautifully bound biography of John Markle (1858-1953), one of the nation's most accomplished and affluent engineers and coal mining executives. His chief feat of engineering was the building of the Jeddo Tunnel in Pennsylvania, a drainage tunnel that expels mine water through five miles of solid rock. Under the influence of his friend J. P. Morgan, Markle became a prominent philanthropist, giving away more than $17 million to worthy causes through the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. During the period from the retirement of William Matthews to the establishment of the Club Bindery, there was no better binder in America than Henry Stikeman, who exhibited "extraordinary skill . . . in design, inlaying, and tooling." (Maser Collection) Stikeman's firm did high-end publisher's bindings as "bread and butter" work, and luxurious gilt-tooled bindings for collectors.