Last Rivet: First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hard bound, rare in original "rivet" dust jacket. Brown cloth spine over silver-stamped green "flocked" velveteen boards. Endpapers are illustrated with silver rivets, as is dust jacket. The Story of Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drove the last rivet of the last building, November 1, 1939. Photographs by Berenice Abbot, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell MacRae, Newspictures, Inc., New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe, Paul J. Woolf. This copy shows some wear to boards. The jacket shows age toning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.…

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st. full front page w/engraving of the Prince and his company on the bridge driving the last rivet of the construction project; 1 page, suitable for framing Size: 11.5 x 16". B/w Engraving (illustrator).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Physical desc. : xi, [1]p, 1 . , 15-246p, 1 ; 23cm. Subjects: Russia - Politics and government - 1894-1917. Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. France - Foreign relations 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Physical desc. : xi, [1]p, 1 . , 15-246p, 1 ; 23cm. Subjects: Russia - Politics and government - 1894-1917. Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. France - Foreign relations 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER// the jacket is a bit soiled, but in nice condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Last Rivet - The Story of Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drove the last rivet of the last building, November 1, 1939; Columbia University Press Accompanied by a note stating that this book was attached to letter from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to L. W. Hill (Louis, son of James J. Hill) in June 7, 1940 personal papers Silver stamped maroon cloth backstrip, green felt boards with stamped silver rivet to front board, 4to, pp. 45, [3], illustrated with numerous photographs from notable photographers; Near fine book in a VG+ jacket with some shallow chipping and closed tears to spine ends, half inch closed tear to tail of rear panel, 1" tear to head of front panel, faint paperclip mark.…

First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 45 pages. The story behind the construction and building of Rockefeller Center in New York. Brief introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Text by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Includes black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Paul Woolf and others. An about good copy with some chipping to the spine ends, some wear to the corners and edges. No dust jacket. A solid copy of this nicely printed and designed book that is fairly uncommon in the dust jacket.…

dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 45 pages. The story behind the construction and building of Rockefeller Center in New York. Brief introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Text by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Includes black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Paul Woolf and others. A near fine copy with some very minor wear and from the library of New Topographics photographer Joe Deal with his rubber stamp to the second free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket with a number of chips and tears and wear. Still, a solid copy of this nicely printed and designed book that is fairly uncommon in the dust jacket and especially with an interesting provenance.…

First edition; 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 45 deckled edged pages; black and white photographic illustrations; endpapers are sunned else a very good clean, tight, unmarked copy in sunned boards with corners and spine ends beginning to fray and in a sunned, chipped and torn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. 45pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Ex-library with usual markings and remnants of pocket removal on front endpapers, chips at board edges, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Complimentary label of Nicholas Murray Butler on front pastedown. Butler was the president of Columbia University, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and William Taft's running mate in the 1912 United States presidential election.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st. and only Edition 1940 , Green paper hardcover with silver rivet on the front board . In the dust jacket ( scarce in DJ ) also with silver rivets on the cover ,first end pages also have silver rivets . Illustrated with Black & white photos by with photography by : Berenice Abbott , Margaret Bourke - White , and others . Condition : Fine , DJ is Very Good with edge chipping and rubs. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Various Artist (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. 4to. 45pp. Brown cloth over silver-stamped green velveteen in original dust jacket. Endpapers are illustrated with silver rivets. Frontispiece. "The story of Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drove the last rivet of the last building, November 1, 1939." Delightfully illustrated with full-page-, and in-text b/w photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, J. Walker Grimm, Brown Brothers, Fritz Henle, Newspictures, Inc., Wendell MacRae, New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe and Paul J. Woolf. Fore-page edges untrimmed. Minor discoloration and rubbing to boards. Staining and discoloration to dj. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Comments by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Very good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. CHIP AT HEAD OF PINE.