R. B. Stewart and Purdue University

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by R.B. Stewart on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a 1983 gift inscription 1st blank page. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; Price Clipped; rubbing to panels; light bumps at head and tail. White cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine. 221 pp 8vo. R.B. Steward was Purdue's chief financial and business officer from 1925 to 1961 and had a great single impact on the institution's destiny than any other individual in university history. The author too the complex scenario of university financial and business activities an put them into a understandable format that becomes not only Stewart's biography but also a substantial history of the university's management. A clean very presentable copy.