John D. Rockefeller THE HEROIC AGE OF AMERICAN ENTERPRISE 2 Volumes

Red cloth covers with gold lettering on spines which is bright. Covers exhibit light wear, soiling and bumping on corners and spine ends. Light wear to edges and hinges. Light sunning to spines. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to covers. Moderate foxing and yellowing to inside front and back covers. With the heaviest foxing being in the hinge areas. Light yellowing and soiling to page ends. Signed by author on the half title page of Vol.I. Text and the b&w photos and drawings are slightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Book I focuses on the rise of John D. Rockefeller, Merchant (1839-1869. His boyhood at Owasco, venture in oil, boom and depression and his wife and home. Vol.II details the Making of the Great Trust (1869-1883). Chapters on the birth of Standard Oil, the crucial twelvemonth: 1874-1875, the pipe-line revolution, the first Great Trust and the Great Machine. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated.