The History of Standard Oil Company (Signed)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Black and white portraits, pictures, and diagrams. Publisher's original cloth. Octavos. xix, 406 and xiii, 409 pages.
Tarbell was a pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, and this is her famous and meticulous exposé of the aggressive anti-competitive tactics employed by Standard Oil under John D. Rockefeller. Originally published by McClure's in 1904, this work is considered a seminal example of muckraking journalism. It contributed to the government-ordered break up of Standard Oil in 1911.
This is the second issue by Macmillan in 1925, and bears Tarbell's signature on a slip of paper tipped into volume I.
Ref. See HOWES T33.
Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spines and upper boards ruled in blind. Some spotting and war along fore and bottom board edges on both volumes, visible on lower boards but not so on upper boards of closed volumes. Both volumes have mild browning along inner hinges of front and rear endpapers. Hinges sound, interiors clean. Goof to very good overall.
Item #2152
Price: $1,250