Item #591 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. Merle Crowell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Jr., John D. Rockefeller.
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
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
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

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

New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 45 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Boards have a touch of browning toward top edges, a few shallow extremity bumps. Jacket has some minor edge wear and some overall mild browning.

Commemorative book featuring the planning, construction, and history of this landmark 22 acre site in Midtown Manhattan. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, J. Walker Grimm, and others.

Bound in green felted paper over boards with brown cloth spine. Upper board is stamped with rivet drawn in silver gilt, spine titled in silver, rivet-themed endpapers. In scarce dust jacket.

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