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New York: Burt Franklin. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint, ca. 1965. Cloth hardcover with bright gilt title on spine, 607 pp., Near Fine copy, soiling to some of the pages and to the page-edges, no dust jacket.

A. M. Kelley, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The early and later History of Petroleum, with ... facts in regard to its development in Western Pennsylvania. ... Also life sketches of pioneer and prominent operators, etc..

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Jas. B. Rodgers Co, 1873. Hardcover. Acceptable. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has been partly rebound at spine and hinges. The original cover has heavy wear along the edges and several dark areas on front and rear where it appears tape was used to hold the original spine in place at one time. Nine pages have a crease in lower right corner. Was kept in a slipcase after rebinding.

Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 607pp. plus 5 plates and 27 original photo portraits of oil industry pioneers and operators. Modern black half morocco binding. Howes H421. Larson 2846. Henry was a Titusville newspaper man, who produced what Howes called the "first comprehensive history of the infancy of this industry. " Swanson reports that it is a "valuable, well-written early history based upon . . . . on-the-spot investigation while all early participants were still living and could be interviewed. In addition to [an] authoritative account of Drake well, Henry gives detailed histories of many early producing properties, companies and individual oil men. "Title page is in facsimile with some light foxing to inserted plates and tissue guards. Otherwise very good.

Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co. Printers, 1873. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 607 pages + 5 regular plates + 28 woodburytype images (frontispiece of the Phillips and Wooodford Wells Tarr Farm and 28 separate woodburytype portraits of oilmen). Complete. Thick 8vo. Expertly rebound in sympathetically matched cloth with front cover and spine panels preserved and laid down. Renewed endpapers. Perhaps a dozen pages with some marginal dampstaining (mostly on lower right corner of plates - not affecting portraits). A sound working copy of the original publication, now scarce in the market. Cloth. "First comprehensive history of the infancy of this industry." HOWES H-421. Larson's Guide to Business History #2846.