The Mellons: The Chronicle of America's Richest Family by David E. Koskoff - 1978

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, first printing (as stated, with complete number line.) In a very good dust jacket, price-clipped and showing wear at crown and a tiny tear on rear edge of jacket cover, and shelf-wear to rear top edge of jacket. . v, 602 pages : illustrations. Octavo. In 1978, with a nest egg of more than 5 billion dollars, the Mellons were America's richest family. The Mellons is an irreverent, unauthorized, but not unkind account of this family's rise, from the humble circumstances of birth of the dynasty's founder, Judge Thomas Mellon, on a potato farm in Ireland in 1813, to super-opulence through the Gulf Oil Corporation." - WorldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.