The Last Rivet
New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 45pp. Brown cloth over silver-stamped green velveteen in original dust jacket. Endpapers are illustrated with silver rivets. Frontispiece. "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." Delightfully illustrated with full-page-, and in-text b/w photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, J. Walker Grimm, Brown Brothers, Fritz Henle, Newspictures, Inc., Wendell MacRae, New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe and Paul J. Woolf. Fore-page edges untrimmed. Minor discoloration and rubbing to boards. Staining and discoloration to dj. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Comments by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Very good condition. vg. Item #15677
Price: $325.00