[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Andrew Carnegie

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Sun Dec 23 15:09:08 EST 2018


CARNEGIE, Andrew. AN AMERICAN FOUR-IN-HAND IN BRITAIN. New York: Charles 
Scribner's Sons, 1914. Reprint. Decorated red cloth. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Elon H. Hooker/with best 
wishes of/Andrew Carnegie/February 28th 1917." Elon Huntington Hooker 
(1869-1938) was a chemist and hydrodynamic engineer who founded Hooker 
Electrochemical Company in 1905. His daughter, Blanchette, married John 
D. Rockefeller III. Another daughter married writer John Marquand. 
Covers soiled; paper splits to hinges but covers very tight. Very Good 
overall. (#019009)     $900.00

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