[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Andrew Carnegie
Charles Agvent
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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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