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Columbia University Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Minor damp stain to front & rear covers, with wear to the edges and corners & a bit of foxing to the endpapers. "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." In stock, ready to ship now from Evanston, IL!

New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 45 pages. The story behind the construction and building of Rockefeller Center in New York. Brief introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Text by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Includes black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Paul Woolf and others. An about good copy with some chipping to the spine ends, some wear to the corners and edges. No dust jacket. A solid copy of this nicely printed and designed book that is fairly uncommon in the dust jacket.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 45 pages. The story behind the construction and building of Rockefeller Center in New York. Brief introduction by John D. Rockefeller. Text by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Includes black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Paul Woolf and others. A near fine copy with some very minor wear and from the library of New Topographics photographer Joe Deal with his rubber stamp to the second free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket with a number of chips and tears and wear. Still, a solid copy of this nicely printed and designed book that is fairly uncommon in the dust jacket and especially with an interesting provenance.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First Edition. Near fine in a very good, chipped dust jacket.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1940. . First edition with a personalised ALS from Nelson Rockefeller on Rockefeller Center, Inc., headed paper; 4to (279 x 218 mm, 11 x 8½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone; illustrated endpapers, green flock-covered boards, brown cloth spine, titles stamped in silver on spine, minor shelfwear, inlaid 'rivet' in silver card on upper side, illustrated dust-jacket printed in silver, spine and edges lightly toned, short tear and crease to bottom edge and crease to top edge of upper panel, an excellent copy; 45, [3]pp. The Last Rivet was produced to celebrate the completion of the Rockefeller Center. It contains photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Newspictures Inc., New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe, and Paul J. Woolf. While copies are often accompanied by a standard letter from John D. Rockefeller, this copy has a letter from Nelson Rockefeller… Read More