First edition, first printing. 8vo. xii, 474 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in silver, top edge in red, bottom edge untrimmed, dust jacket (small patch of faint staining to upper corners of final two leaves, not effecting text, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; the dust jacket has benefited from the modest restoration along the edges, otherwise a very presentable copy). New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
An excellent survey of some of the towering figures from the frenzied markets of the Gilded Age by financial journalist Matthew Josephson (1899-1978), who is credited with having popularised the term ‘robber barons’.
