The Buccaneers: A Story of the Black Flag in Business
by [SOCIAL FICTION] [BUSINESS] [TRUSTS] HYDE, Henry M
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's decorated tan cloth, lettered in brown on spine and front cover, with pictorial paste-on below title; 236pp; frontispiece illustration by Bert Knight. Mild cover wear and soil, else Near Fine, with ink ownership signature of Victor H. Metcalf (prominent California lawyer & politician; Sec'y of Commerce under Theodore Roosevelt) to front endpaper, datemarked Washington, 1904. Novel attacking the unscrupulous methods of the trusts. Not particularly common, and this a compelling association copy, bearing the ownership signature of Teddy Roosevelt's first Secretary of Commerce, who was himself instrumental in helping to put TR's trust-busting policies into action. Metcalf (1853-1936) was a three-term Congressman from California (1899-1904), served Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce from 1904-1906, then as Secretary of the Navy (a position Roosevelt had himself once held) from 1906-1908. HANNA 1872. SMITH H-1078.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15726
- Title
- The Buccaneers: A Story of the Black Flag in Business
- Author
- [SOCIAL FICTION] [BUSINESS] [TRUSTS] HYDE, Henry M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Fat Cats;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Spine
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