The Good Provider:H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties Hardcover - 1973

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Later Printing. Later printing. Octavo, grey cloth with green tittle iside the light outline of a pickle and light greenand silver spine titles. 297 pp. including iindex, bibliography and notes, Illustrated with 45 black and white photographs including a frontispiece of founder of H. J. Heinz company, Henry Heinz and including his early relatives and officers of the firm, his grand mansion, photographs of the employees at work in the first plant, sdevertising ephemera, and an interesting photograph of a huge electric sign occupying most of the side of a building in New York, which was erected in 1900 and said to be New York's first large electric sign. BOLDLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE BY BOTH THE AUTHOR ROBERT C. ALBERTS AND HIS WIFE ZITA D. ALBERTS. "To Mary Patricia Smith on the occasion of her marriage, January 12, 1974, from Robert C. Alberts and Zita D. Alberts her first sousins once removed." There is a ver faint sign as of the removal of "white-out" just at the ent of "Patricia" in the inscription otherwise the inscription and the book are very fine. The book has very fresh cloth and an interior which is clean, bright, white, tight, pages without the least flaw or defect and appears to be unread. The dust jacket is also very finie and protected in mylar but is price-cliipped. A fine book with a very near fine dust jacket and an unique association inscription and signatures to a family member..