Oil! Titan of the Southwest by Carl Coke Rister - 1949

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1949. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name stamp on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to head and tail; light bottom edge shelfwear to boards; small paint mark on front board. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($5.00); foxing to all panels; wear, chipping, and small missing pieces along edges; wear at head, tail, and tips. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 467 pp 8vo. This book is an unbiased account of one of the most spectacular events in American History: the rush for oil riches in the great Mid-Continent and Gulf producing area, from the era of the Indians' oil springs through the blustery years of wildcatting to the recent more orderly, but equally dramatic, period of exploration and development. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.