The Last Rivet Berenice Abbott Margaret Bourke White Rockefeller Center DJ HC

Description: The Last Rivet 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 Crowell, Merle (editor); Rockefeller, Nelson; Rockefeller, John D., Jr. Bibliographic Details Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York Publication Date: 1940 Binding: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Illustrator: Abbott, Berenice; Bourke-White, Margaret; Brown Brothers; Grimm, J. Walker; Henle, Fritz; MacRae, Wendell; Newspictures, Inc.; New York Herald Tribune; Ratcliffe, Edward; & Woolf, Paul J. (photographs) Book Condition: Good Plus in a Good Dust Jacket Edition: First Edition, First Printing New York. Columbia University 1940. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. With the very scace dust jacket. 45 pages. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" inches tall. Beautifully designed commemorative volume setting forth the ceremony during which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drove the last rivet into the last building of the Rockefeller Center complex. Foreword by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Remarks are by Nelson Rockefeller, then President of Rockefeller Center. Good plus in a good dust jacket. Brown cloth spine lettered in silver which shows some rubbing. Small white spot on brown spine. Green velvetine front and back boards with some light soiling, scratches and scuff marks. Little discoloration to the edges. Dings to the top and bottom edges both boards. Corners rubbed. Internally, front and back endpapers tanned with repeat silver rivet design. Pages clean and bright. Beautiful photographs. Some light tanning to page edges. The DJ is lightly soiled and rubbed with moderate wear and some small tears to edges as well as some creasing. Chips to head and heel of the DJ spine. Chips to the DJ Lower corners. Few dots of browning along the DJ spine. Not price clipped. With stunning photographs by a galaxy of the era's master photographers. Beautifully printed. With photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Berenice Abbott, Wendell McRae, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Edward Ratcliffe, Paul J Woolf and others.

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