By Ruth Adams Knight

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.

First edition, first printing.

"First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1960 to the title page, $4.50 to the jacket's flap.

Biographical novel of Peter Cooper--"patron saint" of nineteenth-century New York, founder of Cooper Union, and creator of the "Tom Thumb" locomotive which spurred the success of the biggest railroad of his day, the Baltimore and Ohio.

Fine and very tight in yellow linen over textured green boards with green titles to the spine; in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with age-toning to spine panel and one fingerprint-sized light tan stain to rear panel; original printed $4.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

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