Lot Details
Lot 107
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D. A Visit to Mr. John D. Rockefeller by Neighbors and Friends at Forest Hill, Cleveland, Ohio.
[Cleveland, Ohio]: 1905. One of 425 copies, this being no. 168 for Mr. A.B. Hough, signed (under his portrait) by Rockefeller. Quarter calf over gray paper over boards, modern slipcase. 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (25 x 18.5 cm); [21, 1] text leaves; platinotype frontispiece portrait with embossed stamp of photographer George M. Edmondson, 16 pages of facsimile signatures, presentation sheet laid in. Likely unobtrusively rebacked, bump to fore-edge.
One of the most remarkable aspects of this work is that the publishers managed to get Rockefeller to sign all the copies; he consented to do so "reluctantly" according to the printed sheet laid-in. No other book was ever issued signed by him.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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