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Neu, Irene D. - Erastus Corning: Merchant and Financier 1794-1872

Title: Erastus Corning: Merchant and Financier 1794-1872
Description: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1960. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's name ink-stamped on front free end paper. Blue cloth over boards, xi, 212 pages, frontispiece portrait of Corning, Index, Bibliography. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, small dent top edge front board. In an illustrated price-clipped dust jacket that is chipped at corners, spine ends and along top & bottom edges, several short tears and a piece of jacket missing at head of spine. In a Brodart jacket. "Creator and first president of the New York Central Railroad, Erastus Corning was one of the outstanding American businessman of the mid-nineteenth century. Merchant and manufacturer, railroad promoter, land speculator, financier, and politician, he built a fortune from nothing to eight million dollars. In her skillfully written biographical study, Professor Neu tells the story of this man's varied and highly successful career, and in telling, traces the pattern of domestic mercantile activity in the early and middle years of the past century." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 4 oz.

Keywords: BZDB7 NOISBN Erastus Corning, New York State History, Albany City Bank, New York Central Railroad Biography & Autobiography; Railways. Erastus Corning Merchant and Financier 17941872 Neu Irene D Railways

Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques
- Book number: 011128

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