First Edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Thick octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers, photographic illustrations throughout, five maps, grey endpapers, publisher’s dust jacket. Published by Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1974.
A touch of minor wear to the dust jacket; a near fine example.
A rare signed first edition of Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1975.
“Robert Caro’s monumental book, seven years in work, makes public at last what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses has been the single most powerful man of our time in the city and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens -the way things really get done in America’s City Halls and Statehouses – and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockfeller.” (Publisher’s dust jacket.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
First Edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Thick octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers, photographic illustrations throughout, five maps, grey endpapers, publisher’s dust jacket. Published by Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1974.
A touch of minor wear to the dust jacket; a near fine example.
A rare signed first edition of Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1975.
“Robert Caro’s monumental book, seven years in work, makes public at last what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses has been the single most powerful man of our time in the city and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens -the way things really get done in America’s City Halls and Statehouses – and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockfeller.” (Publisher’s dust jacket.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
