Life of Jay Gould: How He Made His Millions; The Marvelous Career of the Man who, in Thirty Years, Accumulated the Colossal Fortune of $100,000,000 [One Hundred Million]; by Far Exceeding in Rapidity and Volume of That of Any Man in the History of the World; To Which are Added Sketches of the Great Money Kings of the Present Day More or Less Associated with Him (First Edition) by Halstead, Murat; Beale, J. Frank; Johnson, W. Fletcher; - 1892

Edgwood Publishing Co., 1892.

FIRST EDITION.

Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 
Illustrated.
490 pages.

Good+. Rear hinge has the slightest cracking but tight binding; a little foxing and some yellowing else clean pages; contemporary owner's names on front endpaper; some wear. 

A wonderful antique biography of the robber baron, Jay Gould, as well as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, Chauncey DePew, Andrew Carnegie, the Rothschilds, the Astors, John W. Mackay, Terence V. Powderly, Jim Fisk, etc.

Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 - December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the Robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial.