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Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.95 price intact). Published by Random House, 1952. Octavo. Pictorial boards with cartographic endpapers and black topstain. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners, binding tight and pages crisp. Spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and small nicks/tears. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 305 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

USA: RANDOM HOUSE, 1952. 1ST EDITION. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. USA: RANDOM HOUSE, 1952. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. USA: RANDOM HOUSE, 1952. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. USA: RANDOM HOUSE, 1952. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. Random House 1952. Book Condition: near fine, DJ: Very Good+. 1st edtion, 2nd Printing. Considered the best book written about Spindletop, and the oil discovery that changed the World! Illustrated with photographs, and an area map on the endpapers. Book in great shape, with crisp clean pages, unclipped dust jacket and no markings throughout book, mylar cover, not remaindered, not ex-library, very collectible. L238

Random House, 1952-01-01. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Signed by Author. Signed by Clark and Halbouty on the FFEP. The binding is tight, bottom corner of back panel is lightly bumped. Text and images are unmarked, though pgs. 151 to 164 show some yellowing in the gutters from a long lost bookmark. Top stain is clean. Gift inscription on the FFEP. Previous owner has stamped their name at the top of both pastedowns and end papers. The illustrated dust jacket shows some handling, chipping and loss at the head and tail of spine and corners of wraps, edge wear, light soiling, unclipped, in a mylar cover.

Random House, 1952. Hard cover. Fair/Fair. Jacket spine is sunned. Jacket edges are worn. Jacket is tanned. Spine is shaken, but secure. Text block tanned and lower corner is water stained. Back end leaf has an article inserted titled, "Boom Town on a University Campus" by Leon Hale from 1977. Article has left a stain on the end leaf. Inside is tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked.

New York: Random House. Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Small Tear at Front Top Edge/Price Clipped/Gift Inscription/Owner Inscription/1St Edition, 4Th Printing. .

New York. : Random House. , 1952. 2nd printing. . Pictorial orange and brown cloth, gilt spine title, top edge stained black. . Very good in a very good dustjacket. . 23.5x15 cm. . Signed by James A. Clark on the ffep.

Random House. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Second Printing. Hardcover. 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; Signed by Author .

New York: Random House, 1952. Third Printing (so stated) . Hardcover. Very Good/None. Signed and dated in green pen on the first page of the book over a map as follows: "To/Russell Barron/With Warm Personal Regards/Michel T. Halbouty/(in a different handwriting) James A. Clark/30 Jan '62/". The Spindletop gusher gave birth to an industry and a new age, it also developed the men to man it and armed them with the ingenuity and resourcefulness necessary to progress. Spindletop stands as a fountainhead of American progress and prosperity and as the symbol of an industry. This work of 306 pages, plus an index and two appendices, tells the story lest we forget. The storytellers who signed this volume are no longer with us and the exact location of where Spindletop was has been lost. Let the story never be lost. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!

Random House. Good in Good dust jacket. 1952. First ed; Stated First Printing. Paperback. 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; Signed by All Authors .