Pound, Arthur

The Golden Earth, The Story of Manhattan's Landed Wealth

New York: Macmillan, 1935.

First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 316 pp, indexed and illustrated, bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering. Fine copy in a very good jacket with fading to spine, short tear and some abrasion to lower front panel, chip to top edge of front panel near spine. Appealing dust jacket art credited to Lundquist. Account of the growth of land values in New York City, particularly Manhattan, and how "the island has become a reservior of wealth, worth more than all the gold mined since its discovery."

Item #24252

Price: $100.00