2003, ISBN: 9780195034509

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Illustrations. From the publish… Mehr…

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Illustrations. From the publisher's website: "At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan.", Simon & Schuster, 2003, 3, Oxford University Press, 1984-06-21. Hardcover. Good., Oxford University Press, 1984-06-21, 2.5<

1992, ISBN: 9780195034509

[State College, Pa: The Centre County Historical Society, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 1992. Quarto. xiv,113 pp., including numerous in-text illustrations, … Mehr…

[State College, Pa: The Centre County Historical Society, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 1992. Quarto. xiv,113 pp., including numerous in-text illustrations, plus folding facsimile map of the Scotia Mines in rear pocket. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. Near fine. Scarce historial account of the turn-of-the-century iron ore mining town of Scotia, Pennsylvania, now part of a state game preserve in Patton Township., The Centre County Historical Society, 1992, 4, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library.. 263 p. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921 Very Good Condition Ex-library book. Has only a few library marks, Dark Green illustrated cloth cover, edges rubbed, corners bumped, pages are clean & unmarked, spine is tight. This is a book of American heroes who changed our way of life today as we know it. It has tales of many men including: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, William T. G. Morton, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington(founder of the Tuskegee Institute) and many more. JM60, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921, 2.5, Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5<