Author: DARBY, Edwin
Title: The Fortune Builders
Description: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1986. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 276pp. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Handsome, quite tight first edition of this account of Chicago's wealthiest -- as jacket front panel proclaims, "They made it big and changed the country. Swift, Armour, McCormick, Pritzker, Field, MacArthur, Wrigley, and others." Front flyleaf bears bold author inscription and signature in blue fineline: "For Tom and Cassie / Good Fortune and / Best wishes / Edwin Darby / Christmas, 1986." Darby (1922-81) was a noted Chicago financial report, and Tom Hollatz was a Chicago crime reporter, John Dillinger scholar and author of "Gangster Holidays: The Lore and Legends of the Bad Guys" (1987). .

Keywords: Chicago Business & Economics


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