Author: GIBB, GEORGE SWEET, AND EVELYN H. KNOWLTON
Title: The resurgent years 1911-1927. History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Description: New York: Harper, 1956 (1st ed.); 8vo (24.5cm), frontispiece, xxxii+754pp., 33 pages of black-white photographs, charts and maps, tables, appendices, endnotes, index, green cloth w. dustjacket. Dj. spine faded, normal wear, book v. good copy w. slight foxing on the edges. Rare with original dustjacket. ¶ 'The dissolution decree of 1911 was regarded as a crippling blow to the giant Standard Oil organization. [...] This volume traces the course of a resurgent enterprise in a dynamic, often hostile, environment. Surviving the shock of dismemberment, Jersey Standard moved into a new world. [...] The Age of Petroleum was at hand.'

Keywords: oil industry