A flier in oil; Adolph B. Spreckels and the rise of the California petroleum industry
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 2000. Paperback. viii, 95p., 12x9 inch oblong; preface, notes, index, clearly-reproduced period site photography, very good first edition in original pictorial card covers decorated with a frightening wraparound panorama reproduced in sepia. Frightening? well, extensive oil tower wastelands do that.
Cat.No: 122878
ISBN: 0910312583
Price: $20.00
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