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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Toning to the endpapers, otherwise very mild wear to the book. The dust jacket has chips and a few edge tears and is protected now in a Mylar sleeve. About 10.5 inches square. Unpaginated, but about 85-90 pages. Nearly 200 black and white photos by Thomas Hollyman document the oil industry in post-World War II years, from finding and extracting oil to refining and delivering its products to customers. The book was produced with the cooperation of Shell Oil Company employees..
The Oilmen: A Photographic Story by Parker, Charles. Hollyman, Thomas - 1952
by Parker, Charles. Hollyman, Thomas
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The Oilmen: A Photographic Story
by Parker, Charles. Hollyman, Thomas
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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1952. 1952 Edition with 1952 copyright and Rinehart logo on copyright page. VERY GOOD+ in VERY GOOD pictorial dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Filled with dramatic black & white photos of rigs, wells, pipe lines and refineries - and the men who labor at them. Pages are fine. Light beige cloth hardcover is titled in red on spine and front. The cloth is lightly toned along bottom edge, but cover is otherwise clean and fresh. Jacket, with full coverage black and white photos on front and back is clean, moderately edgeworn (several closed tears and creases, small chips). Front flap has been price clipped. The jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding and hinges are firm, intact and straight. Though times have changed, the book provides youngsters (and adults!) insight to a fascinating facet of the oil industry. 10-1/2 x 10-3/4". 96 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Hollyman, Thomas (Photographer). 4to.
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- Date Published 1952
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The Oilmen: A Photographic Story
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The Oilmen A Photographic Story by Thomas Hollyman
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New York & Toronto: Reinhart & Company, [1952]. First Edition. 4to. unpaginated. numerous b/w illus. (many full & double-page). Cloth (lower left corner of covers damp-stained, with ripping throughout majority of text block). Dw (dw rubbed with numerous short tears & small chips)
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