BRIDGE, James Howard (1858–1939). The History of the Carnegie Steel Company. New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903.

Royal 8vo. Numerous plates with captioned tissue guards including frontispiece portrait. Original crushed mottled levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, broad turn–ins gilt, crushed blue levant doublures gilt inlaid with a white morocco quatrefoil design, silk front free endpapers (spine gently sunned, some light rubbing at extreme corners).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 75 copies, this being a “special” copy of the “Author’s Edition” on imperial Japanese vellum, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. “An inside review of [The Carnegie Steel Company’s] humble origin and impressive growth” (from the title–page).