Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1957. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #46378
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1957. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in teal and red dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); xii,242pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece and eleven leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos. Ubiquitous small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, 2" shallow loss at bottom edge of rear panel not quite touching text, spine panel sunned; overall Very Good in About Very Good jacket.
Biography of the inventor and engineer Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958), who headed the department of research at General Motors for more than twenty-five years. This copy with a compliments card from GM laid in.
Price: $75.00