The Empire of Business (1st edition, April 1902)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., April 1902. 1st ed., Royal octavo, original maroon cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering upper board and spine, b&w frontis portrait plate of Carnegie with tissue guard, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, pp ix, 345. Fading to the boards, light water marks to the upper board. Corners lightly bumped, the rear bottom corner lightly rubbed Previous owner's signature front free endpaper, dated 1932, 'New York'. otherwise clean. Very good condition.
True first edition dated April 1902. A collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie, on a range of business topics. Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-nineteenth century and became one of the richest Americans in history. Despite being one of the famous American robber barons, he gave away most of his vast wealth. He believed that "... the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." Among his many charities he established three thousand public libraries: the book includes his address to working men at the dedication of a Pennsylvania library, "The Common Interest of Labour and Capital". "The Empire of Business" is a pragmatic discussion of "the road to business sucess" (the title of the first essay), tempered with his own philosophies. It is a business classic, uncommon as a first edition. Item #105805
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