Houston Land of Big & Rich FUERMANN 1st

Houston Land of the Big and Rich - Story of a Fabulous City by George Fuermann 1951 First Edition HBDJ - 255 pages. EXTREMELY SCARCE with jacket. The author lists nine men and one woman at the hub of Houston's turbulent prosperity & finance. Illustrated by Lowell Collins. Doubleday. NOT an EX LIB. Jacket: POOR. Heavy soiling, damp staining, & tearing repaired with scotch tape on inner side. Unclipped, $3.50 retail VOL: VG. Tan cloth boards, with dark green lettering on spine. Boards have minor soiling & traces of damp staining along upper front corner & page edges which corresponds to same on jacket, front board slightly cocked at upper right, peeled spot on inner graphic endpapers from price label removal, very minor bumping to corners & edges. Inner pages bright, clean, no markings, tears or flaws noted. Illustrations drawn in green ink throughout. Tightly bound. GRADING FAIR due to jacket condition although inner volume VG.