Description
Signed first edition, first printing of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and The Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro.
Thick octavo, [x], [2], 1246pp, [xxxiv index]. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Red top stain. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Complete with all maps and photographic plates. Light toning to black cloth along top quarter, shelf wear to lower edge of text block. Clean text throughout. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $17.95 on front flap, “9/74” date code on rear panel, faint shelf wear on rear cover, bright illustrations on spine, a near fine example.
This copy is signed by Robert A. Caro on the half-title.
This early work by Robert A. Caro won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1975 and is often cited as one of the best biographies of the 20th century.
