BLACK GOLD: The Story of an Oil Pioneer. Selected Experiences and Incidents Associated With Sixty Years of World-Wide Petroleum Exploration and Oilfield Development.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the "Grand Old Man of Oil," an English engineer who traveled to Africa in 1896, to Baku two years later and then to the Caribbean, Peru, Egypt, Arabia and Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in the United States. A foreword by former President Herbert Hoover, but one which focuses on the association between his mining firm and Beeby-Thompson's oil firm. Stamped on the front pastedown is the notice "A personal reading copy for our bookseller friends whose opinions and criticisms we welcome and value." Photographs, index. 544 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with a blue illustration of an oil rig and gilt lettering on the spine a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, rubbing, creasing and edgewear, now protected by an archival cover).