first edition Softcover
1950 · [No place - North River, New York?]
by HOOPER, Frank C., as told by
[No place - North River, New York?]: Alice Hooper Tibbets, 1950. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled printed green wrappers. 52pp. Frontispiece portrait. Wraps a little sunned, else near fine. Autobiographical account of a mining engineer who graduated from the Columbia University School of Mines, gold mined in Idaho, but eventually patented a process to separate garnnets from their matrix, and then bacame a major player in the garnet indusctry. Scarce. *OCLC* locates two copies. (Inventory #: 293411)