The Story of the Waldorf-Astoria. Illustrated

New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), vi, 283 pages. FIRST EDITION. The definitive history of the early years of this grand New York City hotel. "No business is more intimate with human nature than the hotel business. And no record of a hotel more resplendent of contacts with human nature than this record of distinguished tradition - the Waldorf-Astoria." Fine in original royal blue cloth, gilt-titled at the spine. In the scarce dust jacket, complete but splitting at hinges and with a bit of edge chipping.