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Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine in publisher’s white non price-clipped dust-jacket. 392 pages. Index, Sources. Illustrated with half-tones. First American edition, translated from the French with some additional paragraphs concerning the historical personages and the happenings mentioned therein, composed by the translator Elise Du Pont Elrick. The story of the father of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, founder of the eponymously named Du Pont Corporation, one of America’s wealthiest and most successful 19th the 20th century companies, and his emigration to the United Stated during the French Revolution. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Some incidental age soiling to white jacket else as new. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.