First edition. 284p, with occasional black and white plate illustrations. In green cloth covered boards with titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth is faded at edges, sunned over spine, gently rubbed at corners and spine ends. A few mild marks on endpapers else neat, clean, bright and tight internally.
The Vanderbilts were once the richest family in the United States, a fortune built on shipping and railroads. The volume tells of the violent feud between Cornelis Vanderbilt Jr's (the author) parents and his sister Grace Wilson Vanderbilt following her elopement with Neily Vanderbilt III in the 1890s.
