SPINDLETOP.
Clark, James A., and Michel T. Halbouty:
New York. [1952]. xvi,306pp. plus illus. Pictorial cloth, map endpapers. Near fine in lightly worn dust jacket. The Beaumont Edition, "one of a limited printing produced especially for sale in Beaumont, Texas, home of the magnificent Spindletop oil field." Presentation copy, inscribed by one of the authors: "To my friends at / Goodall, Bentman & Co, Inc. / James A. Clark." The story of the first great oil gusher found in Texas, in 1901, and the oil boom that ensued. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 30.
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