Since Spindletop: A Human Story of Gulf's First Half-Century

Craig Thompson

Published by Gulf Oil Limited, Pittsburgh, 1951

About this Item

A pleasing presentation copy of Gulf Oil's 50th-anniversary publication, celebrating and highlighting the company's development. A presentation copy of this work, with a tipped in letter from Gulf Oil Limited, signed by the Managing Director, J. Russell Knowles.In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt emblem to the front board.Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.Illustrated throughout, including a monochrome frontispiece and a folding coloured map.A history of the development of Gulf Oil, a major global oil company that operated from 1901-1985 and one of the Seven Sisters oil companies.The company celebrates a half century of the company's run, beginning with the output of oil at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas and going on to detail the opening of the world's first drive-in gas station by the company in Pittsburgh. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine.

Seller Inventory # 934Y38

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Since Spindletop: A Human Story of Gulf's First Half-Century
• Publisher: Gulf Oil Limited, Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 1951
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: book
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