Craig, A. [compiler]. Room at the Top : or, How to reach Success, Happiness, Fame and Fortune, with Biographical Notices of Successful, Self-Made Men, who have risen from Obscurity to Fame. Including Gen Jas. A. Garfield, Elihu B. Washburne, Dwight L. Moody, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Peabody, Robert Fulton, Elias Howe, Jr., Hiram Powers, with Eight Portraits, also, Rules for Behavior in Society. Chicago: W. G. Holmes, 1880. First Edition. [11738]
Terra cotta cloth decorated in gilt & black, binding has a few small stains and slight edge-wear, some fading to the spine gilt, 8 x 5 inches. Gold end papers, portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt as frontispiece, 304 pp. with additional portraits. Infrequent smudges; leaves starting to tone at the edges. Good. Hardcover.
A collection of advice on success and happiness, with examples of men familiar to the audience at the time.
