First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's navy cloth, titles stamped in gilt with green ornament. 24.5 cm; 9.5 inches tall; 404 pages with index. Endpages decorated with "simplified' Family Business Tree'. ------ Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Top of cloth a bit sunned. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has moderate handling, no chipping or tears. ------ Working with diaries, letters, and personal reminiscences supplied by members of interwoven families--Loeb, Lehman, Straus, Seligman, and Guggenheism, among others--Stephen Birmingham has assembled a remarkable composite portrait. some of his tales are wildly funny. others are poignant. All are set within a world of numbing opulence.