GETTY, J. Paul.
My Life and Fortunes.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce , 1963.
$975.00
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Item Number: RRB-145462
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First Edition of J. Paul Getty's My Life and Fortunes; with a Check Signed by Him
First edition of the autobiography of one of the world's wealthiest men, with a signed check by him laid in. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ned Glattauer. Additionally with a personal check, stamped and typed on Pacific Safety paper, made payable to the Pioneer Mercantile Co. for $17.97 on July 15, 1946. “Paid” hole-punching to the edge, signed “J. Paul Getty.” In fine condition.
Known largely for his fabled wealth, British American petrol-industrialist J. Paul Getty was highly educated, competent in six languages, a world traveler, and a committed collector of art. He founded Getty Oil Company and in, 1957, Fortune magazine named him the richest living American. At the time his autobiography was published, Getty estimated he owned, "a great deal over a billion" dollars in stocks in his various interlocking petroleum companies. An avid collector of art and antiquities, he established the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1974, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California.
My Life and Fortunes.
$975.00
Out of Stock
