WERNER, M. R.; STARR, JOHN — Teapot Dome

New York: The Notable Trials Library, 1993. Quarter Leather. A deluxe facsimile edition presenting an account of the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s. In his introduction, series chairman Alan M. Dershowitz explains that corruption isn't rare, but exposing it, and punishing its perpetrators, is. This scandal was centered around outright theft and bribes in exchange for leasing rights to oil at the US Navy Petroleum Reserve in Wyoming (known as Teapot Dome). With numerous political cartoons. This facsimile of the original 1959 Viking Press edition is an entry in the Notable Trials Library series. --- In dark red cloth backed in darker red bonded leather, with fancy decorations in gilt to covers & spine, titling in gilt to spine, with four raised spine bands and sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. AEG (all edges gilt), with attractive faux marbled endpapers. --- An about-Fine copy: bright, newish and lacking damages.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [6], x, 306, [2] pages. As New with no dust jacket .