The Power Broker, Robert Caro
First edition, first printing of Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, signed by Caro to the title page. "Robert Caro's monumental book, seven years in work, makes public at last what few outsides have known: that Robert Moses has been the single most powerful man of our time in the city and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens – the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses – and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockfeller."
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Publisher's original black cloth boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, illustrations and maps throughout; pp. x, [2], 1246, xxxiv, [2]. A near fine copy in a very good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket shows light shelfwear, crease to front flap. A very presentable copy, scarce signed, protected in archival mylar.