1926 Auto Industry Book. Signed & Inscribed by Forbes.

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Title: Automotive Giants of America

1926 - First Edition

Signed and Inscribed by the Author B. C. Forbes

(The Founder of Forbes Magazine, and Father of Malcom Forbes)

Book is From the Collection of L. Scott Bailey (Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

Book has L. Scott Bailey's Stamp

Inscribed by Forbes to Frank J. Duffy of New York

Printed in Norwood, Massachusetts: By the Plimpton Press

295 Pages

Size: 7.25 x 5.25 inches

Above:  Front Flyleaf is Signed and Inscribed by the Author B. C. Forbes

(The Founder of Forbes Magazine, and Father of Malcom Forbes)

(I'm not Sure Who Frank Duffy Is.)

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Above:  Book is From the Collection of L. Scott Bailey (Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

Front Flyleaf has L. Scott Bailey's Stamp

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Above:  In the Original Cover

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Above:  The Title Page

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Above:  Biographies of 20 American Auto Executives

With a Portrait of Each

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Above:  The Spine has L. Scott Bailey's Cataloging Label

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Written, Signed, and Inscribed by B. C. Forbes (Founder of Forbes Magazine):

Bertie Charles Forbes (born 1880 – died 1954) was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine.

Bertie Forbes was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He studied at the University of Dundee, before moving to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he founded the Rand Daily Mail.

In 1904 he emigrated to New York City where he was a writer and financial editor at the Journal of Commerce.  He then joined the Hearst chain of newspapers as a columnist in 1911. He then became the business and financial editor at the New York American.

In 1917 B. C. Forbes founded Forbes magazine in 1917.  He was the editor of this magazine until lhis death in 1954.  His two oldest sons assisted him with this magazine: Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes.

Forbes founded the Investors League in 1942.

Book is from the Collection of L. Scott Bailey (Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

L. Scott Bailey was the founding editor and publisher of Automobile Quarterly, which began in 1962. He described the magazine as "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow".

L. Scott Baily's publishing office was first in New York, before relocating to Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in Berks County, in 1963.  There the magazine was operated as Automobile Quarterly, Inc., and later as a subsidiary of The Kutztown Publishing Company, Inc. In 2000, they became part of Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC, and relocated to New Albion, Indiana.

L. Scott Baily was a classic car collector.  His collection included a Duryea and a Carrozzeria Bertone Ford Mustang,

The Book's Content:

The book presents biographies of 20 leaders of the American automobile industry, in the 1920s and earlier.

They are:  Harry Bassett, Roy Chapin, Walter Chrysler, William Durant, Albert Erskine, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Charles Hastings, Frederick Haynes, John Hertz, Edward Jordan, Charles Kettering, Alvan Macauley, Charles S. Mott, Charles Nash, R. E. Olds, Alfred P. Sloan Jr, H. H. Timken, Walter White, and John Willys.

I purchased this book from an antiques dealer here in Pennsylvania.

Condition:   Very Nice Condition:  No library or institution markings. Pages are bright and clean, with no foxing or stains. Pages are securely attached.  Interior hinges are very good. The foot of the cover's spine is worn, with light rubbing to the cover's fore-corners.

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