Hardcover. Good. No Dj. 1st Edition 1st Issue. John Lane, NY, 1914. Gilt lettering is clean, but heather blue textured cloth with Art Nouveau design in dark blue on the cover shows two dime sized spots on front, the rear shows some soiling, fraying at head of spine at hinge. Text block is bright clean, binding is square, tight, pages flow freely. No markings save library markings from the Poland Spring Maine Library, which includes an embossed stamp on title page.The second volume in Dreiser's epic trilogy of big city American business and politics which follows the rise, fall, and rise again of the driven and unscrupulous broker Frank Algernon Cowperwood, a fictional account based on the career of Charles Yerkes, financial genius who engineered the construction of the Chicago Loop and the British Subway System in this condition, an internally bright and clean, very good copy.