The Last Rivet

A first edition copy of the story of Rockefeller Center, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller Jr. drove the last rivet of the last building, on November 1, 1939.

• New York: Columbia University Press, 1940
• With photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Newspictures Inc., New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe and Paul J. Woolf.
• 45 pages.
• Quarto.
• Includes a letter from Nelson Rockefeller.
• With black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone, and illustrated endpapers.
• Bound in green flock-covered boards, brown cloth spine, titles stamped in silver on spine, inlaid "rivet" in silver card on upper side, illustrated dust jacket printed in silver

While copies are often accompanied by a standard letter from John D. Rockefeller, this copy has a letter from Nelson Rockefeller apologizing on his father's behalf for not inviting the recipient to the rivet-driving ceremony.