Publicado por E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1925
Librería: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good plus. 1st Edition. [264pp]: [ii], vi, 256; crimson linen stamped black, jacket (unclipped & unpriced); 197 x 140 x 35 mm. A tight clean lovely copy of the intrepid professor's last book, in nicer than average jacket, worn only at crown of spine & top edge front. An examination of eminent domain with respect to the institution of the Ontario Hydro Commission (1906). "There are many complications and several unexplained mysteries in Ontario Hydro-Electric history but the fact is indisputable that because of its policy, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario has from the beginning of its history been a menace to the financial credit and to the liberties of the people of the Province. The Chairman of the Hydro-Electric has for the past twenty years been the Dictator of Ontario [p8]." Mentions Reginald Aubrey Fessenden but once, as the "only technically qualified member" of the preliminary Municipal Electric Commission (1903-5). Ex libris, A.E. Eckardt, President of the Robert Laidlaw Lumber Company, Toronto; with his ink autograph & address on ffe.