The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson [FIRST EDITION] 2003

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson FIRST EDITION [2003] CROWN PUBLISHERS 7th Printing.  Hardcover with Dust jacket.  DJ is price clipped but is overall in Very Good condition with some light shelf / rub wear.  Book itself is excellent;  hint of tanning to pages.  Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture