The Fate of the Edsel and Other Business Adventures by Brooks, John - 1963

Victor Gollancz, UK, 1964. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Prior seller's sticker. Chips and open tears to jacket, minor browning and foxing, jacket spine browned. Foxing/browning to early and rear pages and page block edges, text clean. Minor marks and wear to boards. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Now protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap..

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 182 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Wear marks overall.

Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket is protected in mylar. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding remains tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wrinkling and closed tears to rear jacket flap. Discoloration to boards; tight binding; bend to several pages and a small closed tear to fore-edge of one leaf; previous owner stamp on paste-down endpapers; unmarked text; unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. good. 182 pages slight soiling to rear board, board corners somewhat worn. John Brooks (1920-1993) was an award-winning writer best known for his contributions to the New Yorker as a financial journalist, and for his examination of Wall Street and the corporate world. Topics covered in this book include the Ford Motor Company's Edsel (now a popular symbol for a commercial failure); security analyst Walter Gutman; Clarence Saunders and the Piggly Wiggly Stores; price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracies in the electrical-manufacturing industry; and the London Stock Exchange. Derived from a Kirkus Review: A refreshingly zestful approach to the matter of getting and spending and sometimes losing money. The major treat is the spectacle of the Edsel debacle, which started with delusionary dreams of glory, proceeded through the wildest reaches of motivational research, evolved in a veil of secrecy until the final numbing striptease, to the nostalgic… Read More

Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Half black cloth cover with yellow boards is rubbed at corners with bumped spine caps and a white scuff along back hinge but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Publisher's note laid-in "To the Literary Editor". Pages are clean and pristine. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has wear to the extremities, a tear to back panel, and heavy scuffing but clean, bright, and in very good- condition. Publisher's price of $4.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 8.4 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 182 pages .

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Good. 182, [10] pages. Slight soiling to rear board, board corners somewhat worn. John Brooks (December 5, 1920 - July 27, 1993) was a writer and longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, where he worked for many years as a staff writer, specializing in financial topics. Brooks was also the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction, the best known of which was an examination of the financial shenanigans of the 1960s Wall Street bull market. In a field known for bone-dry adjectives, writer Brooks lent his business writing a new panache. In describing Ford's Edsel, for instance, Brooks wrote in his best-known New Yorker essay that the newly engineered vehicle was "clumsy, powerful, dowdy, gauche, well-meaning - a deKooning woman." Topics covered in this book include the Ford Motor Company's Edsel (now a popular symbol for a commercial failure); security analyst Walter Gutman; Clarence Saunders and the Piggly Wiggly… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First edition, UK. Front and rear boards in good condition with minimal signs of edgewear. Dust jacket chipped at corners and at head/foot of spine, discoloured along edges/spine, closed tear to foot of spine (1cm), pp clean and unmarked, final few pages uncut along head of text block, binding sprung but secure.. (first edition). Cloth Boards. Good Plus/Fair. 8vo.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins, 1995. Good condition Softcover Octavo, 1995, 1st edition, 1st printing. Wear of wraps. Highlighting.. 1st Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Kockums Jernverks Aktiebolag, Ronneby, 1951, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 64 pages, 8"x 11", illustrated with photographs. Text in English

Boston: Robinson Press Printers, 1898. Pages and covers creased, wrinkles slightly, at lower spine corner; Red ink arrow at top of pages listing board members and officers and red check-marks next to office locations; Red 'x' at top of forth page with two line underlined in red.. Stapled Booklet; 9" x 5.75"; pp. [5]. [3] blank.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1997. 298 pages. Reprint of the original 1937 edition. First Thus with full numberline. Forewords by Irving Kahn, 1997 and Alvin Johnson, 1937. From jacket: "When Benjamin Graham wrote Storage and Stability in 1937, the world was in the midst of the Great Depression. Written as a blueprint for economic recovery, the book was designed to spur both governments and the public to greater financial awareness. Based upon years of research and economic modeling, Graham's new theories focus on the inherent importance of supply and demand, products and consumption, and their inherent influences on value investing... (This volume) outlines Graham's revolutionary plan for regulating supply and demand, stabilizing prices, and stimulating financial recovery." Bumped top corner of front cover, name and date written on fep and a small area of soil inside front cover. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and… Read More

The Hague: Mouton, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Former owners' impression seal to first two pages. From the collection of anthropologist Penn Handwerker. Text block unmarked. Spine creased and faded. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 385 pages.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926, Cartoons by Camillus Kessler. Quarto, cloth pictorial boards, 274 pages, no dust jacket. Platinum Age comics depicting celebrities, political humor, captains of industry (and their first jobs), economics and social strata. Cracked hinges, toning, wear to covers, clean pages.
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New York. Van Norden & Amerman, Printers, no. 60 William-Street., 1852. 8vo, 22.8cm, 18p., light printed printed with with titles in publisher's decorated frame border, very good condition, (Pol). WorldCat located six copies. None on line.

STREET RAILWAY ROADBED. Street Railway Publishing Company, New York. First Edition, 1898. 135 pages indexed. Authors: Mason D. Pratt and C.A. Alden. ILLUSTRATED with drawings, diagrams, tables. Former owner name and date of 1903 on front floral end-paper. RARE. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IF ISSUED. A nice copy. Please see our photos.

BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.