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New York.: Hart Publishing Company., 1968. 1st American edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 Blue cloth over boards. Gold stamped spine titles. 252 p. 22 cm. World economics: During the 1960s, American companies were producing a tenth of all British manufactured goods, and these authors predicted that in a decade that amount would double, unless curbed.

Los Angeles.: The Carnation Company / Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, printers., 1974. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edge wear to jacket. Rear of jacket has small round stain, less than half-inch, and small surface dents.. 1 Durable tan linen over boards: decorated w/ bold red carnations icon and 'Carnation' company name, subtitles in black. End papers in color: old company ads. 253 p., 29 cm. Color and B&W photos and advertising facsimiles. Food industry company history: In 1899, E A (Elbridge Amos) Stuart, with vision and enthusiasm, began manufacturing evaporated milk, called "The Milk from Contented Cows". The first manufacturing facility was in Kent WA, south of Seattle. Inventor John Meyenberg developed the "Apparatus for Preserving Milk."

Broadway Books., 2005. First edition. 1st printing. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Minor shelf wear.. 1 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 768 p. Subtitle: "Behind thick corporate walls, in the shadows of Wall Street, along the corridors of political power, a scandal is brewing..." The Enron Corporation financial implosion and management scandal in 2001 is here told in a "roller-coaster" narrative style, taking readers behind closed doors, by an award-winning business journalist.

Addison Wesley Publishing Company., 2002. 2nd printing, 6th editon.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Ink notes inside cover, 4 lines. Rumpled half-title page at top.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. 6.25x9 in. Glossary. Index. Audience: Textbook needy. Textbook illustrated with graphs, charts, B&W photos. Authors at university level, Smith College and Bucknell University. Emphasis in chapters on critical thinking. US-based with section for International Economics at end.

New York.: The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York., 1908. No. 2008-5M-11-12, lower left back page.. Full leather. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Minor cover and edge blemishing. Page-block routine soiling. Light Age-toning. Very good quality materials.. 1 129 p. Red leather over lightly flexible hardcover boards. Gold stamped front titles. 19cm. Index: p. i-xii. Charts. Business / American Studies: First issued serially in 1903, and later bound in one volume, is here revised (reserve basis, policy forms, plans and methods). The target readers were company agents "just entering upon their career as solicitors". In the introduction, Dexter notes the profession of "Life Insurance" had come into its own, described as having "scientific features", and this manual is designed to recruit and train agents at no cost to the new employees.

Summit Books, 1987. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket.. 0 Cloth & Paper over boards. B&W photo section. Three generations of an American dynasty playing out the drama of fathers and sons against the industrial backdrop of the automotive industry they helped build. Complete with a different view of the Ford-Iacocca feud than read about in Lee Iacocca's autobiography.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. 11th printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has shelf wear.. 0 Blue Cloth & White Paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 544 p. Biography: A private citizen who distinguished himself in public service, b. 1898, Lower East Side, NY. He was not the baking soda king. He had become a doctor, an industrialist, an international entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a collector, and envoy of Presidents.

Gramercy Books, 1988. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 650 p. Audience: General/trade.

Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor edge soiling. Book front lower corner, small spot of white paint. Tight. DJ had been protected.. 1 336 p. 22 cm. 3 B&W photo sections. Black and red cloth covered boards; silver stamped spine and cover titles. More than an autobiography, but an account of the business and emotion in gambling, a history of Reno, Nevada, from the perspective of a teen apprentice on the midway, who acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of gambling and its personalities. He then parlayed a penny-ante bingo parlor into one of the world's largest gambling casinos Harold's Club.

Syracuse University Press, 2000. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Author title page inscription to Kathy. DJ protected by clear cover.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. 224 p. B&W photos throughout. Audience: General/trade. Biography: Harper pioneered the idea of a public hairdressing salon based on health-conscious precepts, and set up a franchise network. The business took off, supported by social elite and suffragettes. Her standards were progressive, including child care. Ontario born, she had emigrated to the US in 1888.

New York / London.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1947. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Printed label inside cover: "Presented by General Electric Company".. 1 Light gold linen cloth over boards. Brown gold-trimmed title boxes, spine and front. xi, 272 p. 23 cm. B&W Photos, Portraits, Plates. Company History during America's response to World War II challenges. Chapters inform: Electric war, precision manufacturing; Turbine horsepower; Diesel-electric; Shock-proofing; Repairs; Jet propulsion; Mobile power plants; Radar; Effective gunfire; Health and Medicine; Multiplying production; New plastics; Silicone rubber development; Radiography testing; Atomic research and engineering. Appendices list achievements, awards.

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1958. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor end paper foxing at back. A customer with small teeth has sampled 1-inch sections at top spine and top rear each, or some other purposeful light damage.. 1 518 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Leather like maroon covers, 3-pin binding, showing a sample cover with 2 alternative cover materials. Sample volume selections as pages with promotional sections, front and back. This is a salesperson's sample book showing the World Book Encyclopedia at its best for families and schools; the importance of having educational resources that are attractive, with attention-getting and informative illustrations, as well as easy guides for locating the needed materials. As a 1958 edition, this is also a 'remember when' piece of nostaigia.

Oxford University Press., 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear to DJ.. 1 Cloth & Paper over boards. 224 p. Author writes of the explosion in information provided by the computer invention with the historical perspective of language, writing, and printing. Bookseller's question: So, how does this late 20th century perspective line up with the rapidly evolving technologies during the first millennial decades?

Suisse.: Omega., N.D.. 120th Anniversary.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light surface wear to plastic jacket.. 1 95 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Color illustrated covers, covered by thick clear plastic "jacket". 9x8.75in. Colorfully illustrated pages: color and B&W photos, Pen&Ink art, spot color graphics. History of timepieces and humanity's inventiveness as society's developed. Omega, the company, has played a significant role in that history.

Toronto: New York.: Viking / Penguin Books Canada., 1991. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 Silver & black textured paper over boards. 258 p.; 24 cm. Index. Greed and ambition in the highest places, and what they have done to the fate of a nation, Canada. Globalization, writes journalist McQuaig, is a con game for the rich to get richer. In 1991, she was awarded an Atkinson Fellowship for journalism in public policy.

Self-published by author & Lucky Strike, 1938. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 0 3 p., 94 p. 20 cm. Photos sepia-toned. Tan textured paper covered boards. Title box paste-on, cream with brown titles. On half-title: New York World's Fair, with event logo. Photos of agricultural and manufacturing process of cigarettes. The American Tobacco Company and Lucky Strike built a production plant for the World's Fair event.

American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1937. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 32 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Unpaginated; Illustrated, pen&ink; blue ink on lt. blue paper covers; engraving style b&w inside; Astronomical, Bell System histor & info, Theodore M. Vail Memorial Fund, News, Switchboard history, Rebus;

New York / Avenel NJ: Wings Books / Random House Value Publishing, 1995. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. A few bent corner pages. Clean. Uniform age-toning to paper.. 0 Yellow cloth & black paper over boards; blue spine titles. Business; American industrial management, marketing. Leadership approach introduced in the 1980s.

West Windsor (Brownsville) VT: Vermont Historical Narratives, 1999. First edition. Presumed 1st printing, unstated.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Sun-fade and minor edge wear to DJ.. 1 265 p. Includes illustrations. Red cloth covered boards, gold stamped spine and front titles. Brown end papers. B&W photos inside, and on jacket. 7.75x10.5in. Autobiography centered on how John and Mary Howland of West Windsor, Vermont, managed to support a family while still based in the low population region in which John was born. Wed in 1941, and off to service in World War II, John's account includes a history of his small machine tool industry participation, building a business with the cast-off machinery (and their operators) from larger companies that were modernizing in the post-war economy. Life took him later to the Vermont Senate and 10 years service in that "citizen legislature". Appendices offer the text of Bicentennial speeches and his view of Nuclear Power. The 50 years… Read More