BUSINESS History from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Boston, MA: Suffolk Savings Bank, 1933. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 84pp.

Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1995. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 1851586911 264pp.

West Cornwall, CT: published by the author, 1982. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) signed by author. B&W illustrations. Fascinating study of the early forges and stone blast furnaces of colonial and 19th century America. Covers the operation of the furnaces, making of the charcoal that fueled them, waterwheels, bellows, etc., and some of the famous ironworks and ironmasters… Read more

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0805004572 This is the story of an illegal network that functioned without detection for more than five years. It is the story of millions of dollars of ill-gotten gains. And it is the story of a too-clever kid from Bayside, Queens, with… Read more

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0801482585 Narrative and statistical documnets from the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor first thirty years. 240pp.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. PB. good+, wraps (softcover) FADED SPINE - FOXING TOP EDGE. ISBN 0801494419 Spine has faded, and there is foxing to the top edge of the book block. 390pp.

Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1975. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE. NOTE - SOME SMOKY DISCOLORATION ON EDGES OF DUSTJACKET, AND FOREEDGE OF THE BOOK BLOCK -- During this period to the mid-nineteenth century, Americans used wood as building material, fuel, and raw material for processed chemicals. This book probes features of the technology of… Read more

Greenville, DE: The Hagley Museum, 1976. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0914650106 64pp.

1931. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Fantastic advertisements, illustrations, and articles. 240pp.

Hershey, PA: Hershey Foods Corporation, 1979. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. 96pp.

Hershey, PA: Milton Hershey School, 1973. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. A reprint from the 1959 Random House biography of Hershey in a different format for distribution to the public who visit Hershey. 40pp.

Waterbury, CT: The Heminway Press, 1929. HC. very good, dark green paper covered boards (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Small unpaginated book. unpaginated.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. HC. very good, cream cloth (hardcover) with good cloth dustjacket. QUOIN CLUB EDITION with cloth dustjacket - some soiling to cloth jacket. 308pp.

Beaux Arts Editions, 2002. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0883636778 240pp.

Boston: Baker Library Harvard Univ, 1957. HC. good, gray cloth (hardcover). The contents of this volume suggest that the businessman, traditionally close-mouthed about his affairs, has in fact been recording his story with impressive enthusiasm." Sections of the bibliography include: Agriculture and Fishing; Contract Construction; Manufacturing; Transportation; Public Utilities; Distribution; Finance; Insurance: Real Estate and Colonial Land Companies;… Read more

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1917. HC. good, gray cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. And, "Wholesale Jobbers of Mill, Steam and Plumbing Supplies, Engines, Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery and Dairy Supplies." Fantastic large trade catlogue. 730pp.

Glens Falls, NY: Glen Falls Insurance Co, 1949. HC. good, maroon cloth (hardcover) Valley Forge Library Stamp. B&W illustrations. 56pp.

Granville, NY: Grastorf Press, 1970. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 32pp.

Princeton, NJ: Berlitz International, Inc, 1998. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 2831561949 168pp.

London: Atlas Assurance Company, 1958. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. 48pp.