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Greenwich, Conn.: Blyth Industries, Inc., 1999. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 191pp. Two sections of bw photographs. Prev owner name neatly on ffep. Med blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Colour photo illustrated DJ clean and without wear. A chronicle of remarkable business success. Blyth Industries is now one of the leading marketers of candles, home fragrance and home décor products with locations spanning the globe.

Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, 2003. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 278pp. bw photos in text. Signed by the author to title page. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. 1st SC printing.

Boston, MA, USA: Cahners Books / Cahners Publishing Co., Inc., 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lewis, Ray. Vol. 1 - x, 169pp. Vol. 2 - 154pp. Blackline caricature illustrations. Black cloth w crisp white lettering on cover and spine, black relief lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Bindings square and sound. Original slipcase is structurally sound showing surface scuff to all sides. Resting upon a firm foundation of four highly personal convictions, or perhaps prejudices, the emphasis in these books is on the human element in management because the need for men and women who can manage others effectively will never diminish.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Sagesse Editions / SIRDAN, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 108pp. Stamp to ffep. Black boards w crisp gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo.

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 310pp with chapter notes and index. Cream colour boards with silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Light orange DJ clean, not price-clipped, with 1cm triangular chip bottom front edge. "This book offers the first full-scale account of the merchant builders, Levitt, US Homes, Fox and Jacobs, and Eichler Homes prominently among them, who gave a major impetus to the American dream of homeownership as an attainable goal for the average family. The Merchant Builders carries the story from the large-tract developments that were built after World War II to the very different economic environment of the 1980s

New York, NY, USA: Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiii, 190pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. From the series, Museum Meanings.

Vevey, Switzerland: Nestle S. A., 1992. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 525pp w index. Illustrated w photographs from the Nestle Archives and private collections. Ribbon place-marker intact. Brown endpapers. Grey cloth w fine lettering in black title panel on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine, binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without edgewear, showing light bumping to head. DJ preserved in archival cover. Originally published in 1991 as, Nestle: Cent Vingt-Cinq Ans de 1866 a 1991, and translated from the French for this first English language edition by B.J. Benson with Constance Devanthery-Lewis.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1956. Special Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 223pp w glossary, appendix and index. Cartographic endpapers. Red cloth w gilt lettering on spine and recipient's name on lower front cover. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. DJ has the appearance of hammered copper w small rectangular cutout to reveal recipients name. DJ is clean showing moderate surface wear to corners, top edge, head and tail and features small rectangular cut-out in lower front corner to reveal recipient's name. DJ preserved in archival cover. (Trade editions of this book featured a full-wrap pictorial DJ reproducing a painting by A. J. Casson.) Canada Wire's Red Reel Library selection for 1957.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The John Day Company, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 394pp. Top edge dyed yellow. Yellow DJ flap tipped on to front pastedown. Adhesive ghost on ffep, perhaps from where rear DJ flap had been tipped on, now missing. Brick-red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Lettering dulled. Minor wear to head and tail and corners. Joints and hinges sound. "Mr. Rorty attacks advertising joyfully, wittily, yet in deadly earnest and with a wealth of knowledge out of his own experience in advertising agencies. Every advertising man will enjoy this book, though parts of it will anger him. The consumer, the victim of advertising, will read it with alternating chuckles and groans, and perhaps with a new resolve to Do Something About It [sic]. Radio, press agency, propaganda in the sacred name of education, and the crass devices by which mob opinion is made to serve the ends of an acquisitive, competitive commercialism, all fall under… Leer más

St. Louis, MS, USA: American Paint Journal Company, 1931. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 691pp w index. Red cloth w black lettering on cover and spine. Light bumping to corners, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Originally published serially in the American Paint Journal, 1928-1929. Additional shipping may be required - 1.55kg I have attempted to record in permanent form my appreciation of those individuals who have contributed to, and my admiration for the progress of, the paint and varnish industry." - from the Foreword

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 308pp w source notes and index. Tan boards, redbrown cloth quarter-wrap spine w black lettering. No wear to covers or spine. DJ clean showing very light shelf wear. "Here is the unvarnished inside story on the most influential news source in the United States: the Washington Post. Full of anecdotes and clear analysis, this is a lively and meaningful narrative of the struggle to make the Post great and rich.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Univ of Toronto Press, 1984. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204pp w appendix, glossary, chapter notes and index. Black endpapers. Photo illustrated med grey-green boards with very dark green lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. From The State and Economic Life Series, editors: Mel Watkins and Leo Panitch. "This important book analyses the first industrial policy to emerge from the debates on industrial strategy in the late 1960s. It goes beyond earlier studies in its treatment of 'new protectionism' by arguing that import regulations is but one component of a broader policy promoting technological modernization and continental rationalization. It also make a contribution to tthe ongoing debate in political economy about the role and nature of the Canadian state.

Simon & Schuster, 2016. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 436pp w notes, bibliography and index. Two unpaginated sections of photographs w captions. Beige boards, light blue quarter-wrap spine w crisp gilt lettering. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Book appears unread.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 372pp w index. Illustrated with blackline prints and nine indexed unpaginated portrait plates including frontispiece. Steel-grey endpapers. Prev owner signature on ffep. Dark blue boards with gold gilt company logo on front cover, gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square. Colour illustrated DJ clean, showing moderate wear to fore edges, head and tail, now preserved in archival cover. An advance copy - presentation card laid in, dated October, 1950. The Prudential is the intensely human story of the development of one of the great life insurance companies of the world - from the early stuggles of its founders to its present status as a financial institution of millions of families.

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 261pp w appendix, select bibliography and index. Eight indexed illustrations, eight indexed tables. Blue cloth w silver lettering on cover and spine. Damp stain to bottom edge of front board and tail. Moderate shelf wear to bottom edges. Binding square and sound. This historical overview of the American oil monopoly reveals much of how the industry arrived at its power, corruption, and wanton destruction of the environment at the expense of the immoral wealth to be gained.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Whitney Library of Design, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 223pp w bibliography and index. Illust w photos and layout and design figures. Brick red cloth w crisp silver lettering to spine No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Quarto: 288 x 218mm. Originally published in 1992, this is a later printing, 2003.

Ocala, FL, USA: Atlantic Publishing Group, 2003. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 22 indexed sections w individual pagination. Maroon boards w gilt lettering and border to cover, gilt lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Quarto. Accompanying CD-Rom in unopened pocket to rear pastedown. CD-Rom contains copies of all forms found within the text.

New York, NY, USA: Pantheon Books / Random House, 1963. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 235pp. Six indexed maps, one unpaginated section of seven plates. Deckle fore edges. Maroon cloth w crisp gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing slight wear at corners, preserved now in archival cover. BOMC edition.

New York, NY, USA: C. Tennant, Sons & Co. of New York, 1947. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Lufkin, Raymond. 85pp w endnotes, bibliography and staff register. Blue-tone illustrations in text, frontis. Blue cloth w bronze lettering on cover and spine. Small wear at corners. Light soiling commensurate w age and handling. Binding square and sound.

Calgary, AB, Canada: Trimac Corporation, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 223pp w indexes. Illustrated throughout w contemporary colour photos and historical bw photographs. Red endpapers w gold fleck. Maroon cloth w fine gold lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover.