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THE DAVIS FAMILY AND THE LEATHER INDUSTRY 1834-1934
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1934. Octavo. Full dark brown Davis polished calf lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges, top edge gilt. Decorative free endpapers. 145, (5, blank) pp + frontispiece with tissue guard and 23 other plate; some nice full page drawings in text by W.J. Hopkinson. Ink presentation inscription from the company at front, rippled spot to front free endpaper; else a fine copy of this deluxe production. A centennial history of this Toronto area leather tanner who came to Upper Canada from North Carolina. Includes one chapter on the history of tanning in the Old World.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 41743More details Price: USD $45.00 -
The Economic Consequences of Peace
New York: Cosimo, 2005. Card covers. pp 298. Ink owner name, else fine. Facsimile reprint of the NY, 1920, edition.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48274More details Price: USD $9.95 -
THE FABULOUS FRANKLIN STORY: the history of the Franklin Life Insurance Company 1884-1970
Edition: First Edition
Springfield, IL: The Franklin Life Insurance Company, 1972. Blue cloth. pp (8), 256. Index, illustrated. Signed by author at front. VG in VG jacket.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44749More details Price: USD $15.00 -
The First World War, 1914-18
Edition: First UK printing
London: Allen Lane, 1977. Black boards, pp 328, bibliography, index, tables. Ink owner name at front, else fine in near fine price-clipped jacket. An economic study.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47936More details Price: USD $19.95 -
THE GROWTH OF CHICAGO BANKS (2 volumes)
Edition: First of this edition
New York: J.& J. Harper, 1969. Two volumes, fat octavos, original turquoise buckram without jackets, as issued. Volume I : The Formative Years, 1816-1896, Volume II :The Modern Age, 1897-1938. pp (xxxiv), 672, [2]; (14), 1469. Illustrations and charts, index, long bibliography, summary of historical data. Laid in is the inscribed calling card of Dr. F. Cyril James. Facsimile reprint of the 1938 edition, with a new introduction by Fritz Redlich. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44742More details Price: USD $50.00 -
THE HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, with an account of the other banks which now form part of its organization. Volume III 1919-1930
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1934. Stout octavo, red cloth. pp (xvi), 576 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 57 other plates. Page edges yellowed, covers lightly mottled, very small worn spot at foot of spine, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Two previous volumes were published in 1921 and 1922. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45918More details Price: USD $40.00 -
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG MOND
Edition: First edition.
London: Methuen, 1956. Octavo, blue cloth. (xvi), 295 pp, index, illustrations and plates. Fine copy, owner names. Dust jacket a bit worn at head of sunned spine, sticker shadow on front panel, VG otherwise. "Thi is the first life to be written of one of the great scientific industrialist of the Victorian age." Mond perfected a method of soda manufacture which is used to this day.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 20755More details Price: USD $14.95 -
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: the rise of disaster capitalism
Toronto: Knopf Canada, c2007. Third printing. Red and cream boards. VG in VG jacket, no owner names nor text marks. 1.15 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 53456More details Price: USD $12.95 -
THE STORY OF A MAN AND THE COMPANY HE BUILD
Edition: First Edition
No place (Chicago): Vulcan Stamping and Manufacturing Company, 1952. Blue cloth. 56 pp + photos. "A chronicle of Patrick Henry McCarthy and Vulcan Stamping and Manufacturing Company, the company he built." - Preface. Vulcan made tin cans.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44743More details Price: USD $15.00 -
THE TABLES TURNED
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970. Blue cloth. pp (viii), (1936). Short stroke of narrow black marker on rear cover, else fine, no owner names. Not issued in dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the London: Macmillan, 1931, first edition. In the publisher's Reprints of Economic Classics series. Essays and lectures on Adam Smith, Mathus, Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 36484More details Price: USD $15.00 -
THE THEORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Third Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28949More details Price: USD $450.00 -
THE THEORY OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION: Being Part I of Wirtschaft und Gessellschaft. Translated from the German by A.R. Henderson and Talcott Parsons. Revised, and Edited, with an Introduction, by Talcott Parsons
Edition: First UK edition
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow: William Hodge, 1947. Tall octavo, 25 cm. pp (viii), 404. Light rubbing to spine ends and joints, gilt spine imprint rubbed, light rubbing and small bruises to outer corners, cracked inner hinges neatly repaired, 1947 ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper; else a VG clean and tight jacketless copy, no marks in text. Wirstschaft und Gessellschaft (Economy and Society) was Weber's magnum opus.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 37171More details Price: USD $125.00 -
WAR AND THE MIDDLE CLASS: a radio discussion by Peter Drucker, Walter Johnson, and Harold Lasswell
University of Chicago, 1943. 19.5 cm, pp (2), (30), stapled in self wrappers. Rubber stamp on front cover, else fine. University of Chicago Round Table number 278, 18 July, 1943. Peter Drucker is credited with being the father of modern business management theory. A scarce early Drucker item. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47054More details Price: USD $34.95 -
Woolworth's first 75 years; the story of everybody's store, 1879-1954
New York: F.W. Woolworth Company, 1954. Quarto, pp (64), stapled in illustrated card covers. Photos, facsimiles. Vertical crease to front cover, corner crease to rear cover, slight rubbing along spine, VG clean copy otherwise.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45768More details Price: USD $14.95 -
WOVEN WIRE SCREENS, Their Selection, Application and Use. Catalogue 70-C.
The W.S. Tyler Company of Canada Ltd: St. Catharines, Ontario: no date [1940s?]. Small quarto, red flexible leather grain cloth gilt lettered, colour pictorial endpapers. [2], (182) pp. US printed. Indexed, illustrations. Nice colour drawing of the parent factory in Cleveland, OH. A fine copy of this Canadian trade catalogue.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 21469More details Price: USD $30.00