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The South Asian Experience with Growth

By: Ahluwalia, Isher Judge (Editor); John Williamson (Editor)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: 2003

Seller ID: 83261

ISBN: 0195658663

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. 272 pages.
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Actions and Reactions, an Autobiography

By: Babson, Roger Ward

Price: $58.37

Publisher: New York, NY, Harper: 1949

Seller ID: 125768

ISBN: B0007DK42Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner gift notation. Harper Code C-Y. Jacket has edge wear, short tears. 354 pages. Roger Ward Babson (1875 -1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
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Studies of Quality in Cotton

By: Balls, W.Lawrence

Price: $31.92

Publisher: London, UK, MacMillan: 1928

Seller ID: 92537

ISBN: B000NPAZXY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 376 pages.
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The Innovators: Fifty Years of Chicopee Research

By: Barnard, William Sprague

Price: $205.20

Publisher: William Sprague Barnard: 1995

Seller ID: 115658

ISBN: B01N2NRVET

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by Author on Title page with Presentation notation, with date. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Also inserted: newspaper, author's publishing letter, handwritten list of Chicopee Researchers, note from author. 209 pages. Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. In the Beginning: the Early Years at Chicopee Falls. The New Jersey Connection: Early Milltown Research. Now It Can Be Told: the Keybak Process Story. Circling the Globe: Keybak Product Development. Wet-Form Nonwovens: Expanding the Process Base. Branching Out: the Use of Dry-Formed Pulp in Nonwovens. The Holy Grail: the Search for Cross Streng...
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Milos: Faces of Stone

By: Bartholomeos, George (Photographer)

Price: $18.24

Publisher: Silver & Baryte Ores Mining Company: 2002

Seller ID: 92988

ISBN: 9608747619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Jacket has 1 tiny tear. Brilliant color photography of the rock formations, and ore related businesses of the Greek island of Milos.
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Some Financial Facts About the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies: Bell System

By: Bell System Staff

Price: $21.89

Publisher: New York, NY, Bell Telephone Securities Company: 1924

Seller ID: 116357

ISBN: B06XKD3RYF

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 16 pages. 2 fold-out US maps of Toll Lines and Associated Operating Companies. Contents: Magnitude. Of Steady Growth. What the Bell System Has Earned. Makes Its Own Equipment. Demand Increasing. How Financed. Future Prospects. Capital Stock. Who Owns AT&T. Dividends.
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The Story of Bovril

By: Bennett, Richard; Robert Gibbings

Price: $64.06

Publisher: London, UK, Bovril Limited: 1953

Seller ID: 119373

ISBN: B00149ZVKA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

With illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Jacket has edge wear, medium tears, missing chips. Has small bookplate. 8 plates + 34 pages.
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Virus: The Outrageous History of Gyro Worldwide

By: Bernard-Levy, Ph.D Harriet

Price: $215.94

Publisher: Gold Crown Press: 2008

Seller ID: 110859

ISBN: 0615221572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 168 pages.
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An Outline of the British Labor Movement / by Paul Blanshard, with an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson

By: Blanshard, Paul (1892-1980)

Price: $21.77

Publisher: New York, NY, George H. Doran Company: 1923

Seller ID: 116774

ISBN: B00422H2JY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 174 pages.
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200 Years of Innovation in American Business: The Legacy of Alex Brown

By: Brown, Alex

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Deutsche Banc Alex Brown: 2000

Seller ID: 118589

ISBN: B000GOJYHA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

Crisp Firm Clean copy ! In original shrinkwrap! With Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown CD.
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The Fluoride Deception

By: Bryson, Christopher; Colborn, Theo

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2004

Seller ID: 124642

ISBN: 1583225269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 400 pages.
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The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman 1850-1918

By: Burr, Anna Robeson

Price: $57.41

Publisher: New York, NY, Duffield: 1927

Seller ID: 115436

ISBN: B000856AY2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name (in pencil). Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. Binding, hinges and text pages all fine. 370 pages. The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman 1850-1918.
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Herbert H. Dow,: Pioneer in creative chemistry,

By: Campbell, Murray

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts: 1951

Seller ID: 102232

ISBN: B0007DPJGK

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 168 pages.
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The Second Bank of the United States. The Decennial Publications Second Series

By: Catterall, Ralph C. H.

Price: $62.93

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Univ of Chicago: 1903

Seller ID: 124348

ISBN: B001I4FUFC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Moderate general wear. 538 pages.
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Chilton Investment Company: Our First 20 Years Quarterly Letters 1992-2012

By: Chilton, Richard L.

Price: $44.69

Publisher: Chilton Investment Company: 2013

Seller ID: 124663

ISBN: xxxxxxx361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear.
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It All Began with a #2 Lead Pencil: The Story of the Parmer Corporations

By: Coleman, Diane B.

Price: $35.57

Publisher: Morris Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 60413

ISBN: B000RZKNJ6

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 338 pages.
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Head Above Water: Building the Cape Cod Canal

By: Conway, Jack

Price: $58.05

Publisher: PublishAmerica: 2005

Seller ID: 99026

ISBN: 1413758290

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 76 pages.
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Some Unorthodox Petroleum Exploration Methods (Reprinted for Private Circulation)

By: Cook, J.C.

Price: $11.52

Publisher: Geophysics: 1959

Seller ID: 119417

ISBN: xxxxxxx120

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 14 pages.
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A Mirror of the Turf, or the Machinery of Horse-Racing Revealed, Showing the Sport of Kings as It Is To-Day.

By: Curzon, Louis Henry.

Price: $63.79

Publisher: London, UK, Chapman & Hall: 1892

Seller ID: 120635

ISBN: B003U5EW9C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner name. 372 pages. Contents: An Exercise Gallop to Begin With. Beginnings of Racing. Newmarket in Early Days. Other Seats of Horse-Racing. L. S. D. of the Turf. Business of Horse-Racing. Officers of the Turf. Classic Races, the St. Leger, etc. Handicaps. Notes on Memorable Matches. With The Prophets. Modern Betting Illustrated and Explained. Racing Adventurers. Racing Rogueries. the Lady Ellzabeth Scandal. Racing Reform, Sir J. Hawley, Etc. Jockeys and Their Commissioners. Assumed Names. Jockeys. About thle Jockey Club.
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Seventy-Five Years 1844-1919 (Dennison Manufacturing)

By: Dennison Manufacturing Co.; With Photographs

Price: $72.91

Publisher: Framingham, MA, Dennison Manufacturing Co.: 1919

Seller ID: 97319

ISBN: B001F90IPW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

1st Printing. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! Pristine copy. Book has plain glassine jacket, is in publisher's cardboard box, additionally wrapped in construction paper and string tied in 1919. This is a never opened package. Dark blue cloth with gold decorations, top page ends gold gilt. 71 pages. Generously illustrated with b/w and color photos. This book is issued to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Dennison Manufacturing Co., and as a memorial to E. W. Dennison, the founder of the business, the centenary of whose birth occurred November 23, 1919. Strictly speaking, ...
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Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy

By: Dickman, Howard

Price: $41.77

Publisher: Open Court Pub Co: 1970

Seller ID: 99322

ISBN: 0812690087

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Half-Title page. Nice Firm copy ! 1 creased page tip. Previous owner name. 462 pages.
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The Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads

By: Dorin, Patrick C

Price: $13.68

Publisher: Superior Pub. Co: 1969

Seller ID: 123846

ISBN: B0006CTU1W

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 144 pages.
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Coal and Rock Drilling: Blasting, Timbering, Trackwork (International Library of Technology 86C)

By: Duck, George F.

Price: $45.55

Publisher: Scranton, PA, International Textbook Company: 1924

Seller ID: 115404

ISBN: B01MQF5UAZ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 1 board tip bumped. Rock boring, Rock drilling, Drilling and blasting Coal, Explosives, Coal-cutting machinery, Timbering, Timber trees, Trackwork.
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Hardball in the Boardroom

By: Dyer, Alexander P.

Price: $18.24

Publisher: ShiresPress: 2012

Seller ID: 124446

ISBN: 1605711381

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Rear cover vertically sliced with a razor. 274 pages.
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PTC Carousels: The History of Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousels

By: Gardner, Richard A.; Patrick Wentzel (Foreword)

Price: $19.20

Publisher: The Connecticut Press: 2012

Seller ID: 125255

ISBN: 0982546858

Condition: Very Good

Firm Clean copy ! Some tear and wear at bottom edge of dust jacket spine. 192 pages.
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Laduree

By: Gliezes, Serge

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Minerva / Editions de la Martiniere: 2006

Seller ID: 109897

ISBN: 2830708628

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner gift notation. 136 pages.
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In My Own Words: A Personal View of Contemporary Issues and Events

By: Habtoor, Khalaf A. Al

Price: $13.45

Publisher: Al Habtoor Group: 2002

Seller ID: 69570

ISBN: B0020ODPQK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Tight Clean copy !
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Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920

By: Haley, Andrew P.

Price: $23.35

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: 2013

Seller ID: 119749

ISBN: 1469609800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 356 pages.
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The Iron Masters of Penns, 1720-1970

By: Horsfall, John

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Roundwood Press: 1971

Seller ID: 85294

ISBN: 0900093293

Condition: Fine

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. 331 pages.
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The Philistine a Periodical of Protest Vol. XI June 1900 to XVI May 1903

By: Hubbard, Elbert; The Roycrofters

Price: $164.16

Publisher: East Aurora, NY, The Roycrofters: 1900

Seller ID: 120568

ISBN: xxxxxxx180

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

Suede leather with label, blue paper with gold gilt. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Includes every month, June 1900 to May 1903. Includes covers. 3 volumes have card 'Presented with compliments of the Philistine'. Vol. XVI has pamphlet which has 'the Annual Dinner of the American Academy of Immortals to be held in the Village of East aurora, County of Erie, New York, July 4th, 1903.' 'Industrial Conference. To be held at July 3,4,5 1903. This conference will have but one subject - LIFE.' Program of events for the 3 days. 'Through the special courtesy of Daniels of the New York Cent...
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Expo 2010 Shanghai

By: Hui, Chen Wei Zhong. Shang Hai Shi Guang Gao Xie Hui She Ying Wei Yuan

Price: $78.18

Publisher: China Press: 2010

Seller ID: 95524

ISBN: 753226940X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

In English and Chinese. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 198 pages.
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Father's Greatcoat

By: Joslin, James L.

Price: $18.19

Publisher: Privately Printed: 2004

Seller ID: 104262

ISBN: B005O2BUUS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 183 pages.
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Parker Hannifin's 100-Year Journey: Powering the machines that changed the world

By: Jr., Thomas A. Piraino; Thomas A. Piraino Jr. (Contributor); Dustin S. Klein (Editor)

Price: $72.96

Publisher: Smart Business Network: 2017

Seller ID: 121258

ISBN: 1945389958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 435 pages.
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Light at Work: 17 Stories of Fifty Years in the Vanguard of Science

By: Kari Toivonen; Jorma Wallasvaara

Price: $54.67

Publisher: Finland, Wallac Oy: 2000

Seller ID: 110977

ISBN: 9519489355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 154 pages. Finnish producer of systems for diagnoses and early detection of disease through light measurement. Significant decisions were made during each decade: in the '50s Wallac developed precision mechanics, the focus in the '60s was isotope technology, in the '70s advanced computer technology was integrated with the products, the '80s saw the inception of the chemistry-based business and in the '90s Wallac started to develop software products as a part of the total solutions offered to customers. To this list of choices may be adde...
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Over the Counter: Cork's Retail Heritage

By: Keogh, Clare

Price: $33.78

Publisher: Mercier Press: 2009

Seller ID: 113060

ISBN: 1856356051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 158 pages.
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Modern Soaps, Candles and Glycerin: A Practical Manual of Modern Methods of Utilization of Fats & Oils in The Manufacture of Soap & Candles, & Of The Recovery Of Glycerin

By: Lamborn, Leebert Lloyd.

Price: $12.30

Publisher: D. van Nostrand: 1906

Seller ID: 97144

ISBN: B001VCCR8O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st Printing. Moderate general wear. Page ends soiled. 683 pages.
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Frenzied Finance the Crime of Almalgamated

By: Lawson, Thomas W; Yes Illustrated (Illustrator)

Price: $114.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Ridgeway-Thayer Company: 1905

Seller ID: 123705

ISBN: B004MN6PGO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Flypage: Previous owner gift notation from Xmas 1905, including a well-drawn boat. 559 pages.
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A Union of Individuals: The Formation of the American Newspaper Guild, 1933-1936

By: Leab, Daniel J.

Price: $45.60

Publisher: Columbia University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 121319

ISBN: 0231033672

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear. Dust Jacket price clipped and has some edge wear. 362 pages.
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Shadow of a Man

By: Lorz, robert

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Batavia, IL, The Furnas Electric Co.: 1964

Seller ID: 121404

ISBN: B001JHF4UO

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 71 pages. In a sense Carl Furnas was truly one of a vanishing breed. He insisted on going his own way. He did it at a time when every visible claim was staked out. He did it when the American economy was 'mature' - so mature, in fact, that Frederick Turner's frontier was covered with concrete and asphalt. This, after all, was 1931, the gray time of hope deferred. It was no time to borrow on your insurance and go into business. Carl Furnas did. To those who remember the smokeless chimneys and breadlines, the sheer, glorious gall of the act is a thing o...
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Allegro Vivace: The History Of Champagne, Cava And The Sparkling Wines Of The Wo

By: Lujan, Nestor; Oscar Caballero; Lyn Larraine Jacob

Price: $30.10

Publisher: Freixenet: 1988

Seller ID: 110612

ISBN: 8485332148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

1st Printing. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! 278 pages.
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The Social Problems of An Industrial Civilization

By: Mayo, Elton

Price: $20.02

Publisher: Boston, MA, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administrati: 1945

Seller ID: 115941

ISBN: B0007I532K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Includes abstract. 171 pages.
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Men and Mysteries of Wall Street

By: Medbery, James K

Price: $250.80

Publisher: Boston, MA, Fields, Osgood & Co: 1870

Seller ID: 125685

ISBN: B00085G7YK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Beveled green cloth boards, gold decor. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Fraying on spine ends. 344 pages. Contents: Preliminary. The New York Stock Exchange. A Day at the Boards. The Machinery of Speculation. Margins and the Loan Market. The Methods of Speculation. Concerning Stock-Brokers. Habits and Humors of The Street. The Great Operations. The Outsiders. The Mobility of Stock. In the Gold Room. The Gold Brokers. The Mining Board. Before 1837. From '37 to '60. Prospective.
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Days of Glory, Days of Gloom: The Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Power Industry

By: Morisi, A. Victor

Price: $35.47

Publisher: PublishAmerica: 2006

Seller ID: 101320

ISBN: 1424134889

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 134 pages. Contains the factual, everyday goings-on in a nuclear power plant. Anyone who wants the straight skinny on the behind-the-walls activities relative to the day-to-day operation of one of these behemoths needs to read this book.
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Internal Revenue

By: Morley, Christopher

Price: $22.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Doubleday Doran: 1933

Seller ID: 124338

ISBN: B00085CJLU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Signed by Author on blank page. Moderate general wear. 308 pages.
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

By: Morse, Kathryn Taylor

Price: $17.97

Publisher: University of Washington Press: 2003

Seller ID: 85169

ISBN: 0295983299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed by Author on Title page. Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. 304 pages.
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The Story of Crisco, a Calendar of Dinners, with 615 Recipes

By: Neil, Marion Harris

Price: $18.20

Publisher: Cincinnati, OH, The Procter & Gamble Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 118997

ISBN: B000Z272TK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 231 pages.
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The Story of a Corner: United States Security Trust Company (Hartford, CT)

By: Parsons, Francis

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Hartford, CT, The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 88074

ISBN: B000M1FYY4

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 62 pages. Detailed history of the development of a section of Hartford, CT from colonial times to 1926. With b/w photos.
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A Description of the Merrymount Press, Boston, 1893-1917

By: Press, Merrymount

Price: $37.44

Publisher: Boston, MA, Merrymount Press: 1917

Seller ID: 118958

ISBN: B0026R8M64

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 24 pages.
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The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod: A Record of the Nineteenth Century Economic Boom in Barnstable County

By: Quinn, William P.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Parnassus Imprints: 1993

Seller ID: 111724

ISBN: 0940160560

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 247 pages.
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Edwin D. Morgan 1811-1883 Merchant in Politics

By: Rawley, James A.

Price: $36.11

Publisher: New York, NY, Columbia University Press: 1955

Seller ID: 124341

ISBN: B007Q9VS2M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 321 pages.
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The Nutrilite Story: Past, Present, Future : With a Dream Anything is Possible

By: Rehnborg, Ph.D. Sam

Price: $71.04

Publisher: Amway: 2009

Seller ID: 125559

ISBN: 0615333613

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Includes issued slipcase. 424 pages.
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300 Bucks and a Dream

By: Rider, Pat And Craig

Price: $22.75

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation: 2008

Seller ID: 95852

ISBN: 1436305543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed by Authors on Title page with Presentation notation. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Jacket has short tears. 176 pages.
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Lazaro Cardenas 'Un Puerto Sin Limites' 30 Anos

By: Roel, Cesar Patricio Reyes

Price: $45.55

Publisher: Lazaro Cardenas Puertos de Mexico: 2004

Seller ID: 113441

ISBN: B01HEF7K2E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Only 3000 published. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 157 pages. Study of all Port facilities.
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Chicopee, Georgia: Reflections Fifty Years of Services

By: Sailors, W.C.

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Johnson & Johnson: 1957

Seller ID: 110802

ISBN: B01AK5MT58

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Fine

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 44 pages.
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Die Strassburger Tucher - Und Weberzunft: Urkunden und Darstellung Nebst Regesten und Glossar

By: Schmoller, Gustav

Price: $205.20

Publisher: Strassburg, Germany, Karl J. Trubner: 1879

Seller ID: 89380

ISBN: B008AHIO0S

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In German. 1st Printing. Bound in brown cloth with leather spine label. Spine label worn, spine ends frayed. Ein beitrag zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Weberei und des Deutschen Gewberechts vom XIII - XVII jahrhundert. Gustav von Schmoller (1838-1917) was the leader of the 'younger' German historical school of economics. 588 pages.
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The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: A financial and industrial history of the South during the civil war (Yale Bicentennial Publications)

By: Schwab, John Christopher

Price: $126.77

Publisher: C Scribner / Edward Arnold: 1904

Seller ID: 90260

ISBN: B00085O8DW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Moderate general wear. Cloth frayed at spine ends. Front hinge paper cracked. 332 pages. An authoritative report on financial and industrial conditions in the South during the Civil War. Contents: Yearly chapters on financial legislation; The legal tender agitation; The Southern debtors; Southern banks during the War; Confederate currency; Southern prices; Military despotism; Speculation and trade in the South; Industries of the South; Confederate and local taxation; Table of monthly currency prices of 22 commodities; List of Authorities; Index.
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A History of Currency in South Africa (South African Museum. Guide no. 5)

By: Shaw, Ella Margaret

Price: $44.23

Publisher: South African Museum: 1956

Seller ID: 87470

ISBN: B0006CH0DW

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Staplebound. 27 pages. Has b/w photoplates of coins and currency.
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Bright Leaf (Story of The Carolina Tobacco Dynasty)

By: Simons, Foster Fitz

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Rinehart & Co., Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 91433

ISBN: B002WQLPJA

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. 466 pages.
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Economic Aspects of the Second Bank of the United States

By: Smith, Walter Buckingham

Price: $50.16

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1953

Seller ID: 124354

ISBN: B0000CILKN

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner ink stamp. 314 pages.
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Insurance in Venice from the Origins to the End of the Serenissima. Documents Published for the 125th Anniversary of the Company (Assicurazioni Generali). 2 Volumes

By: Stefani, Giuseppe

Price: $109.44

Publisher: Italy, Trieste, Assicurazioni Generali di Trieste e Venezia: 1958

Seller ID: 118586

ISBN: xxxxxxxx58

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

2 volumes complete. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. No slipcase. 639 pages. Evolution of insurance in Medieval and modern times. 'But when, as in our case, the translation involves obsolete century-old documents, such a task becomes almost desperate. The archaic language tinted with Venetian solecisms and often twisted and confused; the technical terminology which in maritime, administrative and legal matters has no easy respondence even in modern Italian and cannot therefore be substantially translated into other languages; the references to institutions and systems peculiar to Ven- ice's hi...
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I Don't know Where I am Going But I am Enjoying the Ride

By: Straube, Win; Winfried Herbert Straube

Price: $30.90

Publisher: Honolulu, HI, SCI Corporation: 2002

Seller ID: 89372

ISBN: B000BLS0VO

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed by Author. Only 500 printed. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Does not have Hawaiian music CD. 430 pages. In this limited edition 444-page book, complete with 134 photographs, maps and illustrations, Win Straube takes us along on his fascinating life's journey. Beginning with his teen-aged survival of the bombing of Dresden, to his escape from behind the Iron Curtain, through a series of business and personal successes and a full life in Hawaii,Win Straube describes a remarkable life and imparts lessons for us all.
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Amerikan Suomalaisen Tyovaenliikkeen Historia

By: Sulkanen, Elis

Price: $62.57

Publisher: Fitchburg, MA, Raivaaja: 1951

Seller ID: 85146

ISBN: B004HX3CD8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In Finnish. Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. Light general wear. 516 pages.
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The General Strike: A Historical Portrait

By: Symons, Julian

Price: $10.03

Publisher: London, UK, Readers Union / The Cresset Press .: 1959

Seller ID: 106288

ISBN: B0014IDN2Y

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 247 pages.
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195: American Telephone and Telegraph Building

By: Telegraph, American Telephone &

Price: $62.93

Publisher: New York, NY, American Telephone & Telegraph: 1984

Seller ID: 115773

ISBN: B008S182GM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Crisp Firm Clean copy ! Has slipcase. 44 pages. Wonderful color photography, 40 views of 195 Broadway, New York. 'More than just a building, 195 Broadway was a symbol of our finest traditions. As we move forward to our new headquarters and into a new era, I hope this memento will serve as a reminder of the sense of community and dedication to service shared by the people of the Bell System.'
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Chicopee Georgia

By: The Chicopee Manufacturing Corporation

Price: $83.45

Publisher: Doyle, Kitchen & McCormick: 1927

Seller ID: 110803

ISBN: B00FFJEFWK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 39 pages.
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Jute: An Account of Its Growth and Manufacture

By: The Ludlow Manufacturing Associates

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Boston, MA, Ludlow Manufacturing: 1928

Seller ID: 108810

ISBN: B000K11VC0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 112 pages.
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Fifty Years Of The Prudential The History of a Business Charged With Public Interest 1875-1925

By: The Prudential Co.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Newark, NJ, The Prudential: 1927

Seller ID: 113334

ISBN: B000NJHO4I

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 2 board tips bumped. Contents: First Steps in Industrial Insurance. Industrial Insurance in America. Early Days of The Prudential. Growth of The Prudential. Principles Underlying Life Insurance. Further Prudential Historical Data. The Prudential Becomes a 'Mutual' Company. The Company's World War Activities. The Prudential Under President Duffield. Summary of Prudential History. Wide Extent of Prudential Interests. Phases of Prudential Activities. Conclusion.
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John Fairfield Dryden, Born August 7, 1839, Died November 24, 1911; Founder and President the Prudential Insurance Company of America, Pioneer of Industrial Insurance in America, United States Senator

By: The Prudential Insurance Co.

Price: $74.75

Publisher: Prudential Insurance Company of America: 1912

Seller ID: 113333

ISBN: B01N6E7GGT

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 63 pages.
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Little Visits with Great Americans Volumes 1 & 2

By: The Success Company

Price: $62.93

Publisher: New York, NY, Success Company: 1905

Seller ID: 118190

ISBN: B0024N4N0Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2 volumes complete. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 726 pages. Thomas Alva Edison; Hiram Stevens Maxim; Andrew Carnegie; Hazen S. Pingree; Marshall Field; John Wanamaker; Sir Thomas Lipton; Darius Ogden Mills; Russell Sage; Lyman Judson Gage; Cornelius Vanderbilt; et al.
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The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man

By: Train, Arthur Cheney

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Century: 1915

Seller ID: 87180

ISBN: B000879ASS

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 340 pages.
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The Norton Story

By: Tymeson, Mildred McClary; b/w Photos (Illustrator)

Price: $21.89

Publisher: Worcester, MA, Norton Company: 1953

Seller ID: 124601

ISBN: B000OM6JTU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 312 pages.
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The General Radio Story

By: Van Veen, Frederick

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Frederick Van Veen: 2006

Seller ID: 121708

ISBN: 0615176658

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 262 pages.
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79 Volumes of Newcomen Society Pamphlets

By: Various

Price: $240.00

Publisher: New York, Downington, Princeton, Newcomen Society: 1967

Seller ID: 111074

ISBN: B01BEEJT9I

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. 79 volumes of approx. 25 pages each, printed from 1967-1976. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Light general wear. A few are less than Very Good. Its objectives center in the beginnings, growth, development, contributions, and influence of Industry, Transportation, Communication, the Utilities, Mining, Agriculture, Banking, Finance, Economics, Insurance, Education, Invention, and the Law--these and correlated historical fields. In short, the background of those actors which have contributed or are contributin to the pro ress of Mankind. The Society's name perpetuates the life and work of ...
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