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Ideas That Became Big Business (first edition in dust jacket)
by Clinton Woods
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fine/very good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Founders, Inc, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. Firts edition (so stated on the title page). Hardcover in blue cloth stamped in gilt. xvi (with two indexes)+ 414 pp. Fine in a bright, crisp dust jacket, very good with a bit of rubbing in small area of the front panel and shallow wear to the spine extremities and rear panel edges. Collection of some 200 short descriptions (usually one or two pages) of business ideas that caught on and of the originating companies and founders. These include household names such as Abbott Labs, Ford, Three M, Greyhound, Hertz, Hershey, Hoover, etc as well as lesser known names like Collins Radio, Fostoria Glass, Cory, Bird & Son and others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E22230
- Title
- Ideas That Became Big Business (first edition in dust jacket)
- Author
- Clinton Woods
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Founders, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- business, industry, corporations, manufacturing, companies,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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