Search Results: Business and Economics from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

Vancouver: Copp Clark [1958]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 222pp. Decorated cover. Decorated endpapers, illustrations, notes, appendices, index. Previous owner's stamp. Book about Toronto-Dominion Bank. Illustrations by Merle Smith. Locale: Canada. (Business, Bank History--Canada, Banking--Canada).

San Francisco: Bank of California 1969, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 106pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Notes, photographs. Book about Bank of California. Locale: California; Western America. (Business, Banks--United States, Business History--United States).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87928-6 [978-0-521-87928-6] 2008. (Hardcover) 298pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Notes, references, index. "'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music, and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying because of their lack of ability to pay for drugs that are expensively priced by patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation?". (Business, Business, Copyright, Inventions, Patent Law).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1977, 1st printing. (Small 4to) 365pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations, charts, notes, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly faded and rubbed. (Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology).

Boston: Shoe Trades Pub. Co. 1956, 53rd edition. (Mass market paperback) 303pp. Good to very good. The covers are lightly worn and creased. (Business, Business, Directories--Shoe Manufacturers--United States, Shoe Manufacturers--United States).

Waterbury: American Brass Company 1929. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 14 color illustrations, 172 plates, index, a 4-page supplementary index giving approximate weights per foot for various shapes is laid in. A previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. (Trade Catalogs, Bronze Products, Trade Catalogs).

Boston: Little, Brown [1989], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 501pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. "An unauthorized biography". Biography of Armand Hammer. Locale: United States. (Business, Millionaires).

Secaucus: Lyle Stuart [0-8184-0370-5] [1985]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 288pp. Photographs, appendix, index. Biography of Rupert Murdoch. Book about Times--London. Locale: Australia. (Business, Media, Newspaper Publishing).

New York: Simon and Schuster [1981]. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 221pp. Notes. The dust jacket spine is lightly faded. Locale: Japan. (Business, Management Studies).

Montreal: Hughes Owens Co. Limited 1938. (Trade paperback) Very good. 188pp. Fully illustrated artist supply catalog with index. Includes the 27 page "Price List No. 2". There is some wear along the spine, and the binding is a bit loose. (Catalogues, Art).

Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann [0-7506-4533-4] 2000. (Trade paperback) 245pp. Very good plus. Diagrams, references, index. "Arts, Entertainment and Tourism is a pioneering text that, by focussing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these three industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage. Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism". (Business, Business, Entertainment, Textbook, Tourism, Travel).

Chicago: Dartnell Corporation [1967]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 334pp. Index. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpapers, and the top corner of some of the pages are creased. (Business, Business, Marketing, Sales).

New York: Arch Cape Press [0-517-02013-0] [1991], 1st edition. (4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 156pp. Illustrated endpapers, black and white and color photographs, black and white and color illustrations. "Inside the world of wealth". Article about Elizabeth II--Queen of England, Bill Gates, H. Ross Perot, Donald J. Trump & Ted Turner. (Business, Media, Millionaires, Royalty).

Toronto: Canada Labour Views Co. Limited [circa 1978]. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 295pp. Notes. The spine is lightly cocked and there are are minor pencil markings in the text. "As a result of his own personal experiences in the arbitral arena, Tom O'Connor perceived the need for a book on the subject of discharges or more specifically how Canadian arbitrators deal with them. The language of arbitration is for the most part legal but a great many of those participating in the process, on both management and union sides, are not lawyers. Tom O'Connor and I have known each other since I first started filing reports to the Canada Labour Views from British Columbia back in 1956 and it was with my background as a journalist in mind that he asked me to transform his thoughts into a reality" - from the Preface. Book about Arbitration & Canada Labour Views. (Business, Business, Lawyers, Legal Cases, Unions).

Princeton: Princeton University Press [0-691-01592-9] 1997, 1st paperback printing. (Trade paperback) 288pp. Near fine. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, indices. There is a previous owner's blind stamp on the half-title page. "In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first priate banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself". Locale: Ancient Athens; Athens--Greece. (Economics, Banking, Classical History, Economics, Economy, Society).

Toronto: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-1297-6 [978-1-4426-1297-6] 2013. (Trade paperback) 549pp. Near fine. Abbreviations, maps, charts, illustrations, photographs, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. "Autonomous State is an extremely comelling account of the evolution of the Autopact and associated issues. It is a very significant contribution to research: I know of no other source that covers this period with such depth and attention to detail, and Dimitry Anastakis takes the story into uncharted territory... The author also presents a picture of Canadian aggressiveness and determination to get its way with the U.S. That is often absent from the popularly conceived image of the North American relationship" -- Bruce Muirhead, Department of History, University of Waterloo. Time Period. Locale: Canada. (Economics, Automobile Industry, Economics, History--Canada).

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer [0-920486-00-2] 1977. (4to paperback) 254pp. Very good. Illustrations. The spine is faded and the bottom front corner is creased. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Trade Catalogs, Catalogs--Hudson's Bay Company, Hudson's Bay Company).

Big Rapids: Machinery Company of America [1920]. (Hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 296pp. Photographs, illustrations, index. Spine worn, shelf wear, owner inscription. (Trade Catalogs, Knives, Saws, Tools).

Toronto: Bank of Nova Scotia 1952-1982. (Staplebound) Very good. An incomplete run of the staff magazine. Missing V6#4, V8#3, V9#2, V18#1 (1969) - V23#5 (1974), V25#3, V28#4. In Jan. 1961 becomes: the Staff Magazine of the Bank of Nova Scotia; then in Jan. 1962: Scotiabanker, the Staff Magazine of the Bank of Nova Scotia; and in Jun. 1975: Scotiabanker. (Business, Bank of Nova Scotia, Business History--Canada, Scotia Bank).

Bank of Nova Scotia 1932. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 166pp. Blue cloth with gilt decoration. Illustrated endpapers, portraits photographs, tables lists of names and branches. The the spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom, and there are previous owner's stamps. Foreword by Hector McInnes, J.A. McLeod & S.J. Moore. Locale: Canada. (Business, Bank of Nova Scotia, Banks--Canada, Business History--Canada).