Business/Occupations & Professions/Organizational Studies from Gargoyle Books

First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Star athlete turned educator & then president of the historically all-black Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, offers a review here "for the new Negro" in the heyday of the Civil Rights movement an overview of the "tremendous job & career opportunities opening up for educated young blacks everywhere in… Read more about this item

Institute of Race Relations/Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Part of a five-year project on different aspects of race relations in Britain conducted in the 1960s, this volume reports on immigrants & minorities working in the London pubic transport sector. Just removed from storage where it has been since received brand… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1986. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+. Offers a new translation of the ancient Buddhist text, the "Tao Te Ching" & explores its applications to modern business, entrepreneurship, leadership, management, & personal mastery. Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION,6th printing, from 1986, this softcover small 4to is… Read more about this item

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Empirically based study of the practice of law & the characteristics of lawyers & their clients among private practitioners in "Prairie City" (a mid-sized midwestern locale) vs New York City. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bourke-White, Margaret (Photographer). Documents the origins & growth of the chemical manufacturing industry in the early 20th century United States, with 17 plates featuring stunning black-and-white photographic images by then-rising-photojournalist Bourke-White. Still unknown at the time, she did not even merit a… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Literary Digest Books/Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1934. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. As the Great Depression that began with the crash of 1929 wore on, this book was designed to offer career guidance for pioneering young women entering the workforce, most likely for the first time, in the 1930s, written… Read more about this item

Pasadena, California, 1896. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine. The HMMBA (Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association) was an organization comprised of the leading hotel men in the US, created in Chicago, IL, in 1879. They held annual meetings around the country, & while in each area, engaged in "excursion parties.with the entertainment on so colossal a… Read more about this item

University Of Hawaii Press, 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Written by a Hawaiian-born scholar, this is an extensively researched, comprehensive history of life & work in the sugar plantations of Hawaii. In 213 pages with Notes, Bibliography, & Index, illustrated throughout with vintage black-and-white photos. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1983, this… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. Historical account of the humankind's pursuit of the whale across different epochs & civilizations from early Icelanders through the dawn of the New England whaling industry. In 423 pages, with map endpapers, illustrated with maps, charts, & pen-and-ink sketches by the author throughout. A First Edition, first printing… Read more about this item

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Renowned sociologist Sutherland's groundbreaking 1949 analysis of the crimes committed by 70 of America's largest corporations & their executives was censored when it was first published. At long last, here is the unexpurgated version, which names names & provides details of their crimes.… Read more about this item

Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1997. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Sociological analysis of the rise of franchise law firms & their impacts on both lawyers & their clients. In 156 pages with Index. A First Edition, first printing from 1997, this hardcover book has been stored since acquired Brand New for review, notice laid… Read more about this item

Brooklyn, New York: Intertype Corporation, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. Complete guide to the use & maintenance of the Intertype, "the simplest line-casting machine in the world," written for both the machinist & the mechanically unskilled operator. In 421 pages, well illustrated. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1929, NOT a modern reprint! Hardcover has… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois: American Wook and Cotton Reporter, 1895. First Edtion . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Full title: "The Manual of the American Cotton Industry, Containing Illustrated Descriptions of Various Machines and Mechanical Appliances in Use in the Cotton Mills of the United States.' Describes growing & harvesting cotton, cleaning & bleaching, weaving & spinning, etc., with focus on… Read more about this item