Search Results: Business & Economics from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and red paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 234pp. Figures. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this guide to "Managing Star Players -- and Their Firms -- to Win" -- inscribed and signed large and bold on front flyleaf in blue fine by a co-author: "Bob -- / To a star and / a builder of stars. Its / been a pleasure to get / to know you at Hoover and / the Grove. / With respect, / Tom Tierney." Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Hoover Institution chairman of the board, Republican politico and philanthropist.

Chicago: Kingston House, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue cloth wilt black lettering and dark blue buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; bookplate on front flyleaf. A tight and attractive third printing of this reprint of the 1953 juvenile biography of the Scottish-born industrialist.

New York: Popular Library, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 211pp. Illustrations, pictorial map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Handsome and tight first edition of the story of North Carolina furniture manufacturer James Edgar Broyhill. Laid in is printed bookmark from Broyhill Furniture Industries presenting this book.

New York: Architectural Catalog Co, 1942. Paperback. Folio. Stiff tan wrappers with black lettering. (21pp, rectos only), (12pp ads). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally fine. A tight, handsome copy of the October 1942 issue (Vol. VI, No. 17) of this specialty monthly.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition. Entertaining history of the international auction houses (Sotheby's, Christie's, etc.) and some of the more colorful items sold.

Cleveland: Corday & Gross Co, 1945. Hardcover. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Foreword by Jerome C. Hunsaker. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 125pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, color charts, hand tipped illustration, decorations. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with small edge chips (mainly along top) and somewhat sunned spine. First edition, tight and decent. Goodyear Tire business history.

Scottsdale, AZ: AmeriPress, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. x, 370pp. Fine/fine. Second printing of this economist's inspirational celebration of the free market economy, boldly signed by him on the half-title page and dated September "Best Is Yet to Come" bookmark laid in.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), color endpapers. Fine/fine. First U.S. edition, tight and lovely -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on the half-title page: "To John / A wonderful gift -- I will / giggle at it long and often! / Anita XXOO."

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 133pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Tight, decent first edition of this overview of the American lottery scene -- a mild ex-library copy, with very few markings.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 303pp. Fine/near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this how-to by the founder of ASK Computer Systems, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on the half-title page: "1st July 1991 / To Tom Coleman / a great customer / Thanks for the business / Sandra L Kurtzig."

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. Hardcover. Two volumes. Small 4to. Blue cloth. xi, 1951pp. Very good. Part I covers 1831-40 and Part II 1841-49, although the set represents Volumes II and III of the 1944 Annual Report of the American Historical Association.

Chicago: Nickerson & Collins Co, 1906. Hardcover. Small 4to. B rown cloth with gilt lettering and device. vii, 368pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings, advertising endpapers. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn and spotted, though tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this history of an industry. Subtitle continues: "The Commercial Production of Carbon Dioxide. Design and Construction of Apparatus and Machinery. Efficiency for Refrigerating Purposes. Mineral Waters and Other Beverages. Methods of Carbonating and Bottling. Utilization of Fermentation Carbonic Acid Gas -- Its Collection in the Brewery." Quite nice copy -- and rather uncommon.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 172pp. Fine. Tight and pristine first edition of the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish economist's study; lacks dust jacket, else bright and sharp.

N.p.: Society of Colonial Wars, 1901. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally fine. Probable sole printing, tight and quite nice. Brief history of the workings of various British 17th century charters in New England, especially the Massachusetts Bay Company charter. Quite uncommon.

Galena: Harbin & Harbin, 1953. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers and brown cloth spine. (7pp), 111pp. Advertisements, foldout map on yellow stock. Near fine. Exceptionally tight and unusually handsome copy of this directory of the northwest Illinois county seat, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Truly an outstanding condition copy of a title rarely found in respectable condition. Published by the local job printer located in the very building from whence this catalogue description is written.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 203pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Second printing of this study by the noted Chicago steel industry leader (chairman of Inland Steel Company), handsomely inscribed and signed by him in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To / Archie Lieberman, / whose / Kindness I so / happily remember, / from / Clarence B. Randall / June 1, 1960." Lieberman (1926-2008) is a noted Chicago photographer best remembered for "Farm Boy."

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 205pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Second printing of this study of western one-industry settlements.

[Ontario]: Viking, 1985. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 413pp. Map frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of mild jacket edgewear. First volume of Newman's history of the Hudson Bay Company, signed large and bold by Newman in black ballpoint on the title page. Likely a book club edition of some sort, for front jacket flap bears no price (though none of the other indications of book-clubedness are evident).

New York: Amacom, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black buckram spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 326pp. Fine/fine. Tight and nice second printing, nicely inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf "To Bill / Jim Martin." Martin's promotional bookmark laid in.

Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, 1863. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pink wrappers. 32pp. Tables. Very good. Inside front wrapper bears the bookplate of noted scholar George P. Hambrecht (founder, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin), noting he bought this in 1924 for $1.25! First edition of this economic study. Tight, clean, attractive. SABIN 22095.