Collectible Books
| Dorthy L Pilsbury, Adobe Trilogy, all three books are
autographed:
Roots in Adobe, University of New Mexico Press, 1959, Library of Congress Catalog Card No 59-13409 Adobe Doorways, University of New Mexico Press, 1952, Library of Congress Catalog Card No 52-11521, second printing 1953 No High Adobe, University of New Mexico Press, 1953, Library of Congress Catalog Card No 50-10958, Third Printing $250 for all three |
Fiction
| Airport, Arthur Hailey, Doubleday & Co, 1968, I presume this is a 1st edition, hardback with dust cover - some shelf wear on dust cover $5 |
| Wheels, Arthur Hailey, 1971, hardback, no dust cover, I presume this is 1st edition, $4 |
| Hotel, Arthur Hailey, 1975, hardback, no dust cover, I presume this is a 1st edition, $4 |
| The plays of J.M.Barrie - The Admirable Chrchton - Charles Scribner & Sons - 1923, hardback with dust cover - dustcover is brittle and coming apart wtih age, book is in good condition $3 |
| Farmer takes a wife, John Gould, 1948, paperback $1 |
Children/Young Adult
| Echoes of War - J.M.Barrie - the old lady shows her medals, the new world, Barbara's Wedding, A well-remembered Voice - Charles Scribner & Sons - 1920 |
| Menagerie, Mary Britton Miller, Macmillan Co, 1928, children's rhymes about animals with nice woodblock prints, hardback |
| Runaway Rhymes - Alice Higgins & Tom Lamb - P.F. Volland Co, 1931, 127 pages, hardback - children's rhymes |
| Bob Son Of Battle - Alfred Ollivant - Illustrated Ed, Grosset and Dunlap, Copyright 1898 - I think this is a newer edition, but I don't find a publishing date - this is a story about a dog - hardback with dust cover, $4 |
| Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson - Allyn and Bacon, 1925 (has receipt inside dated July '27) hardback, very good condition, hardback $4 |
| Best Stories, Marjorie Hardy, the Child's Own Way series, Wheeler pub, 1935, hardback, no dust cover $5 |
| Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Grosset & Dunlap, 1942, hardback no dust cover $5 |
| The Swiss Family Robinson, johann Rudolf Wyss, the Windermere series, Rand McNally, 1930 edition, hardback, dustcover has been cut and pasted onto craft paper - $5 |
| Famous children of Story Book Land, Laura A Large, Platt & Munk, 1935, 222 pgs, hardback, no dust cover $4 |
| The Jolly Tinker and other tales, Leonard S Hill, J.B. Lippincott, 1929, 187 pgs, hardback, no dust cover $4 |
| I wonder Why - Milton Goldsmith 1939 plat & Munk - hardback with dust cover, very nice condition (books for an inquisitive child) |
| Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Edna Cooke, Cupples & Leon co, NY, 1930, hardback, no dust cover |
| Joe and Sally, or A good Deed and its Fruits, American Tract Society, New York - quite old, no date, probably 1880 or thereabouts, 96 pgs, good (not perfect) condition, hardback |
| Penrod, His Complete Story, Booth Tarkington, Doubleday, 1931hardback with dust cover $5 |
Non-Fiction
| IVORY - Geoffrey Willis, 1968, First American edition published in 1969 by AS Barnes and Co, Library of Congress Catalog Card No 68-27235. Discussion of all sorts of Ivory, the types of materials, history and its uses, etc. hard back, excellent condition, with dust cover $6 |
| Moving Millions - an inside look at mass transit, Stanley L Fischler, first edition, 1979, ISBN 0-06--11272-7, hardback with dust cover - a couple of small tears in dust cover $5 |
| LIFE SCIENCE LIBRARY - three books - Wheels, Energy, The Poles, 1967, 1967, 1962, hardback large format $10 for all 3 |
| The complete book of Composting - J. I. Rodale and staff of Organic Gardening and Farming magazine, 12th printing Nov 1971, Standard Book Number 87596-064-2 |
| Flowers of the Holy Land - 25 reproductions of original water colors, Bertha Spaffort Vester, Hallmark Cards, 1964, Library of Congress Catalog Card No 62-14859, 80 pages, hardback with dust cover, good condition, some sun fading of dust cover |
| America's Quilts and Coverlets, Carleton L Safford and Robert Bishop, Weathervane Books, 1974, Library of Congress Catalog 72-82707, hardback with dust cover, 313 pages, many illustrations in color and B&W, large format |
| Frontier Days, Oliver G Swan, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928 (presumably a first edition) - hard back, nice cover, 250 pages |
| Literature and Life - Book Three - Greenlaw-Miles, 1923 - very good literature text, nice condition - $5 |
| Ghost Town Album - Lambert Florin, Bonanza, Superior Publishing Co, Seattle, Library of Congress card 62-21937. 184 pgs, hardback with dust cover, nice condition, coffee table book with lots of photos 8 1/2" X 11" |
Pamphlets, advertising, catalogs, etc
| scouting skills exposition, Feb 1,2 1958 $2 |
| oil island of Long Beach (CA) aprox 1980 $2 |
| ants in the home and garden, US Dept of Agriculture, Bulletin 28 $1 |
| where to write for Marriage Records, US Dept of Health Education and welfare, 1964 $2 |
| Where to write for Birth and Death Records, US Dept of Health Education and welfare, 1964 $2 |
| Automobile Batteries - consumer publication of general services administration, 1971 $1 |
| Tires - a comparison of tire reserve load for 1974 passenger cars, V 4, part 2, Nov 1974, US DoT $4 - covers most cars, even Porsche!!! |
| Background information on Recycling Waste Paper - American Paper Institute 1971 $1 |
| Respiratory protective devices approved by the bureau of mines as of Dec 31, 1968, Circular 8436 $1 |
| Walk through metal detectors - JILECJ-STD-0601.00, June '74 $1 |
| Factors in selecting and applying commercial explosives and blasting agents, Bureau of Mines circular 8405, 1968 $1 |
Business and Technical
Graham Turner "The Car Makers"
pristine condition, probably unread. From the collection of a long retired management professor, 270 pages, a pelican book. printed in the UK I found this review of the book on line here http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=835 New Left Review I/23, January-February 1964
The Car Makers. Graham Turner. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 25s. This survey covers most aspects of the motor industry: history, organization, employment conditions, Union action, technical advance, place in the world market, expansion plans. Turner is critical of managements for not creating conditions for workers’ ‘loyalty’ and critical of the workers for being ‘materialistic’. He is rather naive—for instance, his worried description of Communist strength at Ford’s ends: ‘Perhaps widespread lack of interest in religion has something to do with the mild assessment of Communism at Dagenham’—but his book contains willy-nilly much of interest to socialists. Among the points that come out clearly are: 1. The advanced stage of integration between component producers and car manufacturers; 2. The appalling work conditions on the assembly line (‘It’s just another form of Yogism—they automate your mind as well.’) 3. The expansionism of the industry, with all that entails vis-a-vis the need for overseas markets, the grave danger of over-production, the likelihood of still further integration. There are many odd snips of information: half the cars sold in Britain go to company fleets and these fleets are disposed of regularly by large second-hand dealers who disperse them round the country; collaboration is in embryo between car and oil companies—branded oil is advertised on filler caps, etc. The Car Makers is exactly the kind of book which ought to be written by socialist journalists. We badly need lucid accounts of Britain’s key industries. Meanwhile, socialists would do well to read this book. Henry Lester |
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Vance Packard "The Waste Makers" 1964
from the collection of a long retired
management professor, in pristine condition, probably unread. Amazon
says the ISBN for this book is 0671822942
but this particular book, third printing, 1964, does not show an ISBN.
Published by Pocket Books In 1960, cultural critic Vance Packard published The Waste Makers, promoted as an exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals."[5] Packard divided planned obsolescence into two sub categories: obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of function. "Obsolescence of desirability", also called "psychological obsolescence", referred to marketers' attempts to wear out a product in the owner's mind. Packard quoted industrial designer George Nelson, who wrote: "Design... is an attempt to make a contribution through change. When no contribution is made or can be made, the only process available for giving the illusion of change is 'styling!'"[5] The author's obituary is here: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/13/arts/vance-packard-82-challenger-of-consumerism-dies.html |
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The Role of Top Management in the Control of
Inventory By George W Plossl and W Evert Welch, 1979
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| Inventory Systems by Eliezer Naddor 1ed 1966
 Hardcover: 341
pages
| Publisher: Krieger Pub Co (June 1966)
| Language: English
| ISBN-10: 0898743672
| ISBN-13: 978-0898743678
| Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches | |
| Business & Economics | |||
| Topic: | -- | Format: | Hardcover |
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| Language: | English | Publication Year: | 1944 |
5th printing, 1944. A research study of the management policies and practices of 31 leading industrial corporations conducted under the auspices of hte graduate school of business, Stanford University. By Paul E Holden, Lounsbury S Fish, and Hubert L Smith. Some marginal notes in pencil from the professor.
| Subject: | Business & Economics | ||
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| Topic: | Queueing Theory | Format: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English | Publication Year: | 1972 |
| Special Attributes: | 1st Edition |
| ISBN-10: | 0070543704 | ||
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| Subject: | Business & Economics | ISBN-13: | 9780070543706 |
| Topic: | Queueing Theory | Format: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English | Publication Year: | 1961 |
| Special Attributes: | 1st Edition |
Published in 1983 by the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, US department of State, library of congress number 85-600608. Looks unread/unopened- from the collection of a long retired professor of management. $5
1st ed, 1972. Very nice condition, with dust cover. Executive Action, by Edmund P Learned, David N Ulrich, Donald R Booz. Pub by Harvard University, Boston, 1951 218 pgs
Who's ahead in the Global Auto Wars and why - Japan's wining
Detailed item info
| Size | |
| Height: | 9.5 in. |
| Width: | 6 in. |
| Thickness: | 1.2 in. |
| Weight: | 21.6 oz. |
| Publisher's Note | |
| Examines
Japan's innovative, highly successful production methods This immensely readable book describes the volatile trends that will shake the auto industry of the future--and in doing so paints a portrait of an industry regenerating itself in a new way in a global market. |
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| Industry reviews | |
| Based
on MIT's five-year, 14-country study of the worldwide auto
industry. Contrasts the increasingly obsolete mass production of
the American industry with the Japanese auto industry's lean
production, which welds the activities of everyone from top
management to line workers, to suppliers, into a tightly
integrated whole which increases production, quality, and
responsiveness to consumers, while keeping costs down. Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Rubin |
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