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The Tao Of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Pooh is a book written by Benjamin Hoff. The book is an introduction to Taoism, using the fictional character of Winnie the Pooh. Hoff also wrote The Te of Piglet, a companion book. Hoff uses Winnie the Pooh and the other characters from A. A. Milne's stories to explain the basic principles of philosophical Taoism. Winnie the Pooh, for example, represents the principles of Wu Wei, or Wei Wu Wei.
Devil Take the Hindmost
by Edward Chancellor
Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet"...
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Rosenbach - Limited Edition Of 250 Copies Numbered and Signed By Both Authors
by Edwin and Fleming, John F Wolf
The Hand Behind the Mouse an Intimate Biography Of Ub Iwerks, the Man Walt Disney Called the Greatest Animator In the World
by Leslie and Kenworthy, John Iwerks
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas the Film, the Art, the Vision
by Frank, Foreword By Tim Burton Thompson
Rosenbach
by Edwin; and John F Fleming; From the Library Of Ruth a Brooks, Librarian To Howard Leman Goodhart Wolf
Howling At the Moon, the Odyssey Of a Monstrous Music Mogul In an Age Of Excess
by Walter With David Ritz Yetnikoff
Corporate History Books & Ephemera
Out of the Cracker Barrel: The Nabisco Story from Animal Crackers to Zuzus
by Cahn, William
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth with gilt Nabisco logos in decorative frame on front board, 367 pp, bibliography, index, numerous photographs and reproductions of documents and ads included in pagination. Three corners lightly bumped, light soiling and wear to bottom edge of boards and spine, head of spine and top edge, else as new. Front board has a small manufacturing defect, a small spot of glue, partially...
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SGD 30.23
Imperial Airways and the First British Airlines 1919-40
by Jackson, A. S
Suffolk UK: Terence Dalton Limited, 1995. Splendid book on the history of Imperial airways from the early days until the present. 165 pages in very bright,clean condition with many old photographs and maps. Dustwrapper is also bright and clean a very nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 9 x 7 Inches. Hardcover.
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SGD 95.60
Rathbones of Liverpool 1845-73
by Marriner Sheila
Liverpool, Great Britain: Liverpool University Press, 1961. First Edition . Buckram. Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo. 1st edition. 245 pages including detaied index and appendices. This is a comprehensive history of the Rathbone family and the business of Rathbone Brothers & Co which operated out of Liverpool trading in raw materials and food stuffs as well as merchant bankers, shipping and insurance agent and ship owners. In original handsome green buckram gilt hard cover binding. Fine in Near Fine...
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SGD 13.91
Sunnyside: A Story of Industrial History and Co-operation for Young People
by Hall Fred
Manchester Great Britain: The Co-operative Union Limited, 1919. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good+. Small 8vo. 1st edition. 212 pages. Very well illustrated throughout in black and white. This book is done in the style of a standard co-op history but it is really intended to sell the idea of co-operation to young people. In original red decorative cloth with black titling. The covers are a little worn at the corners and bear some marks and the spine is rather faded. Internally very good - a nice...
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SGD 10.43
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
by Mitchell, Stacy
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange boards & endpapers, black cloth spine with foil titles, xviii, 318 pp, notes, index. Bottom corners of a few leaves creased. DJ price-clipped, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers...and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she...
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SGD 35.73
The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa, and Some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early Kimberley
by Chilvers, Hedley A
London: Cassell and Company, [1939]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. xviii, 344 pp. Bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust jacket printed in orange and black. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece, one color plate and 68 photogravure plates. Blank presentation bookplate of the Directors of De Beers Consolidated Mines to front free endpaper. Very Good, minor fading and rubbing to extremities of binding, damp staining to back free endpaper otherwise internally clean and...
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SGD 109.97
Stagecoach (Book One: Wells Fargo and the American West; Book Two: Wells Fargo and the Rise of the American Financial Services Industry)
by Fradkin, Philip L. & Andy Anderson
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Singapore: Simon & Schuster Source, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige speckled boards, yellow spine with gilt titles, xvi, 461 pp, 24 ff b & w plates, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Book One is by Fradkin, Book Two by Anderson. They are complete in one volume. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.
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SGD 30.23
A Very Good Business; One Hundred Years of James Hardy Industries Limited 1888-1988
by Carroll, Brian
James Hardie Industries, Sydney, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. 1.25 kg; 256 pages illustrated throughout with black-and-white, and colour photographs, and reproductions of advertisements. Includes appendices, index. Photographic illustrated end pages, colour illustrated dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the base edge of the boards. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s)....
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SGD 22.89
The Co-operative Wholesale Societies Limited Annual 1915
by :
Manchester, Great Britain: CWS, 1915. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. 670 pages. 8vo. Contains many fine black and white illustrations of premises. In very attractive original decorative brown cloth gilt covers with bevelled edges. Very Good++ tight clean copy. A very substantial volume. WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE OUTSIDE UK,
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SGD 52.15
TANGLED SKEINS: A Historic Survey of Australian Wool Marketing
by HITCHINS, F. Eric
Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor Condition. 177 pp., +xxvii pp. (Appendices) black-and-white photograph frontispiece, all the pages are uniformly browned, slight rubbing to the edges of the boards, the dust wrapper is badly chipped and torn, was the front fold over totally separated from the rest of the dust wrapper. The story of the events which led to the formation of what is now known as the wool board. Size: 8vo - over...
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SGD 18.31
BBC Year Book 1949
by Anon
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1949. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 185mm Tall, 12mo. General shelfwear to covers..
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SGD 17.38
How the Web Was Won: Microsoft from Windows to the Web: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Transformed a Software Empire
by Andrews, Paul
New York: Broadway Books (Random House), 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black spine with foil titles, xv, 352, index. Some small spots to fore-edge near top not affecting text, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Based on "three years of reporting and over 100 interviews with the prime movers driving Microsofts internet strategy and deployment." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near...
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SGD 30.23
D'leteren 1805-2005 200 Years History
Brussels: Editions Racine, 2005. Very informative book on the history of the D'leteren car company, 192 pages in very bright clean condition. Many B/w photographs, colour and B/w illustrations plus very informative text in English. HEAVY BOOK 1.3 Kg with packing EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. Illustrated card covers in very bright and clean condition, a very nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket....
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SGD 60.84
Rise and Fight Againe: The Story of a Life-Long Friend
by Merwin, Samuel
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1935 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter burnt-orange cloth, beige cloth-covered boards, titles printed in brown on front board & on paper label on spine, dec. endpapers, frontis., [ix], 257 pp. Somewhat soiled & rubbed, spine & endpapers browned by binding glue. Sort of a panegyric to Louis K. Liggett, founder of United Drug Company, which was organized as a retail druggist-owned co-op manufacturing and...
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SGD 56.34
The Factory in a Garden: Wedgwood from Etruria to Barlaston - The Transitional Years
by Gater Sharon and Vincent David:
Keele, Great Britain: University of Keele, 1988. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. 8vo. 80 pages including index.This is a well illustrated with 24 excellent black and white and colour photographic plates account of the Wedgwood pottery firm - From Etruria to Barlaston - the transitional years. Preliminaries a little tanned. Near Fine in original attractive duck egg blue pictorial card covers - never issued! REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM.
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SGD 7.82
Almost
by Hap Klopp; Brian Tarcy
FG Press, 2015-02-05. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x5x1. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Signature only, no inscription. Clean, solid copy with crisp, clean pages. Light bump to spine ends. Jacket has light surface wear and moderate edge wear at top. No tears. Very good copy for personal use. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship...
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SGD 22.21
The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble: The World's First Great Financial Scandal
by Balen, Malcolm
London & New York: Fourth Estate, 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, red endpapers, x, 246 pp, contemporary cartoons reproduced as chapter headpieces, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Balen paints of vivid picture of the London of 1710-1720 as a backdrop to the "story of how the fraud was carried out and covered up. ... Every time a company falsifies its accounts, misstates its business...
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SGD 28.85
Bailments, Carriers And Sales : With Questions, Problems And Forms And Text Of Uniform Sales Act And Uniform Bills Of Lading Act: American Commercial Law Series Series
by Bays, Alfred W
Chicago, Illinois: Callaghan And Company. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1920. Second Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 253 pages: 5.5 x 7.5 in.: 1.6: KB#011147: Dark Black Boards, with gilt lettering on front and spine, and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for light rubbing at board corners). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This is the original book printed in 1920, as seen in the actual photo, not a recent reprint. Content Chapters include:...
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SGD 75.60
Du Pont: One Hundred and Forty Years
by Dutton, William S
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles on front board, gilt titles and decorations on spine, top edge dyed grey, frontispiece, x, 396 pp, footnotes, index. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few faint spots, gilt titles and decorations still bright, slightly shaken front hinge repaired with acid-free PVA, bookplate on recto of ffep. The history of the du Pont family and company from founder E....
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SGD 23.35
The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co.Limited, 1871-1929
by Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co Ltd
Wallsend on Tyne: Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co Ltd, 1929. Very informative book on The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co Ltd, a to celebrate their founding in 1871 and their achievments in ship repairing and manufacture of shipping engines, boilers etc. up to 1929. Contains 48 pages in very bright clean condition just slight rippling to pages, many B/w photographs and illustrations of ships, engines, boilers etc, all present as listed plus very informative text, Outer illustrated card covers...
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SGD 50.39
Jaguar in Coventry : Building the Legend
by Thorley, Nigel
Derby UK: Haynes and Co Ltd, 2002. Excellent book on the manufacture of Jaguar cars in Coventry. 192 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w photographs and illustrations plus very informative text, Dustwrapper is also very bright and clean, a very nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition First Printing. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 10 ¼ x 8 Inches. Hardcover.
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SGD 60.75
Borax Years
by Gerstley, James M
Los Angeles: The Castle Press, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo. [6], 94 pp. Bound in full brown cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Limited edition of 100 copies, this is copy #54. Inscribed by the author: "For Fred - with warm regards/Jim" Very Good+, library stamp in black ink to first blank, not other library stamps or markings, light rubbing to corners, in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunning to spine, with some creasing and a...
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SGD 54.98
Dalgety and Company Limited 1884-1934 Jubilee Souvenir
Australia: Mason Firth and McCutcheon, 1934. A very interesting booklet published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dalgety and Company in Australia. 52 pages describing the company's business in the productuion of wool and other pastoral industry plus its progress into other business areas, shipping and insurance as well as handling various types of merchandise. Many period photogrphs of old australia both town and country. Pages are clean and bright, paper covers a little dusty and a couple of...
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SGD 48.67
1979 Year Book of the Greater Minneapolis Area Board of Realtors
by Greater Minneapolis Area Board of Realtors
Minneapolis: Greater Minneapolis Area Board of Realtors, 1978 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Maroon cloth with Gopher gold titles and decorations, 218, [114] pp, advertising on endpapers. Contains photos of officers and board of directors; list of committees; code of ethics; by-laws; arbitration manual; multiple listing service (mls) rules, regulations, and operating procedures; commercial-industrial mls by-laws; professional standards of practice; the 1975...
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SGD 44.39
WM. Noall and Son
by Hughes-Jones, R.N
The Company, Melbourne, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. VI, 68 pp., underwriting activities. Black and white photographic frontispiece, showing founder. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and line drawings. Photographic front cover, showing a portrait of Melbourne, with black writing on front panel. Corners are slightly rubbed and bumped. The head and the heel of the spine are also rubbed and slightly bumped. Slight fading to the...
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SGD 11.65
