HARRIS, GEORGE H.

The President's Book: The Story of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

Montreal, QC, Sun Life. 1928. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 284, xxvi +. 4to. Frontispiece with tissue guard. There are 14 drawings with tissue guards, as well as several additional decorative drawings. Light brown boards , quarter bound and corners in dark brown faux leather. Deckle edges, with Tiltes to front cover on a paper label. Titles on spine are faded.

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Book number: 124201

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Keywords: Business, Business, Canadian History, Canadiana

JACKSON, WILLIAM

Book-Keeping, in the True Italian Form of Debtor and Creditor by Way of Double Entry; or, Practical Book-Keeping, Exemplified from the Precepts of the Late Ingenious D. Dowling, Author of Mercantile Arithmetic. With the Addition of Computations in Exchange, and Tables Shewing the Proportion That the Weights and Measures of the Principal Cities in Europe Bear to Each Other

New York, T.B. Jansen and Co.. 1804. (Full leather) Very good. 288pp. Full brown calf, red morocco spine label, gilt. Scuffed, worn. Former owner's name to endpaper. Age spotting and yet tight and entirely clean enough. Printed on laid paper.

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Book number: 109840

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Keywords: Accounting, Fine Bindings

BONAR, JAMES AND J.H HOLLANDER EDS.

Letters of David Ricardo to Hutches Trower and Others

Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1899, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 240pp. Bright red cloth, slight sunning to spine. Clean and tight. Pastedown label on spine.

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Book number: 112843

Catalogue: Business

Keywords: Economics, Banking, Economics, England, History

CHANDLER JR., ALFRED D.; SALSBURY, STEPHEN

Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers 06-010701-4. (ISBN: 06-010701-4). 1971, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good plus in good dust jacket. xxii, 722pp. 8vo. Black cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine, simple decoration in silver to spine and top board. Head of spine bumped. Dust jacket with edgewear; toned; price-clipped. Residue of back panel of dust jacket being taped around the bottom of the boards to the rear flap. Internally tight, bright, and clean. B&W portrait frontispiece. Numerous folding charts / tables.

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Book number: 126590

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Keywords: Business, Company History, History, Non-Fiction 060107014

KESSLER, RONALD

The Life Insurance Game

New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (ISBN: 0-03-070507-X). 1985, 1st edition. (hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. x, 289pp. 8vo. Author's first book, an expose of the life insurance industry, written by one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists. Inscribed by author to the front free endpaper. Notation made to the half title page. Jacket lightly rubbed. Related ephemera laid in. How the Industry Has Amassed Over $600 Billion at the Expense of the American Public.

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Book number: 130374

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Keywords: Insurance, American History, History - American, Investigative Journalism, Life Insurance 003070507X

KESSLER, RONALD

The Spy in the Russian Club; How Glenn Souther Stole America's Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscow

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. (ISBN: 0-684-19116-4). 1990. (hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. ix, 275pp. 8vo. Author's fifth book. A comprehensive account of Glenn Michael Souther, a US Navy photographer who became a sensation in 1988 who had made 'major conrtibutions to the Soviet Union's national security', as written by one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists. Inscribed by author to the front free endpaper. Black and white photographs. Jacket shows light wear at the top edge. The book is softly bumped at the head of spine. Overall, a very good copy.

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Book number: 130375

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Keywords: Insurance, American History, History - American, Investigative Journalism, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Espionage 0684191164

KNIGHT, JOHN T.P.

Canadian Banking Practice

Toronto, Caswell Company. 1904, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 398pp.

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Book number: 115426

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Keywords: Economics, Banking, Canadiana, Economics

KOVEL, RALPH; KOVEL, TERRY

The Label Made Me Buy It: From Aunt Jemima to Zonkers - the Best-Dressed Boxes, Bottles, and Cans from the Past

New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-609-60168-7). 1998, 1st edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. x, 214pp. 4to. Blue and white boards, lettering in red and blue to spine. Colour illus throughout.

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Book number: 118596

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Keywords: Advertising, Antiques, Collecting, Pop Art 0609601687

EPHEMERA; KUCZYNSKI, J.; WITT, M.

The Economics of Barbarism; Hitler's New Economic Order in Europe

Toronto, Progress Books NONE. [no date]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 64pp. 12mo. Grey card wrappers, burgundy title to front and spine. Presents an outline of the economic system of the Nazi regime by Kuczynski, a German communist economist who was in exile in England. Proposals for a fundamental re-shaping of the global economy. There is a name penned (small) to the inside front cover, the pages are lightly age-toned. Very good copy; clean and crisp. No date on this paperback copy, but the book was first published in hardcover in 1942.

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Book number: 127163

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Keywords: Economics, Adolph Hitler, Economics, Socialism, World War II

LEEMAN, WAYNE A. (EDITOR)

Capitalism, Market Socialism, and Central Planning; Readings in Comparative Economic Systems

Boston, et al. Houghton Mifflin Company NONE. 1963. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xi, 372pp. 8vo. Cover lightly rubbed and age toned. Internally clean and bright.

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Book number: 130084

Catalogue: Business

Keywords: Economics, Capitalism, Economic Systems, Market Socialism

LEVANT, EZRA

Ethical Oil; The Case for Canada's Oil Sands

Toronto, Canada, McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 978-0-7710-4541-4. (ISBN: 978-0-7710-4541-4). 2010. (hardcover) Very good in near fine dust jacket. 261+. 8vo. Light markings to dj, none of which have significant impact. The book has black boards, silver title to spine and is clean, solid and bright.

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Book number: 124841

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Keywords: Oil Industry, Canadian Oil, Canadian Oil Sands, Oil and Gas, Oil Industry 9780771045414

THE W. W. COOPER CO. LIMITED

The Book That Has Helped Most in Business

Swift Current, SK, Compliments of the W. W. Cooper Co. Limited, "The Golden Rule Store". [no date]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. [2], 34pp, [1]. Undated. 16mo (15.75cm X 11.25cm). In original red card wrappers, textured, top cover printed in black; saddle-stapled. Ever-so slightly faded towards spine. Mark at head of title page from previously removed paper clip. Else bright and clean. Reproduced from "The American Magazine" (New York). Introduction reproduced from the "Reporter Magazine" (Winnipeg). 500 copies printed.

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Book number: 123426

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Keywords: Business, Canadian Prairies, Ephemera

LINDERHOLM, CLARA C.

Establishing and Operating an Automatic Merchandising Business

Washington, D.C. United States Department of Commerce. 1946, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 41pp. Illus. Spine started, else very light general shelf wear. Industrial (Small Business) Series No.58. Vending machines: refrigerated types, smokes, gumballs, weigh scales, grilled sandwiches! Where & how to set 'em up with the Gov't seal of approval.

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Book number: 110816

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Keywords: Trade Catalogs, Business

LOWY, MICHAEL

Ecosocialism; A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

Chicago, Illinois, Haymarket Books 978-1-60846-471-5. (ISBN: 978-1-60846-471-5). 1993. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 143pp. 8vo. A collection of articles that propose that socialism is the singular path to a sustainable environment. A clean and crisp copy.

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Book number: 124231

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Keywords: Research, Ecology and Environment, Socialism, Sustainability 9781608464715

MORE, W.G. (CHAIRMAN); MACKIMMIE, G.W. (EDITOR); BRITNELL, G.E. (CONTRIB.)

The Canadian Banker, Volume 47, Number 1; October, 1939.

Toronto, The Canadian Bankers' Association. 1939, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 117p +adverts. 8vo. In original blue printed wraps. Bottom corner of top wrap creased. B&W photos. Internally bright, tight, and clean. In this issue: "The Rehabilitation of Prairie Farms," by G. E. Britnell; "Changing Conditions in the Capital Markets of the United States," by L. B. Jack; "Investment Advice to a Bank's Customers," by R. M. Willes Chitty; "Economic Aspects of the Soviet-German Pact," by P. E. Briquet.

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Book number: 119636

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Keywords: Economics, Canadian Economics, Canadian Prairies