Anon

The fortieth anniversary of the founding of CCPIT (China Council for the Promotion of International Trade).

China: China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound large format book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. As new in slipcase, no signs of use. 238 pages, colour & b/w photos throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Heavy book.. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 32199

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Trade & industry Chinese industrial history

Brainard, Newton C. (ed)

The Andrus Bindery: a history of the shop 1831 - 1838.

USA: Sign of the Stone Book. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in quarter green cloth over biege boards with title on label, no inscriptions. 50 pages, illustrations in the text. Privately printed. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 53303

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Bookbinding American History Victorian Age

Cash, R. J.

Kingfield under fire.

Coventry: J. & J. Cash, 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, stapled spine, pictorial cover a little creased, no inscriptions, appears little used. 16 pages, illustrations in the text. Good.

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Book number: 58296

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Coventry blitz Luftwaffe Second World War

Griggs, P. J.

The thread of life: the story of our use of cellulose.

Royal Botanic Gardens, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 60 pages, colour illustrations in the text. Fine.

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Book number: 66618

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Paper making Kew Gardens

Lief, Alfred

The Firestone story; a history of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company.

U.S.A: Whittlesey House, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, ex University library with the usual stamps on the front endpapers, but text block is clean and complete, in a worn binding of blue cloth. viii + 438 pages, colour frontispiece and several b/w photos on plates, appendices, bibliography, index. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 36781

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Rubber industry Tyre manufacture Arms & armaments

Mason, S. G.

British hosiery and knitwear.

The Hosiery and Knitwear Export Group of Gt. Britain, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a closed tear to the top edge, and a small area of loss at the bottom edge of the rear panel. Appears little used. 84 pages, b/w and some colour illustrations in the text. A foolscap sized leaflet from W. Moore and Osborne, of Druid St. Hinckley, is laid in.. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 56939

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Industrial History Knitting machines Framework knitting W. Moore and Osborne

Mason, Sheila A.

The history of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters: the art and mystery of framework knitting in England and Wales.

Oadby: Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book which is signed by the Master of the Company on the front endpaper but is otherwise unmarked, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xii + 282 pages, 50 b/w plates, and 8 in colour, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 59737

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Livery companies Local History Hinckley

Symington, Ian

Contour and cream.

Market Harborough: Harborough District Council, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Clean paperback original, pictorial card covers, stapled spine, appears little used, no inscriptions. 32 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. From table creams to corsets: the memories of factory workers whose lives were cut, sewn and moulded by the Symington Foundation. Very Good.

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Book number: 51296

Catalogue: History:: Business

Keywords: Symington Foundation Liberty Bodice Corsets Market Harborough Company History