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True Crime Reader's Digest Association Inc: Reader's Digest Great Cases of Scotland Yard, Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY, 1978 ; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0895770539
Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. Book Size 8vo.

Reader's Digest Great Cases of Scotland Yard by Reader's Digest Association Inc. Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY, 1978. 1st Stated Ed. Hardbound w/DJ. 8vo. Introduced by Eric Ambler and retold by Clive Egleton-The Stealing of Muriel McKay, Elizabeth Jenkins-Neill Cream, Poisoner, Andrew Garve-The case of Stanley Setty, Winston Graham-The Wembley Job, Ludovic Kennedy-The Portland Spy Case, Emlyn Williams-Doctor Crippen's Diary, Russell Braddon-The Shepherd's Bush Cash, and Julian Symons-The Siege of Sidney Street. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 690 Pgs. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 9243.; 1st Stated Ed

[KW: Murder]

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Snyder, Don J. The Cliff Walk:A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found, Little, Bronw
edgewear,rubbing,dust jacket. top corners curled and pinch foredge near top pages 20-42. clean and tight text. memoirs. Very Good/Very Good hard cover

1st printing,1997 12mo,boards,265pp.

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Elson, Robert T. , edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor. TIME INC. The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923-1941. NY: Atheneum, c. 1968.
Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Bent rust marks from a paperclip on top edge of ffep, half-title and title page. Splash mark, the size of a dime (coffee? ) , on pages 146, 147 and 170, 171, else contents are clean. DJ's spine is faded but the letteirng is clear. Minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; 500pp. Index. 24p b&w ills. , mostly photos. 9-1/2" Tall. Rough textured maroon cloth binding w/bright gold spine lettering and title blind-samped on front cover. Red endpapers. Red top edge. All-in-all, a deluxe binding job! BUSINESS. "In Febrary 1923, with86000 capital invested by a small group of friends, two young Yale graduates, Briton Hadden and Henry Robinson Luce, brought out the first issue of a 28-page magazine called TIME: The Weekly News-Magazine . The circulation of that first issue was 9000...This volume, first of two, is the almost incredible success story of the founders and, in particular, of Henry Luce, one of the most original and influential editors in American journalism....Seldom has any work of business history dealt so frankly with the intimate details of a great corporation. ".

Hardcover; Third Printing, VG-/VG-.

[KW: ARCHITECTURAL FORUM; John Shaw Billings; Margaret Bourke-White; FORTUNE Magazine; MANFRED Gottfried; Ralph McAllister Ingersoll; LIFE MAGAZINE; PHOTOGRAPHY; World War II;,]

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Farquhar, Samuel T. PRINTING THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, Berkeley Univ. of California Press 1946
First edition. With illustrations and foldout plates showing how this difficult printing job was accomplished. Nice inscription on free endpaper "To my good friend, Gordon Holmquist from A.R. Tommasini, Berkeley, California, April 10, 1946."

thin small 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 56 pages.

[KW: PRINTING HISTORY, TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA UNITED NATIONS TOMMASINI, A.R.]

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