On this page are 92 business biographies that we have catalogued and are on our shelves in Walpole, New Hampshire on March 6, 2008.  Please note, that except for the first few books, these books are sorted by the person they are about in (   ). Enjoy browsing through, and feel free to place your order at any time with Ray Boas, Bookseller.

1. Johnson, Allen (edited by), DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY - 20 VOLUME SET COMPLETE WITH INDEX, SUPPLEMENT ONE AND SUPPLEMENT TWO, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928, good, maroon cloth, (hardcover) light fade to spines, Nice clean and tight set with light fading to the spines as usual. 20 volumes (complete) with Index; Volume XXI - SUPPLEMENT ONE (To December 31, 1935), 1944, 718pp; and Volume XXII - SUPPLEMENT TWO (To December 31, 1940), 1958, 745pp., (Order No: 1687 ), $295.00

2. ( Astor ), Sinclair, David, DYNASTY: THE ASTORS AND THEIR TIMES, Beaufort Books, Inc., New York, (1984), B&W illustrations, 426pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0825302234 A penetrating analysis, based on research on both sides of the Atlantic, which reveals clearly why the name of Astor remains an international symbol for riches, glamor, and power., (Order No: 4907 ), $5.00

3. ( Astor ), Smith, Arthur D. Howden, JOHN JACOB ASTOR: LANDLORD OF NEW YORK, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1929 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 296pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with minimal markings, "Interesting, better than some of the Astor biographies; accepts old legends about Astor." Larson 334., (Order No: 33313 ), $8.50

4. ( Astor ), Wilson, Derek, THE ASTORS 1763-1992: LANDSCAPE WITH MILLIONAIRES, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1993) 1st US, B&W illustrations, 439pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE, ISBN 0312097441 Author had access to private Astor papers never before seen by researchers, and has created a compelling portrait of a great family that has exercised an unmatched influence. CONDITION NOTE - rubber cement residue on pastedowns and rear free endpaper., (Order No: 2932 ), $10.00

5. ( Ayer ), Babst, Earl D.; Wood, Jarvis A. (introduction by), F. WAYLAND AYER FOUNDER - THE BUSINESS PIONEER, N. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia, 1923, 80pp, very good+, flexible leather, teg (hardcover) in original box, "Herein you may read of F. Wayland Ayer as his purposeful and dutiful life revealed him to other men: as a business pioneer, a farmer, a religious leaders, a friend, a Christian statesman.", (Order No: 49451 ), $40.00

6. ( Bell ), Waite, Helen E., MAKE A JOYFUL SOUND: THE ROMANCE OF MABEL HUBBARD AND ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - AN AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, Macrae Smith Co., Philadelphia, (1961), B&W illustrations, 285pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The personal factors behind the great inventions and discoveries that change the world are often overlooked, to history's loss, and nowhere has this been more true than in the case of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, experimenter in genetics and aerodynamics, great-hearted friend and teacher of the handicapped., (Order No: 3214 ), $4.00

7. ( Bingham ), Chandler, David Leon, THE BINGHAMS OF LOUISVILLE, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1987) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 292pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517568950 'The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes'. Story of a controversial American dynasty that on the eve of publication was suddenly and mysteriously canceled. In 1916, Robert Worth Bingham married Mary Lily Kenan, the widow of Henry Flagler, the Standard Oil tycoon. Robert and Mary had had an affair twenty years earlier, and married after their spouses had fatal accidents ten days apart., (Order No: 1992 ), $3.50

8. ( Cain ), Cain, Gordan, EVERYBODY WINS! A LIFE IN FREE ENTERPRISE, Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1997), B&W illustrations, 342pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0941901149 A case study in American business enterprise told though the life of an extraordinary man. This book chronicles how chemical engineer Gordan Cain effected a turnaround in the commodity chemicals industry through the strategies of innovative management, employee stock ownership, and leveraged buy outs., (Order No: 53697 ), $7.00

9. ( Carnegie ), Hacker, Louis M., THE WORLD OF ANDREW CARNEGIE: 1865- 1901, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, (1968) 1st ed, 473pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), History of Carnegie's times. Not only economic history at its best, but also includes vivid portrayals of the men who built the industrial empires., (Order No: 2904 ), $14.50

10. ( Cork ), Cork, Kenneth with Barty-King, Hugh, CORK ON CORK: SIR KENNETH CORK TAKES STOCK, Macmillan, London, (1988), B&W illustrations, 267pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0333444795 In the whirl of 'retirement', Sir Kenneth has found the time to tell the remarkable tale of his times and to tell it with a twinkle in his autobiographical eye., (Order No: 39257 ), $12.50

11. ( Delorean ), Fallon, Ivan, and Srodes, James, DREAM MAKER: THE RISE AND FALL OF JOHN Z. DELOREAN, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 455pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 0399128212, (Order No: 1976 ), $4.00

12. ( Delorean ), Levin, Hillel, GRAND DELUSIONS: THE COSMIC CAREER OF JOHN DE LOREAN, The Viking Press, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 336pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 067026685X, (Order No: 4876 ), $2.50

13. ( Dreyfus ), Dreyfus, Jack, THE LION OF WALL STREET: THE TWO LIVES OF JACK DREYFUS, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W photos, 330pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0895264617 Dreyfus, Wall Street maverick and founder of the billion-dollar Dreyfus Fund, offers the story of his remarkable life, from his early years in Montgomery, Alabama, through college, the Coast Guard, and eventually to the New York Stock Exhange, where he created his formula for sharing America's wealth with millions of small investors. His second life involves his fight over depression., (Order No: 7402 ), $5.00

14. ( Drucker ), Tarrant, John J. (foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson), DRUCKER: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CORPORATE SOCIETY, Cahners Books, Inc., Boston, MA, (1976), 300pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0843607440 This book is the first full-scale study of Drucker's work, his influence, and his place in the business world and in society. It offers the reader an all-inclusive view of the man as a shaper of industrial society, of his influence on the structure of the corporation, and of his impact as a writer and philosopher., (Order No: 15447 ), $2.50

15. ( Dupont ), Carr, William H. A., THE DU PONTS OF DELAWARE: A FANTASTIC DYNASTY, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, (1964) 6th ptg, B&W illustrations, 368pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Illustrated with genealogical charts, a map and photographs., (Order No: 2109 ), $6.00

16. ( Dupont ), Dutton, William S., DU PONT: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942, 396pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2559 ), $4.00

17. ( Dupont ), Mosley, Leonard, BLOOD RELATIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DU PONTS OF DELAWARE, Atheneum, New York, 1980, B&W illustrations, 428pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 0689110553, (Order No: 4524 ), $5.00

18. ( Edison ), Beasley, Rex (foreword by Herbert Hoover), EDISON, Chilton Books, Philadelphia, PA, (1964) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 176pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, In this book, Edison is seen in a conflict of moods as he proves, pushes, and shouts for the results he is determined to achieve., (Order No: 3663 ), $14.50

19. ( Edison ), Baldwin, Neil (with bookplate signed by the author), EDISON: INVENTING THE CENTURY, Hyperion, New York, (1995) 3rd ptg, B&W photos, 531pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0786860413 "The first biography of Thomas Edison to distinquish the myth from the complex and self-contradictory man, and the first to place him in the intellectual and cultural context of his times.", (Order No: 6312 ), $7.50

20. ( Edison ), Bryan, George S., EDISON: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, NY, (1926), B&W illustrations, 350pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), This volume endeavors to present the human interest inherent in Edison and at the same time it assumes that Edison cannot properly be separated from his work., (Order No: 29021 ), $5.00

21. ( Edison ), Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956); Thomas A. Edison, EDISON AS IN THOUGHT IN HIS LAB -- ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHING, 1915, fine, exceptional matting and framing, Original copperplate etching (approximately 8.5 inches by 7 inches) titled EDISON AS IN THOUGHT IN HIS LAB, framed beautifully in a 20.5 inch by 20 inch frame with inset title. Profile image of Edison with laboratory equipment behind him. His eyes are closed as if in thought. Signed in pencil by the artist Bernhardt Wall on the lower right, and signed in the etching "Wall 1915, Silver Lake." A pioneer etcher and producer of fine press books, it was in 1915 that Wall decided to make etching his vocation, making this one of his early works. Thomas A. Edison established a chemical plant in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1914. When it burned on January 9, 1916, Edison said he would rebuild in 48 hours. An uncommon Edison or Wall item., (Order No: 52443 ), $495.00

22. ( Edison ), Conot, Robert, A STREAK OF LUCK, Seaview Books, New York, (1979), B&W illustrations, 565pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0872235211 Scholarly biography of Thomas A. Edison. Title comes from Edison's comment made July 26, 1869, 'I'll never give up for I may have a streak of luck before I die.', (Order No: 1905 ), $5.00

23. ( Edison ), Clark, Ronald W., EDISON: THE MAN WHO MADE THE FUTURE, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1977) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 256pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399119523 The author describes Edison's early untutored upbringing, his first inventions, and his struggles in the industrial jungle. His great achievement in perfecting the world's first system of incandescent lighting and his success in building the first phonograph are graphically described, as are his vital early contributions to what became the motion picture industry. His work for the U.S. Navy during the First World War and his efforts to make his country self-sufficient in rubber are only two among the many other episodes in the life of this archetypal American of the era., (Order No: 16064 ), $4.50

24. ( Edison ), Dyer, Frank Lewis and Martin, Thomas C., EDISON: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1910 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vol, 989pp, good+, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) light edgewear, First authorized biography of Edison which is largely autobiographical. Presents the business as well as the technical aspects of Edison's work. Larson 418., (Order No: 1911 ), $95.00

25. ( Edison ), Dyer, Frank L. & Martin, Thomas C., EDISON HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1929, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 1036pp, very good+, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), Originally published in 1910 as the first authorized biography of Edison, which is largely autobiographical. Presents the business as well as the techincal aspects of Edison's work. Larson 418., (Order No: 1928 ), $75.00

26. ( Edison ), Frost, Lawrence A., THE THOMAS A. EDISON ALBUM: A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA, (1969) 1st ed, B&W photographs, 175pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 1926 ), $17.50

27. ( Edison ), Greenwood, Ernest, EDISON: THE BOY - THE MAN, Nat'l Electric Light Assoc, New York, (1929), B&W illustrations, 64pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), A brief story of the life and work of Thomas Alva Edison. Bookplate - "Compliments of the Potomac Electric Power Company.", (Order No: 52657 ), $10.00

28. ( Edison ), Garbedian, Gordon, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: BUILDER OF CIVILIZATION, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, (1947), ill. by Robert Burns, 231pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 52983 ), $7.50

29. ( Edison ), Hutchings, David W., EDISON AT WORK: THE THOMAS A. EDISON LABORATORY AT WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY - THE FAMOUS MUSEUM SERIES, Hastings House, Publishers, New York, (1969), B&W illustrations, 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803818939 Where did Edison work? What sort of shop did he have? How did he go about discovering his world-changing inventions? The answers are in the Thomas Edison Museum at West Orange, NJ, the laboratories and machine shops he worked in for forty-four years, and left for the last time only three months before his death at age 84., (Order No: 52658 ), $17.50

30. ( Edison ), Jones, Francis Arthur, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: SIXTY YEARS OF AN INVENTORS LIFE, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York, (1908) 6th 1000, B&W illustrations, 362pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), Author interviewed many early acquaintences of Edison in preparing this book. Chapters on many of his inventions., (Order No: 2037 ), $20.00

31. ( Edison ), Josephson, Matthew, EDISON: A BIOGRAPHY, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, (1959) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 511pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), One of the better biographies of Edison with extensive notes., (Order No: 2848 ), $7.50

32. ( Edison ), Millard, Andre, EDISON AND THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION, The Johns Hopkins Univ Press, Baltimore, (1990), B&W illustrations, 287pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 080183306X Story of Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision., (Order No: 3662 ), $20.00

33. ( Edison ), Miller, Francis Trevelyan, THOMAS A. EDISON: AN INSPIRING STORY FOR BOYS, The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, (1940), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good, black cloth (no dustjacket), First published in 1931 as: THOMAS A. EDISON - BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND: THE ROMANTIC LIFE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST INVENTOR., (Order No: 4676 ), $15.00

34. ( Edison ), Edison, Thomas A.; Runes, Dagobert D. (editor), THE DIARY AND SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Philosophical Library, New York, (1948), B&W illustrations, 247pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The diary of Edison which is presented here for the first time in book form, is only fragmentary, and so are the many chapters of his observations and notes. Thomas Alva Edison was not a desk scientist. His mind was forever searching for new paths, new ways into the mysteries that surround us, and many a precious secret was he able to wrest from nature., (Order No: 4496 ), $17.50

35. ( Edison ), Simonds, William A. (introduction by Francis Jehl), A BOY WITH EDISON - ONE BOY'S EXCITING EXPERIENCES WITH AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR, The Sun Dial Press, New York, (1940), B&W illustrations, 285pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Firsdt published in 1931. "Young Moderns Bookshelf", (Order No: 52768 ), $10.00

36. ( Edison ), Simonds, William Adams, EDISON: HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS GENIUS - THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR, Blue Ribbon Books, New York, (1940), 364pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscrip., First published in 1934., (Order No: 53010 ), $14.50

37. ( Edison ), Tate, Alfred O. (Edison's Private Secretary), EDISON'S OPEN DOOR - THE LIFE STORY OF THOMAS A. EDISON: A GREAT INDIVIDUALIST; BY HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1938 1st ed, 320pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, small tear top spine, "This is the most personal story that has ever been written about Edison and could not have been told by anyone else." Light edgewear, slight can to book block, and a small tear at the top of the spine., (Order No: 52984 ), $17.50

38. ( Edison ), Vanderbilt, Byron M., THOMAS EDISON, CHEMIST, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1971, B&W illustrations, 373pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841201293 Thomas Edison - inventory, innovater, electrical and mechanical wizard - was first and foremost a remarkably versatile chemist., (Order No: 2174 ), $8.50

39. ( Edison ), Wachhorst, Wyn, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: AN AMERICAN MYTH, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1982) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 328pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0262231085 Book traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues: hard work, perserverance, the gospel of technological progress, the mythology of the self-made man, individualism, optimism, practically mingled with idealism., (Order No: 3661 ), $5.00

40. ( Fisk ), Porter, Donald, JUBILEE JIM AND THE WIZARD OF WALL STREET, Dutton, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, 568pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0525248412 A fast paced novel of Jim Fisk, Jay Gould and their colorful times. Slightly bent facts, and created characters to aid in giving a flavor to the times of the Erie wars, and scandals of the Grant administration., (Order No: 2060 ), $2.00

41. ( Fisk ), Swanberg, W. A., JIM FISK: THE CAREER OF AN IMPROBABLE RASCAL, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1959), B&W illustrations, 310pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "America's most flamboyant crook, murdered in 1872 by his mistress's lover after a career of colossal swindles and impudent ostentation.", (Order No: 2742 ), $5.00

42. ( Forbes ), Jones, Arthur, MALCOLM FORBES: PERIPATETIC MILLIONAIRE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1977) 1st ed, 30 B&W ill., 211pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0060122048 Malcolm Forbes did not inherit a fortune-he inherited a struggling magazine. From that base, in less than thirty years, Forbes magazine grew to a major moneymaker-for one man. How it grew, why it grew, and the fun Malcolm Forbes, a modern-day adventurer, had along the way making it grow is the tale told in this book., (Order No: 12565 ), $4.00

43. ( Ford ), Bryan, Ford R., THE FORDS OF DEARBORN: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, Harlo Press, Detroit, MI, (1992) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 301pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0818701021 This book consists of short stories based almost entirely on information and photographs contained in the Ford Archives of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, and covers the period between 1820 and 1950 with over 130 illustrations of several family branches, homes, etc., (Order No: 52656 ), $12.00

44. ( Ford ), Graves, Ralph H., THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEA: THE STORY OF HENRY FORD, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1934 1st ed, ill. with 52 photographs, 184pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A slight, publicity type of book that traces growth of Ford production and describes plants and processes. Larson 408., (Order No: 1922 ), $5.00

45. ( Ford ), Garrett, Garet, HENRY FORD: THE WILD WHEEL, Pantheon Books, New York, (1952) 4th ptg, B&W illustrations, 220pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "The fascinating Story of the Man and the Industrial Empire which he built." The author knew Ford well over many years and his story is based upon notes and recollections of many discussions with both Ford and his associates., (Order No: 17969 ), $15.00

46. ( Ford ), Lasky, Victor, NEVER COMPLAIN, NEVER EXPLAIN: THE STORY OF HENRY FORD II, Richard Marek Publishers, New York, (1981), 307pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on jacket, ISBN 0399901043, (Order No: 8233 ), $3.50

47. ( Ford ), Sward, Keith, THE LEGEND OF HENRY FORD, Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York, 1948, 501pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - light edgewear, The result of ten years of research, this is the first definitive work on the great industrialist who built an automobile into a veritable empire., (Order No: 41473 ), $4.00

48. ( Ford ), Wik, Reynold M., HENRY FORD AND GRASS-ROOTS AMERICA, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1972), B&W illustrations, 266pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0472972006 Re-creates the era of the Tin Lizzie and the Fordson tractor. Tracing and evaluating Ford's activities and ideas in many fields - agriculture, science, politics, education - the author examines the ways in which Mr. Ford came to epitomize the values of the "little man" in the minds of many rural Americans, who looked upon Ford as one of their own., (Order No: 37213 ), $15.00

49. ( Frick ), Harvey, George, HENRY CLAY FRICK: THE MAN, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928, B&W illustrations, 382pp, good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2256 ), $5.00

50. ( Getty ), Lenzner, Robert, THE GREAT GETTY: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF J. PAUL GETTY - RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1985), B&W illustrations, 283pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517562227, (Order No: 4523 ), $2.50

51. ( Gould ), White, Bouck (introduction by Edward Dorn), THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW: A GLIMPSE OF THE FISK-GOULD-TWEED REGIME FROM THE INSIDE, Frontier Press, New York, (1969), 423pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), Originally published in 1910 - The Inside Story of the First Great Wall Street Speculator. Written in the form of an autobiography, this book about Daniel Drew is a mixture of reality and fiction. It seems to catch much of the "spirit" of one of the early great operators on the New York stock market, who is especially known for his efforts to control Erie. Often quoted as though authoritative. Larson 532., (Order No: 685 ), $5.00

52. ( Guggenheim ), Hoyt, Edwin P., THE GUGGENHEIMS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, (1967) 1st ed, 382pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In 1847 the Guggenheims (fourteen of them) left a tiny Swiss ghetto for the dream of freedom. Simon and his eldest son, Meyer, became manufacturers of stove polish. By World War I, Meyer's sons were worth more than $500 million, and were the most important men in the world metal industries., (Order No: 4576 ), $5.00

53. ( Guggenheim ), Lomask, Milton, SEED MONEY: THE GUGGENHEIM STORY, Farrar, Straus and Co., New York, 1964, B&W illustrations, 307pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 2043 ), $7.50

54. ( Hearst ), Chaney, Lindsay & Cieply, Michael, THE HEARSTS: FAMILY & EMPIRE: THE LATER YEARS, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1981), B&W illustrations, 411pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671247654, (Order No: 2796 ), $3.50

55. ( Hearst ), Tebbel, John, THE LIFE AND GOOD TIMES OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1952 2nd ptg, 386pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Biography of Hearst: publisher of twenty newspapers, owner of endlessly rich mines, of magazines, ranches, palaces, castles, and of men and women who both loved and hated him., (Order No: 3493 ), $10.00

56. ( Hughes ), Gerber, Albert B., BASHFUL BILLIONAIRE: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD HUGHES, Lyle Stuart, Inc., New York, (1967), 384pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) 2 small closed tears jacket, (Order No: 4874 ), $5.00

57. ( Huntington ), Evans, Cerinda W., COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON - VOLUME ONE ONLY, The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA, 1954, B&W illustrations, 384pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), Detailed biography of Huntington and his contributions to the building of the railroads. Complete and scholarly. - THIS OFFERING IS FOR VOLUME ONE ONLY !!!, (Order No: 1975 ), $22.50

58. ( Johnson ), Foster, Lawrence G., ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON - THE GENTLEMAN REBEL, Lillian Press, State College, PA, (1999) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 736pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0966288203 Robert Wood Johnson built Johnson & Johnson into a world renowned company and gave new meaning to the need for corporations to serve the public interest., (Order No: 46816 ), $5.00

59. ( Johnson ), Inglis, William, GEORGE F. JOHNSON: AND HIS INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, Huntington Press, New York, (1935) 1st ed, 29 B&W ill., 306pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), For nearly forty years the great American enterprise established by George F. Johnson has grown and prospered-undisturbed by labor trouble. Such a phenomenon as this challenges attention. If American industry generally had followed George F. Johnson's example, it is reasonable to assume we would have avoided much of the suffering and industrial strife following 1929., (Order No: 13329 ), $14.50

60. ( Klein ), Gaines, Steven & Churcher, Sharon, OBSESSION: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF CALVIN KLEIN, Birch Lane Press, New York, (1994) 1st ptg, 31 B&W ill., 414pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1559722355 A tale of fashion, power, and self-creation-a riveting business story of an ambitious man who scaled his way to the top of New York's cutthroat garment industry, building an influential and far-reaching financial kingdom., (Order No: 12907 ), $6.00

61. ( Maxwell ), Bower, Tom, MAXWELL: THE OUTSIDER, Viking, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 539pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670846546 This compelling portrait, the subject of numerous libel suits brought by Maxwell in Britain before his death, is now published in a thoroughly updated edition in the United States. It provides a fascinating look at the man who was relentless in his attempts to obtain media power and respectability, attempts that would eventually destroy him., (Order No: 19808 ), $7.50

62. ( McCormick ), Smith, Richard Norton, THE COLONEL: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF ROBERT R. MCCORMICK, 1880-1955, INDOMITABLE EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1997 1st ptg, 579pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395533791 Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Tribune, this is the first biography to benefit from unlimited access to McCormick's personal papers. The author gives us a vivid, subtle, sympathetic portrait of an American original, a man both sage and naif, fox and loon, and a far-seeing media visionary., (Order No: 21990 ), $12.00

63. ( Morgan ), Allen, Frederick Lewis, THE GREAT PIERPONT MORGAN, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1949 1st ed, B&W frontispiece of Morgan, 306pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2000 ), $5.00

64. ( Morgan ), Canfield, Cass, THE INCREDIBLE PIERPONT MORGAN: FINANCIER & ART COLLECTOR, Harper & Row, New York, 1974, B&W illustrations, 176pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060105992 Contents are divided between Morgan the man and his business dealings, and Morgan the collector and how he built up his art collection., (Order No: 1899 ), $4.50

65. ( Morgan ), Corey, Lewis, THE HOUSE OF MORGAN: A SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE MASTERS OF MONEY, G. Howard Watt, New York, 1930, B&W illustrations, 479pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) faint hinge repair, Example of the spurious biographies of the time. In telling a chronological story of Morgan's life, the author (whose real name is supposedly Louis C. Fraina) presents a mass of facts (carefully citing references), with clarity, logic and emphasis. He draws a forceful picture of Morgan and the changes in American business at the time, but the book does not stand the test of careful examination of its workmanship. Its conception is Marxian - Morgan is represented as the highest in capitalistic exploitation as to personality, character, methods of operation, and control. The system which he helped to build is presented as illustrating high concentration in the Marxian sense. Unscholarly workmanship makes one doubt the whole book. Larson 677, (Order No: 6068 ), $12.50

66. ( Morgan ), Jackson, Stanley, J. P. MORGAN: A BIOGRAPHY, Stein and Day, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 332pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812828240, (Order No: 2138 ), $9.50

67. ( Morgan ), Sinclair, Andrew, CORSAIR: THE LIFE OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, (1981) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 269pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316792403, (Order No: 4906 ), $6.00

68. ( Morgan ), Satterlee, Herbert L., J. PIERPONT MORGAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1939 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 595pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Written by a son-in-law, who used original material accessible only to the family, this book contains new information on Morgan and is especially useful as an intimate portrait of the man. It does not deal fully with Morgan's business, but it contains much that is valuable on the work of Morgan and his firms. Larson 562. First published in 1939., (Order No: 18684 ), $17.50

69. ( Muir ), Fuller, O. Muiriel, JOHN MUIR OF WALL STREET: A STORY OF THRIFT, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, (1927), B&W illustrations, 325pp, very good+, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), A slight biography of a Canadian who held executive positions with some of the leading American railroads and became an odd-lot broker on the New York Stock Exchange. Larson 401., (Order No: 2552 ), $15.00

70. ( Neilson ), Thompson, Robert T., COLONEL JAMES NEILSON: A BUSINESS MAN OF THE EARLY MACHINE AGE IN NEW JERSEY, 1784-1862, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1940, B&W illustrations, 359pp, very good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A case study, from manuscript sources, in the history of American business in transition from mercantile to industrial capitalism. Neilson was interested in banking, turnpike, canal, stage and steamboat companies, development of water power and manufacturing and real estate. Concerned with promotion, investment, and policy determination rather than management. Also, influence of the business man on social and cultural life of his community. Larson 549., (Order No: 2953 ), $10.00

71. ( Noyes ), Noyes, Pierrepont B., A GOODLY HERITAGE, Rinehart & Co., Inc., New York, (1958) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 275pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "The continuing autobiography of an imaginative businessman and the part his boyhood in the unique Oneida Community played in shaping his successful career." Noyes helped to build one of America's largest silver companies, Oneida Ltd., makers of community plate., (Order No: 2906 ), $5.00

72. ( Post ), Major, Nettie Leitch (inscribed by Marjorie Post), C. W. POST: THE HOUR AND THE MAN - A BIOGRAPHY WITH GENEALOGICAL SUPPLEMENT, Judd & Detweiler, Inc., Washington, DC, 1963, B&W and color illustrations, 318pp, good+, blue leather (hardcover) light edgewear, The first full-length biography of C.W. Post emphasizing the intense activity of his entire life. Includes much family history and genealogy. Post, known as founder of 'Postum', 'Grape-Nuts', and 'Post Toasties' (forerunners of General Foods Corporation) has many little-known accomplishments as an inventor and humanitarian., (Order No: 2145 ), $12.50

73. ( Ries ), Ries, Estelle H., ELIAS E. RIES, INVENTOR, Philosophical Library, New York, (1951), B&W frontis, 369pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 46264 ), $6.00

74. ( Rockefeller ), Chase, Mary Ellen, ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER, The Macmillan Co., New York, (1951) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 159pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) EX-LIB usual marks, (Order No: 2806 ), $7.50

75. ( Rockefeller ), Goulder, Grace, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: THE CLEVELAND YEARS, Western Reserve His. Soc., Cleveland, OH, 1972 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 271pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) signed by author, ISBN 0911704094 An intimate and dispassionate examination of John D. Rockefeller's life based on exhaustive research. Reflective of the oilman's personality., (Order No: 2131 ), $12.50

76. ( Rockefeller ), Morris, Joe Alex, THOSE ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS - AN INFORMAL BIOGRAPHY OF FIVE EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG MEN, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1953), 275pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, and what they are doing with their fortunes., (Order No: 46592 ), $10.00

77. ( Rockefeller ), Nevins, Allan, STUDY IN POWER: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST - VOLUME I AND VOLUME II - TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1953 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 940pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjackets), Much new material was discovered since the publication of Nevin's earlier work on Rockefeller, and is included here., (Order No: 3065 ), $40.00

78. ( Rothschilds ), Cowles, Virginia, THE ROTHSCHILDS: A FAMILY OF FORTUNE, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973 1st US, B&W and color illustrations, 304pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) tape repairs to jacket, ISBN 0394487737, (Order No: 2810 ), $5.00

79. ( Rothschild ), Rothschild, Guy de, THE WHIMS OF FORTUNE: THE MEMOIRS OF GUY DE ROTHSCHILD, Random House, New York, (1985) 1st ed, B&W and color photos, 337pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394540549, (Order No: 7646 ), $5.00

80. ( Rothschilds ), Ravage, Marcus Eli, FIVE MEN OF FRANKFORT - THE STORY OF THE ROTHSCHILDS, The Dial Press, New York, 1934, portraits by Karl S. Woerner, 341pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) edgewear to cloth, First published in 1929., (Order No: 45631 ), $9.50

81. ( Sabanci ), Tanju, Sadun (translated from the Turkish by Geoffrey Lewis), THE LIFE OF HACI OMER SABANCI: THE TURKISH VILLAGE BOY WHO BUILT AN INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE, World of Information, Saffron Walden, UK, (1988), B&W illustrations, 291pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0904439712 This biography, the first on Haci Omer, describes in a series of colourful sketches how he built his success through an alertness for opportunity and a determination in dealing., (Order No: 42317 ), $25.00

82. ( Sarnoff ), Lyons, Eugene, DAVID SARNOFF, Harper & Row, New York, (1966), B&W illustrations, 372pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), "The extraordinary story of an immigrant boy who became an industrial giant. As head of RCA and pioneer in electronics and communications, he has probably affected our daily lives more than anyone since Edison.", (Order No: 3912 ), $5.00

83. ( Sperry ), Durgin, Russell L. (editor English section); Kawaguchi, Zenichi (editor Japanese section), DR, SPERRY AS WE KNEW HIM, The Nichi-Bei Press, Yokohama, Japan, 1931, B&W illustrations, 477pp, very good++, red leather spine, teg (hardcover) in slipcase, Published in the memory of the inventor and business man Elmer A. Sperry. The Japanese section runs to page 199, and the English section (a translation) to page 477. Contents of English Section: I. The Life of Dr. Sperry, II. The Achievements of Dr. Sperry, III. Reminiscences, and IV. Memorial Service. An ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL COPY in the original publisher's cardboard slipcase. Presentation statement on the front free endpaper dated Oct.5, 1932. An uncommon item, especially in this condition. (as a child, Elmer A. Sperry, Jr. lived just down the road from us in Connecticut, and the Sperry-Gyroscope Company was in the neighboring town - I often caddied for Elmer A. Sperry, Jr., at the Silver Springs Country Club in Ridgefield., (Order No: 46017 ), $500.00

84. ( Staats ), Wilson, Carol Green, CALIFORNIA YANKEE: WILLIAM R. STAATS - BUSINESS PIONEER, The Saunders Press, Claremont, CA, 1946 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 184pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) wear bottom corners, William Staats headed for California in November, 1886. From 1887 to 1928 his contributions to the development of California were far reaching., (Order No: 9467 ), $7.50

85. ( Stern ), Stern, J. David, MEMOIRS OF A MAVERICK PUBLISHER, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1962 1st ptg, 320pp, good w/lightly edge worn dustjacket (hardcover), "The candid confessions of a liberal, independent newspaper man, covering his forty years from cub reporter to owner.", (Order No: 44409 ), $5.00

86. ( Stowe ), Blythe, LeGette, ROBERT LEE STOWE - PIONEER IN TEXTILES, published by the author, Belmont, NC, 1965, B&W illustrations, 288pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author in 1966, (Order No: 43478 ), $10.00

87. ( Tanner ), Johnson, Gerald W., THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIST: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF SIMPSON BOBO TANNER, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1952), B&W frontis, 84pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 21660 ), $14.50

88. ( Trumbull ), Weaver, Glenn, JONATHAN TRUMBULL: CONNECTICUT'S MERCHANT MAGISTRATE (1710-1785), Connecticut Historical Soc., Hartford, CT, 1956, B&W illustrations, 183pp, very good+, green cloth spine, decorated cloth board (hardcover), "It has been the purpose of this study, therefore, to trace Trumbull's mercantile career through the forty years following his association in 1730 with his father in a family business.", (Order No: 27727 ), $25.00

89. ( Wanamaker ), Appel, Joseph H., JOHN WANAMAKER: A STUDY, Rodman Wanamaker, n.p., (1927) 2nd ed, 103pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 23951 ), $15.00

90. ( Whitney ), Hoyt, Edwin P., THE WHITNEYS: AN INFORMAL PORTRAIT 1635-1975, Weybright and Talley, New York, (1976), B&W illustrations, 280pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679401342 In the long sweep of American life there have been few families whose affairs, from the very beginning, have generated interest and excitement. One of these is the Whitney family, which began in Massachusetts with the coming of progenitor John Whitney in 1635., (Order No: 27014 ), $6.00

91. ( Whitney ), Mirsky, Jeannette and Nevins, Allan, THE WORLD OF ELI WHITNEY, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1952 1st ptg, 346pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) edgewear to cloth, (Order No: 46593 ), $4.00

92. ( Whitney ), Swanberg, W. A., WHITNEY FATHER, WHITNEY HEIRESS - TWO GENERATIONS OF ONE OF AMERICA'S RICHEST FAMILIES, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1980) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 518pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684164485, (Order No: 46265 ), $4.00