Munn c w (34 resultados)

Condición: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9781910900147.…

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:0004356578.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Buffalo: Weirdbook Press / W. Paul Ganley.1981. First Edition Magazine. Oversize [about 8.5" x 11"] wrappers. 65+ pages, illustrated. Very good copy with age-toning to the edges and one tiny spot stain to spine. mag6.

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Foxing on page edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0712102884.…

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 306 pages; Description: xi, 306 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subjects: Banks and banking --Scotland --History. Finance. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 289-298. 1 Kg. …

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0859760715.…

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 306 pages; Description: xi, 306 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subjects: Banks and banking --Scotland --History. Finance. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 289-298. 1 Kg. …

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Bank histories are marvellous things, because they take one of humanity?s least poetic inventions ? organised money anxiety ? and bind it in respectable cloth. Clydesdale Bank: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years is the story of a Scottish banking institution doing what banks like to pretend is a quiet business: opening branches, issuing notes, surviving panics, absorbing changes, lending prudently, expanding cautiously, and generally standing in the background of history with a ledger and an expression of controlled concern. C. W. Munn gives the Clydesdale its proper long view, from 19th-century beginnings through a century and a half of commerce, industry, confidence, crisis, signature, seal, balance and statement. This is not the sort of book in which dragons appear, unless one counts overdrafts. Nor is it full of sword fights, except in the subtler banking sense, where two men in waistcoats disagree over collateral and someone?s future quietly collapses. Its pleasures are more civilised and therefore more dangerous: portraits of institutions, branch networks, changing economies, old banknotes, directors, mergers, policies, cautious decisions made in rooms where the chairs probably cost more than a farm animal, and the slow, steady transformation of local finance into modern banking. The Clydesdale Bank belongs to that older world in which a bank was not just an app that occasionally refused your card in a petrol station, but a building: stone, columns, brass plates, counters, managers, clerks, and the faint smell of ink, wool coats and disapproval. Money passed through such places with ceremony. Loans were discussed rather than clicked. A bank manager could ruin your afternoon with a sentence delivered over spectacles. It was all terribly dignified, which is how you knew it mattered. Munn?s account catches the appeal of institutional history: the way enormous social change can be seen not only in wars and elections, but in who needed credit, who got it, what industries rose, what towns expanded, which names appeared on boards, and how confidence ? that most mysterious of financial substances ? was maintained, repaired, polished and occasionally prayed over. A bank is, after all, a machine for turning belief into paperwork. When the belief holds, everyone calls it stability. When it fails, historians get a new chapter. There is something quietly grand about a 150-year commemorative volume. It says: we have lasted long enough to commission a serious book about ourselves, which is no small thing in a world where most enterprises vanish without leaving so much as a drawer of headed notepaper. It is corporate history, yes, but the proper old kind: sober, detailed, locally rooted, and unlikely to contain the phrase ?brand journey? unless under legal compulsion. This Collins edition is in Very Good condition, which is almost suspiciously appropriate for a bank book: tidy, respectable, and giving the impression that it has kept its accounts in order. Crappy Old Books offers it for readers of Scottish history, banking history, institutional histories, financial nostalgia, or anyone who likes the idea of money before it became mostly invisible and started living inside passwords.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. 306pp. (green spine) large 8vo. sized. 1981. First edition. Hardback. A very good plus, clean, tight copy in like jacket. Original publisher's green boards - gilt embossed titles to the spine. Burgundy endpapers. No inscriptions but a neat former owner's printed label is pasted to the front paste-down. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it has a little shelf wear and some slight or very slight fading to the spine. A very good plus well preserved copy.…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. some light wear to the corners of the dust jacket some light fading to the spine of the dust jacket 257 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. FOUR VOLUMES bound with cover into a hardback binding with gilt titles on spine. ex-lib with a few markings but no card or borrowing slip.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

95 page illustrated booklet. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed] includes a 20-page article on Dumbarton shipbuilders and workers housing 1850-1900.

102 page illustrated booklet. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] includes articles on the Leith Glass Works. Scottish buildings for meat and fish preservation. Investment and railways in 19th century Scotland.…

Condición: New. In English.

Condición: New.

Condición: New. pp. 272 Index.

Condición: New.

Condición: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex library with the usual blemishes. A00009030.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 257 pages. 9.30x6.20x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Condición: New. This book covers the general features of nonlinear optical effects and describes the materials which exhibit these effects, their special characteristics, and how they are incorporated into commercially useful devices - especially in the fields of telecommu.

Condición: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Condición: Used. pp. 257.

Condición: Used. pp. 257.

Condición: Used. pp. 257.