Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co., 1920. First Edition. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab, who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel, seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab... More about Who Will Answer for Mr. Schwab?
Marengo, IL: Colcord Institute of Professional Sales Training, (1944). First Edition Thus. Christmas keepsake from this popular motivational author of the Thirties and Forties. The author rhapsodizes on the glories of Free Enterprise, using as his objective correlative the Carnegie Steel Corporation and its long history of elevating "common labor"... More about The Light of the World. Christmas Nineteen Forty-Four
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1912]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); maroon cloth embossed in blind and cream; [10],385pp.; frontispiece with tissue guard, 4 leaves of plates. Fine. "Unflattering portrait of a business tycoon" - HANNA 1774; BAL 9336; SMITH H-878. More about John Rawn, Prominent Citizen
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1905. First Edition. 12mo. Tan cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 104pp. Apparently the author's copy, with his ownership signature and address to front free endpaper, a sheet of manuscript laid in and heavy marginal annotations throughout text matching the author's hand... More about The American Law Relating to Income and Principal
Hull: Whitefriars Press, [ca 1900]. Ferens rose to eminence in the 1880s as a principal of the firm of Reckitt & Sons, a prominent manufacturer of household goods and cleaning products. He served 13 years as an M.P. for Hull, beginning in 1906, and was a member of the Privy... More about Original Inscribed Cabinet Card of British Industrialist, Philanthropist, and Politician Thomas...
New York: Exposition Press, (1953). First Edition. The author was a former Vice President at General Electric and first Chairman of the Board of the GE Finance Division. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 321pp. Bump to upper front board edge; pencil ownership signature; else tight and... More about Giant Business: Threat to Democracy. The Autobiography of an Insider
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker, touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); light blue cloth, with... More about Glibson
N.p. [Chicago?]: by the Author, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed card wrappers; 39pp. Just mild external wear; Very Good to Near Fine. Satire, in Biblical language, of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rail Trust, including thinly-veiled depictions of Morgan, Rockefeller, Landis, etc. More about The Book of Ted or, Roosevelt and the Railroads in Scripture
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Edition. A lowly cashier climbs the social and business ladders, all on the strength of a new suit of clothes. This was the first of the author's five "Skinner" novels, a series of lighthearted satires that carried Alger-esque themes of pluck, luck, and common sense... More about Skinner's Dress Suit
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. First Edition. Novel attacking the unscrupulous methods of the trusts. Not particularly common, and this a compelling association copy, bearing the ownership signature of Teddy Roosevelt's first Secretary of Commerce, who was himself instrumental in helping to put TR's trust-busting policies into action. Metcalf... More about The Buccaneers: A Story of the Black Flag in Business
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920. First printing. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 32pp. Slight soil & edgewear; Very Good. On monopolies, large-scale capitalism, and concentration of wealth. Nearing writes from a more or less doctrinaire Marxist perspective; he had joined the Socialist Party in 1918. EGBERT II:262. More about The One Big Union of Business
