Adventures of a White-Collar Man

Beschreibung

208pp. Blue cloth, bold gilt lettering on the front panel and spine. 10 Black and white illustrations, inclding a photo frontispiece. Author signature on the General Motors book plate affixed to tohe front free endpaper. There is light edgewear on the spine edges, and foxing to to the endpapers. The text is clean, unmarked. The unclipped pictorial jacket has the original $2.00 price on the front flap, 1" chips on the upper and lower spine edges,lesser chips on the panels. in mylar sleeve. Written in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes."Alfred P. Sloan, one of America's great industrial leaders, tells the fascinating story of his rise from the job of draftsman in a grimy Newark factory to leadership of General Motors, a career which paralleled the phenomenal growth of America from an agricultural economy to the largest and most powerful industrial democracy in the world. Mr. Sloan's reminiscences, packed with intimate detail concerning men and events, are a first-hand record of the era of industrial expansion which equals in drama and color the saga of the winning of the West. Detroit in its early days was like a boom-town mining camp, and these recollections offer an interesting account of an industrial-powered America still read and enjoyed today." Size: Octavo.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 035216

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Adventures of a White-Collar Man

Verlag

Doubleday Doran, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1941

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

First Edition.

Zustand

Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Very Good-

Signiert

Signed by Alfred P. Sloan