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GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out The company that was once America’s biggest and most admired, the maker of power turbines, the seller of insurance, the broadcaster of “Seinfeld,” has become a shadow of its former self. This is the story of how generations of managers, who thought they could fix any company in any industry, f...

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Stalin A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son...

Title: The Italian Lakes.
Publisher: A & C Black
Publication Date: 1905
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
Euros 350,00
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First edition, 8vo, xi, 201pp, Index, 68 full page colour illustrations with captioned tissue guards, light blue cloth, decorated with beautiful art deco purple, green, white and gilt embossed pictorial design of grape arbour and sailboat on lake, on front and spine, gilt lettering on front and spine, top edge gilt. Near Fine copy, with just the tiniest of cloth splits at rear bottom spine fold, colours still bright, very little rubbing or soiling. Beautiful copy.

Title: The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels
by Freya Stark
Publisher: John Murray
Publication Date: 1934
Autograph copy
Binding: Turquoise Green Cloth
Book Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Euros 180,00
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Description:
365 pp. With endpaper maps and five other maps. With frontispiece sketch of the author and about thirty other illustrations. Minor wear to covers. Former owner's name on first blank page : Lina Waterfield – Poggio Gherardo. Fore-edge and bottom edge rough-trimmed This edition the third reprint of the first edition (May, 1934), coming out in November 1934.