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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone (Change and Continuity in Africa) by H. L. van der Laan - 1975

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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone (Change and Continuity in Africa) by H. L. van der Laan - 1975

The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone (Change and Continuity in Africa)

by H. L. van der Laan

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The Hague: Mouton, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Former owners' impression seal to first two pages. From the collection of anthropologist Penn Handwerker. Text block unmarked. Spine creased and faded. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 385 pages.
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  • ISBN 10 9027978816
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  • Publisher Mouton
  • Place of Publication The Hague
  • Date Published 1975
  • Pages x + 385
  • Size 8vo
  • Keywords business, commerce, diamond, diamonds, economics, economic history, migration, smuggling, trade, Lebanese, Syrian, Sierra Leone
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Secrets of the Supermarket
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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial...
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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa, and Some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early Kimberley

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A HISTORY OF ITS INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND ADVANTAGES FOR LARGE  MANUFACTURES. CHESTER,...
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A HISTORY OF ITS INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND ADVANTAGES FOR LARGE MANUFACTURES. CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA Brief Sketches of its Representative Business Enterprises

by compiled and Published by Direction Of The Board Of Trade, J. L. Forwood, Prersident

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Chester, Pennsylvania: Board of Trade. Very Good. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations of locations and portraits. Two small mended bottom edge tears that do not interfere with text. Text Is tight, clean and intact. Located on the west bank of the Delaware River. 99 pages including 31pages of advertisements. Pennsylvania ; 8vo 8" - 9" ; 99 pages .
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Grand Rapids, MI: Belding Bros. & Co. / Seymour & Muir, 1906. Oversized pamphlet showing the steps in manufacture of silk thread & cloth, from silkworm eggs, the tending of the worm, extracting & spinning the thread, packaging for export, spinning & weaving cloth. Issued as part of a classroom kit including a cabinet (presumably of natural history and product samples) and chart. Includes photos of the four brothers (and their fine mustachios), Belding's mills & women's dorms, eggs & worms on leaves, cocoons & pupae, Japanese men & women rearing & feeding worms, reeling the cocoons, bales of raw silk; machines for winding, spinning, & twisting, stretching, reeling & dying, spooling, warping & weaving; some with men & women tending them. The Belding Brothers started selling silk thread door-to-door in Michigan in 1860, established their first factory in Connecticut in 1866, then three more by 1910 in their Michigan base, Belding, at one time known as the "Silk City of the World"; as well as in Petaluma,… Read More
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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's (1st Edition)
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Secrets of the Supermarket
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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial...
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by compiled and Published by Direction Of The Board Of Trade, J. L. Forwood, Prersident

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Grand Rapids, MI: Belding Bros. & Co. / Seymour & Muir, 1906. Oversized pamphlet showing the steps in manufacture of silk thread & cloth, from silkworm eggs, the tending of the worm, extracting & spinning the thread, packaging for export, spinning & weaving cloth. Issued as part of a classroom kit including a cabinet (presumably of natural history and product samples) and chart. Includes photos of the four brothers (and their fine mustachios), Belding's mills & women's dorms, eggs & worms on leaves, cocoons & pupae, Japanese men & women rearing & feeding worms, reeling the cocoons, bales of raw silk; machines for winding, spinning, & twisting, stretching, reeling & dying, spooling, warping & weaving; some with men & women tending them. The Belding Brothers started selling silk thread door-to-door in Michigan in 1860, established their first factory in Connecticut in 1866, then three more by 1910 in their Michigan base, Belding, at one time known as the "Silk City of the World"; as well as in Petaluma,… Read More
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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's (1st Edition)
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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone
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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone

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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone (Change and Continuity in Africa)
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The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone (Change and Continuity in Africa)

by Laan, H. L. van der

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Advances in the Practice, Theory and Research of Strategic Human Resource Management

Advances in the Practice, Theory and Research of Strategic Human Resource Management

by Miner, John ; Crane, Donald

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Kockum Works on the Ronneby River: A Hundred Years of Industrial Achievement
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Storage and Stability

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New York: McGraw Hill, 1997. 298 pages. Reprint of the original 1937 edition. First Thus with full numberline. Forewords by Irving Kahn, 1997 and Alvin Johnson, 1937. From jacket: "When Benjamin Graham wrote Storage and Stability in 1937, the world was in the midst of the Great Depression. Written as a blueprint for economic recovery, the book was designed to spur both governments and the public to greater financial awareness. Based upon years of research and economic modeling, Graham's new theories focus on the inherent importance of supply and demand, products and consumption, and their inherent influences on value investing... (This volume) outlines Graham's revolutionary plan for regulating supply and demand, stabilizing prices, and stimulating financial recovery." Bumped top corner of front cover, name and date written on fep and a small area of soil inside front cover. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and… Read More
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Marketing Exchange Relationships, Transactions, and Their Media

Marketing Exchange Relationships, Transactions, and Their Media

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Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Quorum Books, 1994. First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1994, first printing. 8vo., xiii+319 pp. Inscription on front pastedown, otherwise fine.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo..
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The Spoliation of American Commerce, First by the French, and then by Our Own government. From...

The Spoliation of American Commerce, First by the French, and then by Our Own government. From the Democratic Review for February, 1844. (Cover-Title)

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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial...
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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa, and Some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early Kimberley

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STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS OR, SIXTY YEARS RECOLLECTIONS OF P.T. BARNUM
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Buffalo, NY: The Courier Company, 1889. Hardcover. Octavo, 360 pages; VG-; spine is black with gilt lettering; binding has minor shelf wear along the top and bottom edges, has bumping on the fore edge corners, has a patch of severe rubbing on the front cover; pages have minor age toning and occasional chipping on the fore edge; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1329173. Special Collections.
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