Longgood Bill Wallace (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good- ; No jacket. 1959 McGraw-Hill. First Edition, stated. Hardcover has paper-covered boards printed with wavy red & yellow stapes on white. Book has gray spine and white spine lettering. Black & white illustrations. Binding tight. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Covers and edges lightly rubbed. Covers have a few light smudges. Traces of an erased penciled name on front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 161 pages. No dust jacket. May be a book club edition. There is a number 38678 printed in white on the bottom of the back cover, near the spine. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.…

First Edition. First Edition Hardbound Good+/Fair., DJ 8vo, 161, General wear to book. DJ is very damaged. DJ is not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B001A6LXMM Hardback. First edition as stated on copyright page. Previous owner's name/address on front endpaper. Slight wear to corners and edges; water stains on outer page edges; slight browning and dustsoiling throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good to Very Good condition. Dustjacket with minor wear to corners and edges; water stain on back fold and cover; minor browning and dustsoiling over all; $3.75 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Good condition. No Signature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a signed and inscribed (by author Bill Longgood) first edition, first printing, of "The Pink Slip: A Study of Manpower on the Firing Line" written by Bill Longgood and Ed Wallace and published in 1959 by McGraw-Hill Book Company out of New York City. A hardcover with dust jacket containing 162 pages. From the inside dust jacket flaps, reading in part, "EMPLOYERS! Do you stand four-square on the firing line? Can you sack the right man from the right job at the right time? Or do you still cling to such an outmoded personnel concept as 'giving a man another chance'? Do you let yourself be panicked by that scare-word of industry - 'morale'? - EMPLOYEES! How is YOUR center of gravity? Can you avoid the pitfalls of Incriminating Evidence, Automated Dismissal, and the Induced Resignation? Here is a book that tells you not how to succeed in business, but how to survive." Signed and inscribed by author Bill Longgood: "For Lou [?] Rissner who has a fine center of gravity. With gratitude for his good works - Bill Longgood." Dust jacket shows small corner scuffs, two small edge chips. The dust jacket is protected in a removable Brodart Plasti-Kleer mylar archival cover. Signed by Author(s).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Nice colour photo ad for Red Cap ale inside front cover; Nostalgic full-page Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Great full-page colour photo ad for the 1959 line of Rambler automobiles; Is Diefenbaker running a one-man government?; My dad was king of the medicine men - Doc Tom Kelley and his Medicine Show; The Woman who can do anything - Malvina Labine is Reeve of Rayside Township near Sudbury - and she has given birth to 20 children! - article with great photos; Holiday Weekend in Ottawa - Trent Frayne and June Callwood take their family for a trip; The delicate art of giving the sack - some techniques; How I Beat My Middle-Aged Spread - Lloyd Percival describes how he shaped up - article with photos; Attractive colour ad for the 1959 Plymouth Fury; Caterpillar colour photo ad features large shot of Highway 401 passing through Toronto - all four lanes of it - my how things have changed!; Nice Oldsmobile colour ad for the Dynamic 88 Holiday Sportsedan; Now totally politically incorrect, the colour photo ad for O'Keefe beer inside back cover shows a couple watching a scantilly clad woman on tv while drinking beer and smoking!; Back cover Coke ad shows a couple preparing pop and sandwiches for a party; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Winter, William (Cover Art); Rockett, Paul; Ehricht, Horst; Dellow, Alex; McNally, Ed (illustrator).…