Mowry Smith Jr (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Very Nice Copy! No marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Dust jacket with just tiny nick to front upper edge. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. S1 Local Author.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with normal markings. Hard cover with mylar protector over dust jacket. Normal cover and page wear.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Warmly inscribed on the half-title page from Smith to W.D. Hagenstein, reading "To: Bill Hagenstein with thanks for your contributions to the forest industry" 12/16/74. Sparse marginalia made by Hagenstein is noted. The dust illustrated dust jacket shows small edge tears and chips, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 177pp. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tight, clean, bright copy of this book with green cloth boards with gilt lettering and dec. No visible flaws. 177 pages, photos. From my personal collection. WB. Augographed By Author.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Menasha Corporation Neenah, WI 1974 8vo. 177 pages. green cloth illustrated boards. illustrated endpapers. text block crisp. dust jacket in mylar.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. (16)177pp. Photo plates. Appealing history of Menasha Wooden Ware Company. Dj near fine also. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MICHIGAN.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. (16)177pp. Photo plates. Appealing history of Menasha Wooden Ware Company. Dj worn along top edge with 2 tears taped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MICHIGAN.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. (16)177pp. Photo plates. Menasha Wooden Ware Company history. Tiny chip top back panel of dj. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MICHIGAN.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair/Good. First Edition. Flatsigned by Mowry Smith Jr. on end papers with inscription "For J. Leslie Sensenbrenner, with the hope that this story will bring back many fond memories. warmest personal regards (signature)". Book is in very good + condition with no other marks or writings, boards and pages clean, binding sound. Dust jacket in fair/good condition with tear along top edge. shipped in box. Wonderful copy! (Book came from the estate of Giles Clark) S. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. The Menasha Corporation (Menasha Wooden Ware Company) Story 1849-1974. Foreword by George Banta, Jr., followed by Preface; Preliminary Page Quotes by Walt Whitman and Psalms 16:6; then several chapters; and then Appendix consisting of: A Product Lines History, and A Chronology of Important Events. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, a double-page Menasha Wooden Ware Company and Menasha Corporation Presidents - Elisha D. Smith Family Tree, black-and-white portrait plate frontispiece, and photographic front and rear endpapers. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Handsomely bound in light green linen weave cloth, with a fine gilt illustration to front cover, lettering to spine. xi [3], 1-177 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. NF/NF. Bright and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. Very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fine unread condition green cloth boards with gold front cover decoration and gold spine lettering contained in a fair condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Foreword by George Banta, Jr.; Preface; Preliminary Page Quotes by Walt Whitman and Psalms 16:6; Appendix consisting of: A Product Lines History, and A Chronology of Important Events, Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, a double page Menasha Wooden Ware Company and Menasha Corporation Presidents - Elisha D. Smith Family Tree, black-and-white portrait plate frontispiece, and photographic front and rear endpapers. The dust jacket has a large upper spine edge chip, a seven inch repaired rear jacket tear, and scattered edgewear (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). Also includes the original ". Presented to your with the complements of Menasha Corporation" Card, in as new condition. "This book tells the story of the Menasha Wooden Ware Company-Menasha Corporation, from its birth as a small pail factory in 1849, to its emergence through 125 years of progress and crises, as a manufacturing enterprise responsible for twenty-seven industrial operations in twelve states. One Third Crew, One Third Boat, ONe Third Luck begins in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, when 23-year-old Elisha Dickinson Smith and his young bride set out on theri long trip, by rail, stagecoach, boat, and on foot, to the muddy shore of the Fox RIver in Menasha, Wisconsin. Now begins a life of rugged pioneering, of privation and hard times, and finally of well-earned success. The early products of Elisha's Pail Factory were wooden pails, wash tubs, and quart and bushel measures. Later in the Wooden Ware era, the product line was exapnded to include a startling assortment of other turned woodenware items. To provide raw material for the manufacture of these products, extensive timberlands were eventually acquired in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and in the Pacific Northwest. During this period of growth the Corporation became known as the "largest turned woodenware factory in the world." In these pages are the stories of the men and women who made the products, and of members of four generations of the Smith family who provided leadership. After Elisha came his two sons, Charles R. and Henry S. Smith, his gradsons Mowry and Carlton Simth, and then the fourth generation, Mowry Smith, Jr., Oliver Smith, Tamblin Smith, and D.C. Shepard, Jr. At times, other able leaders were chosen to steer the ship and lead the crew. That theirs is a saga of faith, optimism, courage, and some luck, is especially revealed in the chapters, "Exit the Crackerbarrel Era" and "A Transition Swift and Deadly," when employers and employees alike face a revolution in packaging almost dramatic in its crises. It is a revulution which saw the extinction of the wooden container and the abrupt creation of a huge market for corrugated packaging. Far more than being merely an institutional history, [the book] is a narrative of human effort in the face of frequent adversities: the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II; the panics of 1857 and 1873; depressions and recessions. The fires of 1867, 1877, 1878, 1904, 1942, and 1964, when large portions of the plant were destroyed. The book closes as members of the Corporation family, the employees and the officials who employ them, observed the 125th year. Obvious is the natural pride these men and women feel that the orgainizaton they helped build is the oldest business enterprise in the Midwest under the same continuing management-ownership; that it has always risen to the challenges of tomorrow in the servie of its customers; and that it has always been mindful of the welfare of the community." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Dietrich, Tom (jacket illustration reproduced from an oil painting) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. published by Menasha Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin 1974, 8vo, green cloth, 177 pages, many photos, illustrative endpapers, book in fine condition in a very good+ dust jacket with two small closed tears,( the story of the Menasha Wooden Ware Company 1849-1974).

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (very scuffing to spine) dust jacket (in mylar). 177 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Heavy, fine light green cloth with gilt wooden bucket on front and titling to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of any flaws or markings - all around Fine. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows only very limited scuffing or shelfwear - no fading ot colors of the beautiful illustration that goes from front to spine to rear. "This book tells the story of the Menasha Wooden Ware Company, from its birth as a small pail factory in 1849, to its emergence through 125 years of progress and crises, as a manufacturing enterprise responsible for twenty-seven industrial operations in twelve states." Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the company.…