Chris smith (19 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Leadership at 43,000 Feet: Real leaders don't need a title. Book.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. CONDITION: Fine in Very Good Plus jacket; as new w dw sl rubbed on back. Juvenile hardback. A promising young Chinese artist suffers during the Cultural Revolution. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .…

Etat : New. In English.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Inscribed by author. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Light shelf wear to covers with scratch across front cover. Contents clean and tight. 386+ pages, b&w photos and illus. Subtitle: The Story of Colonel John Smith, His Descendants and Their Ancestors.

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

Soft Covers. Etat : Very Good. None. First Edition. 22 cm, 71 pp, colour photo illus, soft covers. VG copy. Book issued to accompany the exhibition 'Tungaru: The Kiribati Project' held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum and at the Māngere Arts Centre - Nga Tohu o Uenuku. Tungaru: The Kiribati Project' is a collaboration between contemporary New Zealand artists, Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. Tungaru is the pre-colonial name for Kiribati.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Lovely condition. Publication of 96 pages, large book. From the collection of Ex-Libris K.L.TASKER. Name previous owner on last page. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. A clean, crisp hardcover in very good condition; faint shelf wear. Very good DJ in mylar cover; mild rubbing. NOTE: Oversize volume. SIGNED by the authors.

No Binding. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. 114 pages (complete). Brochure for South African born, Hampshire and England cricketer Chris Smith's benefit year. The brochure is mild if a little worn. The cover has wear about the edges and spine. Within, the contents have evidence of wear and storage throughout. Nonetheless the pages are clear, assured, diligent, companionable and generous. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. a worn and much used copy. foxing and markings. mainly a reading copy, as all contents are legible and intact. .[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. 8vo. Etat : Very good. With lengthy inscription from Chris Smith on front fly. Hardbound in soft red leather lettered in gold. Binding secure. Boards are moderately dusted. Corners pointed.

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Etat : New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

An extremely rare survival, a dealer's deluxe showroom catalogue for Chris-Craft motor boats covering the complete range - from their highly popular mahogany Runabouts to cabin and stateroom cruisers. The accompanying promotional sales letters explain that these volumes were costly to produce, and, as stock changed, additional images would be sent to replace those to be struck from the catalogue. With the additional supplied images, this is as complete an exemplar as could be wished for. The album opens with a sequence of photographs of the famed Miss Detroit hydroplane series - Miss Chicago, Miss Detroit II, Miss Minneapolis, Miss Toronto II, Baby Reliance II & III, Packard Chris-Craft II - and others designed and built by Chris Smith, designer/racer Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood - the first man to travel at over 100 mph on water - and Jack Beebe, chief mechanic who drove Miss Detroit to the 1915 American Power Boat Association Gold Cup. These hydroplanes went on to gather speed records and trophies around the world when, following World War I, Christ Smith invested in service surplus aircraft engines as power plant for his svelte mahogany speedboats. Other images offer a tour of the Chris-Craft factory for which Smith adopted some of Henry Ford's assembly line production methods, introducing standardised parts, special shapers, and conveyor lines moving the craft from one end of the factory to the other as the double-planked mahogany hulls were assembled, sanded, and varnished. Fuelled by the extravagances of the Jazz Age, demand from the Prohibition rumrunners, and a growing interest in sport boating, the company expanded quickly through the 1920s. By the time this dealer catalogue was produced, Chris-Craft was offering 16 models ranging from the 22-foot Cadet runabout to a 38-foot motor yacht, and featuring the first appearance of a cabin cruiser in the company line. The 38-foot Commuter was the first yacht to introduce a flying bridge, roll-down windows, and even a rack for wine glasses. Other images include a group of 26-foot Chris-Craft built as tenders for the yachts of some of the leading figures of the day - Commodore Robert Law's Robador, Henry Ford's Sialia, Pierpont Morgan's Corsair, E.C. Benedict's Oneida, and Vincent Astor's Winchester - and Chris-Craft Cadets on the Detroit and St Clair Rivers and the coastal waters of Florida and Connecticut, one showing a runabout racing past the Battleship Iowa. An excellent sequence of eight shows the Chris-Craft display at the 1928 New York Boat Show, a crammed central trophy cabinet bearing the heading "Awarded Supremacy 1927"; an easel to one side is covered with photographs similar to those gathered here. A similar easel features in an interior shot of the company's New York showroom. The album retains 76 of the original 88 images listed on the supplied index, together with an additional 19 replacement photographs of similar content and quality, including two prints, one of them with hand-colour, of the impressive Jeanette II, ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corporation, sitting on the flatbed truck; a Chris-Craft Model No. 3, 24-footer next to a Dee-Wite Runabout in the Gifford showroom; a publicity shot of a Bantam Austin automobile on the Detroit Yacht Club dock next to a 17-foot Chris-Craft in the water, with caption text verso headed, "A Car for Sister; a Boat for Brother". Photographers for the additional photos include Charles W. Howson of Howson Studios in Minneapolis, active during the 1930s; Sarah Hibbard, Walter Norton and Clifford Peel of Hibbard Studios, perhaps the leading commercial studio in Minneapolis; and the world-renowned marine photographer Morris Rosenfeld (1885-1968) who chronicled decades of shipping, power boating, yachting, and yacht racing. The album also includes four images of details of the Dee-Wite Runabout mahogany boats built by Dwight Lumber in the Detroit area during the 1920s. Unlike Chris-Craft, Dee-Wite were not lithe enough to survive the Great Depression. Their boats are now rare, with less than a dozen believed to survive in any condition. A superbly produced piece, evoking the high days of classic Chris-Craft production. We have been unable to trace another similar catalogue institutionally or at sale. See: Chris Caswell, The Legend of Chris-Craft: The Story Behind a Legendary Company, Boats Group (2019); Wilson Wright, Chris-Craft Antique Boats: Mahogany Memories; Fred Farley, The Saga of Jack Beebe, Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum (2019). Landscape quarto (208 x 295 mm). 2 leaves with carbon-copy typescript index on company letterhead; 99 silver gelatin photographs (197 x 254 mm) - featuring the full range of the boat-builder's renowned mahogany motor boats and hydroplanes, together with factory interiors showing the company's craftsmen at work, publicity shots, including the Chris-Craft display at the 1928 New York Boat Show - 76 of them linen-backed and bound in on white linen hinges, these mostly with inked numbers to the top-right-hand corner; and 23, originally loosely inserted, now bound in within archival sleeves, some of these with pencil annotations verso, a few with mounted typed press-release captions, many with the photographers' wet or embossed stamps verso, one of these loose photographs hand-coloured. Original simulated leather padded post-binder - "BurkArt processed" by the Burkhardt Co. Inc. of Detroit - painted and embossed logo and cover art of Chris-Craft runabout at speed, black moiré cloth doublures, containing 99 original photographs; together with 28 single-page mimeographed sales letters on headed stationery, originally sent to boat distributors and marine dealers, the intended recipients of these deluxe catalogues, wet stamp of the Gifford Marine Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to recto of the first image, portrait of Chris Smith, and verso of three other images. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. A little rubbed, particularly along the e. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Anyone can be a leader. All they need is a title - a role, a 'position', right Well, no. The title 'leader' is . just a title. True leaders don't need a title. They don't even need a role, much less a 'management position'. They just . are.So just what is it they have Whether we agree with them or not, the truly great leaders around the world have one thing in common: massive respect. They have flaws. They make mistakes, and often big ones, but lots of people follow them regardless. They have earned respect, they can influence. Others believe in them. They aspire to be like them. They feel safe with them. They have a kind of love for them.But this book is not about copying others, It's about being a better you, treating others well and reaping the ultimate reward - esteem for you. This book is about learning how to earn it. It's about gaining wisdom. Remember, without others, there is no leader.Chris Smith shares his decades of leadership experience in one of the most critical and high-stakes professions imaginable. It's about not wasting your one go on earth with what he thinks is the world's biggest problem - unnecessary and damaging argument - and most argument is. It simply stops good things from happening. This is book for anyone who has responsibility for others, or who aspires to, and for whom having lifelong influence and contributing magnificently to this experience we call is important.That's leadership.Dare to be different. Dare to be completely genuine. Learn lessons as never told before.…