Mann william (14 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. Cover shows light wear.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on title-page. Slight edgewear to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 124 pages; Signed by Author.

Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards/black spine/white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Elaine Shannon; Author Dedication; Foreword by Michael Mann; Note to Readers; Notes; Index and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates. "The story of Paul Leroux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to transnational crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA's elite, secretive 96- Group brought him down. With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominee Michael Mann. Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hell-bent into the dark side, using his extraordinary talents to innovate a revolutionary new model for transnational organized crime. Along the way he created a mercenary force of ex-U.S. and NATO sharpshhooters to carry out contract murders for problem solving and profit. The criminal empire he built was Cartel 4.0, utilizing the gig economy and the tools of the digital age: encrypted mobile devices, rapid scalability, cloud sharing, and new money-launndering techniques. LeRoux's businesses, cyberlinked by a dark web of his own invention, stretched from Southeast Asia across the Middle East and Africa to Brazil; they generated hundreds of millions of dollars in the sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, and missile technology, as well as murder for hire. He dealt with rogue nations -- Iran and North Korea -- as well as Chinese triads, Somali warlords, Serb mafia, militants, and corrupt African and Asian officials. Initially, LeRoux appeared as a ghost image on law enforcement and intelligence radar, an inexplicable presence in the middle of a variety of criminal enterprises. He was Netflix to Blockbuster, Spotify to Tower Records. A bold disruptor, his methods brought international crime into the age of innovation, making his operations barely detectable and LeRoux nearly invisible. But he gained the attention of a small band of bold, unorthodox DEA agents, whose brief was tracking down drugs-and-arms-trafficking kingpins who contributed to war and global instability. The 960 Group, an element of the DEA's Special Operations Division, had launched some of the most complex, coordinated, and dangerous operations in the agency's history. They used unorthodox methods and undercover informants to penetrate LeRoux's inner circle and bring him down. For five years Elaine Shannon immersed herself in LeRoux's shadowy world. She gained exclusve access to the agents and players, including undercover operatives who looked LeRoux in the eye on a daily basis. Remarkable, disturbing, and utterly engrossing.It is a look into the future -- a future that is dark." -- excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ". an investigative masterpiece. It's the most comprehensive look at the inner workings of a complex, high-level DEA operation ever put on paper. It's a fascinating look at an international crime syndicate and the charismatic and lethal next-generation crime lord who weaponized the internet to build a new kind of empire. Paul LeRoux is a calculating, cold-blooded killer and one of the most intriguing and frightening criminals I've ever read about. IMeticulously documented and with exclusive access to almost all of the key players on both sides of the law, this is the definitive work on the rise and fall of malign actor Paul LeRoux as well as a jaw-dropping crime saga. Shannon takes the reader inside the story so that you're in the room, on the hunt, and dead center in the middle of the action with elite DEA agents operating without borders in a tense and dangerous global manhunt to take down a twenty-first-century criminal kingpin. It's a stunning work by a master investigative journalist." -- Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author.…

Paperback. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth W/Gold Stamped Lettering. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Duncan, Harold M. (Text and Supervision by), This company specialized in the manufacture of copy paper and blank books. Gives a history of the firm and the different facets of its operation and has drawings in blue ink illustrating the different departments to include printing and book manufacturing throughout the text. Well produced and printed. Original cloth with stamped design on cover (much od the gold leaf has rubbed off). few minor rub spots to covers otherwise a great book in wonderful condition. 89 pages. Accompanying the book is a small (approx. 4" x 6") brown card stock, printed "Notice" on how to open a book. Book is clean, complete, and tight. Heergeist, Charles (Artwork by) (illustrateur).…

Etat : GOOD. General wear, creased corner, torn and creased, sepia, marked back side DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 1.

Etat : FAIR. General wear, mark on cover, torn, small square torn out and missing, some names written on back side DATE PUBLISHED: 1963 EDITION: 1.

hardcover. Etat : Good. shows minor wear.

Cloth. Etat : VG-. First Edition. Brown cloth, with decorative front panel device in gilt (mostly rubbed away). Cloth is modestly soiled, with areas of spotting over upper portions of front panel. Some rubbing evident at corners and spine extremities. Linen endpapers, with both hinges reinforced with cloth tape, clearly original to issue. Front endpapers lightly soiled, interior generally clean and intact, with only light and very occasional soiling, a bit thumbed. 89 pp., well illustrated with b&w plates, capitals in red, with elaborate head- and tail-pieces gracing each chapter. History of the Philadelphia publishing and printing firm on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Charles Heergeist (art work) (illustrateur). Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition.

original cloth. 4to. original cloth. 89 pages. This company specialized in the manufacture of copy paper and blank books. Gives a history of the firm and the different facets of its operation and has drawings in blue ink illustrating the different departments throughout the text. Well-produced and printed. Mann, William (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5 3/4 inches x 9 1/8 in., viii, pp. [9]-624. Dark green cloth with gilt-lettered titling on the spine, embossed decorations on spine and covers. The endpapers and pages show some tanning, or brown spotting (foxing), pp. 591-594 show some paper chipped out of the lower blank page margins, upper page corners of pp. 565-624 show a bump with light crease to the paper. From the collection of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), with his bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. A near fine, well-preserved copy. Howes: T-425 (p. 595).…

Letterbooks were the copy machines of their day. Businessmen and others used letterbooks to keep records of their correspondence. The Copying Books offered here were made by the William Mann Co. of Philadelphia. The chemically treated copying papers are thin, smooth, and translucent to enable reading of the text from the side opposite of the ink transfer. There are a few torn sheets, but the paper is surprisingly strong. It has a fine, crepe-like, wrinkly texture. A blotting paper was placed under a leaf, the written letter placed on top of the leaf and water applied with a brush. The three papers were placed in a press and the writing was transferred to the treated page. The Grass Valley Gold Extracting Co. was incorporated in December of 1890 with Capital stock of $200,000. (Sacramento Daily Union, 11 December 1890). It offered Hydraulic Chlorination as an efficient method of extracting gold from difficult ores, sands, mud and water. The method had been patented by Scotsman James Holms Pollok of Glasgow, and most of the money for Grass Valley provided by Scottish investors. It had been used successfully in New Zealand and South Africa. The chemistry was tricky the chemist typically had to be well versed in the method. Manager Higginbottom s letterbook begins September 2, 1891; 65 pages out of 695 are used. His correspondence is primarily with backers in Edinburgh. There are long letters, with some drawings, describing the equipment being installed, technological issues, and problems that have arisen. Scattered within are bitter complaints about his employees laziness, incompetence, absence without leave, drunkenness, which are holding up the completion of the infrastructure and keeping potential customers away. Many letters complain about unpaid bills and ask Edinburgh for more money to be telegraphed. Eventually Higginbottom faults his assistant Holms with protecting the guilty employees. He must have known that Holms, born in Glasgow in 1868, and John Holms Pollok, the inventor of this version of the chlorination process, also born in Glasgow in 1868, were probably related. Holms book begins a bit earlier, August 18, 1891 and covers 235 of 500 available pages. Holms is handling a lot of business with bankers, vendors, and customers, most of the business end of the operation with little about the technological issues. Scattered in are letters to Manager Higginbottom that employees are complaining about Higginbottom s treatment of them and threatening to quit. Eventually many of Holms letters are to vendors who are wanting to be paid. On September 24, 1892, Holms takes over the Higginbottom book and writes updates for Edinburgh. Higginbottom had either quit or been fired. Both books end on or near February 25, 1892, Holms letter of February 5th the most revealing The Editor, Dear Sir, Please be good enough to insert the following advertisement in your paper For sale. First Class Crushing Plant, Kraus Rolls, Breaker, Screens, Fan, Dynamo, Elevator, etc. Only crushed 50 tons . . Bound in half red leather and cloth, worn but still soundly bound. The great majority of the letter sheets are Very Good to Fine, and quite legible.…