lengthening shadow life watson de belden thomas graham marva robins (29 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. There is no dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good -. First Edition. DJ has edgewear and chipping at corners. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HARD BACK GREY. Etat : GOOD. FIRST ED. book plate inside front cover, yellowing pages, white and black pictures DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: FIRST ED 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: FAIR DJ. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding.bookplate on fep. small nick on DJ, gold letters on spine and front cover, b&w illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. gold gilt on spine and front cover, bumped bottom corners, bookplate on front inpaper, cracked front hinge, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. tears on soiled DJ, gold letters on spine and front cover, bookplate on front endpaper, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. torn & soiled DJ, gold letters on spine and front cover, bookplate front inpaper, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. gold gilt on spine/cover, white spots on boards, bookplate on front inpaper. Tight binding. General wear and rubbed cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BROWN. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: FAIR DJ. gold letters on spine and front cover bookplate on front endpages, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. Small tears and creased on dust jacket. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. gold letters on spine and front cover, bookplate on front endpaper, pencil writing rear inpaper, crease and big tear on rear Dj, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. Tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. torn Dj repaired with addhesive tape, bookplate on front inpaper, b&w illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

HARD BACK BLUE. Etat : GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. gold gilt on spine and front cover, creased & torn DJ: part of DJ is ripped but present, b&w illustrations. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. No bookplate. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 332.

Cloth w/DJ. Etat : VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. VG/G. (1962). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 332 pp., rubbed, edges frayed, toned .

Cloth w/DJ. Etat : G/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. G/G. (1962). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 332 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, tears, toning, page toning, corners bumped, writing on ffe .

Cloth. Etat : VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. VG/G. (1962). First Edition. Cloth. 8vo., 332 pp., DJ rubbed, edges frayed .

Cloth w/DJ. Etat : VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. VG/G. (1962). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 332 pp., DJ edges rubbed and fraying .

Cloth w/DJ. Etat : VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. VG/G. (1962). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 332 pp., DJ edges rubbed and fraying .

Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 332pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive first edition of this biography of IBM's first president.

Near fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along bottom edges and is rubbed at spine tips and corners. 332 pages with index and bibliography plus 12 pages of illustrations.

hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : good +. first ed., as stated. Octavo, navy blue cloth covers with gilt spine titles and facsimile signature of Watson on top cover. [18] + 332 pages. Includes selected bibliography, index. With photographs. Book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly tanned spine, some wear at edges, small abrasion on rear panel from removal of price sticker. A biography of the founder and long-time head of International Business Machines. Computers, IBM, Business. 082504B.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : very good +. First Edition. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to book. Glassine dust jacket. has piece missing at top of back. Black slipcase has some edgewear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. Presumed First Printing. 22 cm, 332 pages. Illustrations. Index, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears. The Lengthening Shadow, since its publication in 1962, is the major source of historical information for almost all works that following it on Thomas J. Watson Sr. or the early IBM Corporation. In September 1956 the future publisher, Little, Brown & Company approached the husband and wife team of Thomas and Marva Belden with a proposal from IBM. IBM desired a biography written about Mr. Watson--the company founder. The Beldens at first replied that they did not care to write a eulogy; for Watson Sr. had just passed away a few months earlier. The publisher told them that IBM wanted a "disinterested" work. Tom Watson Jr., Watson's son and IBM's chairman of the board, told the Beldens that he wanted a "hard look." The Beldens agreed to provide IBM with the manuscript for a set fee, without royalty rights. The contract stipulated that it would be a "disinterested" work, and if IBM accepted it without demanding "substantial changes" it would be published with the names of the authors. But if IBM was unhappy with the manuscript, it could not be published under their names. As it turns out, IBM accepted the manuscript as it was written. The authors believe the treatment to be factual and that they neither skipped nor glossed over any major events in the life of IBM's founder. The title was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's line, "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Mr. Watson used to quote It quite often. The book starts with Watson's early years, covers his career and troubles at NCR, IBM's antitrust problems, and its growth. Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956. Charles Ranlett Flint who had engineered the forming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) found it difficult to manage the five companies. He hired Watson as general manager on May 1, 1914 when the five companies had about 1,300 employees. Eleven months later he was made president. In 1924, he renamed CTR to International Business Machines. Watson built IBM into such a dominant company that the federal government filed a civil antitrust suit against it in 1952. IBM owned and leased to its customers more than 90 percent of all tabulating machines in the United States at the time. Throughout his life, Watson maintained a deep interest in international relations, from both a diplomatic and a business perspective. He was known as President Roosevelt's unofficial ambassador in New York and often entertained foreign statesmen. In 1937, he was elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and at that year's biennial congress in Berlin stated the conference keynote to be "World Peace Through World Trade". That phrase became the slogan of both the ICC and IBM. Within a year of the Berlin congress though, where Watson's hopes had run high, he found himself strongly protesting the German policy toward the Jews. Because of his strong feelings about the issue, Watson wanted to return his German citation shortly after receiving it. When Secretary of State Hull advised him against that course of action, he gave up the idea until the spring of 1940. Then Watson sent the medal back in June 1940. IBM became more deeply involved in the war effort for the U.S., focusing on producing large quantities of data processing equipment for the military and experimenting with analog computers. Watson, Sr. also develo.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; Description: 332 p. : ill. , ports. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956. International Business Machines Corporation 1 Kg.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner address stamp to FEP. Stated First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in boards. Stated First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THOMAS WATSON, JR. (THE SON AND ALSO ONE-TIME PRESIDENT OF IBM, SUCCEEDING HIS FATHER) on the front blank endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1962 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+, with light foxing along the preliminaries. Octacvo, a handful of crisp black-and-white photos complementing the text.