Cw Munn (17 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United KingdomWorldofBooks
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United KingdomBetter World Books Ltd
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Condition: Good. First Edition. 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
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:000…4356578.
- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9781910900147.
- Softcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Foxing on page edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, I…SBN:0712102884.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 306 pages; Description: xi, 306 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subjects: Banks and banking --Scotland --History. Finance. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p.… 289-298. 1 Kg.
- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0859…760715.
- Hardcover
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Bank histories are marvellous things, because they take one of humanity?s least poetic inventions ? organised money anxiety ? and bind it in respectable cloth. Clydesdale Bank: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years is the story of a Scottish banking institution doing what banks like to pretend is…a quiet business: opening branches, issuing notes, surviving panics, absorbing changes, lending prudently, expanding cautiously, and generally standing in the background of history with a ledger and an expression of controlled concern. C. W. Munn gives the Clydesdale its proper long view, from 19th-century beginnings through a century and a half of commerce, industry, confidence, crisis, signature, seal, balance and statement. This is not the sort of book in which dragons appear, unless one counts overdrafts. Nor is it full of sword fights, except in the subtler banking sense, where two men in waistcoats disagree over collateral and someone?s future quietly collapses. Its pleasures are more civilised and therefore more dangerous: portraits of institutions, branch networks, changing economies, old banknotes, directors, mergers, policies, cautious decisions made in rooms where the chairs probably cost more than a farm animal, and the slow, steady transformation of local finance into modern banking. The Clydesdale Bank belongs to that older world in which a bank was not just an app that occasionally refused your card in a petrol station, but a building: stone, columns, brass plates, counters, managers, clerks, and the faint smell of ink, wool coats and disapproval. Money passed through such places with ceremony. Loans were discussed rather than clicked. A bank manager could ruin your afternoon with a sentence delivered over spectacles. It was all terribly dignified, which is how you knew it mattered. Munn?s account catches the appeal of institutional history: the way enormous social change can be seen not only in wars and elections, but in who needed credit, who got it, what industries rose, what towns expanded, which names appeared on boards, and how confidence ? that most mysterious of financial substances ? was maintained, repaired, polished and occasionally prayed over. A bank is, after all, a machine for turning belief into paperwork. When the belief holds, everyone calls it stability. When it fails, historians get a new chapter. There is something quietly grand about a 150-year commemorative volume. It says: we have lasted long enough to commission a serious book about ourselves, which is no small thing in a world where most enterprises vanish without leaving so much as a drawer of headed notepaper. It is corporate history, yes, but the proper old kind: sober, detailed, locally rooted, and unlikely to contain the phrase ?brand journey? unless under legal compulsion. This Collins edition is in Very Good condition, which is almost suspiciously appropriate for a bank book: tidy, respectable, and giving the impression that it has kept its accounts in order. Crappy Old Books offers it for readers of Scottish history, banking history, institutional histories, financial nostalgia, or anyone who likes the idea of money before it became mostly invisible and started living inside passwords.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
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First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 306 pages; Description: xi, 306 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subjects: Banks and banking --Scotland --History. Finance. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p.… 289-298. 1 Kg.
- Hardcover
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United KingdomTrumpington Fine Books Limited
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. 306pp. (green spine) large 8vo. sized. 1981. First edition. Hardback. A very good plus, clean, tight copy in like jacket. Original publisher's green boards - gilt embossed titles to the spine. Burgundy endpapers. No inscriptions but a neat former owner's printed label is past…ed to the front paste-down. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it has a little shelf wear and some slight or very slight fading to the spine. A very good plus well preserved copy.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United KingdomAcanthophyllum Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.
Language: English
Published by Scottish Society for Industrial Archaeology, 1976
- Hardcover
Seller: Best Books, St. Leonards on sea, United KingdomBest Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. FOUR VOLUMES bound with cover into a hardback binding with gilt titles on spine. ex-lib with a few markings but no card or borrowing slip.
Seller: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, United KingdomMcLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA
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Add to basket102 page illustrated booklet. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] includes articles on the Leith Glass Works. Scottish buildings for meat and fish preservation. Investment and railways in 19th century Scotland.
Seller: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, United KingdomMcLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA
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Add to basket95 page illustrated booklet. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed] includes a 20-page article on Dumbarton shipbuilders and workers housing 1850-1900.
Seller: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, United KingdomMcLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA
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Add to basket102 page illustrated booklet. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed] contains an article on the Gairdner Correspondence, relating to the Union Bank of Scotland in the second half of the 19th century [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].
Seller: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, United KingdomMcLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA
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Add to basket4 illustrated booklets. good condition. these four issues contain the complete series of articles on the Iron Industry of the Monklands, George Thomson. also includes an article on early Paisley Engineers, with a detailed listing of Paisley Steamships, 1838-1861. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].
