Hurst Margery (8 results)

Condition: Good. Second impression. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and sun fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good- dj. First Edition. [light wear to extremities, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; the jacket has been a bit insect-nibbled along both flap-folds, and is somewhat sun-browned along the spine, with a tiny bit of paper loss at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) "The amazing success story of a self-made millionairess," an English woman who in 1946 founded the Brook Street Bureau and built it into one of the U.K.'s (and the world's) leading employment agencies. Per the jacket blurb, the book "is much more than a story of a woman of boundless energy making her way in the ruthless business world. It is also the intensely personal account of one of those modern phenomena 'the working mother,' for Margery Hurst endured and survived the pain of the failure of an early marriage and set out on the road to success with a small daughter in tow." In 1965, she was reported to be one of Britain's richest women -- but even for all her success, when it was decided that same year to take her company public (as it was related in her 1989 obituary in The Daily Telegraph) "she was advised by bankers that it would be better if her husband were the chairman, and so [she] was deprived of becoming the City's first woman chairman.".…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, library sticker spine, edges reinforced with tape Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 165. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine. The story of the Brook Street bureau. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the title page and fore-edge, reading 'Weidenfeld Library'. ISBN: 0297792946 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Decent copy. …

First Edition. Hardcover in jacket, very good with light wear, Sig. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, signed inscribed by Hurst on the title page as pictured , a very good condition hard cover in a good condition dust jacket, nicks to edges gently read clean pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. No DJ. 2nd Printing Before Publication edition. Sunned spine. Signed by the author and inscribed on the half title page: To Brian Hemming.Affectionately Margery Hurst, April, 1970. Taped inside the front cover is a person letter to Bryan. There is a photo, once taped to the front free page, now laid in, of the author and a gentleman. Laid in is a Western Union Telegram to Brian Hemming from Margery Hurst dated 6/11/74. Also laid in is a full page article on A Life in the Day of Margery Hurst from The Sunday Times Magazine, 1981. Lightly read. No other markings in book. Binding is fine. 176pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 166pp. HARDCOVER Gift inscription to ffep., o/w clean copy internally. Couple of dings to frt. of d/w, o/w still considered VG & will be supplied in protective sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.