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Handbook for Members of Co-operative Committees.: With a Foreword by W. R. Rae, J. P. (Chairman Central Education Committee, Co-operative Union Limited).
by HALL, F[red]
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- Hardcover
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Sheffield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
BOUND BY THE CO-OPERATIVE PRINTING SOCIETY, MANCHESTER
Second (Revised) Edition, published October, 1924; first published December, 1923. Four editions would be published by 1931. Fine copy in a handsome gift binding by the Co-operative Printing Society, Mount Street, Manchester. With an index, and pages 433-438, a bibliography of books and pamphlets on co-operation useful to committee members. "The Co-operative Printing Society was formed in Manchester as the North of England Co-operative Printing Society in 1869 by a group of printers...the business commenced operation as letterpress printers and stationers, also undertaking bookbinding, ruling, lithography and other printing work."-Archives Hub. The Co-operative Union itself was a propagandist federation of all the chief co-operative societies in Great Britain, and some in Ireland. Tipped-in hand-colored calligraphic presentation-leaf: "Presented by the Central Education Committee of the Co-operative Union Limited to H. Marlow, Esq. on the occasion of the week end meeting held at Croydon. Easter 1929." Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Howard S. Mott, Inc
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1134
- Title
- Handbook for Members of Co-operative Committees.
- Author
- HALL, F[red]
- Format/Binding
- Full decorated black morocco
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Co-operative Union Limited
- Place of Publication
- Manchester
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Binding
- Size
- 8vo
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Howard S. Mott, Inc
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