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So you want to go into the Donut Business?
Peter Harrington’s quirkiest recent acquisition, this is a pamphlet produced by the Doughnut Corporation of America just after World War II. Aimed at returning servicemen in search of business...
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Fortune
Cover of the first issue of Fortune magazine. It was November 1929, only a month after the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine, had an...
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The Birth of Mad Men: Ernest Dichter, Psychoanalysis and Consumerism
First edition of The Psychology of Everyday Living by Ernest Dichter (1947). Mid twentieth-century America. In a corporate board room, hazy with tobacco smoke and whiskey fumes, a man pitches...
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Damnably Subversive but Extraordinarily Real: The Ragged-Trousered...
First edition of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, in the original dust jacket (1914). Touring Britain this summer is the Townsend Productions theatre adaptation of Robert...
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Lombard Street – A Cautionary Tale for The British Banking System
A bank collapses, and the public rush to withdraw their savings as the fear of losing everything sets in. It’s a familiar story, but isn’t necessarily one that exists only in the twentieth and...
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Tea Room and Cafeteria Management: an Unlikely Precursor to Wave Theory
It is strange to think that one of modern economics most formative theories wouldn’t have happened were it not for a book about managing tea rooms. Peter Harrington has recently acquired the curious...
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Bloomsberries
KENNEDY, Richard, A Bloomsbury Evening. Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the loose circle of writers and artists which came to be known as...
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