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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition dark blue linen boards with gold facsimile front cover author signature and gold spine lettering. Includes Preface by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr, New York City, October 1963; List of Illustrations; List of Charts and Tables; Introduction; Rear Sections consisting of: General Motors Corporation Unit Sales of Cars and Trucks By Divisions; General Motors Staff Charts Discussed in Text and Index. Illustrated with eight sections of black-and-white phot0graphic plates plus additional charts and tables interspersed throughout the volume. "That this book tells the story of General Motors in good part from my point of view is reasonably justified, I trust, by the circumstance that, as chief executive officer of the corporation for twenty-three years, and as a member of the board and a participant in tis committees for forty-five years, I have been situated at the focal point of major policy making and administration. I trust, too, that the use made of materials from the past, which I either wroter or was responsible for, is justified for a similar reason. They either made or influence policy and thereby bear a relation to the events of history. This approach to the book made it necessary to do a substantial amount of research, and it should not be surprising therefore that considerable collaboration was required." - short excerpt from the Preface by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.…