Dreco: A Corporate Odyssey.
by McBean, John Chisholm
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Edmonton: Dreco Energy Services Ltd., 1997. hardcover. fine. First Edition xiv, 286 pp. Quarto.Original blue cloth-covered boards. Spine ornament in silver. Unclipped dust jacket with cover and spine titles. Endpaper maps. Photographic double title page with colour frontispiece. Illustrated with B/W and colour photographs. Text block is clean and tight. Minor wear to dust jacket Coroporate history of Dreco, comissioned to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Dreco Energy Services was founded in Alberta in the 1950s and went on to become an international force in the petroleum industry. Lavishly illustrated and finely bound, this is truly a celebratory edition. 1997
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144434
- Title
- Dreco: A Corporate Odyssey.
- Author
- McBean, John Chisholm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dreco Energy Services Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Edmonton
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Dreco|Oil & Gas|Petroleum History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Industry and Commerce;
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