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See More... Mandelbrote, Giles (Editor) OUT OF PRINT AND INTO PROFIT
A History of the Rare & Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2006 6.75 x 9.5 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 414 pages
First edition, first printing. Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the 20th century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades, and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America.
Bibliographical scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself. The book contains reproductions of many period photographs and several useful reference aids, including a survey of book trade archives, a checklist of memoirs, and three indexes.
The book will appeal to historians of the book, and of 20th-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and collectors. Co-published with The British Library.

Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 90786

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See More... Mandelbrote, Giles (Editor) OUT OF PRINT AND INTO PROFIT
A History of the Rare & Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library (2007) 9.5 x 12.5 inches Hardcover 414 pages
First edition, second printing, with a few minor corrections. Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the 20th century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades, and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America.
Bibliographical scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself. The book contains reproductions of many period photographs and several useful reference aids, including a survey of book trade archives, a checklist of memoirs, and three indexes.
The book will appeal to historians of the book, and of 20th-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and collectors. Co-published with The British Library.

Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 95405

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See More... Mandeville, Mildred S. USED BOOK PRICE GUIDE
3 volumes. Kenmore Price Guide Publishers 1966, 1963, 1964 4to. cloth, paper, cloth. 288; 164; 200 pages.
Revised edition of first volume; the others are first editions. Thousands of prices listed for out-of-print books offered for sale by booksellers.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 7090

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See More... Mandeville, Mildred S. USED BOOK PRICE GUIDE
2 volumes. Kenmore Price Guide Publishers 1972, 1973 4to. cloth. 368; 368 pages.
Hinges cracked on both volumes, text blocks loose.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 17493

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See More... Mandeville, Mildred S. THE USED BOOK PRICE GUIDE, AN AID IN ASCERTAINING CURRENT PRICES.
3 volumes. Kenmore Price Guide Publishers 1963, 1964, 1966 4to. cloth. 288; 164; 200 pages.
Revised edition of first volume. Joints cracked on all three volumes. Shaken.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 7091

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See More... Mann, Peter H. BOOKS: BUYERS AND BORROWERS
(London) Andre Deutsch (1971) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages.
First edition. The second of a series of books written by Mann who has studied the reading habits of the public. With much on selling books.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 1557

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See More... (Marcham, Frank) CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS, LARGELY FROM THE STOCK OF FRANK MARCHAM, C.1880-1944.
London n.p. 1997 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 134 pages
Books from the stock of London bookseller Frank Marcham, 650 lots, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, April 23-24, 1997. Sales catalogues (lots 337-453), manuscripts and letters, London, topography, illustrated books, English literature and history. Price list loosely inserted.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 74739

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See More... (Marchesano, Francisco J.) HISTORIA Y LITERATURA ARGENTINA Y AMERICANA/LIBROS Y FOLLETOS ANTIGUOS (ARGENTINEAN AND AMERICAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE/ANTIQUE BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS).
2 volumes. Buenos Aires Francisco J. Marchesano 1972 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28); 33+(1) pages.
Catalogues numbers one and two from Argentinean bookseller Francisco J. Marchesano. Volume one lists 401 items including several first editions. Volume two lists 366 items including many works of history, literature, periodical publications, expositions, miscellaneous magazines, etc. Prices are printed in volume two with a loosely inserted price list in volume one. Text in Spanish. Edges tanned, volume two has a vertical crease running through the middle of the catalogue.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 57409

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  Markham, Sheila A BOOK OF BOOKSELLERS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK TRADE, 1991-2003.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and Sheila Markham Rare Books 2007 8vo. paper wrappers 324 pages
Paperback reprint of the first edition, with corrections. The antiquarian book trade-- the last resort of the English eccentric--is rich in colorful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures. Fifty of these conversations, in which leading dealers speak frankly about their life and work, are published here for the first time in paperback form. The 2004 hardcover, limited to 500 copies, quickly sold out. A significant contribution to the literature of book trade history, A Book of Booksellers will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in rare books and bookselling--perhaps the most humane, sociable, ill-organized, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere.
Sheila Markham has been in the antiquarian book trade for twenty-five years. She is also Librarian of the Travellers Club and Library Scribe at Brooks's Club in London. Her interest in the world of rare books dates from university days when she was Treasurer of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles. She is currently working on a sequel to the present work and a companion volume on book collectors.

Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 115704

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  Marston, E. AFTER WORK, FRAGMENTS FROM THE WORKSHOP OF AN OLD PUBLISHER
London and New York Sampson Low, Marston & Co. and Charles Scribners, 1907 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt xvi, 344 pages.
Second impression with added note by Marson. Book of remininscences by this publisher and bookseller. The appendix contains a list of articles on copyright legislation that Marston had accumulated and a list of publishers and booksellers that he recalled dealing with in 1846 and earlier. Bookplate. Frontispiece foxed.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 41953

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See More... McGrath, Daniel (Editor) BOOKMAN'S PRICE INDEX AN ANNUAL GUIDE TO THE VALUES OF RARE AND OTHER OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS.
Detroit Gale Research Co. 1964-1985 thick 4to. cloth.
Have the following volumes in the run: Volume 1-27, 29-31. A massive compilation of bookseller descriptions.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 1004

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See More... (Melcher, Frederic G.) FREDERIC G. MELCHER, FRIENDLY REMINISCENCES OF A HALF CENTURY AMONG BOOKS & BOOKMEN.
New York The Book Publishers' Bureau 1945 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 59, (3) pages.
First edition. With a preface by Christopher Morley followed by collected essays about publishing and bookselling by his friends. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 8277

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  (Melcher, Frederic G.) FREDERIC G. MELCHER, FRIENDLY REMINISCENCES OF A HALF CENTURY AMONG BOOKS & BOOKMEN.
New York The Book Publishers' Bureau 1945 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 59, (3) pages.
First edition. With a preface by Christopher Morley followed by collected essays about publishing and bookselling by his friends. Formerly owned by Elmer Adler with his name and acquisition date in ink on the front pastedown.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 58042

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See More... Mennicke, Carl. BUCHHANDEL IN DER GEISTIGEN LAGE DER GEGENWART.
Potsdam Karl Heidkamp 1928 12mo. paper wrappers. 48 pages.
A speech addressed to a 1927 meeting of booksellers on the present situation of the book trade. Wrappers slightly soiled.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 49449

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See More... Menz, Gerhard. DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDLER, VIERUNDZWANZIG LEBENSBILDER FUHRENDER MANNER DES
Leipzig Werner Lehman 1925 cloth, two folded sheets in holder inside back cover. viii, 319+(1) pages.
Twenty-four short biographies of German booksellers or bookseller families from the late 18th century to the early 20th. Some of the names should be quite familiar: Reclam, Brockhaus, Kröner, Langewiesche, de Gruyter, etc. With introduction by G. Menz, and portraits. Inside the back cover are two folded sheets with floor plan and elevation of a bookstore in Königsberg. Worn along edges and at spine ends. A square section (2 x 2 in.) has been cut out on the cloth part of the back cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 51915

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See More... (Merkel, Rudolf) Roth, Eugen FÜR RUDOLF MERKEL
N.P. (Rudolf Merkel) 1965 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, stiff paper dust jacket (iv), 12 pages
Roth wrote this poem to mark the hundredth anniversary of the bookselling firm Rudolf Merkel and to celebrate the opening of their Munich store. It was published in this form for Merkel's customers and friends for Advent 1965. The exterior of this copy shows minor wear along the fore-edge. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H. P. Kraus. The binding staples have rusted slightly. Otherwise the interior shows minimal soiling or wear.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 91247

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See More... Meyer-Dohm, Peter. DER WESTDEUTSCHE BUCHERMARKT.
Stuttgart Gustav Fischer 1957 small 8vo. paper wrappers. viii, 203 pages.
A study of the structure of the West German book market. Wrappers slightly soiled.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 51294

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See More... (Milkau, Fritz) BIBLIOTHEKSWISSENSCHAFT
enthaltend u. a. die Bibliothek des Generaldirektors der Preußischen Staatsbibliothek a. D. Geh. Reg.-Rats Prof. Dr. iur. h. c. Dr. phil. Fritz Milkau; Bücher-Katalogs 454 & 455 (2 catalogues) Leipzig Otto Harrassowitz 1935 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 116; 106, (6) pages
These booksellers catalogues feature 1,902 and 1,800 items respectively. (Blogie 442) The exteriors of this set have light to moderate soiling, ink stamps and other markings. The spine of the second volume is damaged and the wrappers are almost detached. Inside, the leaves have darkened with age. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H. P. Kraus. In the second volume are scattered notations (mostly in the margins), and the final three leaves (advertising items available from Harrassowitz but not part of the Milkau collection) are fragile and partly torn, with some loss.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 90919

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  Miller, Ellen LITERARY BOOKSTORES, A CROSS-COUNTRY GUIDE. WITH A NATIONAL LIST OF LITERARY BARS AND COFFEEHOUSES.
N.P. Poets & Writers, Inc. (1993) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, (iii), 158 pages.
Revised edition.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 99793

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See More... Minters, Arthur H COLLECTING BOOKS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
New York Arco Publishing Co. (1979) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 162 pages.
First edition. Beginner's guide to bookcollecting. Has some information on dealing with foreign booksellers.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 9671

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See More... Mitchell, Edwin Valentine MOROCCO BOUND: ADRIFT AMONG BOOKS
New York Farrar & Rinehart (1929) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 232 pages.
First edition. Talk of his experiences in his bookshop and as a collector and about print collectors. Jacket chipped along edges.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 9713

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See More... (Monnier, Adrienne) Monnier, Adrienne THE VERY RICH HOURS OF ADRIENNE MONNIER.
Translated, with an Introduction and Commentaries, by Richard McDougall. New York Charles Scribner's Sons (1976) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 536 pages.
First edition. Autobiography of this Paris bookshop owner who had her shop across the street from Sylvia Beach. Monnier published Paul Valery.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 1539

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See More... (Morks & Geuze) Buddingh', C. DORDSTE SNIPPERS.
Dordrecht Morks & Geuze's Boekhandel circa 1960 8vo stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket unpaginated
Text in Dutch. Black and white illustrations, scenes from Dordrecht, by Otto Dicke. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Morks & Geuze, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Dust jacket tanned. Dust jacket and wrapper bent at top corner.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 108258

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See More... (Morrow, William H.) THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM H. MORROW, A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, BROADSIDES, MAPS, MANUSCRIPTS, DOCUMENTS, & EPHEMERA RELATING TO TEXAS & ADJACENT TERRITORIES.
Austin, TX (Dorothy Sloan) 1993 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated, but about 300 pages
Catalogue eleven issued by Dorothy Sloan--Books. With a four page introduction by W. Thomas Taylor on Morrow. A richly eclectic collection of over 1,100 books, pamphlets, maps, and photographs focused on Texas, but extending to adjacent territories as well. The standard and important accounts are well represented: there are nearly 75 items from the Streeter "Bibliography of Texas" and more than 100 of the 300 titles listed in "Basic Texas Books." Illustrated. Small damaged spot on front cover.
Price: $ 18.00 other currencies Order nr. 74735

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See More... (Moskowitz, Larry) Sipper, Ralph B. LARRY MOSKOWITZ, MAN OF ESPRIT.
Santa Barbara, CA Cordelia Editions 1986 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (22) pages
Printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition limited to 500 copies as a keepsake on the occasion of Larry Moskowitz's birthday. Cover design by Carol Sipper. Reminisences of his childhood friend and business partner, by the founder of Joseph the Provider Books. Fading along spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 65273

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