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(Almon, John) Rae, Robert Right " JOHN ALMON: BOOKSELLER TO JOHN WILKES."
1948 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.20-28.
Limited to 250 copies. An article in The Indiana Quarterly for Bookmen, Vol. IV, No.1.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107358

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(Americana) Maggs BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA ET PHILIPPINA
8 (of 9) volumes, missing volume 8. London Maggs Bros. 1922-1930 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (except Parts 5 and 7 which are bound in cloth with leather spine labels). thousands of pages.
A massive collection of books and manuscripts concerning Americana, being catalogues 429, 432, 442 (missing last leaf), 465, 479, 496, 502 and 549. Lacking Part VIII which was devoted to Brazil. Wrappers worn and detached on some volumes.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 103922

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Arber, Edward (editor) A TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS OF LONDON; 1554-1640, A.D.
5 volumes bound in 3. Mansfield Centre, MA Martino Publishing 2007 8vo. and 4to. cloth. approximately 3100 pages.
Reprint of the first edition published in Birmingham during the period 1875-1894. The Stationers' Company has in its possession copyright registers from 1554 to 1842. The entries up to 1640 have been published in A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660 ed. E Arber The Stationers' Company, which was founded in the fifteenth century to protect and regulate the London book trade, contains Court Book registers, records of the English Stock Company, and pension and apprentice register books, as well as "Entry Books of Copies." The Entry Books are of especial interest to scholars, since they record the names of authors and titles of books presented to the Company for printing.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 94371

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Arber, Edward THE TERM CATALOGUES, 1668-1709 A.D., WITH A NUMBER FOR EASTER TERM, 1711 AD., A CONTEMPORARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II, JAMES II, WILLIAM AND MARY, AND ANNE.
3 volumes. London Edward Arber 1903-1906 4to. cloth. xvi,576; x,664; x,742 pages.
First edition, one of the 1000 numbered small paper copies signed by Arber. (Besterman p.2011). Edited reprint of the original catalogues which were issued by English booksellers and publishers to show what books were available to students. A wealth of information for the student of the book during this period. Covers unevenly faded and lightly marked and rubbed. Hinges solid.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 40571

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Astbury, Raymond LIBRARIES & THE BOOK TRADE IN BRITAIN
Hamden Archon Books (1968) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 194 pages.
First U.S. edition. Contains 13 essays by various people on the booktrade in Britain; concerned, for the most part, with the 20th century. Includes an essay by Hans Schmoller on "The Paperback Revolution."
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 676

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Astbury, Raymond LIBRARIES & THE BOOK TRADE IN BRITAIN
London Clive Bingley (1968) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 194 pages.
First edition. Contains 13 essays by various people on the booktrade in Britain; concerned, for the most part, with the 20th century. Includes Hans Schmoller on "The Paperback Revolution." Minor rubbing of jacket.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 19247

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(Auction) [COLLECTION OF FIVE SOTHEBY & CO. AUCTION CATALOGUES].
(London) Sotheby & Co. 1963 large 8vo. cloth, leather spine label and paper labels for each sale taped on spine variously paginated
Auction catalogues. For sales held at Sotheby & Co. on the following dates in 1963:
-June 10: "Catalogue of Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures," (not in Blogie), 165 lots.
-June 11: "Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters, Literary and Musical Manuscripts," (Blogie III, 185), 170 lots.
-June 24: "Catalogue of The Distinguished Collection of Modern French Illustrated Books of the late M. Nicolas Rauch of Geneva," (Blogie III, 186), 174 lots.
-October 21: "Catalogue of Important Old Master Drawings," 169 lots.
-December 9: "Catalogue of Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures," (not in Blogie), 145 lots.
Well-illustrated in color and black-and-white. Highlights include Arabic illuminated manuscripts, sketches by Raphael, tenth-century illuminated Gospels, early editions of the plays of Shakespeare and signatures of famous musicians including Beethoven. From the reference library of H.P. Kraus.
Price: $ 61.00 other currencies Order nr. 77491

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Baldwin, T.W. SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE'S LABOR'S WON, NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF AN ELIZABETHAN BOOKSELLER.
Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1957 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. ix, 42, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 2500 copies. The finding of this manuscript bookseller's list from the early 17th century led to the dating of Shakespeare's play. The list is reproduced in collotype. Only minor wear to jacket.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 13739

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Barker, Nicolas FORM AND MEANING IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
Selected Essays (London) British Library 2003 8vo cloth, dust jacket (iv), xiii, (i), 514 pages
Part of the British Library Studies in the History of the Book series. A collection of essays spanning forty years about books and texts, typography and early printing, history of the book, forgery, books and people, bookselling, and libraries. Introduction by Alan Bell. Includes some illustrations. Very minor shelf wear on book and dust jacket.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 92066

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Barnes, James J. FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800.
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1964 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, (v), 198 pages.
First edition. Contains information on the first major conflict between the Booksellers Association and some private booksellers and publishers. Two of these outspoken individuals were Dickens and Gladstone. Largely devoted to the book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800. Jacket is price clipped.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 20315

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Barnes, James J. FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800.
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1964 8vo. cloth. ix, (v), 198 pages.
First edition. Contains information on the first major conflict between the Booksellers Association and some private booksellers and publishers. Two of these outspoken individuals were Dickens and Gladstone. Largely devoted to the book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800. Ex-library copy with markings.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 97315

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Barnes, James J. FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800.
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1964 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, (v), 198 pages.
First edition. Contains information on the first major conflict between the Booksellers Association and some private booksellers and publishers. Two of these outspoken individuals were Dickens and Gladstone. Largely devoted to the book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Bookplate removed from front pastedown.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 98335

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(Barrie, J.M.) A SELECTION OF POPULAR WORKS.
London Cassell & Company n.d. large 12mo. single colored sheet folded in half
A catalogue featuring work by J.M Barrie, including the Little Minister and Sentimental Tommy. Front panel includes black-and-white photograph of Barrie. Works by R.L. Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle also featured. Lightly faded.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 87960

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Bason, Fred FRED BASON'S 2ND DIARY
Edited and with a preface by L.A.G. Strong. London Wingate (1952) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 159 pages.
First edition. A continuation of this bookseller's reminiscences. Jacket soiled along edge.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 3438

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(Batsford) Bolitho, Hector A BATSFORD CENTURY.
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1944 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. x, 148 pages.
First edition, second impression with some corrections and a colored frontispiece. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket has piece missing out of front cover.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 368

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(Batsford) Bolitho, Hector A BATSFORD CENTURY.
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1943 tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. x, 148 pages.
First edition. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket worn with pieces missing.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 21905

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Batterham, David AMONG BOOKSELLERS: TALES TOLD IN LETTERS TO HOWARD HODGKIN
York Stone Trough Books 2011 5.25 x 8.75 inches paperback 118 pages
First edition. For over thirty-five years bookseller David Batterham has been going on book buying trips abroad and describing his journeys in letters written to artist Howard Hodgkin. This book contains the letters he wrote that reveal his traveling adventures and his buying interest and history. The visitable bookseller, a fast disappearing breed, is immortalized in this text. Lighthearted, entertaining, and charming, this book is intended to amuse rather than instruct.

Travelling around France, Spain, Portugal, America, Denmark, Holland, and Finland, Batterham wrote letters to Hodgkin to keep himself occupied since he mostly traveled on his own. The letters presented in this book begin in August 1970 and continue until January 2006. Describing his daily activities, conversations he had with acquaintances along the way, his plans for seeing new shops and buying books, and much more, the letters encompass Batterham's entire travelling and book-buying experience. He wrote mostly during the evenings when book shops were closed, many times in a local café with a drink in hand. As he states, his mission was to collect books that "one can enjoy without having to read," including trade catalogues, fashion magazines, and other illustrated journals, typography, political caricatures, and architectural pattern books. As he didn't have a shop, he worked on the theory that if he only bought things he liked himself, he would eventually find enough catalogue customers who shared his tastes.

Filled with humorous and fun tales of the life of a bookseller, this book is an enjoyable and delightful read. "An extraordinary portrait of the strange, eccentric world of dealing and collecting, with its chance encounters, its crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness." -Margaret Drabble.

"For thirty five years bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard Hodgkin. He was looking for trade catalogues , fashion magazines and other illustrated journals but his colleagues interest him almost as much, seen in their homes and shops. The visitable bookseller, a vanishing breed, is here immortalised" Publishers blurb.
Part diary, part memoir, some anecdotes and reflections; intended to amuse rather than inform! Designed by typographer George Ramsden with cover from a painting by Howard Hodgkin - an elegant little bedside book or stocking filler .
"completely fascinating and totally enjoyable" Howard Hodgkin
"...a gallery of eccentrics with Batterham himself the most notable, drunk, often penniless... ...lucky Hodgkin to have received these letters " Alan Bennett in London Review of Books
"An extraordinary picture of the strange eccentric world of dealers with its chance encounters, crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness" Margaret Drabble
"wonderfully redolent, skirting Chatwin Country in favour of Simenon's Maigret" William Feaver
"beguiling. I couldn't put it down" Simon Hoggart in the Guardian
"It's addictive!" James Fergusson (he also chose it as one of his "books of the year " in TLS)
"this book is a cracking read!" Amazon reader's review
"the funniest book I have read in years" Richard Burton
"a considerable prose stylist who has cleverly hit on the perfect vehicle for his absurdist or farcical take on the world. The book is a delight" Christopher Reid
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 108660

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Bell, John Gray. SHEET OF JOHN GRAY BELL’S CATALOGUE OF AUTOGRAPHS ON SALE AT THE LOW PRICES AFFIXED ... .
London Printed by C. Demaine (for John Gray) 1853 12mo. original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. pp. 41-48
An unusual survival, being a sort of prospectus for the main catalogue. "Parties wishing the complete Catalogue can have it forwarded by enclosing 12 stamps to the Publisher, or it will be sent gratis with orders from this sheet." Very fine condition.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 79932

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Bennet, Thomas Letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient.
N.P. n.p. n.d. (12 by 7 1/2 inches)
A letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient. Discusses "the suspicion that has been raised that an imprinted book of the subject of Religion" was "purloined." Bennet calls this "the most unlikely thing in the world;" there is "nothing like it at present either at the Tower or at the Chapel of the Rolls." Bennet asks his addressee to offer his opinion. Postscript states that a "messenger shall call for this paper, with your answer tomorrow abt. one of ye clock."
Thomas Bennet (1664/5-1706) was a London bookseller, Half-Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard. See Henry R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, 29, and Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clemens (1686-1719), 3-6.
Lightly soiled and bent at edges.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 109435

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Bennett, H.S. ENGLISH BOOKS & READERS 1475-1557
Cambridge University Press 1952 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 337 pages.
First edition. Jacket foxed with chipping around edges. Ex library copy with markings though very clean.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 404

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to give libraries access to the latest computer technology. AND MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53715

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BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE.
Various odd issues of this periodical. London Elliot Stock 1881-1884 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. Per issue
Ulrich & Kup p.146. The following issues are present: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36. Per issue
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 42484

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BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE (THE)
6 volumes bound in 3 London Elliot Stock 1881-1884 4to. later cloth.
Ulrich & Kup p.146. The complete set of this periodical under this title. Hundreds of articles on bookselling, printing, collecting, and bibliography. This magazine was continued as Book Lore. Pages 95 - 160 are detached and loosely inserted. Some tears in pages as the paper is fragile.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104670

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(Bird & Bull Press) Feather, John ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Newtown Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages.
Limited to 325 copies. The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length. As the exact size was maintained, it was necessary to place 4 of the facsimiles in a separate portfolio. All but one of the prospectuses done in facsimile come from the Bodleian Library. This book is the kind of private press book that Oak Knoll likes to handle; an important new text presented in a superb format. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 2685

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Birrell, Augustine IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS
London Elliot Stock 1906 8vo. green cloth. viii, 214, (2) pages.
Second edition. Excellent book about books with essays on booksellers, first editions and authors. Only minor cover rubbing at spine ends.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 17676

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