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See More... (Maggs) 812 SELECTION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF SPECIAL INTEREST AND RARITY.
Catalogue 812 Issued to Commerate the Centenary of Maggs Bros. Ltd. London Maggs Bros. 1953 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 179 pages.
Magnificent catalogue with two page history of the firm with illustrations. The bindings listed are especially interesting and are shown with a series of illustrations including a colored frontispiece of an embroidered binding and others in color. Covers soiled and spotted. Wrapper missing part at bottom of spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 3068

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See More... (Maggs) 812 A SELECTION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF SPECIAL INTEREST AND RARITY.
Catalogue 812 Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of Maggs Bros. Ltd. London Maggs Bros. 1953 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 179 pages.
Magnificent catalogue with two-page history of the firm with illustrations. The bindings listed are especially interesting and are shown with a series of illustrations including a colored frontispiece of an embroidered binding and others in color. Covers rubbed and chipped.
Price: $ 16.00 other currencies Order nr. 71784

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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scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself.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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  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... Marston, E. SKETCHES OF BOOKSELLERS OF OTHER DAYS
London Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1901 small 8vo. half parchment over cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 182, (2) pages.
First edition. (Hart no.159). With frontispiece and other illustrations. Covers Tonson, Guy, Dunton, Richardson, Gent, Hutton, and Lackington. Parchment spine is soiled as usual. Bookplate.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 9696

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See More... Marston, E. SKETCHES OF BOOKSELLERS OF OTHER DAYS
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1901 small 8vo. half parchment over cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 182, (2) pages.
First U.S. edition. (Hart no.159). With frontispiece and other illustrations. Covers Tonson, Guy, Dunton, Richardson, Gent, Hutton, and Lackington. Parchment spine soiled and torn at top. Inside hinges cracked.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 13952

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See More... McKenzie, D.F. (editor) STATIONERS' COMPANY APPRENTICES, 1641-1700
Oxford The Oxford Bibliographical Society 1974 8vo. cloth. x, 234 pages.
First edition. With various indices.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 7056

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See More... Medlicott, Margaret P. NO HERO, I CONFESS, A NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York Taplinger Publishing Co. (1970) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 162 pages.
First U.S. edition. The autobiography of Christopher Norton Wright, bookseller and publisher, written by him from 1813 to 1871, and finally published by his great grand-daughter. Bottom of spine bumped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 13423

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See More... (Michelmore, G.) CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE STOCK OF PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS.
London Sotheby's 1955 8vo. paper wrappers. 77, (3) pages.
Catalogue for the sale of this bookseller's stock. Wrappers soiled. Tearing to spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 51424

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See More... Moran, James HENRY GEORGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER WESTERHAM 1830 - C.1846.
Westerham, England Westerham Press 1972 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 55, (15) pages.
First edition, one of the 150 signed and numbered copies. This biography includes an eight page section in facsimile of one of his Cruikshank illustrated books, three sample pages from his Westerham Journal and other material.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115001

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See More... Muir, Augustus (editor) THE INTIMATE THOUGHTS OF JOHN BAXTER, BOOKSELLER.
Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. London Methuen & Co. (1942) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 166 pages.
First edition. Jacket with small tears along edges and some soiling.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 3582

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See More... Muir, Augustus (editor) THE INTIMATE THOUGHTS OF JOHN BAXTER, BOOKSELLER.
Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. London Methuen & Co. (1942) small 8vo. cloth. viii, 166 pages.
First edition. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 37407

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See More... Mumby, Frank A. THE ROMANCE OF BOOKSELLING; A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1911 thick 8vo. red cloth, top edge gilt. xviii, 490, (2) pages.
First U.S. edition. Illustrated. The appendix contains The Stationer's Company, granted by Philip and Mary, 1557 and a 39 page bibliography of publishing and bookselling. Covers faded and worn at spine ends.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 102714

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See More... Mumby, Frank PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING; A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
London Jonathan Cape (1930) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 480 pages.
First edition. With 27 illustrations. Contains a bibliography by William Peet on publishing and bookselling. (38 pages). Jacket worn and spotted.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 9769

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See More... Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors). ECONOMICS OF THE BRITISH BOOKTRADE, 1605-1939.
Cambridge Chadwyck-Healey 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 231, (3) pages.
Publishing History Occasional Series 1. Eight papers on various aspects of this subject. Includes Mirjam Foot on bookbinder's price lists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Price: $ 27.00 other currencies Order nr. 56404

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  Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors) GENIUS FOR LETTERS: BOOKSELLERS & BOOKSELLING FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1995 8vo. printed paper over boards. 188 pages.
By the mid-eighteenth century bookselling was established as the key factor in the book business. On the one hand, booksellers were at the center of the interlocking range of associated activities involved in the manufacture and distribution of a multi-form product. On the other hand, they helped to shape the consumption of print in the market, responding to and guiding the taste of readers as customers.
Printers, binders, authors, and readers never achieved the corporate force and solidarity of the booksellers who, in England, early on dominated the London Stationers' Company. It was as `publishers' in its increasingly specialist sense of the marketing and distribution of texts, that this commercial sector acquired its authority in the long term. As the owners of valuable copyrights the leading London booksellers laid the foundation of a commercial interest which was never seriously challenged.
The contributors to this volume unravel some of the complexities of the trade organized by business people working at different times and different places but all pursuing what might be called the logic of the market place through the sale of books. Topics include booksellers and bookbinders by Anthony Hobson; Italian bookselling in the eighteenth century by Luigi Balsamo; booksellers and bookshops in late seventeenth-century London by Giles Mandlebrote; and circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs 1870-1966 by Simon Eliot. Head of spine bumped. Spot on free endpaper.

Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115675

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See More... Myers, Robin. THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE FROM CAXTON TO THE PRESENT DAY.
London Andre Deutsch (1973) thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 405 pages.
S-K 60. First edition. Covers authorship, bookbinding, bookselling, book design, illustration, children's books, printing, publishing, etc. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 34589

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See More... Myers, Robin. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE MARKET: TRAVEL, TRAVELLERS AND THE BOOK TRADE.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. ix, 154 pages.
First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. This work is a series of scholarly essays on the history of travel, travelers and their relation to the book trade. The essays are written by the following prominent British scholars: Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh; Jeremy Black, University of Exeter; Michael Harris, University of London; Charles Newton, Victoria and Albert Museum; Anthony Payne, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.; Andrew Tatham, Royal Geographical Society; and Giles Barber, University of Oxford.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 57369

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See More... Myers, Robin STATIONERS' COMPANY ARCHIVE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECORDS 1554-1984.
Winchester St. Paul's Bibliographies (1990) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxvii, 376 pages.
First edition. Contains an introductory essay on the history of the archives and the use scholars have made of it, plus the first complete listing of the 550 volumes in the muniment room and two registers of supplementary documents. This archive contains the longest unbroken run of booktrade records in existence.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 31141

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See More... (Nijhoff, Martinus) CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BOOKS AND OF WORKS ON ENGLAND, ITS COLONIES, ETC.
The Hague Martinus Nijhoff 1893 8vo. later quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, original paper wrappers bound-in. (ii), 185+(1) pages.
A catalogue (no.243) from Dutch bookseller Martinus Nijhoff containing books on the history of England. Ex-library with markings throughout. Front cover detached. Spine loose, piece missing at head of spine. Front free endpaper and title page detached, next several pages partially detached. Corners and edges worn.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59484

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See More... Nuttall, D. (editor) BOOK TRADE IN THE NORTH WEST PROJECT. OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS NO. 3. THE BOOK TRADE IN CHESIRE TO 1850: A DIRECTORY.
Liverpool Liverpool Bibliographical Society 1992 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. xv, 85 pages.
Historical introduction followed by the directory. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on the front inside cover.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 99217

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See More... Parks, Stephen (editor) THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE 1660-1853.
(New York) Garland Publishing, Inc. n.d. 8vo. later marbled paper covered boards, paper cover label, original wrappers bound in unpaginated
List of 156 titles related to the history of English bookselling and publishing for sale by this publishing company.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 106054

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See More... Parks, Stephen "THE LONDON BOOK TRADES, 1775-1800, A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF MEMBERS."
Dekalb Bibliographical Society of Northern Illinois (1978) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (i), 82 pages
An article in ANALYTICAL & ENUMERATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume II Number 1Periodical concerned with various bibliographical subjects. Typescript text. Wrappers sunned at spine. Slight wear to corners.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106057

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