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Ackerman, Martin S. THE CURTIS AFFAIR.
The inside story of the greatest corporate disaster in U.S. history. Los Angeles Nash Publishing (1970) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 202, (2) pages.
First edition. The story of the demise of the Saturday Evening Post. An interesting publishing business history. Jacket rubbed with tears.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 19442

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(Americana) Leclerc, Ch. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA: CATALOGUES DE 1867 ET 1878 ET SUPPLÉMENTS DE 1881 ET 1887.
Photographic reprint of 1878 Edition and Supplements 1 and 2 (1881 and 1887) Paris G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose 1974 8vo cloth (iv),vii,424; (v),xx,737,(3); (iii),102; (iii),127(+1) pages
Four volumes reprinted in one. Charles Leclerc edited the 1878 catalogue (and supplements) of Americana offered for sale by the French firm Maisonneuve and Co. (Besterman 310, Blogie 634 & 637) By the time of the last supplement (1887), the company's name had changed to Maisonneuve Frères & Ch. Leclerc. The combined work includes well over 3620 entries dealing with North and South (and Central) America and the Philippines. The first catalogue was issued in 1867. Bookseller's ink stamp on free endpaper.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103808

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ARMITAGE INN, A BED & BREAKFAST.
New Castle Armitage Inn n.d. small 8vo. six page foldout.
Brochure on this New Castle B&B which is out of business.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 94354

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Ayres, Harry V. HOTEL DU PONT STORY, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 1911-1981.
Wilmington Serendipity Press (1981) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 209 pages.
First edition. The history of Delaware's finest hotel. Presentation from Ayers on title page dated 1982.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 28601

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Bakewell, K.G.B. INDUSTRIAL LIBRARIES THROUGOUT THE WORLD.
Oxford Pergamon Press (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 184 pages.
Part of the International Series of Monographs in Library and Information Science. Indexed. Jacket slightly rubbed, faded, and torn.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 47827

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(Bird & Bull Press) Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor) AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.
New Castle Oak Knoll Books and the Delaware Bibliophiles 1991 8vo. quarter cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label. 81, (3) pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies. This work is based on an original article written by Barbara Benson about the general history of papermaking in Delaware. To this has been added two previously published articles - "The Gilpins and their Endless Papermaking Machine" by H.B. Hancock and N.B. Wilkinson; and "Papermaker Joshua Gilpin introduces the Chemical Approach to Papermaking in the U.S." by Sidney M. Edelstein. Finally there is a previously unpublished thesis written by Patricia M. Brown outlining the history of the Curtis Paper Company in Newark, Delaware. This is an important article as little has previously been published about the history of this mill which eventually supplied paper to so many of America's fine book producers. There is also an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer, President of the Delaware Bibliophiles. Henry Morris designed the book and printed it by letterpress at his Bird & Bull Press. The text has been printed on mouldmade paper and the work has been illustrated with four original wood engravings by John DePol. The book is bound in quarter cloth with paper over the boards and a leather spine label. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 67230

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(Bird & Bull Press) Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor) AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.
New Castle Oak Knoll Books and the Delaware Bibliophiles 1991 8vo. quarter cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label. 81, (3) pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies. This work is based on an original article written by Barbara Benson about the general history of papermaking in Delaware. To this has been added two previously published articles - "The Gilpins and their Endless Papermaking Machine" by H.B. Hancock and N.B. Wilkinson; and "Papermaker Joshua Gilpin introduces the Chemical Approach to Papermaking in the U.S." by Sidney M. Edelstein. Finally there is a previously unpublished thesis written by Patricia M. Brown outlining the history of the Curtis Paper Company in Newark, Delaware. This is an important article as little has previously been published about the history of this mill which eventually supplied paper to so many of America's fine book producers. There is also an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer, President of the Delaware Bibliophiles. Henry Morris designed the book and printed it by letterpress at his Bird & Bull Press. The text has been printed on mouldmade paper and the work has been illustrated with four original wood engravings by John DePol. Prospectus loosely inserted. This copy has been signed by Barbara Benson, Henry Morris, Gordon Pfeiffer, John DePol and Bob Fleck. Spine faded.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109843

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BLUE BOOK OF DELAWARE, 1939-1940, AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OLD AND SOCIALLY PROMINENT FAMILIES TOGETHER WITH MEMBERS OF FAMILY, ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS WHEREVER POSSIBLE.
Wilmington Blue Book Company 1939 8vo. cloth. 120 pages.
B1-847. For sale by publisher of Matthew Brothers, Inc. of Wilmington. Filled with interesting advertisements for businesses.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 66934

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(Bookbinding) CENTRALFORENINGEN AF BOGBINDERMESTRE I PROVINSEN, 1897-1947.
(Hojklint, Denmark n.p. 1947) large 8vo. cloth 95+(1) pages
Limited to 500 copies. Et Jubilaeumsaskrift af Harald Petersen og ib Hojklint. Indholdsfortegnelse: Bogbinderfagets Udvikling, Centralforeningen, Bogbindermestrenes Inkdobsforening, Understottelseskassen, Provins og Hovedstad, Laerlinge of Svende. Maend i Centralforeningen, Aarsmoderne, Priser og Priskuranter. Bogbinder-Museet. Illlustrated with photographs. Small booklet, Love for Bogbindermesterforeningen, loosely inserted. Head of spine partially detached.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 71545

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(Brown, Harry Fletcher) Perkins, John A. and Robeson Bailey. HARRY FLETCHER BROWN, AN ESSAY IN APPRECIATION.
Newark University of Delaware Press 1960 8vo. two-toned cloth, slipcase. xii, 128 pages.
B1-922. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. Biographical sketch of this chemist and Du Pont executive. He was a major benefactor to the University of Delaware.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 28349

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Butler, George PACKING AND MARKETING DELAWARE FOOD PRODUCTS.
Dover Commission on Packing and Marketing Delaware Food Products 1933 8vo. cloth. 121 pages.
B1-2222. O.A. Newton was Commissioner. Filled with interesting illustrations of different business scenes of Delaware commerce. Ink inscription on free endpaper.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 46407

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Button, Henry G., MA and Andrew P. Lampert, BSc THE GUINNESS BOOK OF THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Enfield, Middlesex Guinness Superlatives Limited (1976 8vo. Leather 256 pages
Divided in two sections, the first is concerned with the oldest and largest businesses of various kinds in different parts of the world, and the second with the UK financial system and the economy. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 99643

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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH TRADE, 1700-1750.
London Bernard Quaritch Ltd. 1968 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 140 pages.
Bookseller's catalogue describing 750 items. Bumped. One page history, index and text.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 69178

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Chambonnaud, L,, Émile Gautier and F. Thibaudeau LES AFFAIRES ET L'ANNONCE.
Paris Dunod 1921 8vo cloth (iv), 548 pages
Text in French. No. VII in "La technique des affaires" series. Guidebood to advertising techniques for businesses. Black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Boards scuffed at corners and spine. Light tanning.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107633

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(Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company) JOURNAL E: C & D.
N.P. n.p. 1888-1893 folio original full calf, raised bands on spine, title and decorations gilt-stamped 483+(1) pages
Massive ledger of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, April 30, 1888 to January 1893. Includes the company's expenditures. Among the entries are many purchases of coal, mostly from the Lehigh Coal and Iron Co., Aurora Coal, and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. Coal was used to operate the locks used by the canal. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal connects the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay, across the northern end of the Delmarva peninsula. First envisioned in the mid-1600s by Augustine Herman, more serious consideration of the construction of the canal began in the late 18th century. The Chesapeake and Delawre Canal Company was incorporated in 1802 by the legislatures of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Construction began in 1804 but was halted in 1806 by lack of funding. The company was reorganized in 1822, and construction resumed in 1824. The canal opened for business in 1829, with a lock system in place from its opening until 1919. The company operated the canal until 1919, when the U.S. government purchased it. It is currently operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. See Ralph D. Gray, The National Waterway: a History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769-1985 (Urbanna: University of Illinois Press, 1989) and www.nap.usace.army.mil/cd/. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Boards and spine show minor scuffing and rubbing at edges. Well preserved ledger with all pages filled in with accounting information.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109375

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Clement, A.J. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ITS PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCIAL AND MAR ITIME ADVANTAGES.
Wilmington The Board of Trade 1888 small 4to. original cloth with newer leather spine. 80 pages.
B1-2026. Filled with illustrations of Wilmington businesses. Lacks the three maps that were bound in at the front of this title. Printed by the Delaware Printing Company. Wear along edges especially at tips.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 66467

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Cleveland, Richard Jeffry VOYAGES AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES, OF THE SONS OF NEW ENGLAND.
New York Burt Franklin (1968) 8vo. cloth. 407 pages.
Reprint of the 1857 first edition. History of the shipping industry of New England.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 90055

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Clouse, Doug MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages
First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796. Extensive business records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J's patented typefaces is extremely helpful.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 96669

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Cole, Arthur H. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LITERATURE.
Boston, MA Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (1957) tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label (v), 56 pages
With a preface. Wear at extremities.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101395

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Cooper, Constance J. TO MARKET, TO MARKET, IN WILMINGTON: KING STREET AND BEYOND.
Wilmington The Cedar Tree Press (1993) 8vo. cloth. xiv, 54, (4) pages.
First edition, second printing, limited to 750. With two pen and ink illustrations by Lorraine Russell Gilson and a number of illustrations and photographs. A history of the farmers' market in Wilmington.
Price: $ 23.95 other currencies Order nr. 41364

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Cooper, Constance J. TO MARKET, TO MARKET, IN WILMINGTON: KING STREET AND BEYOND.
Wilmington The Cedar Tree Press n.d. (but 1993) 8vo. cloth. xiv, 54, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 800 numbered copies signed by the author. With two pen and ink illustrations by Lorraine Russell Gilson and a number of illustrations and photographs. A history of the farmers' market in Wilmington.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 67942

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(Delaware Railroad Company) FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT.
N.P. Delaware Railroad Company various dates 8vo. paper wrappers.
B1-2423. Have the following reports:
50th Annual Report. 1902. 22 pages. With ink ownership stamp of Willard Saulsbury on front cover. Small chip out of paper wrappers at bottom of spine.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 68226

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DELAWARE, SMALL WONDER. A FORBES SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT.
N.P. n.p. n.d. (circa 1982) small 4to. paper wrappers. (24) pages.
An advertising brochure pitching the virtues of Delaware as a place to locate business.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 44285

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(Du Pont) 150TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES, 1802-1952.
Eleutherian Mills E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 1952 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 29 pages.
With addresses by Henry B. du Pont,, Crawford H. Greenewalt, and Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. and benediction by Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Munds. Illustrated with photographs.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 38969

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(Du Pont, Alfred Victor) Wilkinson, Norman B. EDUCATION OF ALFRED VICTOR DU PONT, NINETEENTH CENTURY INDUSTRIALIST.
1961 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), pp.105-120.
Reprint from Pennsylvania History, Vol. XXVIII, No.2, April, 1961. B2-690. Head of the du Pont de Nemour and Co. from 1837 to 1850. With frontispiece portrait.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 38964

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