Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1941. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 143 pages. First edition. Discusses printing history, printer's tools, methods of work, type design, etc. Jacket chipped with piece missing at bottom of spine and detached along front hinge. READ MORE about PRINTERS AND PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 105300
New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1942. 8vo. cloth. 67 pages. First edition. READ MORE about PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS; SIXTY YEARS OF BOOK PUBLISHING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 10024
(New Dehli): Institute of Book Publishing, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 333 pages. Covering organization, management, designing, printing and production. With bibliography and an index. Loosely inserted is a a T.L.s. from OP Ghai, Chairman of Sterling Publishers, stating that this is a review copy. Wrappers slightly wrinkled, tanning to the spine. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO BOOK PUBLISHING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106233
Washington: Library of Congress, 1995. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. Guide to print and photographic collections at the Library. Preface by Stephen E. Ostrow, Chief of Prints and Photographs Divsion. Text by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Includes chapters on political illustrations, architecture, design and landscapes. Chronology of "defining moments." READ MORE about LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108747
(Phoenix): Oryx Press, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 86 pages. Publishing, marketing and bookselling in Western Europe. With appendices. READ MORE about MARKETING BOOKS AND JOURNALS TO WESTERN EUROPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105575
(Paris): UNESCO, (1977). 4to. stiff wrappers. 44 pages. UNESCO Reports and Papers on Mass Communication No. 79. Statistical tables. Appendix. READ MORE about THE ECONOMICS OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106426
London: Ginn and Company LTD, (1970). oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. History of the press and newspapers in Britain. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Rubbing to the wrappers. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 105472
New York: Greenwood Press, (1990). 8vo. cloth. (xii), 119+(1) pages. The librarian, scholar and the influence of technology on the future of the research library. Slight rubbing to the cloth. READ MORE about THE LIBRARIAN, THE SCHOLAR, AND THE FUTURE OF THE RESEARCH LIBRARY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 105474
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1995). 8vo. cloth. ix, 350 pages. Bibliography of works on book and periodical publishing, and managing the publication process. READ MORE about MANAGING THE PUBLISHING PROCESS, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 106310
Boston: Typographic Laboratory, 1931. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper covered boards. 14 pages. Collection of quotations of noteworthy authors and bibliophiles. "This book is set in Italian Old Style Type, designed by Frederic W. Goudy. It is a project in book layout and esign by Burton L. Stratton at the Typographic Laboratory, Boston, Mass." Corners and edges of boards slightly worn. Unopened. READ MORE about SENTIMENT ABOUT BOOKS EXCERPTS FROM THE WORKS OF FAMOUS AUTHORS AND BOOK LOVERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106342
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1948). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 483 pages. Later printing of the first edition. A practical manual of design with many illustrations. Covers rubbed. Minor wrinkling along bottom of pages. READ MORE about DESIGN AND MAKEUP OF THE NEWSPAPER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 37710
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 146, (iv) pages. First U.S. edition. Frank discussion of publishing and writing in the 20th century. The American edition has been edited for the American market by Frederic Melcher. Lacks jacket. Spine faded. READ MORE about AUTHORS AND THE BOOK TRADE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105225
4 volumes, complete.
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981. large 8vo. cloth. xvi, 646; xiv, 813; xiii, 774; xiv, 830 pages. 4 volumes, complete. First edition. An excellent history of publishing in the United States. Each volume covers a different chronological period. Presentation from the author on free endpaper of volumes 1 "for Mark- with admiration and affection John," and in volume 3 "for Mark with affection, admiration and very best wishes, John, Southbury, MA, Dec..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED STATES. VOLUME I - VOLUME 4
Price: $550.00 Order nr. 46760
New York: Pocket Books Inc., (1964). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 70 pages. History of the production of paperbacks from the 19th century to 1963. Covers rubbed. Some underlining to the text in ink. READ MORE about PAPERBACK BOOKS, A POCKET HISTORY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 23968
Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, (1995). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, (iii), 305 pages. First edition. Biographical history of Edward K. Thompson's career in print journalism at the LIFE and SMITHSONIAN magazines. Black and white illustrations. Price sticker on rear of dust jacket. READ MORE about A LOVE AFFAIR WITH LIFE & SMITHSONIAN
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 105657
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., (1961). tall 12mo. cloth. x, 211 pages. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Bookplate. READ MORE about THE BOOKMAN'S GLOSSARY
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 12374
New York: Exposition Press, (1956). 8vo. cloth. 248 pages. First edition. An autobiography. READ MORE about ROGUE OF PUBLISHERS' ROW, CONFESSIONS OF A PUBLISHER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 97339
Mt. Vernon (NY): A. Colish Inc., 1980. broadside (18 x 24 in. / 46 x 61 cm.). Limited to 50 copies. A text excerpt from the 1962 Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press reprint of D. B. Updike's (1860-1941, founder of the Merrymount Press) 1922 work "Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use." A "keepsake printed for The Second National Conference on Metal Typecasting & Design on the occasion of their visit to A. Colish, Inc., Mount..... READ MORE about ON THE INVENTION OF PRINTING; THE CUTTING AND CASTING OF TYPES IN RELATION TO THEIR DESIGN
Price: $96.00 Order nr. 52316
Boston: The Writer Inc., (1962). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 145 pages. First edition. Practical advice by the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Jacket rubbed. READ MORE about BREAKING INTO PRINT, AN EDITOR'S ADVICE ON WRITING
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 23618
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1981). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 207 pages. First edition. An investigation of modern publishing practices. Ink stamp of former owner on free endpaper. Jacket is price cut. READ MORE about THE BLOCKBUSTER COMPLEX, CONGLOMERATES, SHOW BUSINESS, AND BOOK PUBLISHING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 12714
New York: American Book Publishers Council/American Textbook Publishers Institute, (1966). 8vo. paper wrappers. iv, 60 pages. Stains on front wrapper and early pages. Some underlining. READ MORE about BOOK PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION IN RUMANIA
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 48836
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1993. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 353-377 pages. The James Russell Wiggins lecture on the history of the book in American culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 102, Part 2, October 1992. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND AMERICA: PERSPECTIVE AND EVIDENCE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105188
New York: Vantage Press, (1950). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 94 pages. First edition. American publishing history in the 20th century. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about THE LOUD LITERARY LAMAS OF NEW YORK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 12494
N.P. The William Maxwell Historical Printshop, (1968). 8vo. stapled stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Typographical essay reprinted form Dot Zero Magazine. Wrappers tanned at the spine. READ MORE about QUESTIONS OF LEGIBILITY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 105480
A facsimile from the Library of Congress.
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress), n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages with broadside facsimile loosely inserted. A facsimile from the Library of Congress. One page of text by James Gilreath. Facsimile is one of two known copies of this broadside. Broadside is loosely inserted in a pocket in folder. READ MORE about ROBERT BELL'S BOOK AUCTION CATALOG, AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN BROADSIDE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107497
