Stockholm: Bonniers, 1964. small 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 3-97 pages. A festschrift for the 50th anniversary of Jan Cornell, who was director of the professional book (="fackbok") divisions of Bonniers and Forum. 7 articles by G. Bonnier, Adam Helms et al. READ MORE about EN FACKBOK TILL JAN CORNELL, 23.5.1964, FRON VANNER OCH KOLLEGER
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1981. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp. 918-1250. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des BuchwesensBand XII, Lieferung 4/5, 1981. Reprints 147 previously unpublished letters of Clara Mundt to the publisher Hermann Costenoble. Mundt wrote historical novels under the pseudonym L. Mühlbach in the nineteenth century; her letters illuminate business matters and the public reception of her novels. Indexed. READ MORE about CLARA MUNDTS BRIEFE AN HERMANN COSTENOBLE
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1978. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp. 366-383. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des BuchwesensBand XIX, Lieferung 2 und 3/4, 1978. Article on Cotta's political publishing enterprise in the early nineteenth century. READ MORE about POLITIKER JOHANN FRIEDRICH COTTA, PUBLIZISTISCHE VERLEGERISCH UNTERNEH MUINGEN 1815-1819
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Berlin: Ernst Hofmann & Co., 1895. 12mo. contemporary half cloth with pastepaper-covered boards. (viii), 199, (5) pages, with frontispiece. A biography of the German publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta. Backstrip lacking. Ex-library copy with stamps. READ MORE about COTTA
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Cleveland: World Publishing by B.D. Zevin, 1942-1944. tall 12mo. later limp cloth with stiff paper wrappers bound-in. Includes the following: Volume I, 2 (May 1942), 4, 7, 11; Volume 2, 2, 4 - 9 (Oct. 1944). Articles and reviews of new books. READ MORE about COUNTERPOINTS, FROM THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1962. large 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 207-217 pages. Presentation signed by author. Offprint of Studies in Bibliography. vol. 15, 1962. J.G. Cozzens published in both England and America, and used the 2nd "1st edition," usually but not always the English one, as a chance for minor rewriting. The author examines some differences between Cozzen's 1st American and English editions, and suggests that libraries and collectors wanting complete coverage of such..... READ MORE about THE ENGLISH EDITIONS OF JAMES GOULD COZZENS
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London: George Allen & Unwin, (1962). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 244 pages. First edition. Bill Targ's copy with his ownership inscription. Light jacket wear. READ MORE about BANNED BOOKS OF ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES, A STUDY OF THE CONCEPTION OF LITERARY OBSCENITY
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London: George Allen & Unwin, (1937). 8vo. cloth. 207 pages. First edition. Covers rubbed. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about THE BANNED BOOKS OF ENGLAND With a Foreword by E.M. Forster
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(Rome): Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 329+(1) pages. Text in Italian, with articles in French, German, and English. Volume II, Transmission of Printed Texts in the Modern Era. 2nd International Seminar, Rome and Viterbo, June 1985. No XLIV in the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo series. Scholarly articles on publishing and bibliographical studies. Table of contents, list of contributors. Wrappers lightly tanned. READ MORE about TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI A STAMPA NEL PERIODO MODERNO
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(Rome): Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 205,(3) pages. Text in Italian, with articles in French, German, and English. Volume I, Transmission of Printed Texts in the Modern Era. 1st International Seminar, Rome and Viterbo, June 1985. No XXXVI in the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo series. Scholarly articles on publishing and bibliographical studies. Table of contents, list of contributors. Wrappers lightly tanned. READ MORE about TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI A STAMPA NEL PERIODO MODERNO
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New York: The New York Public Library, 1938. large 12mo. paper wrappers. 28 pages. This is Third of the R.R. Bowker Memorial Lectures, in which Frederick S. Crofts talks about American textbooks. READ MORE about TEXTBOOKS ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY DEAD THINGS
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. v, 35, (3) pages. Reprint of the first edition which was a Cambridge Christmas Book. Colored foldout frontispiece and 6 other plates in the text. Glue migration has stained the jacket along the spine; small holes in jacket. READ MORE about HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PITT PRESS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. PITT FOR THE USE OF THE...
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. square 8vo. cloth. v, 35, (3) pages. Reprint of the first edition which was a Cambridge Christmas Book. Colored foldout frontispiece and 6 other plates in the text. Some foxing. READ MORE about HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PITT PRESS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. PITT FOR THE USE OF THE...
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With a Foreword by Jan de Vries
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. With a Foreword by Jan de Vries. First edition. In The Paradox of Prosperity, Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt against Spanish rule. She traces the migration of printers from the Southern Netherlands to Leiden and observes how they congregated within the city and..... READ MORE about THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY: THE LEIDEN BOOKSELLERS' GUILD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS IN EARLY...
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The Inside story of the decline of the Curtis Publishing Company.
New York: Crown Publishers, (1970). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. The Inside story of the decline of the Curtis Publishing Company. First edition, second printing. Spine of jacket lightly faded, else near fine in near fine jacket. History of the Curtis Publishing Company and how Culligan saved the company from bankruptcy only to lose control of the company. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about THE CURTIS-CULLIGAN STORY, FROM CYRUS TO HORACE TO JOE
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Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., (1968). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 383 pages. First edition. Tribute to Cunard by 50 of her friends. Jacket rubbed. READ MORE about NANCY CUNARD: BRAVE POET, INDOMITABLE REBEL, 1896-1965
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Dollar, Scotland: Ruari McLean Assoc. 1976. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 96 pages. First edition. Much on color printing. READ MORE about JOSEPH CUNDALL, A VICTORIAN PUBLISHER. NOTES ON HIS LIFE AND A CHECK-LIST OF HIS BOOKS
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Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1976. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 96 pages. First edition. Joseph Cundall was notable as a publisher, editor, author, book-designer, and pioneer photographer. Born in 1818, he was trained as a printer but became a publisher in his early twenties and produced many of the most attractive popular illustrated books of the 1850s and 1860s. His career as a photographer was also important, culminating in 1871 when the British Government..... READ MORE about JOSEPH CUNDALL, A VICTORIAN PUBLISHER. NOTES ON HIS LIFE AND A CHECK-LIST OF HIS BOOKS
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New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Second printing. With tipped-in color portrait. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about LIFE AND TIMES OF CYRUS H.K. CURTIS (1850-1933
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New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1948. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 26, (1) pages. Revised and reprinted.With tipped-in color portrait. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about LIFE AND TIMES OF CYRUS H.K. CURTIS (1850-1933
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New York: New American Library, (1989). small 8vo. quarter cloth, dust jacket. xx, 380 pages. The author, a New York literary agent who represented writers such as Janet Dailey and Steve Allen, tells new writers how to get published and also warns them of the pitfalls to avoid. READ MORE about BEYOND THE BESTSELLER, A LITERARY AGENT TAKES YOU INSIDE THE BOOK BUSINESS
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(Prague: Odeon, 1970). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in Czech, with introduction in Russian, English, German and French. Printed under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Culture. Catalogue of "the most beautiful books of Czechoslovakia," the result of a juried competition. Frontispiece illustration of the National Library in Prague. Black and white illustrations of 60 entries. Indices of illustrations and publishers. Dedicatory card laid in. Dust jacket lightly soiled. Wrappers scuffed at edges..... READ MORE about CESKOSLOVENSKÉ NEJKRÁSNEJSÍ KNIHY 1969
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2 volumes.
Prague: Státní Knihovna CSSR [State Library...], 1966. small 8vo. cloth. (vi),463,1323-1692; 81,465-1313+(1) pages. 2 volumes. Where the state is the only real publisher, the publisher's Catalogue is also a union catalogue of current titles. One year's cumulation in 2 volumes (52 weekly issues) of the Bibliographic catalogue of the CSSR, listing all the titles (6569+, including 917 govt. regulations) published in Czechoslovakia in 1966. Each issue lists new titles under headings given on the 1st..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFICKY KATALOG CSSR - CESKE KNIHY
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Copenhagen: P. Haase and Søns Forlag, n.d.(c1960). 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 309, (3) pages. Second revised, enlarged edition. History of the book from ancient times to the 20th century, by the Danish librarian Svend Dahl. Chronologically arranged, beginning with Egyptian papyrus rolls and ending with a survey of contemporary (c1960) libraries. Undated, probably around 1960. 115 illustrations (black-and-white or facsimile). Bibliography, index. Unopened. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about BOGENS HISTORIE
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København: Bogtrykfagets Organisationer, 1940. 8vo. quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards. 61, (3) pages. First edition. Dahl and Dossing's study of printing history takes the reader from Gutenberg through twentieth-century printing presses. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. In Danish. Original publisher's stiff paper wrappers bound in. READ MORE about BOGTRYKKER KUNSTEN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 61874
