Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1930. small 4to. cloth. 203+(1) pages, with 10 illustrations. This volume celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Barth publishing house contains two essays on the history of the firm; the first, by Annemarie Meiner, covers the period 1780-1890, while the second, by Arthur Meiner, covers the period after 1890. Covers faded. READ MORE about JOHANN AMBROSIUS BARTH 1780-1930
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 47956
(New York: HarperCollins, 2003). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xviii, (ii), 444 pages. First edition, first printing. A fine copy. Basbanes "examines the many materials that have been used over the centuries to record information - among them clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, slabs of stone, palm leaves, animal skins, and hammered sheets of gold and copper." He discusses the current situation on book preservation and conservation textually and physically in relationship to our new electronic..... READ MORE about A SPLENDOR OF LETTERS, THE PERMANENCE OF BOOKS IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD
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London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1943. tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. x, 148 pages. First edition. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Lacking the dust jacket. Some soiling to covers. READ MORE about A BATSFORD CENTURY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 366
(Copenhagen): Selkskabet Bogvennerne, 1959. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut. 109, (3) pages. Text in Danish. Limited, numbered edition of 3000. Letters about Books.. Bay (1871-1951), born in Denmark, was chief librarian of the Crerar Library in Chicago. Presentation from the author, in English, to his son. Unopened. Wrappers lightly tanned. Front hinge cracked. READ MORE about BREVE OM BØGER
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 108261
Ansbach: C. Brügel & Sohn, 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 100 pages. First edition. The history of printing in Ansbach, Germany is outlined here. The impetus for this review of Ansbach printing and publishing was the 90th anniversary of the C. Brügel & Sohn publishing firm. Illustrated with 36 black-and-white figures. Table of contents at end. In German. READ MORE about ANSBACHER BUCHDRUCK IN 350 JAHREN. 1604 BIS ZUR GEGENWART
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(Edinburgh, Scotland): Thomas Nelson and Sons for the Saltire Society, (1949). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 8 pages, plates. A volume in the Scottish Tradition Series. Bibliography, acknowledgments, list of books illustrated. 20 black and white plates. READ MORE about THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN PRINTED BOOKS
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Munich: C.H. Beck, (1963). 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), xvi, 386, (2) pages. Celebrating 200 years of publishing. READ MORE about AQUADUKT 1963
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 48884
N.P. Svenska Bokhandlareförening, 1959. large 12mo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 163 pages. Fifteen articles on such topics as "the disputed schoolbook trade," "can books remain cheap...?," "publishing children's books," "the university bookstore in Sweden," etc. A festschrift for Gunnar Josephson on his seventieth birthday. Unopened. READ MORE about TILL EN BOKVAN, EN SAMLING UPPSATSER TILLAGNADE GUNNAR JOSEPHSON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 51668
Brussels, Belgium: Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België/Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, 1942. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 105+(1) pages. Text in Flemish and French. An exposition in Brussels in 1942. Exhibition held in 1942 of the Library's collections of works published in Brussels in the 16th century. Preface and introduction, Wrappers tanned; tanning throughout text. Pencil notations throughout text. READ MORE about EXPOSITION L'IMPRESSION ET L'ÉDITION A BRUXELLES AU XVIE SIÈCLE/DRUK EN UITGAVE TE BRUSSEL IN...
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With a Preface by David Crystal
New Castle, Delaware and Hatfield, Hertfordshire: Oak Knoll Press and HKB Press, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 348 pages. With a Preface by David Crystal. First edition. "Indexing is an anonymous profession. An index may be praised or blamed, but rarely is the indexer named, lauded or shamed," laments Professor David Crystal in his preface to From Flock Beds to Professionalism. This book, however, initiates a change. Hazel Bell presents here brief..... READ MORE about FROM FLOCK BEDS TO PROFESSIONALISM: A HISTORY OF INDEX-MAKERS
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. tall 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, dust jacket. xi, 165, (5) pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies. (Appleton 94). Spine faded, else near fine. Sections on Bell as bookseller and partner in The Morning Post, The British Letter Foundry (1788-89), and his other publishing ventures. Contains three appendices commenting on Bell's book typography, newspaper typography, his types in the United States and his type specimens. A Century for the..... READ MORE about JOHN BELL, 1745-1831, BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, PUBLISHER, TYPEFOUNDER, JOURNALIST, & C
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Kobenhavn: Bibliografi med Indledning af R. Paulli, 1920. square 8vo. later cloth with original front wrapper mounted on a page in the back, paper spine label. xlviii, 130, (2) pages. Limited to 800 copies. History followed by bibliography of the books printed and published by this 16th century Copenhagen printer. With text by H.U. Ramsing, O. Andrup and Lauritz Nielsen. READ MORE about LORENTZ BENEDICHT, BOGTRYKKER OG XYLOGRAF I KOBENHAVN, I SIDSTE HALVDE LAF DET XVI. AARHUNDREDE
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London: Association of Assistant Librarians, 1963. 8vo. cloth. 240 pages. Sections on reading, writing, library service, publishing, and bibliography. Indexed. Bumped at spine. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE PROVISION OF BOOKS
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New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1977. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 187 pages. First edition. Introduction by Dan Lacy. READ MORE about A CANDID CRITIQUE OF BOOK PUBLISHING
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York, PA: Maple Press Company, n.d. (circa 1971). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 18 pages. A speech originally "delivered before the International Comprint Conference at Geneva, Switzerland in October 1971...". On the half-title page is a sizeable presentation by a Howard May King in red ink. Top and bottom edges creased and bumped at corners and spine heads. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING BECOMES MULTINATIONAL PUBLISHING
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Washington: Library of Congress, 1984. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 95 pages. Preface by John Cole. READ MORE about U.S. BOOKS ABROAD: NEGLECTED AMBASSADORS
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1990). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi. 122 pages. Illustrated. Dust jacket foredges faded. Light wear on dust jacket. READ MORE about EDWARD ARNOLD, 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING
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N.P. n.p., June 1886. 8vo. three-quarter cloth over embossed boards. (viii), 41 pages. Limited to 250 copies; this copy is not numbered. With three engravings. Beautifully printed with colored initial letters for the different chapters. With information on Dickens. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about RICHARD BENTLEY & SON REPRINTED FROM `LE LIVRE' OF OCTOBER 1885 WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES
Price: $67.50 Order nr. 413
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1951). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 589 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Presentation inscription on 2nd blank. Else near fine. Covers the history of the Times from 1851 to 1951. It is the biography of a great newspaper. With reproductions of important issues of the paper throughout text. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about STORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: 1851-1951
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Stockholm: Bonniers, 1925. large 12mo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages with 8 additional pages of leaves. Presentation signed by the author. His reminiscences of books, authors, booksellers, and other publishers. Bergquist was also involved in the Book Trade Employees Association, for whose newspaper these reminiscences were originally written. Spotted along edge of front cover. READ MORE about MITT LIV BLAND BOCKERNA, NOGRA KONTURER FRON EN TRETTIOFEM ARIG VERKS
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Copenhagen, Denmark: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1933. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. 58, (6) pages. A history of this printing firm issued on their 200th anniversary. Includes many facsimiles of material printed by them including full color foldout broadsides. Covers foxed. READ MORE about TO HUNDREDE AAAR, DET BERLINGSKE BOGTRYKKERI
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N.P. Bertelsmann, n.d. 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 106, (3) pages. This volume celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Bertelsmann publishing house with essays and poems on the pleasures of various aspects of the book trade. Pencil underlining throughout. READ MORE about GLÜCK MIT BÜCHERN, FESTGABE XUM 125 JÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DES HAUSES BERTELSMANN
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Berlin, Köln, and Frankfurt: Beuth-Vertrieb GmbH, 1963. 12mo. self paper wrappers. 78 pages. A listing of works published by this German publisher. READ MORE about NORMUNG, RATIONALISIERUNG, FACHAUSBILDUNG
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New York: Atheneum, 1985. 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. (12), 286 pages. First edition. Max Fox, charismatic idealist, founds a city magazine devoted to art, politics and good writing, and is betrayed by his last protégé, Russ Lewis. Lewis subsequently finds that the milieu (familiar to readers of popular novels) of success and glamour, to which he has gained access by his actions, is very little to his liking. Bookplate. READ MORE about WISHFUL THINKING
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New York: Random House, (1995). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 261, (3) pages. First edition. A burned-out writer runs into trouble when his editor wants his newest novel about an author with women and money problems who agrees to commit suicide for a big book advance turned into non-fiction. How he works out this dilemma makes for an unforgettable and entertaining story by the author of Inherit the Mob. READ MORE about THE BOOKMAKERS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 64793
