Barnes, James J.

FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1964. 8vo. cloth. ix, (v), 198 pages. First edition. Contains information on the first major conflict between the Booksellers Association and some private booksellers and publishers. Two of these outspoken individuals were Dickens and Gladstone. Largely devoted to the book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800

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(Batsford). Bolitho, Hector.

A BATSFORD CENTURY.

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  other currencies  Order nr. 366

Bay, J. Christian.

BREVE OM BØGER.

(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

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Beattie, William.

THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN PRINTED BOOKS.

(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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Beckman, Birger.

TILL EN BOKVAN, EN SAMLING UPPSATSER TILLAGNADE GUNNAR JOSEPHSON.

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

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Bell, Hazel K.

FROM FLOCK BEDS TO PROFESSIONALISM: A HISTORY OF INDEX-MAKERS.

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

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96599

Benge, R.C.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE PROVISION OF BOOKS.

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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Benjamin, Curtis G.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING BECOMES MULTINATIONAL PUBLISHING.

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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Bennett, Bryan.

EDWARD ARNOLD, 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING.

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

Price: $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 98830

Bergquist, Herman.

MITT LIV BLAND BOCKERNA, NOGRA KONTURER FRON EN TRETTIOFEM ARIG VERKS.

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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(Bertelsmann).

GLÜCK MIT BÜCHERN, FESTGABE XUM 125 JÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DES HAUSES BERTELSMANN.

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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(Biblio Novel). Blum, Howard.

WISHFUL THINKING.

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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(Biblio Novel). Chapman, Allen.

TWO BOY PUBLISHERS.

New York: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. 8vo. cloth. 249 pages. A boy's story which tells of two young brothers who become established both as job printers and as publishers of a weekly newspaper. Very good. Previous ownership markings on front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. READ MORE about TWO BOY PUBLISHERS

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