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
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 34972
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 254 pages. First American edition. A novel about book publishing and a fierce take-over attempt. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE PUBLISHER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 23992
Garden City (NY): Doubleday & Co., 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 270 pages. Book club edition. New York editor's wife must cope with mother-in-law, a son who brings things home from trash cans, a violent-tempered housemaid, and him. Not to mention the Blackout. READ MORE about FALLING BODIES
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49939
New York: Random House, 1982. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 371, (3) pages. Book club edition. Family secrets, Nazis, the Holocaust, and... "a bitter competition...for the ownership of a famous New York publishing house--an acquisition too insignificant in terms of money to justify the degree of hatred and passion it arouses..." (dust jacket). Bookplate. Ends of spine bumped. READ MORE about WORLDLY GOODS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49871
New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 437 pages. Book Club edition. "Dark-haired, green-eyed Maxi is a wilful hedonist who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for lust is matched by a hunger for hard work when she learns that her late father's magazine empire is about to be destroyed. When her dangerous Uncle Cutter threatens to..." (dust jacket). READ MORE about I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 59831
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 342 pages. First edition. Lloyd Erskine becomes an editor for a major publisher. The book gives much insight into the world of publishing. Jacket is price clipped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Exlibris bookplate of Frederic Melcher and his library of books about books. READ MORE about GULLIVER HOUSE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 1506
New York: Atheneum, 1987. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 290, (2) pages. First edition. A somewhat ironic version of Adventures in Publishing-Subcategory: New Authors. Literary agent discovers Major New Author, promotes his career, and becomes his friend. But slowly and reluctantly the agent realizes that his friend is a morally and emotionally atrophied human being attached to a huge talent. READ MORE about WORKS OF GENIUS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49874
With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher.
New York: Court Book Co., (1941). 8vo. cloth. viii, 249 pages. With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher. "Special Printing". Melcher says that this is "the first book I have seen to put into the form of vocational fiction a picture of what publishing is to those who are just entering it ..." Covers faded & sun faded. READ MORE about YOUNG MR. STONE, BOOK PUBLISHER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9702
New York: M. Evans & Co., 1986. 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 288 pages. First edition. Fashion editor Hanna Coleman wishes to rise to Feature Editor at the trendy Urban Life magazine, and knows just the thing to impress the Editor-in-Chief: A proposal for a new column called UrbanWoman, which she, being an urban woman, would be well-qualified to write. And the first article won't be just anything: she proposes an article on "Mansharing,"..... READ MORE about MANSHARE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49951
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977, small 8vo., quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 350 pages.
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977, small 8vo., quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 350 pages. First edition. Liberated sexuality, driving ambition, underworld connections, violent confrontation, pleasure and hedonism, mysterious Uncle Lonergan, tragedy, success....(and that's just the dust jacket). Struggles of a magazine publisher. READ MORE about DREAMS DIE FIRST
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49861
New York: Norton, 1971. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 312 pages. First edition. Paula Jones, hired to write promotion copy for the well-respected but not so well-off mass magazine Today, enters a world of intrigue, power struggles, and shifting alliances, and learns much about herself and people in general. Bookplate, several pencil marks. With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINAL PROOF
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 49952
New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. (vi), 250 pages. Michael Glennon, owner of the slick, chic trend-setter weekly "Manhattan" saves his publication from an attempted takeover... for a price. Bookplate. READ MORE about MANHATTAN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49890
New York: Random House, 1969. 8vo. two-tone cloth, dust jacket. ix, 367, (3) pages. Book Club edition. Business type from Garment District becomes involved with failing publishing firm, solves cash-flow problems (for ex., by starting a series of classics, whose authors no longer collect royalties) and other difficulties, turns things around, not necessarily by strictly ethical methods. Then comes the takeover. A hard-nosed, unglamorous depiction of publishing in an era of transition which does not..... READ MORE about THE CENTER OF THE ACTION
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49940
New York: Random House, 1969. cloth, dust jacket. 381 pages. Book club edition. Business type from Garment District becomes involved with failing publishing firm, solves cash-flow problems (for ex., by starting a series of classics, whose authors no longer collect royalties) and other difficulties, turns things around, not necessarily by strictly ethical methods. Then comes the takeover. A hard-nosed, unglamorous depiction of publishing in an era of transition which does not romanticize the good old..... READ MORE about THE CENTER OF THE ACTION
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49955
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1960. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 468 pages. Author's inscription on front free endpaper. Per front free endpaper, this is no. 723 of "a special autographed edition." Another magazine is failing, actually two this time, loyal employees are worried, the sharks and would-be fixers are starting to gather, conservative board members just don't understand, etc. John Ridgely Warren is brought in keep things going. Money is the problem: How..... READ MORE about THE VIEW FROM THE FORTIETH FLOOR
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 49956
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Price: $4.95 Order nr. 51973
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.4, APRIL 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: L. Gordan on E.B. and R. Browning in Italy, W. Brown and K. Blewster on Jackie Gleason's collection of books on the paranormal, D. Ressinger on the memoires of the Huguenot refugee Jacques Fontaine, an article and publication checklist for the Bird & Bull Press, the library of Umberto Eco, bestselling war novels of 1948, AND..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 52344
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.9, SEPT. 97. In this issue, Nicholas Basbanes hails Oak Knoll Press's reissue of the Pforzheimer catalogue; Andrew Hoyem receives his due as founder and guiding spirit of the Arion Press written by Carol Grossman; a sumptuous facsimile edition of the first Spanish novel appears; and Susann Bishop takes you on a guided tour of the haunts of authors and book artists..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49613
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.10, OCT. 97. IN THIS ISSUE: David Tannenbaum reports on looking for ancient scriptures in the Horn of Africa; David Thompson Thompson writes on William Henry Ainsworth, early Victorian author of historical romances and crime novels; Zena Pearlstone examines origins and persistence of stereotypes of Native Americans in advertising; Amy Hanson presents the history of Everyman's Library. In Features: In Milestones Roy..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $4.95 Order nr. 49990
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.11, NOV., 97. IN THIS ISSUE: 150 years of photo-illustrated books; Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley; history of the Atlantis Press; collecting old stock and bond certificates, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $4.95 Order nr. 50374
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.12, DEC. 97. IN THIS ISSUE: Edith Wharton's coauthorship of an influential book on interior decoration; early publishing history of Perrault's fairy tales; an interview with Peter B. Howard of Serendipity Books in Berkeley; how the Brontës first got published; collecting British comic book Christmas annuals; a visit to a Baroque library in Prague, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50375
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.2, FEB. 98. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Coleman on Thomas Hardy, R. Young Jr. on cinema books, N. Basbanes on the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, G. Freeman on how to distinguish between different types of engraving, C. Grossman on the Golden Cockerel Press, N. Rosin on Valentines, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 51208
6 volumes bound in 3
London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1884. 4to. later cloth. 6 volumes bound in 3. Ulrich & Kup p.146. The complete set of this periodical under this title. Hundreds of articles on bookselling, printing, collecting, and bibliography. This magazine was continued as Book Lore. Pages 95 - 160 are detached and loosely inserted. Some tears in pages as the paper is fragile. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE (THE
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 104670
Various odd issues of this periodical.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1884. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. Per issue. Various odd issues of this periodical. Ulrich & Kup p.146. The following issues are present: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36. Per issue. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 42484
2 volumes.
London: The Gregg Press, 1964. large 8vo. cloth. Variously paginated. 2 volumes. This is a reprint of the English Bibliotheca Annua from the years 1699-1703. Reproduced here in facsimile form, this bibliography lists all English and Latin language books printed in England during the years indicated. Index at end of second volume. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA ANNUA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 61723
