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
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48434
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
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 49908
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
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
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
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, 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: 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, 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
Marina del Rey, California: Bieler Press, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, sewn. 37 pages, A technical guide written and designed by Gerald Lange. Digitally set in Stone Print and laser-printed on recycled acid-free Crescent Crest Writing paper. READ MORE about PRINTING DIGITAL TYPE ON THE HAND-OPERATED FLATBED CYLINDER PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 55330
Minneapolis: The Campbell-Logan Bindery, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 300 copies. Contains a checklist of 43 texts published by Bieler Press within a ten-year span. Some little creases and bumps at the extremities. READ MORE about THE BIELER PRESS: A CHECKLIST OF THE FIRST TEN YEARS, 1975-1985
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 97308
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages. Limited to 325 copies (Heaney A39). The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 2685
(Hamden, CT): Linnet Books, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 130 pages. Instructors of history can use this bibliography to compile reading lists for classes and a source of potential publishing outlets. Divided into chapters on research methods in history, teaching of history, historiography and philosophy of history, and historiographical studies by area, with a checklist of professional periodical literature as appendix. READ MORE about HISTORIOGRAPHY, METHOD, HISTORY TEACHING, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH, 1965-1973
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 70838
Leipzig: Otto Harrasowitz, 1900. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, original self paper wrappers bound in. 545-566 (22) pages. Offprint from the Centralblatt (later: Zentralblatt) für Bibliothekswesen, vol.17 no.12, of a review (largely negative) of a book by Karl Dziatzko on this topic. Covers worn, chipped. READ MORE about ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN BUCHWESENS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 52819
