Hamburg: Buchmarkt-Forschung, 1962. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 445, 35 pages. Second edition. Starts with book selling at the time of Gutenberg and continues through the present time. An appendix is a 35 page facsimile of an 1816 article by Friedrich Christoph Perthes entitled "Der Deutsche Buchhandel Als Bedingung Des Daseins Einer Deutschen Literatur." READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDEL, WESEN.GESTALT.AUFGABE

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Württ: Lexika-Verlag, (1978). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 153, (3) pages. Part two of a guide to efficient practice in retail bookselling. READ MORE about RATIONALISIERUNGSPRAXIS IM SORTIMENTSBUCHHANDEL

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Helsinki (Swedish: Helsingfors): Akademiska Bokhandeln, 1943. 8to. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 221, (9) pages, with 21 additional leaves of plates. Fifty years of the Finnish-Swedish bookseller "Akademiska Bokhandel," with an account of its predecessors. Thirty-six illustrations of persons, bookstores, and two window displays. Appendix, index. Wrappers chipped, soiled, almost detached. READ MORE about AKADEMISKA BOKHANDELN, ETT KAPITEL UR FINLANDS KULTURHISTORIA

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Hamburg: Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde, 1955. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 21+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Speech on memorable encounters during a life in the book trade. READ MORE about BEGEGNUNGEN AUF BUCHERWEGEN

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London: Allan Wingate, (1947). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 56 pages. Opinions on problems of the book trade by such people as Alan S. Jackson, A.D. Peters, Sir Stanley Unwin, Arthur Coleridge, John Hadfield among others. READ MORE about THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

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Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990. 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. xii, 212 pages. First edition. Fourteen articles on the book trade accompanied by a list of publications on the book trade in the North. Includes "The English Provincial Book Trade before Printing" by A.I. Doyle, "The Provincial Book Trade before the End of the Licensing Act" by Paul Morgan, Ian Maxted on "Mobility and innovation in the Book Trades - Some Devon Examples," "Working Towards a...... READ MORE about SIX CENTURIES OF THE PROVINCIAL BOOK TRADE IN BRITAIN

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Stockholm: Tidens Förlag, 1958. large 12mo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 79+(1) pages. "a quick trip through the history of the book, from old Egyptian papyrus rolls...to the democratic era of public libraries and study circles." A few illustrations. Simply written, probably for juvenile readers. READ MORE about BOK OCH KULTUR

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Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1960. 4to. paper wrappers. xii, 165 pages. A study focused primarily on the barriers, both economic and cultural, to the commercial book trade in Central and South America, with minor emphasis on periodicals. Many statistical appendices. Back cover stained. Part of paper spine missing. READ MORE about BOOKS IN THE AMERICAS: A STUDY OF THE PRINCIPAL BARRIERS TO THE BOOK TRADE IN THE AMERICAS

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Glade House: Right Way Books, n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 124, (4) pages. Covers the business of running small and large libraries. Jacket has minor chipping. READ MORE about THE RIGHT WAY TO RUN A LIBRARY BUSINESS INCLUDING GUIDANCE ON LIBRARIANSHIP AS A CAREER

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Koln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 195 pages. A guide to running a retail bookselling business. READ MORE about BETRIEBSLEHRE DES EINZELHANDELS

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Moscow: Government Publishing House "Art" 1953. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 239+(1). History of the Soviet book trade, organization, bibliographic control of books in the book trade and in libraries, distribution and sale, library acquisitions, book stores, etc. Loosely inserted is a typescript German-language summary of the contents. Covers worn along edges. READ MORE about OGANIZATZIYA I TECHNIKA SOVYETSKOY KNIZHNOY TORGOVLI

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Stuttgart: C.E. Poeschel, 1951. 8vo. paper wrappers. 63+(1) pages. A reference book of useful information and tables for booksellers. Yellowed. READ MORE about ARBEITSHILFEN FUR BUCHHANDLER

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