New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. small 8vo. half parchment over cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 182, (2) pages. First U.S. edition. (Hart no.159). With frontispiece and other illustrations. Covers Tonson, Guy, Dunton, Richardson, Gent, Hutton, and Lackington. Parchment spine soiled and torn at top. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about SKETCHES OF BOOKSELLERS OF OTHER DAYS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 13952
(Denver): (Fulcrum Publishing), (1993). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 8 pages. Originally published in 1745, this reprint was made possible by the Royal Irish Academy. Joint introduction written by Robert Baron, Marcus McCorison, and Donald Oresman. READ MORE about THE HUMBLE PETITION OF GEORGE FAULKNER AND GEORGE GRIERSON, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 91925
London: Maggs Bros. 1969. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 255 pages, 12 plates. 1616 items catalogued and containing much bibliographical information. Impressive sales catalogue. Title page lower corner foxed. READ MORE about FOUR CENTURIES OF MILITARY BOOKS. CATALOGUE 915
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 2970
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 218 pages. First edition. This is the 22nd title in our Publishing Pathways series. Ten leading scholars focus on prominent printer/publishers and their contribution to printing history. Subjects covered include the works of John Nichols, John Foxe, Andrew Brice, John Wolfe, Shakespeare's Lives in Print, Interpreting Manuscript Evidence, The Dictionary of National Bibliography, and John Day's Book of Martyrs, etc. Co-published..... READ MORE about LIVES IN PRINT: BIOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE MIDDLE AGE TO THE 21st CENTURY
Price: $39.95 save 50% $19.98 Order nr. 71829
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 248 pages. First edition. This work is a Publishing Pathway's edition of nine scholarly essays that were presented at the 2000 Birkbeck conference at the University of England. The subject at this conference was book auctions from the 17th century to the present. Nine leading bibliographical scholars presented the following essays: Michael Harris, "Newspaper Advertising for Book Auctions before 1700"; Arthur Freeman, "The Jazz..... READ MORE about UNDER THE HAMMER: BOOK AUCTIONS SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $39.95 Order nr. 65038
London: Maggs Bros. 1933. 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 116 pages. Catalogue 587 issued by Maggs. Items 821 to 1156. READ MORE about AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS INCLUDING SOME REMARKABLE NAPOLEONIC LETTERS FROM LORD...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 119459
Tübingen: Osiandersche Buchhandlung, 1971. 8vo. paper wrappers. 164 pages. A festschrift of essays celebrating 375 years of the bookseller Osiander. Wrappers yellowed. READ MORE about OSIANDER 1596-1971 BUCHHANDEL IN TUBINGEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 49299
Dekalb: Bibliographical Society of Northern Illinois, (1978). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (i), 82 pages. An article in ANALYTICAL & ENUMERATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume II Number 1Periodical concerned with various bibliographical subjects. Typescript text. Wrappers sunned at spine. Slight wear to corners. READ MORE about "THE LONDON BOOK TRADES, 1775-1800, A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF MEMBERS."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106057
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1986. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 61 pages. Occasional Publication No.19. Biographical sketches followed by plates showing bindings and specific binding tools. Bumped. Minor sunning. READ MORE about DURHAM BOOKBINDERS AND BOOKSELLERS, 1660-1760
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 18562
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2008. 8vo. cloth. xxi, 432 pages. Reprint of the 1932 first edition. Among the most significant undertakings of the Bibliographical Society in the U.K. were the dictionaries of early English printers and booksellers, which with this edition extends the account through 1775. This is the fourth in a series of dictionaries covering the period from 1557; (1) A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland ... 1557-1640, edited..... READ MORE about A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 100084
With an Introduction and appendix by Pollard.
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1955. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xxiv, 90 pages. With an Introduction and appendix by Pollard. Supplement to the Transactions of the Society. Includes information on booksellers and bookbinders. Chipped along edges. READ MORE about THE EARLIEST DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK TRADE, BY JOHN PENDRED (1785
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 6185
Edited by Joseph Katz.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 429+(1) pages. Edited by Joseph Katz. This volume contains numerous articles including one on the colonial South Carolina book trade by Calhoun Winton and a study of Mark Twain's contracts by Frederick Anderson and Hamlin Hill. READ MORE about PROOF, THE YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUAL STUDIES. VOLUME 2
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 96653
London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1968. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 140 pages. Catalogue 888. Lists 750 items relating to the growth of English commercial trades between 1700 and 1750. Illustrated with 15 reproductions of covers or title pages from the listed items. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATION THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH TRADE 1700-1750
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 56258
Mies (Vaud), Genève: N. Rauch, 1948-1964. sales catalogues, 8vo.; auction catalogues, large 8vo. cloth with paper or leather spine labels; stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Text in French. Large lot of publications from the mid-century Geneva bookseller Nicolas Rausch. All of these titles were printed in limited editions, generally numbering between 1,000 and 1,500 copies. Includes sales catalogues printed between 1948 and 1961, numbered 1 through 7; auction catalogues from 1952-1962, numbered 1-33 (no.2 missing)..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE BEAUX LIVRES; VENTES RAUSCH
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 76201
Wilmington: Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, 1969. 8vo. cloth. 214 pages. Best reference book on the subject. Full bibliographical descriptions, locations, and indices of publishers, booksellers and printers. Lacks jacket. READ MORE about PRINTING IN DELAWARE, 1761-1800, A CHECKLIST
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 65848
Tübingen: H. Lauppschen, 1880. 12mo. later quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (iv), 55+(1) pages. Text of a speech given on the history of the book trade in Tübingen between 1500 and 1800. Indexed. Spine faded. Boards chipped, discolored, and rubbed. Bookseller's stamp and tag on front pastedown. Endpapers lightly foxed. Pages yellowed. READ MORE about BUCHERGEWERBE IN TUBINGEN VOM JAHRE 1500 BIS 1800
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 48540
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1935. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 296 pages, with 24 illustrations. Two hundred years of the German publisher and bookseller. Spine of jacket yellowed; some wear to jacket at head of spine. READ MORE about VATER UND SOHN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 48282
1981. small 4to. paper wrappers. pp.1-10. From Aus dem Antiquariat, no.1, 1981. Illustrated article on New York booksellers including Smith, Harper, Sabin, Dodd and others. READ MORE about URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES ANTIQUARIATSBUCHHANDELS IN NEW YORK
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1984. small 4to. paper wrappers. pp.405-420. In Aus dem Antiquariat, no.11, 1984. Illustrated article on Philadelphia booksellers. READ MORE about URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES ANTIQUARIATSBUCHHANDELS IN PHILADELPHIA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39725
New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 12, 322 pages. Limited to 535 copies. Table of contents, list of illustrations, index. Includes a bibliography with addenda. The life of 18th century bookseller Edmund Curll, noted for scandalizing London in his day. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates. Dust jacket chipped and tanned with closed tear along bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate..... READ MORE about THE UNSPEAKABLE CURLL, BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF EDMUND CURLL BOOKSELLER TO WHICH IS ADDED A FULL...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 128829
Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1961. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 360 pages and 3 figures. Only edition of this very important guide to book distribution. Jacket chipped along edges. READ MORE about THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE: CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK-TRADE CENTER,...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 22702
(Munich): n.p., (1948). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38+(1), followed by 7 illustrations. A history of the Munich bookseller J. Lentner, published to celebrate its 250th anniversary. Illustrated by Felix Buttner. Some wear to wrapper. Front free endpaper yellowed. READ MORE about 250 JAHRE LENTNER'SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48349
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1974. 8vo. paper wrappers. iv, pages 422 to 440. An offprint of an article printed in The Library which indicated the importance of book subscription list as a historical record. Contains lists of Provincial Booksellers from 1744. READ MORE about PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS C. 1744
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 56595
Heidelberg: Richard Meißach, 1921. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 22, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1787 Berlin edition. An early work on printing and the book trade. Wrappers rubbed. Corners bumped. READ MORE about ETWAS UBER BUCHHANDEL, BUCHDRUCKEREN UND DEN DRUCK AUSSERHALB LANDES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48304
Paris: Mouton & Co., 1958. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 288 pages. Text in French. A study of the printing and bookselling businesses in the southern French region of Languedoc in the waning years of the Old Regime, before the Revolution of 1789. Focus on government repression of those businesses. A volume in the "Book and Society" series publshed by the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Preface, table of contents, introduction, index of books published..... READ MORE about L' IMPRIMERIE ET LA LIBRAIRIE EN LANGUEDOC AU DERNIER SIÈCLE DE L'ANCIEN RÉGIME 1700-1789
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114569
