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Hase, Oscar von.

DIE ENTWICKELUNG DES BUCHGEWERBES IN LEIPZIG.

Vortrag gehalten in der 28. Hauptversammlung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure zu Leipzig; Sonderabdruck aus dem Export-Journal für Buchhandel und Buchgewerbe
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1887. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 17+(1) pages. Vortrag gehalten in der 28. Hauptversammlung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure zu Leipzig; Sonderabdruck aus dem Export-Journal für Buchhandel und Buchgewerbe. This copy is moderately soiled and worn with minor loss along the edges. A penned inscription from the author appears in the upper fore-edge corner of the front wrapper. A few leaves show modest foxing. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy..... READ MORE about DIE ENTWICKELUNG DES BUCHGEWERBES IN LEIPZIG

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 90950

Hasso, Arthur G.

DANSKE BOGHANDLERFORENINGS HISTORIE, GENNEM HUNDREDE AAR, 1837 - 18. JANUAR - 1937.

Kobehhavn: Den Danski Boghandlerforening, 1937. small 4to. boards, paper cover and spine labels, slipcase. 533, (3) pages. Illustrated history of this association of Danish booksellers. Slipcase worn. Rubbed along hinges. READ MORE about DANSKE BOGHANDLERFORENINGS HISTORIE, GENNEM HUNDREDE AAR, 1837 - 18. JANUAR - 1937

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 28442

Hill, Joseph.

THE BOOK MAKERS OF OLD BIRMINGHAM, AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS.

New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). 8vo. cloth. xv, 126 pages. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. With a number of reproductions. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE BOOK MAKERS OF OLD BIRMINGHAM, AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS

Price: $17.50 Order nr. 97925

Hirn, Yrjo.

AKADEMISKA BOKHANDELN, ETT KAPITEL UR FINLANDS KULTURHISTORIA.

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

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51838

Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown.

PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA

Price: $37.50 Order nr. 14220

Lackington, James.

CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON, LATE BOOKSELLER.

New York: Garland, 1974. 8vo. cloth. (vi), viii, 212, (4) pages. Lackington's CONFESSIONS continue and supplement his MEMOIRS which were first issued 13 years earlier, at the end of the 18th century. The book takes the form of a series of letters addressed to a friend. READ MORE about CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON, LATE BOOKSELLER

Price: $55.00 Order nr. 2480

Langewiesche, Karl Robert.

AUS FUNFUNDZWANZIG JAHREN.

Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewische, 1930. 12mo. cloth, top edge stained red. 121+(1) pages. Third edition. Memoirs of a bookseller and publisher's twenty-five years in the book trade. Cloth foxed. READ MORE about AUS FUNFUNDZWANZIG JAHREN

Price: $11.00 Order nr. 48073

Larsen, Svend.

KATALOG OVER BOGHANDLER-MEDHJAELPER-BIBLIOTEKET, BOGHANDEL-BOGFREMSTIL.

Copenhagen: B.M.F.'s Forlag [Publishing House of the Association of Book Trade Assistants], 1944. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 138, (6) pages. A catalogue of the Book Trade Assistants' Library in Copenhagen, i.e. partly a bibliography of the book trade, by S. Larsen, then librarian. The Library was begun in 1873 and became part of the Assn. of Book Trade Assistants (Boghandler-Medhjælper-Forening) in 1898. Describes over 1,000 entries. Inscribed in ink on title page. Covers yellowed around..... READ MORE about KATALOG OVER BOGHANDLER-MEDHJAELPER-BIBLIOTEKET, BOGHANDEL-BOGFREMSTIL

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63209

Lext, Gosta.

BOK OCH SAMHALLE, I GOTEBORG, 1720-1809.

Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1950. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 311 pages. Illustrated history of booksellers and publishers in Göteborg. An unopened copy. READ MORE about BOK OCH SAMHALLE, I GOTEBORG, 1720-1809

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 37221

Macmillan, Sir Frederick.

THE NET BOOK AGREEMENT 1899 AND THE BOOK WAR 1906-1908; TWO CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TRADE, INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE TIMES BOOK CLUB AND THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCAITION BY EDWARD BELL.

Glasgow: The University Press, 1924. 8vo. boards, paper spine label. (viii), 81+(1) pages. First edition. "This is a full, if biased, account of the affair ..." - (Myers British Book Trade, p. 223). One of the key monographs on this volatile and embittered period of British publishing. Interesting copy as it has the following inscription "H. Holt, June '24." With a printed presentation card from author pasted to the free endpaper. Spine label chipped and..... READ MORE about THE NET BOOK AGREEMENT 1899 AND THE BOOK WAR 1906-1908; TWO CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK...

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 55644

Marston, E.

AFTER WORK, FRAGMENTS FROM THE WORKSHOP OF AN OLD PUBLISHER.

London and New York: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. and Charles Scribners, 1907. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 344 pages. Second impression with added note by Marson. Book of remininscences by this publisher and bookseller. The appendix contains a list of articles on copyright legislation that Marston had accumulated and a list of publishers and booksellers that he recalled dealing with in 1846 and earlier. Bookplate. Frontispiece foxed. READ MORE about AFTER WORK, FRAGMENTS FROM THE WORKSHOP OF AN OLD PUBLISHER

Price: $55.00 Order nr. 41953

Marston, E.

SKETCHES OF BOOKSELLERS OF OTHER DAYS.

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

Medlicott, Margaret P.

NO HERO, I CONFESS, A NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., (1970). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 162 pages. First U.S. edition. The autobiography of Christopher Norton Wright, bookseller and publisher, written by him from 1813 to 1871, and finally published by his great grand-daughter. Bottom of spine bumped. READ MORE about NO HERO, I CONFESS, A NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 13423

Menz, Gerhard.

DER EUROPÄISCHE BUCHHANDEL SEIT DEM WIENER KONGRESS.

Würzburg: Konrad Triltsch, 1941. 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 164 pages. On the European book trade since the Vienna Congress in the nineteenth century. Wrappers soiled. Spine bumped at head. READ MORE about DER EUROPÄISCHE BUCHHANDEL SEIT DEM WIENER KONGRESS

Price: $13.00 Order nr. 50712

Moran, James.

HENRY GEORGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER WESTERHAM 1830 - C.1846.

Westerham, England: Westerham Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 55, (15) pages. First edition, one of the 150 signed and numbered copies. This biography includes an eight page section in facsimile of one of his Cruikshank illustrated books, three sample pages from his Westerham Journal and other material. READ MORE about HENRY GEORGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER WESTERHAM 1830 - C.1846

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 115001

Muhlbrecht, Otto.

DIE BIBLIOGRAPHIE IM DIENSTE DES BUCHHANDELS.

Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1894. 8vo. original paper wrappers. 32 pages. On the use of bibliography for booksellers. Wrappers discolored and detached. Some pages detached. Stain on p.32. READ MORE about DIE BIBLIOGRAPHIE IM DIENSTE DES BUCHHANDELS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 50703

Nijhoff, Martinus.

[COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES].

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1873-1933. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Over forty catalogues from the Dutch subscription agent and book dealer Martinus Nijhoff, produced over a fifty year period. Martinus Nijhoff was founded in The Hague in 1853. It began as a small shop specializing in rare books and broadened in the ensuing years to include supplying and procuring books for academic libraries. Catalogues are printed in either Dutch, English, German or..... READ MORE about COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 76233

Nuttall, D. (editor).

BOOK TRADE IN THE NORTH WEST PROJECT. OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS NO. 3. THE BOOK TRADE IN CHESIRE TO 1850: A DIRECTORY.

Liverpool: Liverpool Bibliographical Society, 1992. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. xv, 85 pages. Historical introduction followed by the directory. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on the front inside cover. READ MORE about BOOK TRADE IN THE NORTH WEST PROJECT. OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS NO. 3. THE BOOK TRADE IN CHESIRE TO...

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 99217

Phelps, Deirdre C.

PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND BOOKSELLING IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1825-1900 [IN: Essex Institute Historical Collections, October, 1988, vol. 124 no.4, pp.227-264].

Salem(MA): Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 227-264 pages. A time of transition. In Salem after 1825, the number of booksellers who were not printers increased, and publishing began to be a separate operation, though both printers and booksellers still published. Appended is a directory of the Salem book trade (pp.267-295) based partly on materials at the Essex Institute and including other book-related trades (binding, distribution, book agents, etc.) in Salem during..... READ MORE about PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND BOOKSELLING IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1825-1900 [IN: Essex Institute...

Price: $12.50 Order nr. 54902

Powell, Lawrence Clark.

AND BROWN, A CHRONICLE OF B.F. STEVENS & BROWN.

London: Privately printed, 1959. 12mo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (ii), 24 pages with 7 illustrations. History of this bookseller. The hard bound variant. READ MORE about AND BROWN, A CHRONICLE OF B.F. STEVENS & BROWN

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 3152

Prinz, August.

DER BUCHHANDEL VOM JAHRE 1815 BIS ZUM JAHRE 1843.

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1981. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 80, xiii+(1) pages. Facsimile of the 1855 second edition; printed as the New Year's gift of the publisher. Intended as a sketch for a history of the book trade; includes sections on the antiquarian booktrade and on lithography. READ MORE about DER BUCHHANDEL VOM JAHRE 1815 BIS ZUM JAHRE 1843

Price: $8.00 Order nr. 47871

Rapilly, Georges.

CATALOGUE DE LIVRES D'ART ARCHITECTURE ET DÉCORATION PEINTURE, SCULPTURE, GRAVURE, ARTS INDUSTRIELS ET D'ESTAMPES ANCIENNES ET MODERNES. EN VENTE CHEZ GEORGES RAPILLY MARCHAND D'ESTAMPES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE LIBRAIRE DE L'ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS.

4 volumes.
(Paris): Georges Rapilly, 1888-1908. small 8vo. vol 1: half leather with marbled paper-covered boards; 2: full cloth; 3 & 4: quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, orginal paper wrappers bound-in. Variously paginated. 4 volumes. Each volume contains about 20 sales catalogues (each of which is 40 pages long and lists approximately 750 texts) put forth by the Parisian bookseller Georges Rapilly. The catalogues list books on architecture, sculpture, painting and engraving. Some catalogues also include..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE LIVRES D'ART ARCHITECTURE ET DÉCORATION PEINTURE, SCULPTURE, GRAVURE, ARTS...

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 76202

Rotzsch, Helmut.

DER BÖRSENVEREIN DER DEUTSCHEN BUCHHÄNDLER ZU LEIPZIG UND DIE DEUTSCHE BÜCHEREI.

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationalbibliothek.
Leipzig: Deutsche Bücherei, 1962. 8vo. marbled paper wrappers, paper cover label. 40, (4) pages. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationalbibliothek. A history from its beginning in 1848. READ MORE about DER BÖRSENVEREIN DER DEUTSCHEN BUCHHÄNDLER ZU LEIPZIG UND DIE DEUTSCHE BÜCHEREI

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114991

Ruprecht, Wilhelm.

VATER UND SOHN.

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

Schulze, Friedrich.

DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDEL UND DIE GEISTIGEN STRÖMUNGEN DER LETZTEN HUNDERT JAHRE.

Leipzig: Im Verlage Des Borsenvereins Der Deutschen Buchhandler, 1925. small 4to. quarter parchment with paste paper-covered boards. (v), 294, (2) pages. First edition. One hundred years of German bookselling and booksellers with photographs of many of them. Light cover rubbing. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDEL UND DIE GEISTIGEN STRÖMUNGEN DER LETZTEN HUNDERT JAHRE

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 20316

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