150 JAHRE FRANCKE.
Bern: Francke, 1981. 4to. paper wrappers. not paginated. Reproductions of documents from the firm's history. A few spots on half-title. READ MORE about 150 JAHRE FRANCKE
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 48659
Bern: Francke, 1981. 4to. paper wrappers. not paginated. Reproductions of documents from the firm's history. A few spots on half-title. READ MORE about 150 JAHRE FRANCKE
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 48659
7 volumes.
Birmingham: Birmingham Bibliographica Society, various dates (1975-1987). 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 7 volumes. Volumes: No. 1 To 1779; No. 2 1780-1789; No. 3 1790-1799 with addenda to Working Papers 1 and 2; No. 4 1800-1809; No. 5 1810-1819; No. 6 1820-1829; No. 7 1830-1839. Light creasing and wear along edges. Volume one faded towards edges as though placed by a smaller book. Gavin Bridson's invoice laid-in. "West Midlands Book Trade Project, an..... READ MORE about WORKING PAPERS FOR AN HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE WEST MIDLANDS BOOK TRADE TO 1850, COMPILED BY...
Price: $105.00 Order nr. 99528
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, & Co., 1889. small 8vo. cloth. 56 pages. First edition. A sales catalogue listing items published by George Bell and Sons with an appendix of volumes in Bohn's Libraries. Indexed. Ninteenth century Library markings. Small piece of spine lacking. Cover spotted. READ MORE about A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 56260
London: George Bell and Sons, 1887. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54 pages. First edition. A sales catalogue listing items published by George Bell and Sons with an appendix of volumes in the Bohn's Libraries. Indexed. Ninteenth century library markings. Boards detached and spine lacking. Cover spotted. READ MORE about A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56261
Westerham, England: Westerham Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label, slipcase. 55, (15) pages. First edition. 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. 4548
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. small 4to. original paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 119 pages. First edition (Hart no.75). With 56 illustrations. Contains many biographical sketches and reproductions of portraits of booksellers and printers. Chipped around edges with paper along hinges partially split. Covers soiled. Bumped corners. Spine cracked down the center. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WITH A CHAPTER ON CHAP BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1534
New York: The Dibdin Club, 1903. 8vo. original quarter leather, over green cloth, top edge gilt. xv, 195, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies, this copy is out of series. With illustrations, foldout plates and bibliographical descriptions. Cracked along hinges and covers close to becoming loose. READ MORE about THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKTRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY, AN ESSAY ON THE BEGINNINGS OF BOOKTRADE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 38684
New York: The Dibdin Club, 1898. 8vo. later black cloth, gilt on spine. (x), lxxvii, (iii) pages followed by the 79 page facsimile of the 1804 catalogue. First edition. A fine copy. Historical accounts of the beginning of book trade printed for members of the Dibdin Club. Historical accounts of the beginning of book trade bibliography, the booksellers' association, the first book trade catalogue, a chronological list of source material on early American bookselling lists..... READ MORE about BOOK-TRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE XIXTH CENTURY TO WHICH IS ADDED A CATALOGUE...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 139125
Paris, France: ÉM. PAUL ET FILS ET GUILLEMIN, 1900. 8vo. paper wrappers. 73, (ii) pages. No 5. Entries 2,710 through 3,329. Covers lightly soiled and chipped, else very good. Very scarce. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES RARES ET CURIEUX EN VENTE AUX PRIX MARQUÉS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135649
Oslo: Norsk Bokhandler-Medhjelper-Forening, 1950. tall small 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. Reprint no. 1 from "Krebsen," the official, periodical publication of the Norwegian Association of Book Trade "Helpers" (i.e. employees). Unopened. READ MORE about FORRETNINGSOKONOMI I BOKHANDELEN [BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND THE BOOK TRADE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52457
New York: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc, 1981. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Short history of the firm followed by descriptions of 100 items. Illustrated. A few annotations in ink on front cover. READ MORE about CENTENARY CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS OF THE 11TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 14244
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
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
Herbst: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1954. small 4to. boards. 40 pages. Tribute to this bookselling firm issued on their 100th anniversary. Illustrated. Spine covering missing. READ MORE about WERDEN UND WESEN EINER BASLER BUCHHANDLUNG, DURCH ANDERTHALBE JAHRHUNDERTE ZUM JUBILÄUM DER...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 30984
New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). 8vo. cloth. xv, 126 pages. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. With a number of reproductions. READ MORE about THE BOOK MAKERS OF OLD BIRMINGHAM, AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4288
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
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
With an Introduction by Graham Pollard.
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1972. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, (xix), viii, 92, (6) pages. With an Introduction by Graham Pollard. Facsimile of one of the two known copies of this early English directory. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about HODSON'S BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND STATIONERS DIRECTORY 1855
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9121
London: Hookham's Library, n.d. (but circa 1854). 8vo. modern cloth, leather spine label. (ii), 49 pages, *50-*51 leaves, 51-54, 51-650 pages. An unusual catalogue with separatly issued supplements (within the same pagination but on slightly different papers and typography) for the years 1851, 1854, 1857, 1857-1862. Major catagories include history, voyages and travels, plays, poems, biography, romances and novels, divinity, and political tracts. Title page printed in red and blue. Some internal ninteenth century library..... READ MORE about ENGLISH CATALOGUE
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 56335
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. 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..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63362
Den Haag: W. Junk, 1939. small 4to. paper wrappers. 130 pages. A catalogue of all the books published and catalogues issued by this antiquarian bookseller / publisher. Some plates of illustrations. Loosely inserted is a booklabel that indicates that this copy is from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Front cover present but in pieces; part of spine covering is missing. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS, FONDS-CATALOGUES, VERLAGS-CATALOG, LIVRES DE FONDS. DR. W. JUNK,...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 107433
Cambridge: University Press, 1970. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 228 pages. History of this English trade association of publishers largely founded by Sir Frederick Macmillan. Essential in the study of bookselling in Britain during this period. READ MORE about PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, 1896-1946, WITH AN EPILOGUE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9306
New York: The Kittle Library Print, 1878. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. 12, 106 pages. Sales catalogue for the Kittle Library of New York City. Lists items in alphabetical order with each work listed by both author and title. Includes Terms of Subscription and Rules and Notices of the Kittle Library. Contains several advertisements in both the front and back. Price list not included. Exlibrary copy. Wrappers detached and chipped. Some soiling to wrappers..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN THE KITTLE LIBRARY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 57045
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Lovely catalogue of 85 items. READ MORE about FRENCH LITERATURE, 19TH - 20TH CENTURY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 25342
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. 983 items. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33289