Denver, CO: Colorcorp, (1998). 4to. paper-covered boards. 106, (6) pages. Table of contents, cross references and indices, display pages. Color illustrations. READ MORE about BOOK PRODUCTION BUYER'S GUIDE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134249
New York, NY: The Bowker Press, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Volume 2, Number 2 (November/December 1984). Features articles on independent book publishing. Table of contents, black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE SMALL PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 129994
New York: Swann Gallery, 1986-1991. small 4to. self paper wrappers. Includes Vol. 1, no.1 (Spring 1986) - 4; Vol. 2, 1-4; Vol. 3, 1-4; Vol. 4, 1-4; Vol. 5, 1-4; Vol. 6, 1 (Fall 1991). News of sales and prices brought at this New York auction house ably guided by George Lowry. READ MORE about TRUMPET, AN OCCASIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM SWANN GALLERY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 40828
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. thick 8vo. original cloth. xxxii, 446, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition of 1890 which was originally volume 39 of the works of Bancroft issued in 1890. Bancroft, a bookseller and publisher in early California, put together the famous Bancroft Collection of Western Americana. This is the fascinating story of his life and the building of the collection. Inscribed on title page "H. Abby Brown, Compliments of Geo..... READ MORE about LITERARY INDUSTRIES, A MEMOIR
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 20344
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 63 pages. First edition. Autobiography of a travelling book salesman. Chip in jacket along top edge. READ MORE about BOOK TRAVELLER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 507
New York: The New York Public Library, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 129 pages. First separate edition, reprinted from the Bulletin. Excellent source document. With information on marblers. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK-ARTS AND BOOK TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA TO 1820, INCLUDING PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 20568
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., (1960). 8vo. cloth. xxii, 356 pages. Reissue of the first edition of 1931 with a statistical report for 1947-48 and a new introduction for this edition by Frederic G. Melcher. Rubbed along hinges. Melcher ink stamp on front pastedown. READ MORE about ECONOMIC SURVEY OF THE BOOK INDUSTRY, 1930-1931
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 45785
New York: National Assoc. of Book Publishers, 1931. thick 8vo. cloth. xiv, 337 pages. First edition. With 31 illustrations and charts. READ MORE about ECONOMIC SURVEY OF THE BOOK INDUSTRY, 1930-1931. FINAL REPORT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 42314
Foreword by James H. Billington. Afterword by John Y. Cole.
Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, (1996). small 4to. leatherette, dust jacket. x, 150 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Afterword by John Y. Cole. First edition. Filled with illustrations of some of the most interesting and important American books of the Library of Congress. Signed by the author on title page. READ MORE about THE BOOK IN AMERICA WITH IMAGES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 46161
Philadelphia: Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Christmas 1958. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 4 pages printed French fold with three page facsimile of Cobbett letter inserted. Limited to 525 numbered copies; printed at the Pickering Press. The letter is from the collection of Seymour Adelman. Toned along edges. READ MORE about A LETTER FROM LONDON: WILLIAM COBBETT TO JAMES OLDDEN
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New York: The New York Public Library, 1939. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 55 pages. The fourth lecture of the R.R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting study of this method of selling new books including an historical view. READ MORE about SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 1651
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1884. thick small 4to. original dark brown cloth. 739 pages. First edition. Excellent book full of information about publishing, bookselling and authorship during the 19th century. Covers rubbed with some spotting; wear at head of spine. Inside hinges cracked but solid. READ MORE about FIFTY YEARS AMONG AUTHORS, BOOKS AND PUBLISHERS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 2088
(New York): Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, (1999). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Expanded text of remarks on the history of the ABAA presented at the 50th annual meeting on April 17, 1999, at the Grolier Club in New York. Sent as a keepsake to ABAA members. READ MORE about THE SOME THOUGHT & THANKS ON MY TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY AS LEGAL COUNSEL TO THE ANTIQUARIAN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115753
BSA Occastional Publications, No.1
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 212 pages. BSA Occastional Publications, No.1. Reformation pamphlets (or "Flugschriften") were among the first rare book acquisitions of American libraries. Gatch traces the remarkable history of the Leander van Ess collection purchased by the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, the first and largest collection of these religious tracts to arrive in America. He notes how they were originally obtained by van Ess..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY OF LEANDER VAN ESS AND THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COLLECTIONS OF REFORMATION PAMPHLETS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 93560
New Castle, Delaware & Winchester, England: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1998. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 230 pages. First edition. Second volume of the series PRINT NETWORKS. More than a century has passed since W. H. Allnut's paper on provincial printing was presented at the meeting of the Library Association in 1878. This topic has now moved to the forefront of investigating the history of the book. The annual Seminar on the..... READ MORE about THE REACH OF PRINT, MAKING, SELLING AND USING BOOKS
Price: $39.95 Order nr. 52300
Introduction by Edward J. Jennerich.
Austin: John H. Jenkins, 1977. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Introduction by Edward J. Jennerich. Illustrated. 597 items described in detail. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS A COLLECTION OF WORKS PRINTED IN AMERICAN BETWEEN 1669 AND 1800
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 1258
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
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N.P. Poets & Writers, Inc., (1993). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, (iii), 158 pages. Revised edition. READ MORE about LITERARY BOOKSTORES, A CROSS-COUNTRY GUIDE. WITH A NATIONAL LIST OF LITERARY BARS AND COFFEEHOUSES
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 99793
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, (1919). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 289+(1) pages. FIrst edition, third state, with "Burroughs" bruised on page 76 and "76" beneath "Bu"; "Styx" correct on page 100, line 1. Prefatory comments "to the bookseller," table of contents. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Mystery, bomb plots, and great bookselling scenes take place in this bookshop mystery. Dust jacket soiled and stained on front cover with signs..... READ MORE about THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP
Price: $2,250.00 Order nr. 129210
Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xii, 213 pages. Reprint of the 1923 first edition. Twelve chapters for the bookcollector including one on Bookshops and two on The Literary Hoax. Private ownership stamp embossed on half-title. READ MORE about BOOKS IN BLACK OR RED
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3161
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
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. 16 pages. A look at bookselling and collecting. Creased at one point. READ MORE about THE RARE BOOK WORLD TODAY
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With a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, (1989). 6 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. 192 pages. With a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Limited to 500 copies. Designed and written by the great printer, Ward Ritchie, this work contains many reminiscences of book collectors, book artists, bookmen and printers many of which are notable and recognizable figures in the world of fine books. These stories include the Los Angeles booksellers of the Great Depression and the formation of..... READ MORE about OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS, A GATHERING OF MEMORIES
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 47016
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1965). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 246 pages. Later printing of the first edition. A fine bookselling biography. Articles about Miss Steloff laid -in. Jacket soiled. READ MORE about WISE MEN FISH HERE, THE STORY OF FRANCES STELOFF AND THE GOTHAM BOOK MART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 20736
North Middleboro: Weathercock House, 1955. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 102 pages. First edition. Poems written by a bookseller on his field of bookselling. Sketches by Emily Monsarrat. Presentation from author on front free endpaper. Some chipping of jacket with small piece missing along bottom of back cover. READ MORE about THE WEATHERCOCK CROWS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 10182
