Woodstock, NY: n.p., 1963. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. various number of pages. Edited by R.J. Hussey. Includes the following numbers: 6, 10, 14, 15, 17. This 17th issue was the last one done. With articles on book collecting. Price is per issue. READ MORE about THE BOOKLOVER'S ANSWER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40736
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, n.d. (1990). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages. An antiquarian catalogue devoted to Delaware compiled by Robert D. Fleck. With 12 illustrations and descriptions of 466 items for sale. READ MORE about DELAWARE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 66829
Various places: various publishers, 1961-1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. various. Lot of 35 Naval and Military History Book Catalogs, 1961-1989. Includes 11 catalogues from Francis Edwards (London), 4-Maggs Bros., 4- Naval Book Co. (Bristol), 3-John Lewcock (London), 8-Military History Bookshop (Maine), 1-Aerophilia (Boston), and 3-N.Flayderman (Connecticut). A wealth of information. READ MORE about Lot of naval and military book catalogues
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 69681
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 173, (3) pages. With a two page history of the firm and a photograph of the staff. READ MORE about OAK KNOLL BOOKS CATALOGUE 250
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 103151
New York: ABAA, various dates. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Per issue. The following issues of this periodical are available: 4(2), 5 (2), 6 (4) . Much of interest on the history of antiquarian bookselling. Price is per issue. READ MORE about PROFESSIONAL RARE BOOKSELLER, JOURNAL OF THE ANTIQUARIAN
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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
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
West Chester: The Bradford Village Press, (1960). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. With contributions by Henry Pleasants, Jr., William M. Scheffey, Roy R. Fuller, and Norman B. Wilkinson (information on paper mills). Contains an advertisement for "Book & Things," the Wilmington bookstore owned by Arthur and Jean T. Dobbs. READ MORE about HISTORIC BRANDYWINE GUIDE BOOK
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 39765
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
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2005. 8vo. cloth. iv, 172 pages. Reprint of the 1961 first edition published by the Bibliographical Society of America (Besterman 5196). This useful bibliography is a tool for use in conjunction with Evans, American Bibliography. Bristol has provided an index of printers, publishers, and booksellers to help navigate Evans when author-title information is not clear, or not properly transcribed. Bristol suggests that Evans made many attributions of author, publisher, and..... READ MORE about INDEX OF PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, AND BOOKSELLERS INDICATED BY CHARLES EVANS IN HIS AMERICAN...
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 89018
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
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New York: Associations of Book Travelers, 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 55+(1) pages. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies. A history of the organization, which includes interviews with director Bebe Cole, Bill Adams of Baker & Taylor and Alfred A Knopf. READ MORE about THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS, ASSOCIATION OF BOOK TRAVELERS, 1884-1984
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 35094
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
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. 8vo. cloth, gilt lettering. 300 pages. First trade edition, limited to 1000 copies. A century of publishing and bookselling; over 700 books published in the field of Americana, many of them quite scarce and collectible; an international reputation for academic excellence and the publication of source works in American history. For three generations the company has been a leader in its field, and has received numerous awards..... READ MORE about THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY: AN AMERICANA CENTURY 1902-2002
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129106
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
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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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Washington: Library of Congress, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages. A collection of papers presented at the seminars "Private and Public Responsibilities of the American Publisher" and "The Co-Responsibilities of American Publishers and Booksellers" held April 4-5, 1979 and April 25, 1980, respectively, and at the PEN symposium of January 1980 and the U.S. Senate Hearings: Publishers, Authors, and Booksellers in March 1980. The topics of these papers relate to the changing relations between..... READ MORE about RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AMERICAN BOOK COMMUNITY
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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
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(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
New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. 8vo. cloth. lxxx, 79 pages. Reprint of this important and very useful work. Cloth rubbed. READ MORE about BOOK-TRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 6471
New Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages. First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual "Seminars on the British Book Trade." The essays covered include Paul Morgan's "Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade..... READ MORE about HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing..... READ MORE about THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT
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