London: Werner Shaw, (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 256 pages. First edition. Interesting book by Snelling, the Sales Clerk at Hodgson's and Sotheby's auction houses in London. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS AND RARER PEOPLE SOME PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF "THE TRADE."
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 2502
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
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
N.P. n.p., 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.3-20. A reprint from Studies in Bibliograpy, Volume Twelve. 1959. READ MORE about PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS: THE AUGUSTAN VIEW
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 100246
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 10 pages. The American bookseller voicing his opinion as he often prone to do. Inscribed "From G.W." READ MORE about THE GREAT ENGLISH STRIKE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56576
London: George Allen, 1898. small 8vo. original cloth. xvi, 275 pages. First edition. Part of the Library Series edited by R. Garnett. Chapters on Sellers of Books, Auction sales in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and others. Covers spotted; wear at head of spine. READ MORE about THE PRICES OF BOOKS, AN INQUIRY INTO THE CHANGES IN THE PRICE OF BOOKS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 16128
London: George Allen, 1898. small 8vo. original cloth. xvi, 275 pages. First edition. Part of the Library Series edited by R. Garnett. Chapters on Sellers of Books, Auction sales in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and others. Light cover rubbing. Bookplate. READ MORE about PRICES OF BOOKS, AN INQUIRY INTO THE CHANGES IN THE PRICE OF BOOKS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN ENGLAND...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 20267
London: The Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1930. 8vo. paper wrappers. 80 pages. First edition. Paper spine covering and edges chipped with pieces missing. Frederic Melcher bookplate on front cover. READ MORE about BUSINESS OF BOOKSELLING; THREE LECTURES GIVEN AT THE LONDON DAY TRAINING COLLEGE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 10874
1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.20-28. Limited to 250 copies. An article in The Indiana Quarterly for Bookmen, Vol. IV, No.1. READ MORE about " JOHN ALMON: BOOKSELLER TO JOHN WILKES."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107358
London: Maggs Bros. (1936). 8vo. paper wrappers. 64 pages. Catalogue no. 625. Illustrated. Bumped at top. READ MORE about UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A SELECTION OF TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY BOOKS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 14500
8 (of 9) volumes, missing volume 8.
London: Maggs Bros. 1922-1930. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (except Parts 5 and 7 which are bound in cloth with leather spine labels). thousands of pages. 8 (of 9) volumes, missing volume 8. A massive collection of books and manuscripts concerning Americana, being catalogues 429, 432, 442 (missing last leaf), 465, 479, 496, 502 and 549. Lacking Part VIII which was devoted to Brazil. Wrappers worn and detached on some volumes. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA ET PHILIPPINA
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 103922
London: Cassell & Company, n.d. large 12mo. single colored sheet folded in half. A catalogue featuring work by J.M Barrie, including the Little Minister and Sentimental Tommy. Front panel includes black-and-white photograph of Barrie. Works by R.L. Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle also featured. Lightly faded. READ MORE about A SELECTION OF POPULAR WORKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 87960
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1943. tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. x, 148 pages. First edition. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket worn with pieces missing. READ MORE about A BATSFORD CENTURY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 21905
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1943. tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. x, 148 pages. First edition. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket chipped with tears and with small pieces missing. READ MORE about A BATSFORD CENTURY
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 126943
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages. Limited to 325 copies (Heaney A39). The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 2685
Oxford: Blackwell's Antiquarian Department, 1979. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 135 pages. With a two page preface by Basil Blackwell. Issued on the hundreth anniversary of the firm. READ MORE about CENTENARY CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN AND RARE MODERN BOOKS
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 37253
(London, England): Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages. Introductory comments by Lord John Kerr. A collection of brief tributes and biographies of officers. Black and white illustrations. Catalogue order form laid in. READ MORE about BLOOMSBURY BOOK AUCTIONS 10TH ANNIVERSARY: A CELEBRATION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 125784
London: Henry C. Bohn, 1841. very thick 8vo. original half leather over marbled paper-covered boards with back cover missing and front cover detached. iv, 1948, 148 pages. H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) is the best known of the London booksellers by the name of Bohn and is significant in the history of 19th-century publishing for his success in bringing out classics, standard, or useful works in inexpensive series: the "European Library," the "Standard Library," the "Scientific Library"..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 13999
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. very thick 8vo. original half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Frontispiece portrait of shop; engraved title page, iv, 1948, 148 pages. H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) is the best known of the London booksellers and is significant in the history of 19th-century publishing for his success in bringing out classics, standard, or useful works in inexpensive series: the "European Library," the "Standard Library," the "Scientific Library," and so on. (A few of..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 35440
London: Elliot Stock, 1898. small 8vo. original quarter brown cloth over boards. xliv, 244 pages. First edition, one of the large paper copies. History followed by bibliographical list of known auctions. Still a very useful book. READ MORE about BOOK AUCTIONS IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1676-1700), WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 749
London: Elliot Stock, 1898. small 8vo. original cloth. xliv, 244 pages. First edition. History followed by bibliographical list of known auctions. Still a very useful book. Part of the spine has chipped away. Else very good. READ MORE about BOOK AUCTIONS IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1676-1700), WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 55526
Catalogue 308.
London: Maggs Bros. 1913. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 120 pages and 62 plates. Catalogue 308. Many bindings illustrated including a number in color. Ink stamp of library on front page. Minor wear, else fine. READ MORE about RARE AND BEAUTIFUL BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND BINDINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11880
London: Maggs Bros. 1919. square 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 120 pages. Catalogue 385. Covers show wear and wrinkling of pages. With a number of plates of the bindings. Ink writing on cover and throughout. Minor wear, else near fine. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS, HISTORIC & DECORATIVE BINDINGS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3033
London: Martin Breslauer, n.d. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. 319 items and index. Many bindings described. Corners and head of spine bumped. READ MORE about LIST XLI; A MISCELLANY OF BOOKS AND MSS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 1036
Paris: Maggs Bros. (1938). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 84 pages and 50 plates, some of which are in full color. Catalogue 12. Part of the Serie Francaise issued by Maggs. With many illustrations of fine bindings. Spine chipped with pieces of covering missing. READ MORE about CHOIX DE BEAUX LIVRES DU XVe AU XIXe SIÈCLE, AUTOGRAPHES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11758
