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. Lacking the dust jacket. Some soiling to covers. READ MORE about A BATSFORD CENTURY
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Mayfair: (The House of Batsford, 1930). 12mo. paper wrappers. 24 pages. Illustrated. Small tears along spine. READ MORE about THE HOUSE OF BATSFORD WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THREE CENTURIES OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN HOLBORN
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Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1961. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (24) pages. A fine copy. READ MORE about TREASURES OF SCOTTISH LIBRARIES
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Munich: C.H. Beck, (1963). 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), xvi, 386, (2) pages. Celebrating 200 years of publishing. READ MORE about AQUADUKT 1963
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1990). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi. 122 pages. Illustrated. Dust jacket foredges faded. Light wear on dust jacket. READ MORE about EDWARD ARNOLD, 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING
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N.P. n.p., June 1886. 8vo. three-quarter cloth over embossed boards. (viii), 41 pages. Limited to 250 copies; this copy is not numbered. With three engravings. Beautifully printed with colored initial letters for the different chapters. With information on Dickens. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about RICHARD BENTLEY & SON REPRINTED FROM `LE LIVRE' OF OCTOBER 1885 WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES
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New York: Simon and Schuster, (1951). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 589 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Presentation inscription on 2nd blank. Else near fine. Covers the history of the Times from 1851 to 1951. It is the biography of a great newspaper. With reproductions of important issues of the paper throughout text. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about STORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: 1851-1951
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Copenhagen, Denmark: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1933. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. 58, (6) pages. A history of this printing firm issued on their 200th anniversary. Includes many facsimiles of material printed by them including full color foldout broadsides. Covers foxed. READ MORE about TO HUNDREDE AAAR, DET BERLINGSKE BOGTRYKKERI
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.7, JULY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J.S. Murray on 19th-century book canvassers in America, C. Pelayo on the private library of her great-uncle Menéndez Pelayo, G. Menzies on memoirs of aristocratic Russian émigrés, P. Dininny on Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, R. Meador on Orson Well's 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, N. Basbanes on the bookseller P. Juvelis, AND MUCH MORE..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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6 volumes bound in 3
London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1884. 4to. later cloth. 6 volumes bound in 3. Ulrich & Kup p.146. The complete set of this periodical under this title. Hundreds of articles on bookselling, printing, collecting, and bibliography. This magazine was continued as Book Lore. Pages 95 - 160 are detached and loosely inserted. Some tears in pages as the paper is fragile. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE (THE
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Various odd issues of this periodical.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1884. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. Per issue. Various odd issues of this periodical. Ulrich & Kup p.146. The following issues are present: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36. Per issue. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE
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Paris: Bibliothèque Impériale, 1869. 8vo. later quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (ii), 13 pages. A list of works freely available to the public in the Bibliothèque Impériale. Covers worn and chipped at spine. Library tag on front cover. Wear to front hinge; preliminary blank detached. Library stamps on pp.1, 4, 8, 11. READ MORE about LISTE DES OUVRAGES MIS A LA LIBRE DISPOSITION DU PUBLIC
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Chicago: American Library Association, 1924. small 8vo. cloth-backed paper covered boards, paper spine label. (xiv), 94, (2) pages. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press. Light foxing throughout. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Exlibrary stamp at top of front free endpaper. Spine lightly foxed. READ MORE about JOHN SHAW BILLINGS, CREATOR OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL LIBRARY
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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
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Birmingham: Printed by Josiah Allen, (1873). 8vo. original paper wrappers. (iv), 166 pages. Some nineteenth century library markings. Front wrapper detached. READ MORE about SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE, FROM 1863 TO NOVEMBER 1873
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Stockholm: Statens Offentliga Utredningar (SOU), 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 571, (3) pages, with 12 additional pages of plates and 1 fold-out leaf. Research publication from the dept. of education of the Swedish government. Statistics and analysis from an in-depth survey of libraries in five districts in Sweden, with charts, tables, etc. READ MORE about FORSOK MED BIBLIOTEK
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(Cambridge): Cambridge University Press, (2000). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 84 pages. Revised second edition. This short, illustrated account of the world's oldest publishing house emphasizes the constitutional basis of the Press as an essential part of its parent university from the publication of the Press's first book in 1584 through to the present day. It highlights key moments of crisis and change including Richard Bentley's revival in the 1690s, the Victorian renaissance, the rise..... READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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London: Adam & Charles Black, 1957. 8vo. cloth, slipcase. xii, 116 pages. First edition. A history of this bookselling - publishing firm. Slipcase worn around edges. Spine faded. READ MORE about ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1807-1957, SOME CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE
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Firenze: Tipografia Barbera, 1927. small 4to. original orange paper-covered boards, paper spine label, printed parchment dust jacket. xv, 357, (3) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell on front pastedown. Printed parchment dust jacket has been repaired along top corner of front, rear, and spine with newer paper. Minor tears to edges of jacket. Front and rear hinges cracked, but sound. Bumped corners. Minor shelfwear. A bibliography of the printed books..... READ MORE about COMPENDIOSA BIBLIOGRAFIA DI EDIZIONI BODONIANE
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Copenhagen: Forening for Boghaandvaerk, 1920's-1970's. large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. Various paginations (generally between 100-150 pages per volume). Various volumes of the Danish annual, The Bibliophile, offered for sale individually. Each volume has illustrations and generally contains 4-6 articles on collections, bindings, publishing, typography, Danish books and collectors, and other book-related matters. Some have brief English-language summaries at the end. Some vols. are unopened. All have their original wrappers, which are usually soiled, chipped..... READ MORE about BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE
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6 volumes.
Copenhagen: Forening for Boghaandvaerk, 1926-1931. large 8vo. original publishers paste paper covers with paper spine labels. Various paginations (approx. 2,500 pages total). 6 volumes. Six years of the Danish annual The Bibliophile: vols. 15-20 (1926-1931) of the original series The Bibliophile, which began in 1893, had by the 1920's lost interest in book crafts, and deals more with collecting and bibliophile issues, becoming rather more international in outlook. In 1926, reports on Danish Book auctions..... READ MORE about BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE
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London: n.p., 1869. A.L.s., 5 by 8 inches. 2 pages. A.L.s. from Henry George Bohn to unnamed recipient, dated September 17, 1869. Bohn (1796-1884) was born in Munster, Germany, He moved to London where he became a publisher and bookseller, operating his own business in Covent Garden. This letter discusses specimens of porcelin the recipient wishes to send, and also recommends that the recipient purchase a couple of Bohn's publication. Biographical sketch of Bohn by..... READ MORE about Letter from Henry George Bohn
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With an Annotated Bibliography
San Francisco: Book Club of California, The, 1983. 8vo. cloth. 84, (4) pages. With an Annotated Bibliography. First edition, limited to 550 copies. Designed and printed by Harold Berliner. With a well-annotated 57-item bibliography of Doxey's publications. Illustrated. With errata slip. READ MORE about WILLIAM DOXEY'S SAN FRANCISCO PUBLISHING VENTURE, AT THE SIGN OF THE LARK
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Aberystwyth, Wales: The University of Wales, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 245 pages. A master's thesis. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgments, eight appendices. Discusses the development of publishers' bindings in Britain between 1820 and 1880. Endnotes, bibliography. Printed on recto only. Ball would go on to publish a reference book on bookbindings titled Victorian Publishers' Bindings (first published by The Librarian Association and then a U.S. edition by The Bookpress) in 1985. READ MORE about VICTORIAN PUBLISHERS' BINDINGS
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