Köln: Carl Heymanns, 1965. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 636 pages. A festschrift of essays on issues and questions of contemporary rights, celebrating Carl Heymanns's 150 years of publishing. Includes a history of the publisher. Jacket torn. READ MORE about RECHT IM WANDEL BEITRAGE ZU STROMUNGEN UND FRAGEN IM HEUTIGEN RECHT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 49324
Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., (1990). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vii, 346 pages. History of preservation techniques. Post-it note inscribed by author on front endpaper. Slight wear to edges of dust jacket. READ MORE about OUR PAST PRESERVED: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIBRARY PRESERVATION 1876-1910
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106486
London: Charles Hindley, 1886. 8vo. original cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xlii, 308 pages. First edition. The Catnach Press published books for children in large quantities. In addition to the history of the press, Hindley reproduces a number of the illustrations taken from various books. Includes some use of color in the illustrations. Spine label mostly rubbed off and covers rubbed along hinges. Bookplate and former owner John Douglas Riddell has signed his name..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE CATNACH PRESS, AT BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, ALNWICK AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 9115
Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005
New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 96655
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. This tenth volume of the Print Networks series contains eleven original contributions by scholars working on periodicals and newspapers in the British Isles, outside London. The essays focus on the period between 1740 and 1914, including some case studies of individual publishers and their experiences in the print market. This volume demonstrates the cultural and..... READ MORE about PERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS: THE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL TRADE, 1740-1914
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 100486
Frankfurt: n.p., 1968. 8vo. pamphlet holder with original paper wrappers bound-in. 48 pages. On Johann Christian Senckenberg and the library he founded. Illustrated. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about AD BIBLIOTHECAM JOH. CHRISTIAN SENCKENBERG MED. DOCT. MFRANCOFORT
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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
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, (1896). 8vo. disbound. xv, (i), 494 pages. XXV Anni di Vita Editoriale. Introduction by Gaetano Negri. Photograph as frontispiece. Ex-library copy from the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, with markings. Disbound, cover and backstrip missing, first ten pages detached, pages fragile, extremities worn. READ MORE about CATALOGO CRONOLOGICO, ALFABETICO-CRITICO SISTEMATICO E PER SOGGETTI, DELLE EDIZIONI HOEPLI...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 69687
Newark: University of Delaware, 1984. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label showing the Morris Library, dust jacket. 156 pages. Illustrated history. READ MORE about BOOKS, BRICKS & BIBLIOPHILES, THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 28912
Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, (1981). 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket, slipcase. 615 pages. A history of this German publisher, founded in 1781. Indexed. READ MORE about HOFFMANN UND CAMPE, EINE DEUTSCHER VERLAG
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 51167
N.P. Beta Phi Mu, 1967. 8vo. cloth. xv, 144 pages. First edition. Eighth Chapbook issued by this fraternity of librarians. Edited version of the scrapbook containing information relating to the founding of the A.L.A. Numerous letters from prominent librarians reprinted. READ MORE about RAKING THE HISTORIC COALS, THE A.L.A. SCRAPBOOK OF 1876
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 9126
New York: The Grolier Club, 2004. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 205, (3) pages. Lasting Impressions provides a detailed history of the Grolier Club's library of books, manuscripts, and prints. Published to celebrate the Club's 120th birthday, the items in this collection illustrate various aspects of printing and graphic arts that are represented in the Library. Illuminated manuscripts, dusty note cards, gilt armorial bindings, shoddy printed wrappers, elephant folios, microscopic books, auction catalogues of royal..... READ MORE about LASTING IMPRESSIONS: THE GROLIER CLUB LIBRARY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 114289
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919. 12mo. boards. 106 pages. First edition. Illustrated history. Spine lacking, else a good copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ATLANTIC MONTHLY AND ITS MAKERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9154
Durham: Durham County Advertiser Ltd, 1925. 8vo. cloth. xlii, 134 pages. First edition. History of the Durham Cathedral Library with an additional chapter by J. Falkner on Durham book-collectors. Twenty-four collotype plates. Foldout floorplan of library in back. Moister damage to front cover. Minor cover soiling. Chipping to spine ends. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF DURHAM CATHEDRAL LIBRARY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37745
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp.33-106. Reprinted from the first Huntington Library Bulletin. With information on Henry Huntington. READ MORE about HUNTINGTON LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 9167
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, (1989). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 199 pages. First edition. "A detailed study of a closed collection of about 1000 books published between 1474 and 1760." History of the library, information on how shelf numbers were assigned, information on bookseller's price coding and a check list of the books. With tipped-in full color plates of Samuel Ward, Cave Beck, Revd. Richard Canning and Revd. Robert Hingeston. A real bargain. READ MORE about TOWN LIBRARY OF IPSWICH. PROVIDED FOR THE USE OF THE TOWN PREACHERS IN 1599. A HISTORY AND CATALOGUE
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 41434
Milan: Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana, (1928). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore and bottom edges uncut. xxiv, 396+(1) pages. First edition. A catalogue of the exhibition of Italian publishers at the Casa di Cultura Italiana at Columbia University in 1928. Includes a brief history of each publisher; with a preface by Antonio Vallardi, head of one of the oldest Italian publishing houses. Paper watermarked "Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana Milano." Text in English and Italian. Wrappers discolored..... READ MORE about THE ITALIAN PUBLISHERS AT THE NEW YORK BOOK EXHIBITION
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 47759
Heilbronn am Neckar, Germany: Verlag Heilbronner Stimme, 1993. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 136 pages. A history of the Media over the past 250 years in the area around Hohenlohe am Neckar in the State of Baden-Würtenberg. Well-illustrated with newspaper clippings and more. READ MORE about 250 JAHRE HEILBRONNER PRESSE, GESCHICHTE DER MEDIEN IM UNTERLAND UND IN HOHENLOHE 1744-1994
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 55887
Boston: Gregg Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth. (xviii), 188 pages. Reprint of the 1951 first edition. Volume VII in the American Library Pioneers series. Jewett was superintendent of the Boston Public Library from 1858 until his death in 1868 and contributed many important books and articles on library development. READ MORE about CHARLES COFFIN JEWETT
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 64884
Chateauroux: Imprimerie A. Majeste et L. Bouchardeau, 1899. small 4to. later quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, all edges cut. (viii), 553 pages. First edition. This catalogue includes subdivisions on Theology, Jurisprudence, Arts & Science, Belles-Lettres and History. Contains a separate section for dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, year-books, reviews and journals, as well as a section for miscellaneous items. With an extensive author index. Corners slightly bumped. READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE LA BIBLIOTHÉQUE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 55723
2 volumes.
London: John Murray, 1908. 8vo. cloth with gilt lettering and decorative red, white and gold armorial emblem on front cover. (xii), 328: (ix), 382+1 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. A two volume biography of John Thadeus Delane, editor of The Times of London from 1840-1852. Library notetipped-in at the first page of text in volume one. Both covers slightly worn with library stickers affixed below decorative armorial emblem on each. Some discoloration of front and..... READ MORE about JOHN THADEUS DELANE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 87201
Budapest: Franklin-Társulat, n.d. 12mo. cloth, paper label on front board. 216 pages. Text in Hungarian. Publication of novels in Hungary, focusing on the publisher, Franklin-Társulat. Eight black and white plates. Foldout chart showing predecessor publishers included. Also includes 100 years of literary works, poetry and prose. Board soiled. Ink inscriptions on front endpaper. Title page soiled. READ MORE about EGY MAGYAR KÖNYVKIADÓ REGÉNYE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 107714
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
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1968. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 345 pages. Reprint of the 1888 first edition. A look at German library organization in the 19th century. Text in German. READ MORE about SCHEMA DES REALKATALOGS DER KONIGLICHEN UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU HALLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 45973
New York: New York Public Library, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 59 pages. First separate edition. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK AND PRINTING INDUSTRIES IN ANTE-BELLUM NASHVILLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 20595
