Hamburg: Buchmarkt-Forschung, 1971. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 610 pages. Volume three of this handbook covers retail bookselling, giving the basics of bookselling as well as specific topics such as marketing and organization, warehousing, selling, and financing. Indexed. Some wear to front board. READ MORE about HANDBUCH DES BUCHHANDELS, BAND III: SORTIMENTSBUCHHANDEL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 47922
Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, (1930). 8vo. cloth. 351 pages. First edition. The products of one hundred fourty years of publishing and book selling are contained withint this volume. The Berlin firm of Grebrüder Borntraeger celebrated this anniversary by compiling a bibliography of its titles. A history of the firm's development prefaces the Catalogue of books. The bibliography is arranged by subject and author. In German. Top edge of spine rubbed. Back hinge cracked. READ MORE about GEBRÜDER BORNTRAEGER. BERLIN UND LEIPZIG 1790-1930
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 62533
Wiesbaden: F.A. Brochhaus, 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 122 pages. With nine separate chapters devoted to the history of this German publishing firm. Illustrated.Wrappers show wear. READ MORE about FREUNDEN DES VERLAGES F.A. BROCKHAUS, WIESBADEN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 32147
München: F. Bruckmann, 1958. tall 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, dust jacket. 157, (3) pages. A look back at 100 years of this German publisher (1858-1958). With many illustrations, some in color, of books and people from the firm's history. Jacket slightly torn at top edge. READ MORE about 100 JAHRE BRUCKMANN
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 50886
München: Bruckmann, (1983). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. The Bruckmann publishing house celebrates its 125th anniversary with this bibliography of its titles. A preface traces the firm's history. The bibliography is divided by subject matter: art, sports, music, etc. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Indexed. READ MORE about 125 JAHRE BUCHER. 1858-1983. VERLAG UND GRAPHISCHE KUNSTANSTALTEN
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(Munich: Verlag Georg D.W. Callwey, 1984. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages. Important events and publications in Callwey's 100-year history, year by year. Illustrated. READ MORE about 100 JAHRE VERLAG GEORG D.W. CALLWEY MUNCHEN 1884-1984
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 48573
Stuttgart: Calwer Vereinsbuchhandlung, 1933. 8vo. cloth. 127 pages. Well produced history of this bookseller - publisher. With foldout facsimiles of letters, maps, etc. Many reproductions of photographs of men important to the firm. Also has a list of titles published. Covers faded. READ MORE about VIELE SAATEN - EINE ERNTE: FESTSCHRIFT ZUM HUNDERTJÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DES CALWER VERLAGSVEREINS,...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 27949
Weinheim: Chemie, (1971). 8vo. cloth. 80, 159 pages. A 50th anniversary history of the publisher Chemie, with a bibliography of all its publications. Indexed and illustrated. READ MORE about VERLAG CHEMIE 1921-1971
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 49423
Köln: Overstolzenhaus, 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 158, (34) pages. Hans Blum, Severin Corsten and Peter Hasenberg provide a history of the book and papermaking in Cologne. This catalogue accompanied the 1965 exhibition at the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne. Following the essays are 259 entries detailing Cologne publications. Illustrated in red, black & white. Indexed. READ MORE about 500 JAHRE BUCH UND ZEITUNG IN KÖLN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 61798
1981. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp. 918-1250. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des BuchwesensBand XII, Lieferung 4/5, 1981. Reprints 147 previously unpublished letters of Clara Mundt to the publisher Hermann Costenoble. Mundt wrote historical novels under the pseudonym L. Mühlbach in the nineteenth century; her letters illuminate business matters and the public reception of her novels. Indexed. READ MORE about CLARA MUNDTS BRIEFE AN HERMANN COSTENOBLE
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1978. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp. 366-383. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des BuchwesensBand XIX, Lieferung 2 und 3/4, 1978. Article on Cotta's political publishing enterprise in the early nineteenth century. READ MORE about POLITIKER JOHANN FRIEDRICH COTTA, PUBLIZISTISCHE VERLEGERISCH UNTERNEH MUINGEN 1815-1819
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Berlin: Ernst Hofmann & Co., 1895. 12mo. contemporary half cloth with pastepaper-covered boards. (viii), 199, (5) pages, with frontispiece. A biography of the German publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta. Backstrip lacking. Ex-library copy with stamps. READ MORE about COTTA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48277
München: Verlag Kurt Desch, (1968). small 8vo. cloth. 184, (4) pages. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Desch, tribute to him by the firm, and numerous essays written in tribute. Illustrated with two tipped-in plates in color. READ MORE about KURT DESCH, EIN BUCH DER FREUNDE, 1968
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Berlin, Darmstadt, and Vienna: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, n.d. square 8vo. cloth. 41, (7) pages. A collection of quotations about books, authors, and readers; also includes information about Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft. READ MORE about FREUNDSCHAFT MIT BUCHERN
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Leipzig: Boersenvereins der Deutschen Buchhaendler zu Leipzig, 1916. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (ii), 215+(1) pages. Written in German. A work commemorating the opening of the Deutschen Bücherei des Börsenvereins der Deutschen Buchhändler zu Leipzig, with some history regarding the library, followed by several indices. With a preface by Karl Siegismund. Wear along extremities, fore-edge of front cover tanned, three-inch tear from top left of spine down. With the laid-in bookplate from Oak Knoll..... READ MORE about DENKSCHRIFT ZUR EINWEIHUNGSFEIER DER DEUTSCHEN BUECHEREI
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Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1983). 12mo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 94, (2) pages. On this German publisher and its founders. Illustrated. READ MORE about LOUIS UND EDUARD HALLBERGER, DIE GRUNDER DER DEUTSCHEN VERLAGS-ANSTALT
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Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1921. 8vo. paper wrappers. 212 pages, with illustrations. A collection of literary excerpts, followed by a list of Eugen Diederichs's publications. Wrappers chipped, yellowed, and water-stained; partially detached at spine. Pages yellowed. READ MORE about WILLE UND GESTALTUNG
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Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1927. 8vo. covers lacking. 86, (10) pages, with frontispiece. Part of a series on contemporary German publishers. This section focuses on Eugen Diederichs. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDEL DER GEGENWART IN SELBSTDARSTELLLUNGEN
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Dusseldorf & Wien: Econ Verlag, (1975). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 131 pages. Celebrating twenty-five years of this German publisher, with a list of available books. Rear wrapper creased. READ MORE about DIE ECON-STORY, 1950-1975
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 50759
Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, (1960). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 144 pages, with 6 additional leaves of illustrations. Essays by authors published by Econ about their own work. Includes a list of Econ's publications. READ MORE about ECON-AUTOREN UBER IHR WERK 1950-1960
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(Berlin: n.p., 1921). small 4to. cloth with gilt, embossed frame patterns and symbols on front cover and spine. viii, 262 pages plus 1 facsimile and 1 leaf of plates in black and white. First edition. Collection of essays offered to the publisher Otto Elsner on July 1, 1921. Divided into four sections. The first covers jurisprudence and includes studies of the development of the book trade and the role of employees in the book industry..... READ MORE about FESTGABE DARGEBRACHT DEM VERLAGE OTTO ELSNER ZUM 1. JULI 1921
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Berlin: Elwert und Meurer, (1964). 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 french-fold leaves. Celebrating thirty years of this German publisher. Facsimiles and transcriptions of notes, signatures, and drawings from their guest book. Corners bumped with some wear to wrapper edges. READ MORE about 1934-1964 AUS DEM POESIEALBUM VON ELWERT UND MEURER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50972
Marburg: N.G. Elwert, 1909. small 8vo. paper wrappers. Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the publisher's founding in 1783, this is a catalogue of Elwert's publications between 1831 and 1909. Wrapper chipped, yellowed, and worn; pages yellowed. READ MORE about VERLAGS-KATALOG DER N.G. ELWERT'SCHEN VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG IN MARBURG
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 48465
Leipzig: Enzyklopädie, (1984). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 109, (3) pages. Bibliography of this publisher's works. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE 1956-1981
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50666
(Düsseldorf, Germany: Eremiten Presse, 1974). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 134, (16) pages. Text in German. An anthology of 25 years of Eremiten's publications. Publisher's note. Black and white illustrations. Chronology of events, chronology of the press's publications, index of writers. READ MORE about 25 JAHRE EREMITEN-PRESSE 1949-1974
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121618
