International Book Publishing: An Encyclopdeia.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1995, First Edition. small quarto, orange boards. xxvi, 735 pp. Garland Publishing, A very fine, clean copy. More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1995, First Edition. small quarto, orange boards. xxvi, 735 pp. Garland Publishing, A very fine, clean copy. More
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1996), Reprint of earlier edition. octavo, black cloth. (xxxvi), 347pp. The Pennsylvania State University Press, One in a series in Penn State Reprints in Book History giving second life to classic works in the field of publishing history. This reprint, with a new..... More
Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 125pp. Univ of Chicago Press, "In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of..... More
London: Bell and Daldy, 1865, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth. (xvi), 320pp. Bell and Daldy, London's eighteenth century booksellers: Thomas Guy, John Dunton, Tonson, Thomas Gent, Samuel Richardson, William Hutton, Robert Dodsley, and others along with the coffee-house gatherers of Paternoster Row -- focusing on those who also published. "...it..... More
New York: NYPL, 1965, Second Printing. quarto, wrappers. (24)pp. NYPL, Twenty-first of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting memoir by this influential publisher. Very fine. More
New York: Random House, (1971), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (332)pp. Random House, "He is perhaps best known for his universally admired Nonesuch Press and for his influence on book design in general. But in this book we get the whole man: childhood and youth in a...... More
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 264 pp. Penn State University Press, Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, (2011), First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. (x), 220 pp. Palgrave Macmillan, This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on..... More
New York: Random House, (1994), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xxii, (362)pp. Random House, "...the astonishing but true story of the flamboyant rogue publisher Maurice Girodias, whose Paris-based Olympia Press gave birth to a curious mixture of raffish pornography and some of the most significant..... More
New York: Julian Messner, (1965), First Edition. octavo, salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Julian Messner, Fascinating story of her work in a predominately male world. More
New York: Macmillan, (1975), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 428pp. Macmillan, Illustrated. An editor associated with the work of Puzo and other popular writers, Targ combines autobiography, memoir, expose and current gossip of the New York book world of the 1960s and 70s. Very minor scuffing to..... More
Chicago: Inland Printer Company, 1904, First Edition. octavo, original dark blue cloth. (xii), 200, (4)pp. Inland Printer Company, Extensively illustrated with photographs and line drawings. A fine history of the beginning of the composing machine. With stencilled note tipped to front inner hinge: "--SEPTEMBER 30, 1907. -- SOUVENIR of the..... More