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
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Publish and Readership in Revolutionary France and America. A Symposium at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, (1993), First Edition. octavo, green cloth. (xvi), (222)pp. Greenwood, Foreword by John Y. Cole. Presents a comparative framework in which to study the history of publishing and reading in Europe and North America during the eighteenth century. The chapters are written by leading French and American specialists..... More
My Lives.
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
Scott's Last Edition. A Study in Publishing History.
Edinburgh: University Press, (1987), First Edition. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 154pp. University Press, "The 1829/33 version of the Waverley Novels made publishing history. Here, for the first time, Professor Jane Millgate gives a full account of the genesis, preparation, publication and subsequent influence of what Scott called..... More
Venus Bound. The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press and Its Writers.
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
Publishing Then and Now 1912-1964.
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
Of Making Many Books. A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing.
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
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels.
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
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