A handbook of bookshop practice. Foreword by Sir Basil Blackwell. Pp. 96, suggestions for further reading, index; boards slightly scuffed; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled; free endpapers faintly offset, a little foxing; Andre Deutsch, London, 1965. First edition. More
The collected edition. A series of nine pamphlets published in consultation with the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Totalling over 450 pages (each pamphlet individually paginated), occasional text figures and tables, bibliographies; boards a trifle bowed, the bottom fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; signs..... More
Edited and introduced by Nicholas Bentley. Pp. 176, frontispiece portrait by Ronald Searle, index; red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards slightly flecked, the edges lightly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle silverfished, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned and slightly chipped at extremities; edges of leaves..... More
Compiled by Kay Craddock. Pp. 48(last colophon), text printed in green, 4 plates (printed in green), index; small med. 8vo; printed textured paper wrappers, a trifle marked; printed by Marsh Walsh Publishing, 1975. *Catalogue issued in conjunction with the Third Australian Antiquarian Booksellers' Fair, Age Gallery, Melbourne, August 26-30, 1975..... More
Pp. 144, numerous illustrations (one full page coloured), pictorial endpapers, 4-page tinted facsimile of Along the Castlereagh, references, bibliography, appendix, index; small cr. 4to; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, lower fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised, the lower board a trifle marked; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges slightly..... More
Preface by Sebastian Carter. Pp. xxii+416, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, notes, selective bibliography, checklist, index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2004. First edition. *'The first full length biography of one of the leading scholars and booksellers of the 20th century.... John Carter is probably best known for exposing..... More
Pp. 124, frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text illustrations; dust wrapper; name and date in ink on upper free endpaper, occasional minor pencilling; The National Press, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *Autobiography. The author started work as a bookseller at George Robertson & Co., Melbourne, aged 14. More
The reminiscences by Aveve Cohen. The remembrances by friends of Chiswick, & the Cohens. Compiled and edited by Jenni Matz. Pp. 32, printed in brown & black, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and decorations; printed paper wrappers, stapled, the backstrip a trifle worn at extremities; The Typophiles, New York, 2002. Typophiles..... More
Lost in a town of books. Pp. [vi]+250(last blank), endpaper map; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Bloomsbury, New York, 2003. First U.S. edition. *'Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh country-side - to move, in fact, to the..... More
Pp. xxiv+140, processed, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, index; tall post 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, a trifle soiled; University of Melbourne Library, Parkville, 1989. First edition, limited to 300 copies. More
Pp. x+108, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and decorations, appendix (glossary); pictorial glazed papered boards, fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, the backstrip faded; the first few leaves slightly creased (production fault?); Edmonds Book Gallery, Adelaide, 1984. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies signed by the author. *Autobiography of..... More
Pp. [vi]+66(last colophon), title and text illustrations and facsimiles (mostly full page) printed in brown; med. 8vo; brown cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered & decorated in gilt, boards a trifle flecked; dust wrapper; small damp spot to top edge of a few leaves; Australian National University Press, Canberra..... More
commonly used in the antiquarian book trade in French, English, German and Italian. Pp. 76, the text in four columns, in French, English, German & Italian; roy. 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; ILAB, n.p., 1994. First edition. More
Pp. 56; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled;Hutchinson, London, 1965. Better Bookselling series No. 6: A series of pamphlets published in consultation with the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. More
Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 1966-74. Edited by John Saumarez Smith. Pp. 176(last blank), printed endpapers, index; boards slightly marked; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Frances Lincoln, London, 2006. First edition. *'A lively, alarming and candid account of life behind the counter in a fashionable West End bookshop..... More
Pp. xiv+266(last blank), text illustrations (some full page), index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/British Library, New Castle, DE., 2008. First edition. Print Networks series. *Papers presented at the twenty-second Print Networks Conference on the History of the British Book Trade, University of Birmingham, July 2005. 'The main theme emerging from..... More
In two volumes. Pp. lxxii+822(last blank)+xxvi+823-1776; thick, med. 8vo; navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt; British Library/Oak Knoll Press, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America, London & Delaware, 2009. First edition. *Also includes detailed author and subject indices on a CD-ROM (within envelope on..... More
Foreword by G. R. Davies, formerly Director, The Booksellers Association. Pp. 48; printed paper wrappers with flap folds (front flap price-clipped), stapled, lightly soiled and rubbed; Hutchinson of London, London, 1968. First edition. Better Bookseller Number Seven. *A series of Pamphlets published in consultation with the Bookseller's Association of Great..... More
A Bookshop Promotion Manual. Pp. 128(last blank), 16 plates; dust wrapper; bookplate on upper pastedown; Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. More
Their production and distribution in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Pp. xiv+188, frontispiece, text illustrations, index; pictorial glazed papered boards; St Paul Bibliographies/Oak Knoll Press, Winchester & New Castle, 1997. First U.S. edition. Print Networks series. *Papers from the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Provincial Book Trade, Bassenthwaite..... More
Continuity and change in the book trade. Pp. xiv+202(last blank), frontispiece, text illustrations, index; pictorial glazed papered boards; Oak Knoll Press,New Castle, 2001. First edition. Print Networks series. *Includes The First World War and Welsh-Language Publishing, by Philip Henry Jones; and From Curry's to Collins Street, or How a Dubliner..... More
Pp. xii+160(last blank)+[4](advertisements, last blank), text figures and tables, appendices, index; grey cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine lightly bruised at extremities; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split; Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1952. First edition. More
Pp. x+206, appendices, index; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, and foxed edges a trifle rubbed and split; scattered light foxing; Pitman, London, 1964. First edition. *Second of the author's four books about the book trade. More
Pp. x+224, frontispiece, text illustrations, index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE., 1995. *Originally published in London, in 1986 by Werner Shaw in collaboration with Elkin Mathews. A sequel to Percy Muir's autobiography, Minding my own business. Describes the struggle to keep the firm of Elkin Mathews going..... More
Rural life with a rare bookman. Pp. x+350, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/Werner Shaw, New Castle & London, 1995. First U.S.edition. *Sequel to The Company We Kept.Includes an account of the formation of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and a description of Percy Muir's..... More