| Bib ID |
3883597 |
| Format |
Book, Online - Google Books |
| Description |
London : New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, 2006
xviii, 414 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., facsims, plates, ports. ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN |
9781584561903 1584561904 (alk. paper)
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| Full contents |
- I. Buying : how the trade acquired its stock
- The role of the auction houses / Frank Herrmann
- Private buying / Richard Ford
- Broke trade weeklies / Barry Shaw
- II. Selling : how the trade sold books
- A century of innovation in selling books / Paul Minet
- The London street trade / Michael Harris
- The bookshops of London / Philippa Bernard
- Town and country bookshops in Scotland and Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Strong
- West country bookshops in the 1960s : a memoir / Paul Minet
- I. Buying : how the trade acquired its stock
- The role of the auction houses / Frank Herrmann
- Private buying / Richard Ford
- Broke trade weeklies / Barry Shaw
- II. Selling : how the trade sold books
- A century of innovation in selling books / Paul Minet
- The London street trade / Michael Harris
- The bookshops of London / Philippa Bernard
- Town and country bookshops in Scotland and Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Strong
- West country bookshops in the 1960s : a memoir / Paul Minet
- Catalogues / H. R. Woudhuysen
- The Phillips sales / Anthony Hobson
- Making collections / Chris Kohler
- The British trade and institutional libraries / Michele Kohler
- Dealers and the specialist collector / David Chambers
- Reminiscences of a book buyer / Robert S. Pirie
- III. Creating fashions and changing taste
- Patterns of collecting and trading in antiquarian books / David Pearson
- The market fortunes of the first folio / Anthony James West
- Patterns of collecting and trading in 'modern' literature / Angus O'Neill
- A short look at ABMR / Paul Minet
- IV. Personalities : a trade of individualists
- Foreign dealers in the English trade / Arnold Hunt
- The antiquarian book trade and the world of scholarship / A. S. G. Edwards
- Booksellers' memoirs : the truth about the trade? / Marc Vaulbert De Chantilly
- Defending and regulating the trade : a hundred years of the antiquarian booksellers' association / Anthony Rota
- App. 1. Prices and exchange rates
- App. 2. A note on the dating of catalogues
- App. 3. Founder-members of the antiquarian booksellers' association, 11 December 1906
- App. 4. Twentieth-century rare and secondhand book trade archives : a survey
- App. 5. Twentieth-century rare and secondhand book trade memoirs : a checklist of published sources.
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| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Subjects |
Antiquarian booksellers - Great Britain - History - 20th century.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Mandelbrote, Giles
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| Also Titled |
Out of print and into profit
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