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Out of print & into profit: a history of the rare and secondhand book trade in Britain in the 20th century

Out of print & into profit: a history of the rare and secondhand book trade in Britain in the 20th century
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ISBN 0712349200 (British Library)
1584561904 (Oak Knoll)
Title Out of print & into profit : a history of the rare and secondhand book trade in Britain in the 20th century / edited by Giles Mandelbrote
Publisher London ; New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, 2006
Physical desc. xviii, 414 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Note Reprinted 2007.
Commissioned by and published for The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association to celebrate its centenary"-- p. v.
Ref. to ACB: p. 26, 32, 158.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Pt. 1: Buying: how the trade acquired its stock. The role of the auction houses / Frank Herrmann -- Private buying / Richard Ford -- Book trade weeklies / Barry Shaw -- Pt. 2: 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 Phillipps sales / Anthony Hobson -- Making collections / Chris Kohler -- The British trade and institutional libraries / Michèle Kohler -- Dealers and the specialist collector / David Chambers -- Reminiscences of a book buyer / Robert S. Pirie -- Pt. 3: 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 -- Pt. 4: 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 -- Appendices: Prices and exchange rates; a note on the dating of catalogues; founder-members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, 11 December 1906; twentieth-century rare and secondhand book trade archives: a survey; twentieth-century rare and secondhand book trade memoirs: a checklist of published sources.
Subject Antiquarian booksellers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Book collecting -- History -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Book industries and trade -- History -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Booksellers and bookselling -- History -- Great Britain -- 20th century
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