Title & Author:

Out of print & into profit : a history of the rare and secondhand book trade in Britain in the twentieth century / edited by Giles Mandelbrote.

Publication:

London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, ©2006.

Description:

xviii, 414 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Commissioned and published for the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association to celebrate its centenary"--V.
Includes bibliographical references (p, 367-399) and indexes.
I. Buying : how the trade acquired its stock -- The role of the auction houses / Frank Herrmann -- Private buying / Richard Ford -- Book 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 Phillipps 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.

Summary:

Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this title maps out the history of the book trade in the 20th century. 20 contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, and offer insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1584561904 (alk. paper)
9781584561903 (alk. paper)
0712349200 (British Library)
9780712349208 (British Library)

Subject:

Antiquarian booksellers Great Britain History 20th century.
Libraires du livre ancien Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Librairies d'occasion Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Antiquarian booksellers.
Antiquariat
Antiquariat Grossbritannien Geschichte 20. Jh.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mandelbrote, Giles.
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association.

Out of print and into profit

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 250817
Call No.: Z326 .O98 2006
Status: Available