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Out of Print and into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century - Hardcover
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Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the twentieth century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades; and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America. Bibliographical scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself. The book will appeal to historians of the book, and of twentieth-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and collectors.
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A ripe compendium of raw material, reminiscence, analysis and anecdote. --Times Literary Supplement
an unprecedented and admirable gathering of scholarship and accounts which, in a frank and balanced manner, gives us a good general picture of an important era in the history of the trade. --Bibliographical Society of America
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OUT OF PRINT & INTO PROFIT. A HISTORY IF THE RARE & SECONDHAND BOOK TRADE IN BRITAIN IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
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The British Library. & Oak Knoll Press, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0712349200
ISBN 13: 9780712349208
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Out of Print and Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the Twentieth Century
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Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006
ISBN 10: 0712349200
ISBN 13: 9780712349208
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