Out of Print and Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the Twentieth Century

Giles Mandelbrote

ISBN 10: 0712349200 / ISBN 13: 9780712349208

Published by Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006

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First edition, first impression. Fine book in fine jacket. Quarto, blue cloth 414 pages, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Book is large and heavy. Additional postage will likely be required.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out of Print and Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712349200
• ISBN 13: 9780712349208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

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scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself.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.

Review

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