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• Philadelphia, 25th January, 1773. Observations relative to the manufactures of paper and printed books in the province of Pennsylvania. ([Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, 1773]), by Robert Bell (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Forty years among the old booksellers of Philadelphia (A. P. Brotherhead, 1891), by William Brotherhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Bell's sale catalogue of a collection of new and old books, in all the arts and sciences, and in various languages, also, a large quantity of entertaining novels; with the lowest price printed to each book; now selling, at the book-store of William Woodhouse, bookseller, stationer, and bookbinder, in Front-Street, near Chestnut-Street, Philadelphia. ... ([Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, 1773]), by Robert Bell (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Books just imported from London, and to be sold by William Bradford, at his shop, adjoining the London Coffee-House in Market-Street. ([Philadelphia : Printed by William Bradford, 1755]), by William Bradford (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The medical pocket-book; for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians. : Containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body: including such as require surgical treatment: Together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples. / Extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order. By John Elliot, M.D. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street,, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]), by John Elliot and John Pringle (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Imported in the last ships from London, and to be sold by David Hall, at the New-Printing-Office, in Market-Street, Philadelphia, the following books, viz. ([Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1754]), by David Hall (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Memoirs of the Reverend, learned, and pious Mr. Thomas Halyburton, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. : In four parts: whereof three were drawn up by himself, and the fourth collected by his friends. : With a large recommendatory epistle by Dr. Watts. : [Six lines from Psalms] (Philadelphia: : Printed by David Hogan, and sold by J. M'Culloch, no. 1, North Third-Street, and J. Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street., M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]), by Thomas Halyburton and Isaac Watts (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Pettey's Island Lottery, for effects to the full value of 10,000 dollars, or £3750, without any deduction. Mr. Dunlap, begs leave to inform the public, that he has, just arrived in the last vessels from London, a large and very valuable collection of books ... ([Philadelphia : Printed by William Dunlap, 1761]), by Pettie's-Island Lottery and William Dunlap (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A catalogue of books, published by the different members of the Philadelphia Company of Printers and Booksellers, and now for sale, at Wm. Spotswood's book-store. (Philadelphia: : Printed by D. Humphreys, no. 48, Spruce-Street., M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]), by Philadelphia Company of Printers and Booksellers and William Spotswood (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A catalogue of books, sold by Rivington and Brown, booksellers and stationers from London, at their stores, over against the Golden Key, in Hanover-Square, New-York: and over against the London Coffee-House, in Philadelphia. At both which places will be found, a constant supply of books ... ([Philadelphia? : Printed by Henrich Miller?], M,DCC,LXII. [1762]), by Rivington and Brown, James Rivington, and Samuel Brown (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Forty years among the old booksellers of Philadelphia : with bibliographical remarks (A.P. Brotherhead, 1891), by William Brotherhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of the extensive and valuable medical, theological and miscellaneous library of the late John Redman Coxe, M. D., which includes many very rare, valuable and interesting works in various languages, to be sold by order of executors ... (Selheimer, 1864), by John Redman Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the ... valuable, classical, miscellaneous, and law library of Henry D. Gilpin, deceased ... to be sold at public sale (Press of H.B. Ashmead, 1878), by Henry D. Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Valuable private library of a well-known Philadelphia collector embracing rare & scarce Americana, American & historic bibles, American prayer books, American hymnals, books from the library of eminent personages, publications of early American printers first American editions ... (Henkels, 1898), by S. V. Henkels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the valuable library of the late George Gebbie, esq. of Philadelphia ... : to be sold ... Nov. 20th, 21st and 22d, 1894 ... (Stan. V. Henkels, 1896), by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm), George Gebbie, and Thomas Birch's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philadelphia, 25th January, 1773. Observations relative to the manufactures of paper and printed books in the province of Pennsylvania. ([Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, 1773]), by Robert Bell (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The ghost-hunter and his family. (Carey, Lea, & Blanchard., 1833), by Michael Banim and Leitch Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• [American Book and Bible House salesmen's dummies] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by American Book and Bible House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington's triumphal entry into New York. : This beautiful print ... was executed and printed in oil colors, at the establishment of P.S. Duval & Son, Philadelphia, and is the largest specimen of chromolithograph ever executed. ... (Published by William Smith, 1860), by William Smith, William Smith, Seymour B. Durst, and P.S. Duval & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals for printing a large Bible, by William Bradford. ([Philadelphia : Printed by William Bradford, 1688]), by William Bradford (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Prospectus of a new weekly paper, submitted to men of affluence, men of liberality, and men of letters. ([Philadelphia : Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickins, 1800]), by Joseph Dennie (HTML at Evans TCP)
• To the public. ... to be published by subscription ... The young mill-wright and miller's guide ... ([Philadelphia : s.n., 1795]), by Oliver Evans (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A catalogue of books, published by the different members of the Philadelphia Company of Printers and Booksellers, and now for sale, at Wm. Spotswood's book-store. (Philadelphia: : Printed by D. Humphreys, no. 48, Spruce-Street., M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]), by Philadelphia Company of Printers and Booksellers and William Spotswood (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Recollections. (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890), by George William Childs and Melville Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary notices of members deceased, Henry Charles Lea. (s.n., 1911), by Edward Potts Cheyney, William W. Keen, Henry Charles Lea, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Library Company of Philadelphia, and American Philosophical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Charles Lea ([n. p., 1911), by Isaac Lea and Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book publishing and reading interests in Philadelphia in 1802 (1948), by Theodore Manheim and University of Michigan. Department of Library Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America presented to the General Assembly at its meeting ... (The Board, 1870), by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pennsylvania State University Press (Pennsylvania State University, 2006), by Cherene Holland and Laura Reed-Morrisson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pennsylvania State University Press (Pennsylvania State University, 2006), by Cherene Holland and Laura Reed-Morrisson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pennsylvania State University Press (Pennsylvania State University, 2006), by Cherene Holland and Laura Reed-Morrisson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bench, bar and press; argument of Alexancer K. McClure before Supreme court, for plaintiffs in error. In matter of the rules disbarring Andrew J. Steinman and William U. Hensel, attorneys. (McLaughlin brothers, printers, 1879), by Alexander K. McClure, W. U. Hensel, Andrew Jackson Steinman, and Pennsylvania. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)
• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
• ibi (Sterling Publishers, 1969), by Federation of Indian Publishers and India) Institute of Book Publishing (New Delhi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the ... annual exhibition of fifty books of the year (New York : American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1923), by American Institute of Graphic Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quality of trade book publishing in the 1980s (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1984), by Ann Heidbreder Eastman, Eleanor Blum, and Walter C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557 (University press, 1912), by E. Gordon Duff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The printers, stationers and bookbinders of London and Westminster in the fifteenth century : A series of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Lent term, MDCCCIC ([Priv. Print., University Press] ;, 1899), by E. Gordon Duff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Książka polska we Lwowie w XVI w. (S.A. Książnica-Atlas T.N.S., 1928), by Anna Jędrzejowska (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From cover to cover (Print shop, Vocational department, High school, 1929), by Wilbur Fisk Cleaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inter-American and world book trade; problems of organization (Priv. print., 1944), by Hans Peter Kraus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty books about bookmaking; exhibition prepared by Columbia university library for the twelfth annual Conference on printing education, June 26, 27, 28, 1933. (Columbia University Press, 1933), by Columbia University. Libraries and Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buchwesen in der U.d.S.S.R. (Staatsverlag, 1927), by Georgiĭ Ivanovich Porshnev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library and related films ([Chicago?, 1941), by Francis Harold Henshaw and American Library Association. Public Relations Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technical terms used in bibliographies and by the book and printing trades : (forming a supplement to F.K. Walter's Abbreviations and technical terms used in book catalogs and in bibliographies) (Boston : The Boston Book Company, 1915., 1915), by Axel Moth and Frank Keller Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The building of a book; a series of practical articles (The Grafton Press, 1906), by Frederick H. Hitchcock, Theodore Low De Vinne, and Grafton Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• De libris : prose & verse (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923), by Austin Dobson, Hugh Thomson, and Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The printing trades (Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916), by Frank L. Shaw and Cleveland Foundation. Survey Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book composition, Part I: Composition of pages, Part II: Imposition of pages. (Pub. by the Committee on education, United typothetae of America, 1918), by Theodore Low De Vinne and J. W. Bothwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual on foreign trade for university presses. (Yale University Press], 1956), by Association of American University Presses. Committee on Foreign Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kōchō. (Yumani Shobō, 1906), by Kokusho Kankōkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index to Books and printing, a treasury for typophiles, edited by Paul A. Bennett (1956), by Harold R. Jenkins and University of Michigan. Department of Library Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• The building of a book; a series of practical articles written by experts in the various departments of book making and distributing (R.R. Bowker company, 1929), by Frederick H. Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bogen, dens historie, fremstilling og udbredelse; en haandbog for boghandlere og bogvenner (Den Danske boghandler-medhjælper forening, 1925), by Otto Andersen and Aleksander Frølund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What a business man should know about printing and bookmaking; a book for ready reference. (W.B. Conkey company, 1928), by W.B. Conkey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waggoner's practical trade hints for the book, stationery and fancy goods trade. (J. Fred Waggoner, 1881), by J. Frederick Waggoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die graphischen künste der gegenwart; ein führer durch das buchgewerbe (F. Krais, 1895), by Theodor Goebel, Ludwig Volkmann, and Felix Krais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Katalog der Internationalen Frauenliteratur im Haus der Frau auf der Weltausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik Leipzig 1914, Mai - Oktober. (Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins, 1914), by Germany) International Exhibition for the Book Industry and the Graphic Arts (1914 : Leipzig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Giornale della libreria : organo ufficiale della Associazione italiana editori. (L'Associazione, 1921), by Associazione italiana editori (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Times," the booksellers, the public, and the publishers; being the history of the "Times" on the warpath ... (Kegan Paul, French, Trübner & co., ltd., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur sozialisierung des buchwesens ... (Berger, 1919), by Walther Borgius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archiv für Buchdruckerkunst und verwandte Geschäftszweige. (A. Waldow, 1864), by Friedrich Bauer, Alexander Waldow, and Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber librariorum. Bokhandlarnas bok. (Svenska bokhandlareföreningen, 1919), by August Irenæus Hånell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monographie de l'École Estienne, école municipale professionnelle des arts et industries du livre ... (Typ. de l'École Estienne, 1900), by Ecole Estienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern export packing. (Govt. Print. Off., 1940), by Joseph Leeming and United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mischpoke im Berliner Buchhandel. (H. Lüstenöder, 1891), by Sally Simon Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avis de M. Honey de la publication de son calendrier judiciaire et du tableau des honoraires ainsi que son prospectus de la publication d'un almanach des adresses, professionnelles, commerciales et littéraires du Canada pour l'année 1857 (s.n., 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwickelung des buchgewerbes in Leipzig (G. Hedeler, 1887), by Oskar von Hase (page images at HathiTrust)
• De boekenwereld; theorie en practijk van den boekhandel, benevens het meest wetenswaardige van de daaraan verwante vakken. (A.W. Sijthoff, 1897), by Rimmer van der Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)
• [American Book and Bible House salesmen's dummies] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by American Book and Bible House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gathered pearls. (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archiv für Buchdruckerkunst und verwandte Geschäftszweige. (A. Waldow, 1864), by Friedrich Bauer, Alexander Waldow, and Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etwas über Buchhandel, Buchdruckerey und den Druck ausserhalb Landes. ([Leipzig, 1787), by Johann Friedrich Unger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago printing-trades directory (Fyfe & Boss [etc.], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printing number, October 13, 1927 : issued with the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, Oct. 13, 1927. (The Times, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book stores and publishers in Latin America ... (Pan American union, 1945), by Columbus Memorial Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The people's journal, (edited by John Saunders,) aims to combine, in the direct service of the people, (using that word to express a nation, rather than a class,) a greater amount of literary and artistical talent than has ever before been known in this country in connexion with any similar publication. (People's Journal Office, 1846), by Margaret Gillies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publishing industry market briefs (U.S. Commercial Service, 2011), by U.S. Commercial Service and U.S. Commercial Service Global Publishing Team (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual affairs; building the college book (The College annual producers of the United States, a division of the United typothetae of America, 1930), by William L. Schilling and United Typothetae of America. College Annual Producers of the United States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik. (Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins, 1922), by Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novai︠a︡ kniga. ("Pallada", 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German books; a selection from the most important publications of the years 1914-1925, exhibited at New York by the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, Earl Hall, Columbia University, Autumn, 1925. (Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, 1925), by Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Soncino-Gesellschaft der Freunde des Jüdischen Buches e. V. Berlin. (Berlin : Von Holten, 1925., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Katalog der historischen Ausstellung von Wiener Buchdruck-Erzeugnissen, 1482-1882 [i.e. vierzehnhundertzweiundachtzig-achtzehnhundertzweiundachtzig] : anlässlich der vierten Säcularfeier der Einführung der Buchdruckerkunst in Wien [Ort der Ausstellung, k.k. Österreichisches Museum (Verlag der Section für die Historische Ausstellung, 1882), by Austria). Sektion für die Historische Ausstellung Säcularfeier der Einführung der Buchdruckerkunst in Wien (4th : 1882 : Vienna, Wilhelm Haas, and Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel d'édition et de librairie. (Payot, 1928), by Gaston Zelger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Developmental book activities and needs in Laos (New York, 1967), by Wolf Management Services, David Kaser, Emerson L. Brown, Stanley A. Barnett, and United States. Agency for International Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developmental book activities and needs in Thailand (New York, 1967), by Wolf Management Services, Stanley A. Barnett, and United States. Agency for International Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Tschechische Buch (Orbis Verlag, 1926), by Arthur Novák (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles, ed. by Paul A. Bennett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Building of a Book: A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing, ed. by Frederick H. Hitchcock, contrib. by Theodore Low De Vinne (Gutenberg ebook)

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