Booksellers and bookselling
Here are entered works on the business of selling books. Works on the technique of selling books are entered under Selling -- Books.
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Booksellers and bookselling -- Africa, English-speaking
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Bibliography
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Dictionaries
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Directories
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling -- France
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Germany
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Ireland
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Massachusetts
- Booksellers and bookselling -- North America
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Periodicals
- Booksellers and bookselling -- United States
- Antiquarian booksellers
- Book auctions
- Book clubs (Bookselling)
- Books -- Prices
- Bookstores
- Book dealers
- Book sales
- Dealers, Book
- Bookselling
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)
- The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)
- The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911), by Frank Arthur Mumby, contrib. by W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California, by Mrs. J. W. Likins (HTML at LOC)
- Home Evangelization: A View of the Wants and Prospects of Our Country, Based on Facts and Relations of Colportage (page images at MOA)
- Toils and Triumphs of Union Missionary Colportage, for Twenty-Five Years (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1867), by John McMillan Stevenson (page images at MOA)
- Annual Report of the Bible Society of the Confederate States of America, by Bible Society of the Confederate States of America (partial serial archives)
- Annual Report, by Trinitarian Bible Society (London, England) (partial serial archives)
- Quarterly Record, by Trinitarian Bible Society (London, England) (partial serial archives)
- Histoire de la Société Biblique Protestante de Paris (1818 à 1868) (with biographical notices by Schickler; in French; Paris: Société Biblique Protestante, 1868), by O. Douen, contrib. by F. de Schickler
- Proceedings of the State Bible Convention of South Carolina, Held at Columbia, Sept. 17 and 18, 1862; With a Sermon Preached Before the Convention (Columbia, SC: Southern Guardian Steam-Power Press, 1862), contrib. by George Howe
- Proceedings of the State Bible Convention of South Carolina, Held at Columbia, Sept. 17 and 18, 1862; With a Sermon Preached Before the Convention (Columbia, SC: Southern Guardian Steam-Power Press, 1862), contrib. by George Howe
- A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc. (London: H. Johnson; et al., 1839), by C. H. Timperley
- A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1907), by Henry R. Plomer
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)
- The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
- Caspar's Directory of the American Book, News and Stationery Trade, Wholesale and Retail (Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar's Book Emporium; et al., 1889), by C. N. Caspar (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book Trade in the United States in 1905 (typescript thesis; 1905), by Francis K. W. Drury
- Riceyman Steps (c1923), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley (Gutenberg text)
- Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley
- La Seine et les Quais: Promenades d'un Bibliophile (in French; Paris: H. Daragon, 1901), by Gabriel Hanotaux, illust. by Albert Robida
- The Frankfort Book Fair: The Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911), by Henri Estienne, ed. by James Westfall Thompson (page images at CMU)
- The Frankfort Book Fair: The Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911), by Henri Estienne, ed. by James Westfall Thompson (page images at CMU)
- The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911), by Frank Arthur Mumby, contrib. by W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shadows of the Old Booksellers (London: Bell and Daldy, 1865), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Random Recollections of an Old Publisher (2 volumes; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; Bournemouth: Bright's, 1900), by William Tinsley
- Sixty Years a Bookman, With Other Recollections and Reflections (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1923), by Joseph Shaylor
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New (London: Chatto and Windus, ca. 1873), by Henry Curwen
- Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- A Seleced Catalogue of Some of the Most Esteemed Publications in the English Language Proper to Form a Social Library; With an Introduction Upon the Choice of Books (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Thaddeus Mason Harris (MS Word at Princeton)
- The Bookseller (UK book trade journal, 1858-) (partial serial archives)
- The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
- Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)
- The History of Printing in America; With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers, to Which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World (2 volumes; Worcester, MA: I. Thomas, 1810), by Isaiah Thomas
- Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Alleged Price Fixing of Library Books: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 191 (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters on International Copyright (second edition; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by Henry Charles Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bibliotheca Meermanniana (4 sale catalog books in 2 volumes, in various languages; 1824), contrib. by Gerard Meerman and Johan Meerman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
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