The Online Books Page

Booksellers and bookselling -- Biography

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Booksellers and bookselling
• Booksellers and bookselling -- History
• Biography

• Booksellers and bookselling -- Australia -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Belgium -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Germany -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- New England -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Québec (Province) -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
• Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- Biography

• Life of a book agent (A. Nelles, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond and Roger E. Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices bio-bibliographiques sur quelques imprimeurs, libraires, correcteurs, compositeurs, fondeurs, lithographes, etc., qui se sont fait connaitre a divers titres, principalement comme auteurs, avec indication de leurs portraits. (E. Devroye, 1858), by A. Dereume (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martin Bossange 1766-1865 ([s.n.], 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fra min første boghandlertid spredte minder. (Graebe, 1909), by Chr. M. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Some early Australian bookmen (Australian National University Press, 1978), by George Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Candeur bibliographique; ou, Le libraire honnête-homme. (Le Véridique [i.e. Bruxelles], 1776), by M*** (page images at HathiTrust)

• The confessions of J. Lackington, late bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses (J. Wilson and D. Hitt, 1808), by James Lackington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographisches lexikon des deutschen buchhandels der gegenwart. Unter berücksichtigung der hervorragendsten vertreter des buchgewerbes der alten zeit und des auslandes. Mit einem lichtdruckbilde und 25 portraits. (F. Pfau, 1890), by Karl Friedrich Pfau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festschrift zum fünfzigjährigen Bestehen des Mitteldeutschen Buchhändler-Verbandes und des Vereins der Buchhändler zu Frankfurt am Main. Im Auftrag der beiden Vereine hrsg. von Stefan Wangart. ([Hauserpresse], 1928), by Stefan Wangart, Frankfurt am Main Verein der Buchhändler, and Mitteldeutscher Buchhändler-Verband (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Theodore Bliss, publisher and bookseller; a study of character and life in the middle period of the XIX century (A.A. Bliss], 1911), by Theodore Bliss and Arthur Ames Bliss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Courte notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Louis-Joseph-Amédée Derome, fondateur de l'Adoration nocturne au Canada (Arbour et Dupont, 1922), by Elie-J. Auclair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ivan Kallinikovich Golubev : pi͡atʹdesi͡at let na sluzhbe knige, 1875-1925 : biograficheskiĭ ocherk (Obshchestvo, 1925), by Russkoe bibliograficheskoe obshchestvo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Bookseller's art : Carl Kroch and Kroch's & Brentano's (Library of Congress, 1988), by John Young Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seven stairs, by Stuart Brent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bernardo Mendel, bookman extraordinaire, 1895-1967. (Indiana University Publications, 1973), by Cecil K. Byrd and Bloomington) Lilly Library (Indiana University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Annie Nelles, or, The life of a book agent : an autobiography. (Cincinnati : Miami Pub. Co., 1869), by Annie Nelles Dumond and Ohio) Miami Printing and Publishing Company (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The romance of book selling: a history from the earliest times to the twentieth century (Chapman & Hall, 1910), by Frank Arthur Mumby and W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliothèques, livres et libraries. (M. Rivière et cie., 1910), by Association des bibliothécaires français, Paris (France) École des hautes études sociales, and Cercle de la librairie (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika. Mein Wirken als deutscher Buchhändler. Zwei Aufsätze von E. Steiger. Als Manuscript gedruckt. (New York, 1866), by Ernst Steiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca Reediana. A catalogue of the ... library of the late Isaac Reed, esq., of Staple Inn. Deceased ... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. King and Lochée ... Nov. 2, 1807, and 38 following days (Sundays excepted) ... (J. Barker, printer, 1807), by Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstracts from the Wills of English printers and stationers, from 1492 to 1630. (Printed for the Bibliographical Society, by Blades, East and Blades, 1903), by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and booksellers in ancient and modern times, with autobiographical experiences of the past sixty years : a lecture delivered by John Britnell in the Art Galleries, 880 Yonge Street, Toronto. (J. Britnell Son, 1923), by John Britnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bookstores can be saved (Booksellers Catalog Service, Kroch's and Brentano's, 1952), by Adolph Kroch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The publisher (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Robert Sterling Yard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The successful bookshop, a manual of practical information (R. R. Bowker Co., 1947), by Frederic Gershom Melcher, Harry J. Feeley, and George A. Hecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen eines antiquars ([Berlin?, 1927), by Martin Breslauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A half-century of notes on the daybook of John Dorne, bookseller in Oxford, A. D. 1520. ([F. Madan], 1886), by Henry Bradshaw and Falconer Madan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Millers of Haddington, Dunbar and Dunfermline : a record of Scottish bookselling (T.F. Unwin, 1914), by W. J. Couper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sunwise Turn : a human comedy of bookselling (E.P. Dutton, 1923), by Madge Jenison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The profession of bookselling; a handbook of practical hints for the apprentice and bookseller. (The Office of the Publishers' weekly, 1893), by Adolf Growoll and Augusta Harriet Garrigue Leypoldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A booksellers's library and how to use it (Publisher's Weekly, 1891), by Adolf Growoll (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 earliest Cambridge stationers & bookbinders, and the first Cambridge printer (Printed for the Bibliographical society at the Oxford university press, 1904), by G. J. Gray, Joseph Pennell, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• ABA sidelines directory (The Association, 1957), by American Booksellers Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Antiquar und die beschreibenden Naturwissenschaften. (Leipzig, 1929), by Wilhelm Junk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dreiundfünfzig jahre buchhändler in Deutschland und Amerika. Erinnerungen und plaudereien (E. Steiger & co., 1901), by Ernst Steiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bookman's reading and tools (The H. W. Wilson company, 1926), by H. W. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Points at issue : a bookseller looks at bibliography : a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on April 24, 1984 (Library of Congress, 1984), by Anthony Rota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die berufseignung des mittleren kaufmännischen bureaubeamten im buchhandel (J. A. Barth, 1921), by Justus Streller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Agenda-annuaire de la librairie française v. 1 (H. Le Soudier, 1894), by H. Le Soudier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel. (Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler., 1834), by Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler zu Leipzig (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bookman's manual; a guide to literature (R.R. Bowker co., 1921), by Bessie Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ėti͡udy o russkoĭ chitai͡ushcheĭ publike (Sklad izd. v knizhnykh magazinakh N.P. Karbasnikova, 1895), by N. A. Rubakin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selling books, a series of discussions for the staff, presenting the principles of good retailing for practical self training. (R. R. Bowker, 1941) (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)
• The bookman's reading and tools (The H. W. Wilson company, 1925), by H. W. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meine Gedanken über den Buchhandel und über Dessen mängel, meine wenigen Erfahrungen und meine unmassgeblichen Vorschläge dieselben zu verbessern. Bloss Abgedruckt für die herren Vorsteher und meine übrigen herren Collegen, zur Prüfung, Verbesserung und Ergänzung. ([Leipzig, 1925), by G. J. Göschen and Johann Adolf Goldfriedrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One hundred years of book auctions, 1807-1907; being a brief record of the firm of Hodgson and Co. (commonly known as "Hodgsons") ... (Printed at the Chiswick Press for private circulation, 1908), by Hodgson and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to Gen. Starring, Jan. 14, 1880. ([London, 1880), by Bernard Quaritch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The librarian and the bookseller. (N.Y., 1913), by Edward W. Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The methods of Mr. Sellyer; a book store study (John Lane company, 1914), by Stephen Leacock and American Booksellers Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The profession of bookselling, a handbook of practical hints for the apprentice and bookseller. (Publisher's Weekly, 1893), by Adolf Growoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book-hunter in London : historical and other studies of collectors and collecting (A.C. McClurg, 1895), by W. Roberts and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historie derer buchhändler wie solche in alten und mitlern zeiten gewesen aus tüchtigen nachrichten zusammen getragen. (Tauber, 1722), by Christian Schöttgen (page images at HathiTrust)
• First editions of one hundred masterpieces of literature. ([J. Pearson & Co.], 1901), by J. Pearson & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "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)
• The successful bookseller. A complete guide to success to all engaged in a retail bookselling, stationery, & fancy goods business ... (Successful bookseller publishing co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van den Nederlandschen boekhandel (Van Kampen, 1892), by N. de Roever, P. Nijhoff, W.P. Sautijn Kluit, Louis D. Petit, and Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels (page images at HathiTrust)
• English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a selection of first and early editions of the works of esteemed authors and book illustrators and books on sports and pastimes (Maggs Bros., 1927), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a selection of first and early editions of the works of esteemed authors and book illustrators and books on sports and pastimes (Maggs Bros., 1925), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Buchhandels und der Buchhandels und der Buchdruckerkunst. (F. Metz, 1834), by Friederich Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiftieth anniversary of the coparternership of Crocker & Brewster : November 1, 1868. (Rand & Avery, 1869), by Uriel Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothèques, livres et librairies. Conférences faites à l'École des hautes-études sociales sous le patronage de l'Association des bibliothécaires français avec le concours de l'Institut international de bibliographie et du Cercle de la librairie. (1912), by Association des bibliothécaires français, Paris (France). École des hautes études sociales, Cercle de la librairie (France), and Brussels Institut international de bibliographie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Progressive era ([n. p.], 1913), by Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les mystères des bandes noires. (The author, 1866), by Josse Sacré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Deutsche Buchhandel und die Wissenschaft: Denkschrift im Auftrage des Akademischen Schutzvereins (B.G. Teubner, 1904), by Karl Bücher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les librairies à l'époque antique : Les manuscrits du Roussillon. (Comet, 1916), by Henry Aragon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu l'Hon. Sir G.E. Cartier, baronet, pour être vendu mercredi, le 24 septembre 1873 (s.n., 1873), by George-Etienne Cartier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quod felix, faustum que ad perpetuam rei memoriam, ex liberalitate et munificentia illustrissimi at que Reverendissimi D. D. Joannis Olivarii Briand ... (s.n., 1800), by Jean-Olivier Briand (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)
• [Booksellers sample book] (s.n.], 1901), by H. M. Soper, D. H. Morrison, Belle Manley Stayton, and Lida Brooks Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (Thompson & Hood, 1902), by Nelle M. Mustain and Maude M. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (s.n., 1903), by Margaret M. dt Poems that never die Browning, Nellie M. Mustain, and Hesba Stratford (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (International Publishing Co., 1901), by Frances Putnam Pogle and Frederick Lonnkvist (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by J. Victor Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young people's speaker : being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, dialogues, original and adapted comedies, tableaux, etc. : comprising the best selections from the most celebrated authors and composers : including descriptive, dramatic, pathetic, humorous recitals and readings with music, for schools, lodges, public entertainments, anniversaries, Sunday-schools, etc., etc. ... : richly embellished with full-page phototype engravings (s.n.]., 1895), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gathered pearls. (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (P. W. Ziegler Co, 1909), by Charlotte M. Yonge, Laura Augusta Yerkes, Frederic William Unger, and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (The Minter Co., 1910), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (s.n.], 1902), by George A. Peltz, H. M. Soper, Marshall Everett, and Grace Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Booksellers sample book] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by Harriet Newell Jones, T. Edward Hollinshed, Amelia Howard Botsford, Alberta Cline, and Charles M. Snyder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des buchhandels und der buchdruckerkunst. (F. Metz, 1834), by Friederich Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreiundfünfzig jahre buchhändler in Deutschland und Amerika : Erinnerungen und plauderein (E. Steiger, 1901), by Ernst Steiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of literary and typographical anedcdote (H. G. Bohn, 1842), by C. H. Timperley (page images at HathiTrust)
• How 'tis done : a thorough ventilation of the numerous schemes conducted by wandering canvassers, together with the various advertising dodges for the swindling of the public. (Fidelity Pub. Co., 1971), by Bates Harrington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notices of David Laing ... To which is added a chronological list of the various publications which were issued under his editorial superintendence from the year M.DCCC.XV. to the year M.DCCC.LXVIII inclusive. (Printed for private circulation [R. Syme and son, printers], 1878), by Thomas George Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller : consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections, and an unlimited retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author . (Printed by and for the author, 1835), by William West and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collective exhibit of the American book trade at Paris, 1878. (Palais de l'exposition, Section Americaine, 1878), by Andrew Dickson White and France) Exposition universelle de 1878 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Catalogue of English and foreign theology, : comprising the holy scriptures, in various languages, liturgies and liturgical works; ... together with the chief works of the Church of England divines, also, a few valuable manuscripts and works in miscellaneous literarture. The whole in fine condition, and warranted perfect, now on sale, at the prices affixed, for ready money only, by John Leslie, 58, Great Queen Street, ... London: MDCCCXLVI. (John Leslie, 1846), by John Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publishers and the public. (G.E. Wright, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte des buchhandels und der buchdruckerkunst (Jonghaus, 1835), by Friederich Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directory of booksellers, stationers, publishers and libraries in the United States and Canada--Supplement. (The H.W. Wilson Company, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printers' manual : containing instructions to learners, with scales of impositions, and numerous calculations, recipes, and scales of prices in the principal towns of Great Britain together with practical directions for conducting every department of a printing office (H. Johnson, 49, Paternoster Row ;, 1839), by C. H. Timperley and Edinburgh Typographia (Edinburgh) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book stores and publishers in Latin America ... (Pan American union, 1945), by Columbus Memorial Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bookman's manual; a guide to literature (R. R. Bowker co., 1935), by Bessie Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of presentation copies and association books. (Walter M. Hill, 1920), by Walter M. Hill (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The successful bookshop. (National Association of Book Publishers, 1928), by Frederic Gershom Melcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The buiness builder (Chicago : F.E. Compton & Company, 1925, 1925), by Ronald Millar and S.J. Gillfillan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bookman's manual; a guide to literature (R.R. Bowker Co., 1928), by Bessie Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Never be a bookseller (Knopf, 1929), by David Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three centuries of English booktrade bibliography: an essay on the beginnings of booktrade bibliography since the introduction of printing and in England since 1595. Also a list of the catalogues, &c., published for the English booktrade from 1595-1902 (Dibdin Club, 1903), by Adolf Growoll, Wilberforce Eames, and New York Dibdin Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of catalogues of English book sales, 1676-1900, now in the British Museum (British Museum, 1915), by British Museum. Department of Printed Books, Alfred W. Pollard, I. A. K. Burnett, and Harold Mattingly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty years in my bookshop (Constable & Co., 1923), by Walter T. Spencer and Thomas Moult (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel d'édition et de librairie. (Payot, 1928), by Gaston Zelger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ročenka čsl. knihtiskařů (Vydal Spolek faktorů knihtiskaren a písmolijen, 1922), by Spolek faktorů knihtiskáren v Protektorátě Čechy a Morava and Spolek faktorů knihtiskáren v Česklsovenské republice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ročenka čsl. knihtiskařů (Vydal Spolek faktorů knihtiskaren a písmolijen, 1922), by Spolek faktorů knihtiskáren v Protektorátě Čechy a Morava and Spolek faktorů knihtiskáren v Česklsovenské republice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sunwise Turn : a human comedy of bookselling (Dutton, 1930), by Madge Jenison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buch und Bildung: Eine Aufsatzfolge (in German), by Friedrich Oldenbourg (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.