Book distribution - Booksellers and bookselling - Memoirs, Biographies

Lot Comprises:

Sheila Markham, A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2007, 4to., publisher's orange paper wrappers

Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman, New York & London, 1986, 4to., publisher's grey boards backed by beige cloth

Hans P. Kraus, A Rare Book Saga: The Autobiography of H.P. Kraus, New York, 1978, 4to., publisher's black cloth

David A. Randall, Dukedom Large Enough: Reminiscences of a Rare Book Dealer 1929‐1956, New York, 1969, 4to., publisher's maroon cloth, dust jacket

O.F. Snelling, Rare Books and Rarer People, London, 1982, 8vo., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket, signed by author

Roger E. Stoddard, B.H.B. [Bernard Hartmut Breslauer, 1918-2004] in Retrospect (The Bernard H. Breslauer Lecture 2006, delivered at The Grolier Club on September 28, 2006), New York, The American Trust for the British Library, 2007, 4to., publisher's light blue wrappers

William Targ, ed., Bouillabaisse for Bibliophiles: A Treasury of Bookish Lore, Wit & Wisdom, Tales, Poetry & Narratives & Certain Curious Studies of Interest to Bookmen & Collectors, Cleveland & New York, 1955, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt, dust jacket

William Targ, Carrousel for Bibliophiles: A Treasury of Tales, Narratives, Songs, Epigrams and Sundry Curious Studies Relating to a Noble Theme, Metuchen, 1967, 4to., publisher's red cloth

Vespasiano da Bisticci, 1421/2-1498

The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century (translated by William George and Emily Waters), London, G. Routledge & Sons, 1926, 4to., publisher's brown cloth, bookplate of Charles A. Wightman, Evanston, Illinois

Colin Franklin, Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2012, 4to., publisher's original brick‐colored cloth, dust jacket

Anton Gerits, Books, Friends and Bibliophilia, Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2004, 4to., publisher's cloth

William Dana Orcutt, In quest of the perfect book : reminiscences & reflections of a bookman, Boston, Little, Brown, 1926, 4to., publisher's brown cloth gilt

Nicolas Barker, The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of "The Book Collector", An Anthology, London & New Castle, DE, 2003, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Maurice L. Ettinghausen, Rare books and royal collectors : memoirs of an antiquarian bookseller, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1966, 8vo., tan cloth, dust jacket

A.S.W. Rosenbach, Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile, Boston, 1927, 4to., publisher's pasteboards with Neptune medallion, simulated cloth spine with paper title label, pasteboard slipcase, no.740 of a limited large paper edition of 785 copies, bookplate of Fred S. Piper dated 1928

A.S.W. Rosenbach, The Unpublishable Memoirs, London, 1924, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Leslie A. Morris, Rosenbach Abroad: In Pursuit of Books in Private Collections, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1988, 4to., paper covered pamphlet

Leslie A. Morris, Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1989, paper covered pamphlet

Kathleen T. Hunt, Rosenwald and Rosenbach: Two Philadelphia Bookmen, Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collective at the Library of Congress, April 30 to July 31, 1983, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1983, paper covered pamphlet

Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, 1876-1952

Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with John F. Fleming, Rosenbach, a Biography, Cleveland & New York, 1960, 8vo., publisher's red cloth

Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller, New York, 1938, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller, Florence, privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli, 1937, 4to., publisher's orange decorative wrappers, signed by author

Sold as a group, not subject to return.