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Jonathan Cape, 1974. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Very large ink stain along book edge. Text unaffected. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:0224008277

Jonathan Cape, London, further revised edition, 1954. Cloth, 8vo,. 438 pp. With Peet's extensive bibliography brought up-to-date by Munby. Head of spine bumped, otherwise Good.

Book. Good. Binding see description. London (1930). Reprint, 1934. xii,484pp. Illus. Cloth. (a bit soiled).*With a bibliography by W. Peet. 0.

Jonathan Cape, 1954. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:

Academy Books, London, 1934 reprint of 1930 edition. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xii, 13-483 pp, ills, plates. First published in 1910 under title: "The romance of book selling." Revised and re-written in 1930 under the present title; re-issued in Academy Books, 1934. Covers a little marked, spine sunned.

Book. Good. Binding see description. London (1930). Reprint, 1934. xii,484pp. Illus. Cloth. (a bit soiled).*With a bibliography by W. Peet. 0.

Jonathan Cape, London, fourth (revised and enlarged) edition, 1956. Cloth, 8vo,. 442 pp. From the blurb: "Many times reprinted and revised, [this work] has again been brought as near up to date as is humanly possible to sustain the claim that it is a history of publishing and bookselling from the earliest times to the present day. On its first appearance it was praised in terms which still hold good: 'As deft, comprehensive and entertaining a piece of workmanship as ever invited the gratitude of all sorts and conditions of bookmen.' Bookplate of Frank Broomhead on front pastedown endpaper, signed and dated on front free endpaper, Very Good in a slightly used dustwrapper which is a little torn at the head of the rear panel.

Academy Books, London, 1934 reprint of 1930 edition. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xii, 13-483 pp, ills, plates. First published in 1910 under title: "The romance of book selling." Revised and re-written in 1930 under the present title; re-issued in Academy Books, 1934. Slightly pulled at hinges and front endpapers torn along hinge, contents slightly foxed.

Jonathan Cape, London, fifth edition, 1974. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 685 pp. From the blurb: "Frank Mumby's famous history first appeared in 1930, when it was praised by Arthur Waugh as being 'as deft, comprehensive and entertaining a piece of workmanship as ever invited the gratitude of all sorts and conditions of bookmen'.. For this new edition, Ian Norrie, who has been a practising bookseller, publisher, novelist and journalist for twenty-five years, has completely rewritten the second half, to provide the first detailed history of the trade from 1870 to 1970. Ian Norrie has devoted more than half of the new text to the vital issues which confronted the book trade during the last hundred years of modernization. He records the history of nearly 400 publishers during this period, and of 350 booksellers doing business in approximately 150 cities and towns in the British Isles. Moving on to the present day, he focuses on the growing tendcncy towards takeovers and mergers, especially among… Read More

Bell & Hyman, London, sixth edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 253 pp. From the blurb: "Mumby's Publishing and Bookselling became a standard text on the history of the British book trade soon after its publication in 1930 and has remained so throughout its many subsequent editions. In 1974 it was revised and updated by Ian Norrie, who contributed a major section devoted specifically to the period 1870-1970. Since then much has happened and the present book, although based on Ian Norrie's part of the 1974 Mumby, has been substantially re-written and re-structured to include the most recent directions taken by the trade in response to changing national and international markets. Ian Norrie records, in his uniquely lively and lucid style, the up-to-date chronicles of publishing houses and booksellers in every part of the British Isles, drawing attention, by so doing, to the trends that underlie these individual histories. In addition he includes more general surveys of the major issues… Read More

Johnathan Cape, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Fourth Edition on brown cloth + owners nameplate