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**Simpkin’s”’ An Old London Institution
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ITHIN the sound of the chimes of try and hold many of the leading positions St. Paul’s Cathedral, tucked away in in the book-trade both at home and abroad. a corner of the busy city, away from A considerable proportion of the leading the noise and din of the rumbling traffic, is booksellers in the larger towns of England Stationers’ Hall Court. In the Court stands have spent some part of their career at the old Hall of the Worshipful Company of “Simpkin’s,” and more than one publisher
Stationers, which was erected after the Fire of London upon the site of the residence of John Duke of Brittany and Richmond, afterwards the residence of the Earls of Pembroke and then of Baron Burgavenny, who, with his eldest son, in 1611, sold it to the Com- pany. The Company it- self dates back to 1556 and its first Hall was in Milk Street, Cheapside. In an enclosure to the west of the Hall is a plane tree marking the spot where many books, condemned as being he- retical, have been burnt by order of the Ecclesi- astical Authorities. Immediately opposite the Hall is the Univer- sity of the Book-trade, an institution know thru- out the world of books as “Simpkin’s.” Men who have learned their busi- ness at “Simpkin’s”’ are to be found in every THE DOORWAY OF STATIONERS’ HALL
has gathered practical experience in this fa- mous building.
Within one hundred yards from “Simpkin’s” are Pilgrim Street, Creed Lane, Ave Maria Lane, Paternoster Row and Amen Corner, which with St. Paul’s Cathed- ral give the district its savor of sanctity. The origin of these names is not far to seek. In the days long past, at the end of Amen Corner, was a cloister from which the monks trav- eled to and from the Ca- thedral and on their way repeated the “Paternos- ter’ or “Ave Maria” finishing up in the cor- ner with “Amen.”
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with all sorts of designations, one of which still exists today and is used by the oldest of London publishing houses, Longmans— “At the Sign of the Ship.” One can imag- ine the atmosphere of rivalry in which these early booksellers conducted their busi- ness, for their overhead signs grew bigger and bigger until they became a danger to the passing public and had to be condemned by an act of Parliament.
The addresses, too, were curious, but nevertheless exact—one reads “At the West Door of Our Lord’s House,” and it was frequently found that the address of an early bookshop was associated with some part of the Cathedral.
It was in St. Paul’s Churchyard that the works of Shakespeare and Milton were first issued, and later on that poor Goldsmith borrowed money from John Newbery, the first publisher of children’s books. Even today busts of these two men are to be found outside a shop, altho unfortunately it is no longer a bookshop.
If St. Paul’s Churchyard is the home of the bookseller, Stationers’ Hall is the home of the book. Books issued before the re- vised Copyright Law of I9II were regis- tered there, and its records contained much information regarding the rise and develop- ment of the craft.
The Master of Them That Know
As we have said before, “Simpkin’s” is immediately opposite the Hall and today extends underneath it and almost all round it. We should imagine that in one form or other this firm has existed on the same spot for about two hundred years. It was in the year 1814 that two partners started business as Simpkin and Marshall and sold books wholesale to the booksellers in Lon- don. Previous to this time the business was owned by Benjamin Crosby, the predecessor of the more modern firm, still in this neigh- borhood, of Crosby Lockwood & Co., and before him one named Stalker owned the business. In 1889 extensions were made and the competing houses of Hamilton Adams & Co. and William Kent & Co. were absorbed, making one huge concern, thereby consolidating the wholesale dis- tributing trade into one center.
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and adapted for immediate use. In the same way “Simpkin’s” has all book titles at its finger ends no matter if the book was published yesterday or a hundred years ago. Such a facility is both beneficial and economical and has been appreciated by the book-trade to such an extent that “Simp- kin’s” has long since become a magic word. To the bookseller it means what Aristotle meant to Dante, “the master of them that know.” What “Simpkin’s” does not know about books matters very little. Its staff of 500 employes have practically all been trained up in the organization.
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All day long the representatives of the various publishing houses call at the “Sub- scription” department with sample copies of their new publications or seek renewed orders. In the autumn season, hundreds of new books are often submitted in one day and this demands a staff specially experi- enced in giving orders. To give an order seems to be a simple thing but when dealing with large quantities and multitudes of titles it involves a large amount of money and needs to be done with much skill.
Apart from the giving of orders particu- lars of new publications have to be recorded with sufficient detail and exactness to be registered for future reference. Another staff is kept busy on this work arranging, cataloging and classifying each new book with great care, for a slin in title or name or even a letter out of place means more than an error, it means loss of trade.
Behind the subscribing department is a large room with a series of stands across it. Upon each of these stands are several fat and heavy volumes containing particu- lars about tens of thousands of titles, first order, the rate of depletion, the reorders, the present stock in bundles and in open shelves. Or, the record may show that the title has been dropped. Between each row assistants pass and repass each other in search of information. All the minute care characteristic of banking establishments is here but with this difference, the figures to a banker mean money, to “Simpkin’s” they mean stock.
To the north of this department is another department about 100 feet long with a counter running from one end to the other. The entrances to this section are many, but three are available to the public. Behind the counter are about twenty-five men, some grey in service, others younger and more active tho less experienced, men quite human and tramed by more or less years
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of experience and discipline. Amongst them all is an intelligent interest in the work and no scientist is keener on his form of re- search or more jealous of the latest detail, than is this staff of men in tracking out obstinate queries. Neither the book-trade nor the general public can ever realize how much is owed to these human ferrets who simply delight in the word query. Such orders as, “4 The Choir Tower” (For the Quiet Hour) and “Call it a Horse,” Henty (Cornet of Horse) require some unravel- ing and this implies not only knowledge but craftmanship, and the ease with which ob- stacles are overcome and piles of books transferred from seller to buyer is a living testimony to the completeness of organiza- tion. For Out of Town Customers —
The ramifications of their business con- tacts are extraordinary. From the man with a small suburban shop to the big wealthy wholesale competitor, they all have to rely upon “Simpkin’s.” The London bookseller has “collectors” who make their daily calls. Those booksellers in the outer suburbs or the provinces who do not send collectors are allotted a series of depart- ments superintended by men of the widest experience. Each country customer has a bin allotted, and the head of the particular department is responsible for the due execu- tion of his order. Such an arrangement is of the greatest value to the book-trade of the country, for it means that behind the local bookseller is a support upon which he can rely.
In another section of this big building is the great export department. Outside the carter yells from below as the crane lowers heavy cases of books into one of many wait- ing vans loading up for shipment to the docks. From the pavement comes the rat- tle of trollies loaded with bags being trans- ferred from the mail room to the waiting post office van. Inside all day long there is the sound of bumping and banging as the heavy packages are moved on the pack- ing boards, and the hammering of nails as the cases are closed previous to shipment.
In the mailing room assistants are busy weighing each parcel intended for book or parcel post abroad. Elsewhere is a staff of men packing up these parcels with skill which is the outcome of practical experi- ence, for it is not everybody who can pack a parcel of books. As each parcel is com- pleted, it is marked and placed in a section not unlike stable stalls, each labeled with the name of different countries of the world.
At the windows right across the long building is a series of desks at which numer-
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ous clerks collate the orders and prepare the invoices which the busy typists in another room finish off according to the many and varying Customs regulations. To the right and left of the clerks are reference books and catalogs and behind them a series of pigeon holes containing printed address labels of the firms’ clients. Close by the pigeon holes are rows of counters stacked with books awaiting shipment.
In one corner is the notice of outgoing mails received daily from the General Post Office; in another, dicertories of the world’s book-trade issued by other nations, and of course the inevitable dictionaries of for- eign languages.
Visitors from all parts of the world find their way to this room and seek advice on many matters concerning their business.
There are many other things which could be said about the remarkable organization known as “Simpkin’s,” but none more im- portant, we think, than the general indebted- ness of the community to such an institu-
tion. It is not merely a commercial concern,
a clearing house for books, an organization which buys and sells books for profit, altho of necessity it must do this, it is much more than this, it is a national institution and one without which the world would be poorer and book-trading impossible.
Department Store Circulating Library
TS first Chicago department store new-
fiction library has been opened by the Davis Dry Goods Co., to introduce to the Public its recently opened book section and to arouse an interest in new books. The book department is located only a few steps from the waiting room, the sub post office and the magazine stand. There is a special cover designed for the books from the li- brary so that the library is well advertised. The opening day, with an advertisement in but one morning newspaper, thirty-eight ac- counts were opened. To those who have a charge account there is no charge other than the price of three cents a day for the book, with a minimum charge of Io cents from others a deposit of $1.00 is required. With summer vacations in view the idea was con- sidered worth offering now rather than waiting for the usual winter season of reading.
As a feature of the opening big displays were made of costumes worn by Mary Pick- ford in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” and one salesgirl dressed in a costume of the period succeeded in making the sales of the book “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon
Hall” jump appreciably.
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Summer in the Bookstore
By Gilbert H. Sackett
HESE torrid summer months there are
few places in New York which present
a more restful atmosphere than a typical bookstore, especially if it is not one of the very big ones. It is not claimed that the temperature is necessarily any lower than in other stores, but a bookshop seems impregnated with a soothing calm which invites not only the more ardent biblio- philes, but also those for whom the pur- chase of a book is a comparative rarity to linger and browse in the literary pas- tures. The public, when in a bookstore, appears to feel a sort of awed rever- ence for its sur- roundings, and ac- cordingly moves about quietly and speaks in subdued tones.
One might possibly gather the impression from the above remarks that bookstores are more or less deserted during the summer months, but such is far from being the case. As a matter of fact, altho the total gross retail sales of books in New York City show an appreciable falling off in summer, it is the experience of many individual book- stores that their total sales during the hot weather are but little less than those during a corresponding period in winter—always excepting, of course, the month preceding Christmas.
The heaviest decline in summer sales ap- pears to be suffered by those stores which, by reason of their location or the class of their business, depend for the bulk of their trade unon the wealthier members of the
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busy book season.
city’s population who, of course, are in the
habit of seeking cooler climates during the period beginning about the first of June and lasting until about the middle or end of September. Many such stores manage to alleviate what would otherwise be a serious loss of business by planting, during the winter months, the seeds of a very consider- able mail-order business, which nicely sup- plements their over the counter trade when
S summer a dull season in the book- The answer from the rare book-trade is “Yes—that is—it is the general opinion that the present is the quietest summer for some years in the But New York re- tail stores say “No.” are given special attention in the sum- mer and largely counteract loss in over the counter sales. all finding a way to make summer a
their customers are away from New York.
One of the largest retail booksellers in New York, whose customers range all the way from the wealthiest members of the population, who spend a great deal of money on books, down to the man or woman who buy an _ occa- sional magazine or cheap novel, reports quite an appreciable falling off in its total gross sales dur- ing the summer, ow- ing to the fact that “sets” of books, and books with expen- sive bindings are scarcely sold at all at this time of the year. Almost all the people who buy books of this nature are, of course, out of town during sum- mer, and they sel- dom buy such books by mail. In the less expensive books, however, this firm does, in the months of June, July and August, a business which is but little less than that of the average winter month. This firm also reports that altho readers, at this period of the year, usually show a slight prefer- ence for a somewhat lighter kind of litera- ture than during the winter, there is, never- theless, a surprisingly large number of the heavier type of book sold. The reason for this, apparently, is that many readers decide to take advantage of the leisure offered them by their summer vacations to read one or more of the classics that they have been “intending to read for years.” Books of poetry appear to sell just about as well in summer as in winter, and rhyming dic- tionaries, curiously enough, have met with considerable popularity. Many readers, ap- parently, spend part of the summer in giving vent to their previously suppressed desires to indulge in versification!
Another large source of income for this store is derived from the sale of guide- books, road-maps, etc., covering not only New York and environs, but almost all parts of America and Europe, as well. Books suitable for “Bon Voyage” baskets
Mail-order sales
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have been advertised by this store annually, and have met with a large sale, and the store is also doing a very considerable mail- order trade in about the same type of book as it is selling over the counter.
The number of customers entering the store seldom falls much below that in winter, and when the mail-order and tele- phone business is taken into consideration, it will be realized that there are almost as many sales in summer as in winter. The drop in the value of summer sales, as has been mentioned before, is due almost en- tirely to the fact that very few of the ex- pensively-bound books or sets of books are sold at this time. Stock-taking, vacations of the staff, and the preparation of the fall catalog keep those in the store fully occupied, and more than make up for any slight falling off in the number of cus- tomers that. they have to attend to.
Another and smaller bookshop, within a stone’s throw of the Grand Central Ter- minal, makes a specialty of finding out the type of book its regular customers pre- fer, and then keeping them supplied with lists of suggested books which they advise them to read. Many customers, in fact, give this store carte-blanche instructions to supply them with so many dollars’ worth of books per year, leaving the selection of the books solely to the discretion of those in charge.
The __ proprietor States that there is very little decrease in the number of over - the - counter customers in sum- mer. While many of the regular cus- tomers who are resi- dents of New York are away, there is a very large number of visitors to the metropolis and tran- sients who, having read about this bookshop ot having visited it previously, come there in order to avail themselves of the guidance of those in charge, when select- ing their books. The sales are kept fully up to the winter level by the great increase in the mail-order business, which extends almost all over the world. Partly on ac- count, perhaps, of the nature of its business, this mart reports that there is no noticeable
SUMMER IN THE BOOKSHOP
The books are dusty and the shop is hot,
For there's a feel of summer in the air,
And summer freshness in the street outside That all who pass my window seem to share. But I see only old and dusty books
And hear the roar of traffic in the street,
I live in the great world that bookmen love; Unknown to youth or they of hurrying feet. But something seems to lure me from my work, And all at once, above the noise I heard Close by my window, on the palings there, The clear sweet piping of a London bird.
So all the love of books went from me then, And knowledge seemed to me no longer sweet, For nothing could excell that simple song
Sung near my window in a London street.
—By a BOooKSELLer’s ASSISTANT.
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difference in the type of books which cus-
tomers will read in summer. Booklovers,
apparently, are quite willing to read, or at
least purchase, the standard classics and the
Deen type of books generally, heat or no eat.
A store located in one of the great rail- road terminals reports that business is, on the whole, better in summer than in winter; the best months of the year, after Decem- ber or January, being either August or September. The trade all the year round consists principally of the somewhat lighter type of book, but the weightier type sells about equally well at all times of the year.
An interesting incident was related by a.
dealer, also near the Grand Central Ter- minal, who specializes in books for ocean travelers. A lady came to the store and said that she was going to France with some friends, who intended to remain in Paris thruout their stay. She, however, had no desire to waste her trip by remaining in the French capital all the time, and wanted to see something of provincial France, but, at the same time, she did not wish to leave her friends. Her quest then was for some book which would describe in glowing phrases, the charms of the country districts of Nor- mandy and Brittany, so that she could place the book be- fore her friends and, possibly, tempt them to leave their beloved Paris and accompany her on a trip thru the rural parts of France. A suitable book was provided, .so_ the bookseller was in- strumental in setting a customer on the right path towards obtaining a_ liberal education. This same store finds that its regular _ business falls off quite appre- ciably during the hot weather, espe- cially in regard to the Saturday after- noon trade, but manages to keep reasonably busy by catering to customers who are going abroad or who wish to send books to their friends who are sailing for foreign parts, and it also has quite a number of visitors from out of town. The better class of fic- tion, biographies, a few guide-books, and particularly books about travel told in an
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interesting literary manner, comprise the bulk of the summer business. It, likewise, reports that people in summer are reading the classics and the more serious type of books much more than formerly, tho un- usual books, such as cross word puzzle- books, are meeting with great popularity just now.
A well-known bookshop, devoted to chil- dren’s books, experiences something of a lull in business during the season under re- view, but has quite a considerable mail- order trade, and its shelves are also visited by a great many people who take a summer vacation in New York. The type of books - sold is about the same thruout the year.
Taking the trade as a whole, two impres- sions stand out prominently. In the first place, it appears that the depression in ‘business from June to September is not, in most bookstores, nearly so serious as one might think, or the more pessimistic might ask one to believe. The mail-order business, the sales to visitors from out of town, and the books purchased by or for travelers, help to keep business at a reasonable level. The greatest increase in the last few years in summer business seems to have been in the realm of gifts to travelers. The habit of sending boxes of flowers or baskets of
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fruit to friends departing by steamer or trains seems to have been largely superseded
‘ by the custom of presenting suitable books.
The second impression is that the old custom of reading only the lighter books dur- ing the summer is, for the most part, a thing of the past. The public is taking advantage more and more each year, of the extra leisure with which their vacations provide them, to read those books which they feel that they ought to read, but which they don’t seem to get time to read during the rush and bustle of winter.
In short, the only books which it is really difficult to sell in summer are sets and those with the more expensive bindings. If booksellers will only take full advantage of the opportunities offered them by the growing disposition of people to read seri- ous books in summer and will also culti- vate to the best of their ability a mail-order trade, perhaps the day will soon come when June to September will see the largest sales of the year—always excepting of course, the Christmas trade.
Those few bookstores which do practi- cally no business in summer might do well to pay particular attention, in their busy winter season, to fostering a mail-order business among their regular customers.
The Chicago Bookmen’s Field Day
HE seventeenth annual field day of the
Chicago Book Fair passed quietly into
history at the Calumet Country Club, Chicago, Friday, July 11. It was unani- mously declared a success when Walter McKee, president of the American Book- sellers’ Association, acting as toastmaster, called it a day.
Winners of events were as usual about equally divided between the East and West. The East was nearly saved from defeat in the baseball game because of the delay in getting started. The train left the tracks on the way out, causing a delay of an hour. There was time for only three innings. Score: West, 12; East, 6.
For the East the best work was done by Johnny Winters (no chance to make an error) and Ford Krauss, who caught fault- lessly. Clark Venable was the star of the West. They could not hit him. Harry
Burt was the umpire.
Luncheon was a most successful event. Just one hundred men enjoyed it.
The photograph speaks for itself.
The golf events attracted nearly half the men and were hotly contested. Charles Johnson repeated in the blind bogey con- test and carried home a beautiful cup. W. R. Kohr won the best net score prize. Harry Burt won first prize in the ap- proaching and putting contest, the second prize going to W. J. Sanford in the play- off. Ben. Hitchens proved to be the best putter at the time and won the putting contest.
George Cappeler was the fastest man in the so-yard dash, while Col. James Blair, first time out, won the fat man’s race. S. W. Drake beat everybody running on all fours, and John Bell came in first in the 200- yard walk. H. J. Forrest ran backward faster than the others and won that event. Capt. Youngman’s western relay team won the relay running race, but the East came right back under the leadership of Capt. J. N. Hopkins and won the tug of war.
Walter McKee of Detroit was a great success as toastmaster. He urged all trav- elers to boost the next convention of the
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American Booksellers’ Association to be held at Chicago next May. After present- ing the prizes to the various winners, he introduced Frank Reilly and P. A. Murk- land, both of whom demonstrated their ability as rare after-dinner speakers. There wasn’t a dull minute for anybody thruout the day. James Pott graced the occasion with his presence and was as active as the youngest cub salesman.
Field Day Notes
F. T. J. Nunan, of N. Y. and Detroit, occupied a rocker on the breeze-swept ver- anda most of the time except during luncheon and dinner.
W. J. Barse missed his second field day in seventeen years. His absence was noted and condemned.
James Pott declined to talk at the dinner.
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A lot of the' younger set wanted to hear how he used to cover the territory.
Ed. Brewster and Mike Donahue had their annual golf game. Ed. paid.
Adam Berger led the singing all after- noon and well into the night.
From force of habit all the salesmen present commented on the weather.
Alex. McKay as captain of the eastern — was so worried he couldn’t hit the ball.
It is said Cominsky thinks well of Frank Howard, manager of the Western team. He has never lost a game.
Geo. Bachman handled the tickets again this year. Geo. could sell anything.
The Calumet course is rapidly coming to be one of the finest in the Chicago dis- trict. It was in excellent condition July II.
The following men were present:
Those Who Were Present at Chicago Field Day
S. Summerfield R. H. Lilya
Wm. O’Kane. Theo. Jasper W. C. Hyde L. M. Levy
F. C. Finley S. W. Drake H. J. Northcott P. C Donaldson R. G. Kornbau E. F. Boedeker A. J. Zerbe M. Gallon
W. R. Kohr S. Darst
D. Proctor H. Stone
Geo. Cappeler M. Lyons
F. K. Reilly A. Munk
Leigh Reilly Alex. McKay C. Venable E. F. Brewster L. Nourse W. C. Robinson F. T. J. Nunan L. B. Vaughan J. Houston M. A. Donahue
B. F. Hitchens W. O. Shepherd Geo. Lea
Jas. Pott
J. H. Hopkins C. R. Duryea
H. Runyan
.B. Spero
Bert Saalfield
Adam Berger G. W. Littlejohn W. P. Blessing R. L. Furlong Geo. B. Metzger W. J. Sanford P. Peterson
Geo. Bingham G. Coy
A. Whitman P. A. Murkland P. A. Loring W. W. Beardsley Guy Hunter W. J. Flynn Guy Kendall H. J. Forrest R. F. Tilley D. P. Bean Jas. Crowder me
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6 J. Winters Chas. Korbel W. V. McKee Fred Krause J. Bell F. W. Harvey E. Morehouse Ed. Porter F. H. Howard F. Shoemaker Duke Hill H. P. Burt J. Neiman W. F. Donahue J. H. Schoenberg E. I. Furman S. E. Brewer W. A. Holland Chas. Johnson Ed. Ironsmith Philip Connor Geo. Sully R. Henry B. F. Curran F, Bates H. R. Blunstone G. F. Bachmann B. Feldstein Jas. Blair
L. N. Black
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The American Book Trade JouRNAL
Founded by F. Leypoldt
EDITORS R. R. Bowker F. G. Metcusr
July 26, 1924
I HOLD every man a debtor to his profes-
sion, from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. —BACON.
The Renascence of Bookshops
T used to be persistently pointed out that the number of retail bookstores in this country was not at all in satisfactory pro-
portion to our population, our wealth, our literacy and our book buying capacity. That only one book per year per capita should be produced and distributed is still not to our national credit. Comparison with the lesser population and lesser resources of the mother country has not been to our advan- tage. But at last the tide has turned, ind, partly thru the energetic propagandism of the book-trade organizations, the American Booksellers’ Association acting in full har- mony with the National Association of Book Publishers, and partly thru natural causes quite outside of organization, the number and importance of retail centers of book distribution are rapidly increasing.
Among the most significant changes are those which follow the trend of development in other lines of trade. There are now several “chains” of book as well as grocery and other stores. More drug stores are carrying books, and are carrying a better class of books than they used to. Tea rooms and gift shops are enlarging the field of their usefulness. By adding a shelf of books or a circulating library they are affording intellectual as well as physical pabulum as a means of livelihood and help- fulness. Music stores, especially phono- graph record dealers are featuring books. Victor records are now issued every Friday, and many dealers say that a circulating library which brings customers back to the store every week gives the music dealer not only a new string to his bow but creates more record sales. While the library patron is choosing his book he is apt to hear a
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record he likes and to buy it. The Year- Round Bookselling campaign intends to cul- tivate the gift shop and music shop as new book outlets very actively this fall.
This is the era of the special shop, the children’s bookshop, the business bookshop, the shop that specializes in Oriental books or philosophical books. This specialization is in the right direction and is leading to the establishment of bookshops in residence centers, in localities hitherto unexploited.
Many well established downtown stores are starting branch shops out in new resi- dence districts or in university districts so that they can draw on more than one group to build a clientele. In this week’s issue, the reader will note that the establishment of a branch shop out at the fashionable Schenley Apartments is a new feature of the growth of the Priscilla Guthrie Book- shop. The term shop instead of store used for many new bookselling ventures is in- teresting in itself. Stores are primarily places where goods are kept. This Ameri- can name for a place of retail sale was scarcely used in England until the establish- ment of the Army and Navy stores and the Civil Service stores, the original department stores of London. Shops, on the other hand, have an inviting sound. The term suggests a personal relationship, the zest of selection and a happy choice as the re- sult. For the children, the bookshop in residence localities or near the schools is a pleasant place where they may be taken by their parents for a look over the books which will interest them.
Another phase of bookshop development which it is encouraging to watch is the establishment of shops in little towns that have never had a bookshop before. Within the last few months new shops have been established in West Haven, Conn., Medford, Ore., Wheeling, W. V., Johnson City, Tenn.
The renascence of the bookshop in America is assured.
Summer in the Bookshop
UMMER used to mean a dull and
drowsy season in the book-trade. There
seems to be more of a demand for changing fashions in the book business than in most fields of merchandise. When Christmas comes around, this year’s roses look very much like those of last year, and the chocolates of December are not very different in cut from those of July. At any rate, the high point of production is not in most manufacturing so concentrated in a few months as it is in the book business.
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Summer in the rare book business is a very dull season. The auctions are over in June. This year is reported to be one of the dullest seasons in years.
But the retailer has done much in recent years to overcome the summer inertia, greatly stimulated and aided by the Year- Round Book-selling Campaign. He has de- veloped his mail order selling to take the place of his loss of over the counter trade. In connection with this, he has kept in touch by mail with his regular customers,
IT’S A TRICK, BUT IT CAN BE DONE!
From the Philadelphia Retail Ledger
selling them books to read in the long sum- mer holiday. He has pointed out the valu- able addition a good travel book is to the ocean or week-end trip, and the opportunity the increased summer leisure offers to read the long deferred classic or to become up- to-date. Booksellers more and more are cooperating with schools to forward plans for vacation reading for school credit. Many shops have changed the type of sale to suit their summer trade. Edwin Valen- tine Mitchell, of Hartford, a bookseller whose clientele numbers an unusual number of lovers of: fine books, has sent out a post card recently offering to sell by mail only a week-end parcel of twelve books for $1.20 and 8 cents postage, the books published by Doubleday, recently. |
The Book Scorpion of the Hampshire Bookshop puts its philosophy this way:
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“Summer reading should mean relaxation,
rest a tired mind,
quiet nerves worn raw, stimulate new interests, renew old book friendships. aid in the pursuit of hobbies,
“And finally should be planned ahead to suit any mood depending on which way you fall out of bed in the morning.”
Keith Preston of the Chicago Daily News put his in rhyme:
The Summer Season bids us tell you now
A Book to read beneath the well-known Bough,
Beside the lovely Thou and Loaf and Jug
Praised by the poet of the Persian Rug.
Yet, who are we to hazard a rash guess
What should go with you to the Wilder- ness?
How shall we say what literary Hunch
Fits the Flirtation and the picnic Lunch?
Only a hint—take something sweet and clean,
Suited to Nature’s still unspoiled Demesne
And such that Two, far from the madding Crowd,
Without a blush may share its Sweets aloud.
Some say a gripping tale of Crook and Gun,
Some a Love Story made in Evanston,
Or safer still and just as apt to please,
A book on “How to Know the Ferns and Trees”
The Bookman’s Glossary
ee the July 12th issue of the Publishers’ Weekly a serial under the name of THE BooKMAN’S GLOSSARY was started, which will form, when finished, a fairly complete dictionary of the book-trade.
While there are numerous separate glos- saries of excellence covering printing, bind- ing and cataloging, THe BookMANn’s GLos- SARY will aim to be comprehensive of the entire field. As printed serially, terms more or less familiar will be given in separate classifications, while the complete book, when issued, will contain also a number of less familiar words and phrases, as well as many cross references, the whole arranged in a single alphabet.
Needless to say, we shall appreciate any friendly criticism of definitions as these selections appear week by week.
Tue BookMAN’s Gtossary is planned 4s the second volume in the series of books for bookmen of which Bessie Graham’s “Book- man’s Manual” was the first.
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How to Collect First Editions By H. D. Clevely
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Complete Collections
OME collectors’ are not content with first editions only; they want copies of everything, magazines, pamphlets, news-
papers, etc., in which work by their favorite authors appears, and unless they can obtain these copies they regard their collections as incomplete. This form of collecting is both costly and laborious, as can be seen if we just follow the progress of only one imagi- nary book by an imaginary author, in the library of “the complete collector.”
Mr. Smith writes a novel called “For- saken,” which appears first as a serial in the Weekly Budget. The complete collec- tor buys every copy of the Weekly Budget in which an instalment of the story appears.
The novel is published in book form, and in the first issue of review copies sent out, there is a mistake on page 56—a comma has been put in instead of a period. Our collector moves heaven and earth to obtain one of these copies, and this is often a difficult and expensive matter, as only a limited number are sent out.
He buys a copy of the first edition. Ifa limited, large paper edition, signed by the author, is issued, he buys that too. He cuts out any criticisms or paragraphs referring to the author which appear in newspapers, and pastes them in a scrapbook. When the book -is first published in England he buys the first English edition, and if it is pub- lished in a Tauchnitz or Continental edition, he buys that edition also. After the book has run thru three or four editions, per- haps the author writes a new preface or makes some slight alteration in the text. Our collector buys the first edition contain- ing the new preface or alteration, and when a cheap edition is issued he buys the first cheap edition—and so it may go on ad infinitum.
This may seem to be carrying things rather to an extreme, but it must be re- membered that many collectors specialize in one, or perhaps two, favorite authors, and collect nothing else. A friend of mine who has been collecting Machen for years, told me that his Machen collection is absolutely complete and up-to-date; he possesses every different edition of everything that Machen
has ever written. Apart from Machen, he hasn’t got a first edition in his house.
That is the way collecting appeals to him, and after all, it is a perfectly sound and reasonable way. The collector follows his own reading interest and collects for his own satisfaction; if his reading or collect- ing interest is limited to one author there is no earthly reason why he should collect anybody else. My friend has taken a great deal of trouble with his collection, and he is very proud of it. He has reason to be proud of it; it is a good collection.
The average collector, the collector who, like myself, has a variety of reading inter- ests and only a limited time, space for book- shelves, and income at his disposal, cannot indulge in his pastime quite on this scale. The question remains, what to buy and what to leave out.
Periodicals, magazines, etc., containing contributions by esteemed authors, are cer- tainly worth keeping. They increase enor- mously in value, but if the contribution be a serial, odd numbers are of no account; the collector must have a complete set. “Stalky and Co” by Kipling, in the Windsor Maga- zine, 1898-1899, five numbers published at 25 cents each, brought $30 at the recent Quinn sale, and “The Art of Fiction” by Conrad, in Harper’s Weekly, May 13, 1905, brought $6. These are only two examples, but many more might be quoted from the same sale.
Limited, signed, large paper editions are very nice to possess, but rather expensive to buy. They usually cost from $5 to $10 originally, but may increase in value to any amount.
First editions are most important from the collector’s point of view, and again I say, buy them while they can still be ob- tained at published price.
_ Editions with new prefaces, or altera- tions, are interesting and increase slightly in value, but not to the same extent as first editions. Books by English writers are more valuable in the first English than the first American editions, but Continental and Tauchnitz editions are almost worthless from any point of view.
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Six New Middle Western Bookshops
| I Priscilla Guthrie’s Bookshop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“It has ever been the man with an idea, which he puts .mto practical ~ effect, who has changed the face of Christendom.”
RISCILLA SELLERS GUTHRIE, a descendant of old Pennsylvania famil- ies on both sides, possessed a natural heritage of culture and refinement. Born in Pittsburgh, she spent all her active life in the community, which she loved, and whose welfare she had ever at heart. She was among the pioneer work- ers for woman suffrage. Entering into the busi- St < ness life of the commun- ey ity in her early girlhood, Miss Guthrie acted as secretary to her cousin, the late George W. Guthrie, formerly mayor of Pittsburgh and ambassador to Japan, and_ subse- quently was asso- ciated with several business firms.
Always a reader, with a catholic taste, it was her dream for a long time to es- tablish a book-shop where there would be a_ feeling that books were more than commodities, where the bookseller would consider it a duty to create a pride in the ownership of books, and where bookselling would be rec- ognized as a significant local enterprise of real importance to the progress and develop- ment of the community.
Altho discouraged by many of her friends, on account of her ill health, her dream was realized, when she opened a little shop, on June Ist, 1916, at 537 William Penn Place, opposite the William Penn
Hotel. Nearby one of the most beautiful office buildings in the world was nearing completion, the realization of another dream, that of Henry Clay Frick, to be known as the Union Arcade. It was while contemplating the leasing of larger quarters, in this new building, that she invited Wil-
mer J. Crull to become a partner in the business.
On the 3rd of May, 1917, the shop moved to 520 William Penn Place, Union Arcade Building; but here, too, the stay was brief, since the Government needed the space for the Consolidated Ticket Office. The present location, 516 William Penn Place, was oc- cupied on the 3rd of May, 1918, one year to the day after the first move, during which time the staff was augmented by the services of a librarian, Hazel R. Clifton.
Altho it had been one of the aims of the management to keep
the shop exclusively
for the sale of books, other articles kept creeping in, until it was consid- ered imperative to open a Stationery Department, where engraving, social stationery, etc., could be handled without interfering with the book cus- tomers. This change was made during the summer of I9I19 by leasing a room in
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facing on the street. It was continued for about two years, ai the end of which time the Union Arcade Building was sold to the Union Trust Company, and remodeled for its banking rooms.
For nearly three years prior to her death, which occurred in December, 1921, in Col- orado Springs, Miss Guthrie was obliged on account of ill health to give up any active participation in the conduct of the business. In October, 1920, the business was incorporated and is being carried on, by the surviving members of the original staff and their assistants, in the spirit of the founder.
During the spring of this year their first publishing venture was made in the form of an eight page booklet, “Woodrow Wilson,”
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by Allan Davis, author of “An Inward Light (Knopf). Five impressions of this poem have been made, and the literary merit, as well as the format, has received from critics the highest praise.
In the furtherance of their desire to be of increasing service to the community a new shop has been opened in the heart of the educational and residential section of Pittsburgh’s Billion Dollar District. The new shop as well as the down- town shop is being conducted by the same staff so that there is really no change in the per- sonnel of the management. This arrangement is effected by an interchange of mem- bers as well as of the stock, when the occasion demands.
Located on the ground floor of one of the seven apartment buildings, known as the Schen-
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or buy with the same Good Cheer we'll - attend you. Prices are plainly marked; and to your questions intelligent answers given. What you want we may not always have; but for the asking may be got. To bring together the Right Books and the Right People is our aim.”
For a time Mr. Crull edited the little monthly booklet for patrons of the shop, A Thought or Two on Books and Persons, which was entertaining, in- formative and very attractive in its layout. This was discon- tinued in favor of a page of notes which the shop now writes for the semi-monthly is- sued by the William Penn and Fort Pitt Hotels at Pitts- burgh for their guests. From time to time appropriate leaflets describing new. books are is- sued. One for a new book on
ley Apartments, surrounding art published by the Princeton the Hotel. Schenley; within University Press, yet it is five minutes’ walk to two uni- William Reyp Place equally attractive, very re- versities, with a combined Pittsburgh. strained and dignified and ap- enrollment of over twelve propriate.
thousand students, in addition For three years Priscilla
to the residential population, and a score of clubs and other institutions; within fifteen minutes, by trolley, from the business sec- tion of Pittsburgh, the shop is in the most strategic position imaginable.
The same arrangement of books on the shelves is. maintained in both shops, and altho stationery and other items of mer- chandise, as well as pictures are sold, the effect produced is that of a well appointed library, where the lover of the best in books, pictures, art objects, etc., may linger to their heart’s content.
The Priscilla Guthrie Book Shop has cre- ated so much interesting and original pub- licity for the shop that its character can only be hinted at in an article of this length. It has designed, for example, a number of distinguishing colophons or cuts (only a few of which can be shown here) which not only give individuality to the shop’s advertising, but which help build up cumulative sales for it. Its selling by mail, for instance, gains much from the use of its attractive letterhead, and the shop has caught a tone of cordiality and persuasive- ness which seems to be just about right. The cut reproduced here on the preceding page uses the blank space in the small size for an initial letter, in a larger size on leaf- lets, etc., for this statement of shop prin- ciple:
“In this shop the spirits of all great literature abide, whether you come to browse
Guthrie’s has been doing outdoor advertis- ing, and it is certainly high praise to say that it has managed to make even these painted outdoor signs attractive. At one time the shop had five of these boards in important locations in the city. It adver- tises consistently in the daily papers once a week, changing its ad “copy” frequently and varying it by taking double space in one paper sometimes and smaller space in other papers at alternate times. The advertising shows what can be done to make a small newspaper ad very effective. The series in one month has the same heading, “Wealth in Books,” but the “copy” below this head- ing is changed, concluding with the curiosity- provoking phrase (“To be continued’).
The shop has a very attractive book-mark which is put into each book as it is wrapped, and also a little sticker with one of the shop’s characteristic colophons, which is put inside the back cover. This sticker is per- forated and has on the top the catalog: number and price of the book. When the book is sold this is torn off and serves to check off the stock sold.
The shop has gained in its brief life a reputation as one of the outstanding book- shops of the country. To look at the in- dividuality of its publicity shows one good reason, a note from Mr. Crull tells another. On one photograph, not shown here, he has written a note, “This is where the midnight oil is burned.”
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THE NEW BRANCH OF THE PRISCILLA GUTHRIE BOOKSHOP AT THE SCHENLEY APARTMENTS IN PITTSBURGH’S BILLION DOLLAR DISTRICT.
THE NEW BRANCH HAS THE SAME ARRANGEMENT OF BOOKS ON THE SHELVES AS THE DOWNTOWN SHOP. THE EFFECT PRODUCED IS THAT OF A WELL APPOINTED LIBRARY WHERE THE LOVER OF THE BEST IN BOOKS MAY LINGER TO HIS HEARTS CONTENT.
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: _.» The Bookman’s Glossary _... Material for a Dictionary of the Book-trade ~~ Ill Book Papers and Their Finishes
antique—a paper with natural rough fin- ish; distinguished from machine-finished, calendered and coated papers.
Bible paper—A thin but very opaque book paper, possessing strength and dura- bility and suitable for Bibles, encyclo- pedias, catalogs, etc., where reduction in bulk is desirable.
coated—A paper to the surface of which has been applied a highly polished coat- ing of some substance such as China clay in order to make the smoothest possible frinting surface.
dandy roll—A cylinder of wire gauze which presses upon the drained but still moist pulp just before it leaves the wire cloth for the rollers. The weaving of the wire of the dandy roll leaves its im- pression on the paper and determines whether it is to be wove paper (with the impression of fine even gauze) or laid paper with the impression of parallel lines.
When devices or monograms are worked into the fine wire or the roll “water marks” are produced.
deckle edge—The rough edge on a sheet of paper where the pulp flowed over the frame at the time of its draining. The frame which forms the border of a hand mold is called the deckle, also the rubber apron that confines the flowing pulp on the screen of a paper machine.
These rough edges are often left un- trimmed in the making of fine books from hand made paper and the effect of deckled edges is sometimes artificially imitated on machine papers.
dull coated—A paper with the coating as on enamel paper, but calendered for smoothness only, not for gloss. Thus it has a perfect surface of mellow softness for the finest cuts.
eggshell finish—A finish which presents a cull soft effect produced by omitting the calendering in manufacturing.
enamel—Another name for coated paper.
English—A ssuper-calendered paper, smooth but without gloss.
foolscap—A sheet of paper about 13x16 (in England 13%x17) making when folded a page measuring 13x8 inches. The name is derived from the watermark of a fool’s cap and bells used by old paper-makers.
hand-made—Paper made a sheet at a time by dipping up the pulp by hand onto a sieve. The water runs thru while the sieve is manipulated in a manner to mix the fibers thoroly. The pulp is prevented from running over the edge by a thin frame called the deckle. |
All paper was so made until Fourdrinier
invented in 1800 a machine with an end- less sieve. Much of the highest grade paper from rag pulp is so made today.
India—An extremely thin but opaque paper made in China and Japan, or an imitation of such paper. Used for mak- ing the finest impressions of engravings and also for thin-paper editions of books.
India tint—A shade of buff used exten- sively in coated papers and also in ordin- ary book papers; deeper in color than , “natural tint.”
Japan—An exceedingly strong, high grade paper made in Japan, used for printing etchings, photogravures, expensive edi- tions of books and also for binding, French Japan is a good imitation, less exsensive and not so strong; Ameri:an imitations are usually called Vellum.
laid—Paper which has fine parallel lines and cross-lines (wire marks). The marks are produced by impression of the dandy roll, under which the pulp passes while still moist. See Wove Paper.
machine—Paper which has been made smooth and somewhat glossy by passing thru several rolls of the calendering machine.
natural—Color description of a paper with a very light cream tint.
opacity—A trade name for a grade of thin paper for pamphlets and books hav- ing special opaque qualities that prevent print showing thru.
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Oxford Bible paper—Very thin, soft and opaque paper, similar to India paper. Used by Oxford University Press and made at their Wolverston Mill from a formula which they retain.
paper making—Paper is made by grinding, bleaching, beating and boiling vegetable fibres into a fluid pulp. In this state the fibres readily mat together as the water is drained and pressed out. Many varieties of vegetable fibres are used. The most common, for writing papers, are linen and cotton rags; for printing papers, hemp, jute, straw and wood.
Paper was formerly made by hand. A mould having a screen bottom, was dipped into the pulp vat, lifted out and shaken so that the water was drained off and the fibres evenly distributed over the sur- face of the screen. The film of fibres was then pressed and dried, and the sur- face of the paper took the character of the screen.
Modern paper is made almost entirely by machinery, and its surface is finished in a great variety of styles, determined by the amount of pressure to which it is subjected.
parchment—(1) A thin skin specially pre-
pared for writing, made from a sheep, lamb, goat, calf or other animal.
(2) A high-grade paper in imitation of the above.
The word comes thru the French from the Latin Pergamum, a city in Asia Minor where parchment was first used.
pulp—The ground up fibres from which paper is made. Usually from wood or rags or a mixture of both, but may be from straw, bark or any fibrous material.
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Wood pulp is usually made at a different mill from the paper and is shipped in dry “mats” and then beaten up with water again for use.
quire—A standard parcel of paper, a printer’s quire being 24 sheets. From the Latin quaterni, by fours, and quire for- merly meant 4 sheets of paper folded to make 8 leaves.
ream—A standard parcel of paper, for- merly 12 quires or 480 sheets, now usu- ally 500 sheets. A printer’s ream is 516 sheets. Hand-made and drawing papers may contain 472, 480 or 500 sheets. From the Arabic rizmah, meaning bundle.
super-calendered—Paper is calendered that has been given a glazed surface by being pressed between rolls of copper or zinc. When run thru a series of highly polished rolls, the paper becomes super- calendered. Generally abbreviated “super” or S. C. in paper quotations.
vellum—A sheet, usually from the skins of calves. Used for writing upon and for binding books in the early periods of publishing. In cataloging: often abbre- viated “vell.” See PARCHMENT.
watermark—A design faintly showing in paper. This is made by the “dandy roll” which presses down on the forming sheet
, just as the pulp is well drained and be- fore the sheet begins to go thru the series of drying rolls. The paper is slightly thinner where the impress comes and the design shows plainer when the sheet is held to the light. In hand-made paper the design is woven in the screen.
wove—Paper that is evenly woven on a band of flannel or felt with no distin- guishing marks as on laid paper.
IV Bookbinding Terms
alchemic gold—A patented ink for stamp- ing lettering or designs on covers in imitation of gold leaf.
antique—Leather stamped or embossed without the use of gold or color. See Biinp TooLine.
backbone—The back of a bound book connecting the two covers. Also called the shelf back and the spine.
bands—(1) The cords to which the sheets of a volume are sewn.
(2) The ridges across the shelf back
of a leather-bound book, under which are the cords, usually five in number.
beveled boards—Boards given a slanting or beveled edge before the covering mate- rial is put on. More often a feature of custom-bound leather or extra heavy vol- umes. binder’s stamp—A design or lettering cut in brass and used in stamping or emboss- ing book covers. Sometimes called a die. binding cloths—Cloth pasted over the stiff board covers of a book. The various grades of bookbinding cloths in general use are known as: Common colors Extra cloths Vellum finish
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Basket weave Buckrum or Art canvas These are finished in a great variety of patterns and colors. bled—When the margins of a book are trimmed so close that the type matter is cut into, the page is said to have been bled. The term is also used of an illus- tration or design that purposely runs off the edges of the sheet. blind tooling or stamping—Impressions on the cover of a book by tools or dies without ink or gold leaf. boards—The stiff cardboard used for the sides of books. It may be covered with paper, cloth, leather or other material. A book is said to be bound in “boards” when this cardboard is covered with paper alone. bolts—The folded or doubled edge of paper at the head and fore edge of an untrimmed book. burnished edges—Colored or gilt edges which have been made smooth and bright by a polishing tool. cancel—A newleaf or sheet reprinted and inserted in consequence of an error or defect on the leaf replaced. case—-The cover of a_ book, printed, stamped, and made to the proper size read; to be placed upon the book. Casing-In is the binder’s term for in- serting the book when sewed and trimmed into its cover. In printing: See Upper and Lower CASE. cloth boards—Stiff cloth covers, in dis- tinction from limp or flexible cloth. cloth covers—Bookbinder’s cloth pasted over stiff boards, used in ordinary books. Historically, the use of cloth as a b.nding material dates only from 1823, starting under the initiative and leadership of Pickering, the famous English publ.sher. Previous to that time English publishers always issued their books in paper covers. The innovation gradually swept the trade. collating; collate—The examination of the gathered sheets of a book in order to verify their full count and arrangement. Sheets for finely bound books are sup- posed to be always “folded, gathered and collated,” but ordinary cloth books are often only “folded and gathered.” corners—(1) The leather over the corners of a book in “half” binding. (2) In printing, ornamental type metal connecting borders. (3) Pieces of metal or pasteboard to slip over the corners of a book to protect them in mailing.
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cut flush—To trim the cover of a book even with its edges.
Dutch metal—An imitation of gold leaf used for stamping book covers.
edition bindery—A plant that specializes in orders for large quantities of single titles or sets.
embossed—Printed or stamped _ with raised letters, or design, on paper, cloth or leather.
end-papers—The binder’s name for the sheets of white or colored paper, printed or unprinted, which are placed at the be- ginning and end of a book, one-half being pasted to the inside of the cover. Also called “Fly-leaves,’ “Waste Papers” and “Lining Papers.”
finishing—A bookbinder’s term for the completion of binding after the book has been forwarded and put in its cover; lettering and ornamenting.
In hand binding, the processes are divided into forwarding and finishing. Finishing includes the polishing of the leather, its ornamenting and lettering.
flexible binding—A binding, usually of leather, that has no rigid covers of stiff boards, but retains shape tho rolled or bent. A style of binding in which the sewing allows the book to open quite flat. See Limp BINDING.
forwarding—(1) In hand leather bind- ing: The processes are divided into for- warding and finishing. Forwarding means inserting plates, sewing, tying into boards and covering with leather.
(2) In edition bookbinding: A term for the intermediate processes between the folding of the sheets and placing the book in the covers. It includes stitch- ing, backing, tipping, in plates, pasting on the end papers, etc.
gathering—Collecting by hand or ma- chinery the signatures of a book in the order in which they are to be bound.
gilt edges—All edges trimmed smooth and gilded. “t. e. g.” in English catalogs means “top edge gilt”; “e. g.” means “edges gilt.”
guards—(1) Strips of paper or muslin bound into the back of a book, and to which illustrations or maps are pasted. (2) A strip of heavy paper bound into an album or scrap book to receive the leaves. (3) In bookbinding: When signatures, as for example the first and last signa- tures, are mounted on strips of strong
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usual strain, they are said to be guarded
signatures.
half binding—A book binding having leather back and corners but with paper (or cloth) sides. On half-binding the leather of the back extends about one- fourth to one-third of the distance to the front edge. On three-quarters binding the leather of the back almost meets that of the corners. On quarter binding the leather of the back extends just be- yond the hinge.
half cloth—A binding with cloth back and paper covering the sides.
head-band—A small band of silk or cot- ton fixed to the two inside extremities of the back of a book to give it greater strength and to add to its appearance. On finely bound books the head-bands are sometimes sewed in stitch by stitch.
lacing in—A method by which cords are carried thru holes in the boards of the cover, the ends cut off, hammered down smooth and firmly glued. The covering material is then drawn over the cover after the bare boards have been fastened to the book. It is a very substantial but costly method of binding.
law binding—A style of plain sheepskin binding used for law books. “Buck- ram,” (q. v.) is largely replacing sheep- skin, which, being a short fibred skin, soon dries out and breaks at the hinges.
leather label—A piece of thin leather let- tered with the title of a book and pasted on its back.
library binding—A binding which has been strengthened by whipstitching the first and last signatures so that the covers will not loosen thru constant use.
limp binding—A binding cloth or leather, with the covers only slightly stiffened. “Flexible” is sometimes used synony- mously and sometimes to indicate a bind- ing with no stiffening between the bind- ing material and the lining paper.
lining papers— See Enp-Papers.
loose back—A book has a loose back when the shelf-back of the cover is not glued to the back of the book.
marbling: marbled edges—The process of decorating sheets of paper or the edges of books with a variety of colors in an irregular pattern like the veins of marble. The effect is obtained by sprink- ling the colors desired on the surface of a tub of water, then dipping in it the paper or edges of a book, thus picking
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up the design. A comb is sometimes drawn across the surface before the dip- ping.
mill board—A thick, heavy carboard used for books covers.
oriental leaf—Trade name for an imita- tion gold leaf, a composition of bronze and brass for stamping covers.
publishers’ binding—The ordinary trade binding of a book as distinguished from books bound to special order.
saddle stitch—A method of stitching a booklet or pamphlet thru the back. The thread silk, or wire, used will show on the back and in the middle fold.
Sewing—When the sheets of an edition book are gathered and collated they are then sewed together with thread by ma- chinery. In job binding they are usually sewed by hand.
As the art of sewing the sheets and of
' attaching the covers to them was never reduced to a skilful practice until well on in the sixteenth century, books could not be stood on end as they are now but were laid flat on shelves or lecterns.
side stitch—The stitching of a booklet or pamphlet of two or more folded signa- tures thru the side of the folds.
signature—(1) A folded sheet ready for sewing, consisting usually of sixteen pages, or thirty-two if printed on thin paper. It may be only four or eight pages. (2) A letter or number placed at the bottom of the first page of each printed sheet to serve as a guide in gathering.
sprinkled edges—Edges on which, after being trimmed smooth, a color is sprayed. Usually done on all three edges as with marbling. Such treatment prevents finger marks from showing.
squares—The portion of the cover pro- jecting beyond the edges of the book.
stained edges: stained tops—The edges or top stained with color ink or dye. A stained top prevents dust smooches from showing; stained edges prevent dust or finger marks of readers showing.
tapes—Strips of cloth or tape which are pasted or sewed to the back of a book, the edges of which are glued down to the cover, to strengthen the binding. _
tipping in— The operation of pasting in a separate leaf, an illustration or a signa- ture in a book; not sewed in.
tools—Brass stamps used to impress the gold leaf on the leather. Blind tooling is the impression of the tools without gilt.
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{Percy Lussocx’s last book, “Roman Pictures,” published by Scribner’s in this country, has just been awarded the “Femina Vie Heureuse” prize. This prize is awarded annually by the prize committee for the best English work of imagination published during the year; a similar prize, founded by Lady Northcliffe, is awarded for the best French work of the same kind.
qfHarry HaANsEN reports the unfor- tunate decease of that gem of flamboyantly sophmoric literary journals, the Chicago Literary Times.
{]‘Beuinp Bars FoR BANISHING THE Bar,” reputed to be the title of a book written by William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York Anti- Saloon League, will not be published, Mr. Anderson stated last week.
(WALTER DE LA Marz, author of “Mem- oirs of a Midget,” will lecture at Yale University on the Bergen Foundation, on October 24th. The subject of his lecture will be “The Supernatural in Fiction.”
From the New York Herald-Tribune
{]Horace Livericut of Boni & Liveright is the head of a new producing company which announces its principal purpose to be that of presenting plays by young Ameri- can dramatists. The first play is to be an American comedy by Edwin Justus Mayer. The company’s announcement says: “While we want to make our association a financial success, that is not the motivating influence. We want to do for the theatrical business what we have done in the publishing busi- ness. Our methods in producing will be to give preference to the American playwright.
{]Parrni’s “Life of Christ,” a non-fiction best seller for over a year has been pur- chased for screen production, it has been announced by First National Pictures. After considerable negotiation Papini’s consent was obtained and the preliminary research work will begin shortly.
{{[M. FrorrAN-PARMENTER is the winner of this year’s Prix National de Litterature with a volume of poems “La Luminere de L’aveugle ou le Miracle de la Vie Inteeri- eure.
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Communications
Another Circulating Library
168 Monticello Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Editor, Publishers Weekly:
HEN we opened our store (toys, W children’s books, cards, fine station-
ery), we decided to start a circulat- ing library of new fiction. Coming to this city to live we had inquired for and learned that there was no lending library in the city. So after our first Xmas we bought eight of the new books, had a sign painted to stand in the window, and started off. We charged $2.00 for the subscription, which was not returnable, but value for that amount was allowed either in books or mer- chandise. Our rates were 4c. per day for the first two days and 2c. for each consecu- tive day. That made the fast readers, whom we had to supply quickly with new fiction, pay at the rate of 28c per week and the slow readers 18c. per week, payable by the date, from date to date, and when the book was exchanged. We have since reduced our subscription rate to $1.50, and $1.00 (the latter refundable) for each extra subscription in a family. We have never done any newspaper or circular ad- vertising, but find the most desirable read- ers come from friends and acquaintances of those who have already joined.
Four years have passed since our library was started, and from the first it has been an unqualified success. Never a month that it has not made a good return with a begin- ning of a clear $20 per month to seven and eight times that, now netting from 200 to 400% on investment. We buy from 1 to 12 copies of a book according to the author and the demand; and as soon as we have two copies of one title on the shelf we put one in the window at $1.50. Selling that we put in another; and always while the book is new and in demand. Later for $1.00 and 75c., etc. Standard authors we seldom need to sell below $1.00, the others going for from 5oc. to $1.00 each. Almost anybody will pay that for a two dollar edi- tion book. We keep a selection of the “past popular” books at soc. each, (or 5 for $2.00) and sell a great many that way. Some months, in this way, we clear up enough to pay for all the new books bought, especially in the summer when people buy books that are cheap to take to the camp or cottage, and when the new fiction is not so much in demand by our readers. So we ae really have any superfluous books on
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For our “highbrow” literature (reduced) we have regular customers, some of whom speak for it in advance. We have a list of reservations, which we generally keep very low by knowing, in advance, what readers will like a particular new book and giving it to them before they ask for it. Our records are kept in a four column standard figuring book, and begin with the number I for Jan. Ist each year. We note in the different columns number of book, reader’s name, date out, date in, totals, books sold and subscribers. We keep also file cards of readers’ names, addresses, amount paid, and date of joining, etc. We put glassine cov- ers on the books with clips and note num- ber on inside of back flap; check off and total when book is returned. The only way we have of knowing how much an individ- ual book earns is to go back over book from date of purchase. But we can tell pretty well by the looks of the book. Some of them, we have found, earn as much as $10 a book.
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Aldrich, Harold J. The stock market investor. Bost., Four Seas
Babb, Hugh Webster Business law, a_ textbook.
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Baby Peggy’s own story book.
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It includes The Story of Little Black Sambo, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Grandfather Frog’s Journey, How the Creeturs Went to the Barbecue, The Happy Prince and others. Belloc, Hilaire, i. Joseph Hilaire Pierre
Marie Antoinette. 5690p. il. O ’24 c. ’09, ’24 «6ON. *CY.«, Putnam $5
The tragic story of Marie Antoinette in which Belloc pictures her as the victim of European politics, Originally published by Doubleday, Page in 1909. Bellows, Henry Adams, tr.
The poetic edda; ancient lays of northern gods and heroes. 624p. (bibl.) il. O ’23 N. Y., Amer.-Scandinavian Foundation, 25
W. 45th St. $4 Beesly, Edward Spencer
Catiline, Clodius and Tiberius. 1690p. O 24 -«|N. CY.«, G. E. Stechert $3 Briggs, Martin S.
Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestine. 272p. il. diagrs. Q ’24 N. Y.,, Oxford $28 Brooke, Stopford A.
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General Botha. 362p. il. maps O ’24 N.Y.,
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The life of Louis Botha—soldier, statesman, leader and counsellor—written by the man who was British High Commissioner and Governor General of South Africa from 1914 to 1920.
Byrne, H. E.
Byrne simplified shorthand, toth ed. S ’24 Dallas, Tex., Byrne Pub. Co.
Carpenter, Joseph Estlin
Buddhism and Christianity; a contrast and a parallel. 3109p. S (Doran’s lib. of philosophy and religion) [’23] N. Y., Doran
$1.25, Charters, W. W., and Whitley, Isadore B.
An analysis of secretarial duties and traits. 208p. O ’24 Balt., Williams & Wilkins $2.50
A book of interest and value to secretaries, stenog- raphers, office managers, commercial teachers, etc. Clare, Eva
Musical appreciation and the studio club; with a foreword by Granville Bantock. 202p. (14p. bibl.) Dc. N. Y., Longmans $2
A. consideration of the studio club as a factor in musical education.
Churchill, F. F., and Grindell, Clara
Mother Goose’s brithday: an _ operetta. various p. Q ’24 c. 716 Milwaukee, C. N. Caspar pap. $1 Clevenger, Joseph R., ed.
Parsons-Clevenger annual practice man- ual for New York; 2nd ed. 1921p. O ’24 Albany, N. Y., Matthew Bender fab. $12
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Aldrich, J. M.
A new genus and species of two-winged flies of the family Chloropidae injuring Manihot in Brazil. 2p. O (From proc. of U. S. nat’l mus., v. 65, art. 21) ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. of Doc.
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American Library Assn. Fifty educational books of 1923. [Author]
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Barry, Sister M. Inviolata St. Augustine, the orator; a study of the rhetorical qualities of St. Augustine’s sermones ad populum.
272p. (bibl.) O (Cath. univ. of Amer., patristic. studies) ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. ot Doc. pap. $1.25
Committee on Commercial Information Services,
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Comstock, William Phillips, comp.
Bungalows, camps and mountain houses; with an article by C. E. Schermerhorn; 3rd ed. rev. and enl. 1160p. il. Q [c. ’08-’24] N. Y., Wm. T. Comstock Co., 23 Warren St.
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“Containing a large variety of designs by many architects showing homes in all parts of the country, many of which are suitable only for summer use while others are adapted for permanent residence. Camps, hunting lodges and log cabins are also pre- sented, suggesting designs for vacation dwellings in woods and mountains.”
Conn, H. W., and Conn, H. J.
Bacteriology; 2nd ed. enl. and rev. 44op. diagrs. O ’24 Balt., Williams & Wilkins $4
Cruess, W. V.
Commercial fruit and vegetable products. sisp. il. O ’24 N. Y., McGraw-Hill $4.50
Curel, Francois, Vicomte de
La nouvelle idole, piéce en trois actes; ed. with introd.; notes and vocabulary by Hugh Allison Smith and Leslie Ross Méras. 124p. D (Century modern language ser.) ’24 N. Y.,
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Dexter, Walter The London of Dickens. 2609p. D ’24 N. Y., Dutton $2.50 A travel book for the fireside or the deck-chair, comprising fifteen carefully selected rambles that cover the whole of Dickens’ London.
Dobson, Mary
The toyman and other verses. 24 ~+N«. Y., Oxford
Elwell, Ambrose For you and me.
Small, Maynard Short essays on homely subjects.
I am ready. 20p. front. (por.) S [c. ’24]
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Bost., Small, Maynard 75 ¢. A brief biography of Woodrow Wilson. Emmons, Earl H. Mavericks [verse]. 124p. il. Dec. N. Y., Oswald Pub. Co. bds. $1.50
Foster, Robert Frederick
Foster’s complete Hoyle; an encyclopedia of games; rev. and enl., with revisions of
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the laws of auction bridge, including. all indoor games played today; with suggestions for good play; illustrative hands and all official laws to date. 752p. D il. [c. ’24] N. Y., Stokes $3.50
Revised to April, 1924. A book of reference for all disputes and for advice on every known indoor game.
Furst, Herbert E. R.
The modern woodcut; a study of the evolu- tion of the craft; with a chapter on the practice of xylography by W. Thomas Smith. 2gop. il. (pt. col.) Q ’24 N. Y., Dodd, Mead
buck. $12.50
The intention of the study is “to awaken curi- osity about, and a general interest in, the significance of the modern woodcut, rather than to furnish a eee history for the expert and the col- ector.
Gerard, John
The old riddle and the newest answer; 4th ed. 3090p. (bibl. footnotes) D ’24 N. Y., Longmans $2
An inquiry into the relation of science and the universe.
Gleichen, Lord Edward, ed.
Bulgaria and Romania. 321p. (3p. bibl.) maps O (Nations of today ser.) ’24 Bost., Houghton $5
Green, Fitzhugh
Z R wins. 271p. front. Dc. N. Y., Apple- ton $1.75
A tale of love and adventure in the Arctic snows that begins with an expedition to the North Pole by dirigible in an attempt to discover a lost continent in the Polar Sea.
Hambidge, Jay
The Parthenon and other Greek temples; their dynamic symmetry; with preface by L. D. Caskey. 1125p. Q c. New Haven, Conn., Yale
Published under the auspices of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University.
Hanley, Mrs. May Carr
With John Brun in old Mexico. 128p. il. D [c. ’24] Mountain View, Cal, Pacific Press Pub. Assn. $1.10
Heuser, Emil
Textbook of cellulose chemistry; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Clarence J. West and Gustavus J. Esselen, jr. 212p. D ’24 N. Y., McGraw-Hill $2.50
Day, William Horace, and Eddy, Sherwood
The modernist-fundamentalist controversy. j3op. D (Christianity and personal problems ser., no. 2) fc. ’24] N. Y., Doran pap. 0c.
Drury, Francis K. W. College life and college sport; a reading list on
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Dunlop, J. P. . Gold and silver in 1922; general report. various p. O (Mineral resources of U. S., 1922, pt. 1) ’24
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Surface water supply of the U. S., 1919 and 1920; pt. 3, Ohio River basin. 2262p. il. O (Dept. of int.; U. S. geol. sur.; water-supply pap. 503) '24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. of Doc. pap. 25¢.
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Modern evangelism and ancient environ- ment. 138p. il. Dc. Nashville, Tenn. Cokes- bury Press $1.25
A series of eight revival sermons, delivered before the peoples of Central Europe with the aid of native interpreters.
Huizinga, J.
_The waning of the middle ages. 336p. (1op. bibl.) il. O ’24 N. Y., Longmans 5
A study of the forms of life thought and art in
France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Humphrey, Edward Frank
Nationalism and religion in America, 1774- 1789. 536p. (16p. bibl.) O ’24 Bost., Chip- man Law Pub. Co. buck. $3.50
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Boiler details; types of boilers; geometri- cal drawing; mechanics; practical lay-out problems; gas and electric welding. various p. il. O (Internat’l lib. of tech., v. 372) ’24 Scranton, Pa., Internat’] Textbook Co. $3.50
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Issakovich, Dr. Konstantin Your life; written by yourself. various p. il. Q [c. ’24] N. Y., Author, 368 Sixth Ave. _ $1.50; pap., $1; lea., $2.50 A Russian here gives suggestions for writing an autobiography or for helping your child to write his. Pages are left blank in the back part of the book so that the aspiring person may begin at once.
James, W. P.
Enginemen’s manual, rev. 1924 ed. 600p. diagrs. D ’24 Louisville, Ky., W. P. James Pub. Co., Main St., Station P. O. $4
Judkins, Henry F.
The principles of dairying; testing and manufactures. 2nop. diagrs. O ’24 N. Y., Wiley $2
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Complete pronouncing dictionary, English- Slovene only . 273p. O ’24 c. ’19 Milwaukee, C. N. Caspar $5
King, Frank
Skeezix and Uncle Walt; pictures by the author. 122p. il. (col.) O [c. ’24] Chic., Reilly & Lee $1
The amusing adventures of Uncle Walt in_ bringin up the infant Skeezix. A story for children an grown-ups alike.
Knapp, Charles Merriam ;
New Jersey politics during the period of the civil war and reconstruction. 220p. (3p. bibl.) map O ’24 Geneva, N. Y., W. F. Humphrey $2; pap., $1.50
Knox, D. B., comp. Quotable anecdotes for various occasions. 223p. D ’24 N. Y., Dutton $2.50 en for all occasions that call for ‘fa few words.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott The development of China; 3rd ed. rev. 322p. (op. bibl.) map O ’24 Bost., in 2.50
Le Bon, Gustave The world unbalanced. 256p. O ’24 N. Y., Longmans $3.50 The author of “The Crowd” seeks to arrive at the psychological factors of the various political, social and financial problems which have arisen since the Great War.
Lincoln, Elliott C. The ranch [verse]. 106p. D [c. ’24] Bost., Houghton bds. $1.50
Liu, Ting Mien
Modern tariff policies, with special refer- ence to China. 149p. (8p. bibl.) O ’24 N. Y., Alliance Pr. Corp., 110 W. 32nd St. $2
Lock, Walter, D.D.
A critical and exegetical commentary on the pastoral epistles (I & II Timothy and Titus). 207p. (bibl. footnotes) O (Internat’l critical commentary) ’24 N. Y., Scribner $3
Hardy, Samuel, ed. . ‘
Spalding’s official tennis annual. various p. il. D (Red cover ser.) ’24 N. Y., Amer. Sports Pub. Co., 45 Rose St. pap. 25¢. Hart, John Seely Sat 2
A brief exposition of the Constitution of the United States; rev. by John O’Boyle. o4p. S [c. 09, °23) Phil., Franklin Pub. & Supply Co.
pap. apply Holcomb, Alfred E., ed.
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual conference on taxation under the auspices of the Nat’] tax association held at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Sept. 24-27, 1923. 471p. O ec. We he National Tax Assn. apply Hollister, N.
East African mammals in the U. S. national mu- seum; pt. 3, Primates, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Probascidea, and MHyracoidea. 172p. (bibl. foot- notes) il. O ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. of Doc. pap. 4oc. Kelley, Stuart H.
The attractive nuisance doctrine; its development and application. -72p. (bibl. footnotes) O (Univ. of Omaha night school of law bull., v. 2, no. 1) c. Omaha, Neb., Univ of Omaha pap. apply
King, Clyde L., ed.
America and the post-war European situation; with a supplement, The organization and the work of The league of nations, by George F. Kohn. various p. O (The annals, v. 114) c. Phil., Amer. Acad. of Political and Social Science pap. apply
Lincoln’s favorite hymn, Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 1s5p. S ’24 Pompton Lakes, N. J., Biblio Co. Pap. toc.
Loughlin, G. F.
Mineral resources of the U. S. in 1021; pt. 1, Metals. various p. O (Dept. of int.; U. S. geol. sur.) ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. o Bee.
pap. apply Loughlin, G. F., and Katz, F. J., eds. ineral resources of the U. S., 1921; pt. 2, Non- metals. various p. O (Dept. of int.; U. S. geol. sur.) ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. of Doc. pap. apply — T. U.
_Underwriting of automobiles for personal injur liability and property damage. rsp. ve) (Howe tead- ings on insurance, no. 4) c. N. Y., Insurance Soc. of N. Y. pap. apply
July 26, 1924
Locke, Gladys Edson _ The purple mist. various p. D ’24 Bost., L. Go Page 1.90 A mystery story by the author of “The Red Cavalier.”
Loyd, Lewis R W. The protection of birds, an indictment.
o4p. D ’24 _N. Y., Longmans $1.25
An endeavor to bring before the public the subject of bird protection from a field ornithologist’s point of view.
Lydenberg, Harry Miller John Shaw Billings, a biography; lim. ed. 104p. O (Amer. lib. pioneers) [c. ’24] Chic.,
Amer. Lib. Ass’n. bds. $2.50
A biographient sketch of the creator of the National Medical Library and its catalog, and first director of the New York Public Library.
McAdoo, William When the court takes a recess. 245p. D [c. ’24] N. Y., Dutton 2 A collection of articles and human-interest sketches by the Chief City Magistrate of New York City, dealing with subjects of current interest as they are observed from a judge’s bench. Macbeth, James Criuckshank Henderson Commen sense in auction bridge. 332p. D [c. ’24] N. Y., Dutton $2.50 An interesting and instructive discussion of the principles and practice of the game of auction bridge. Marcosson, Isaac Frederick The black Golconda; the romance of pe- troleum. 38op. il. O ’24 c. ’23, ’24 N. Y., Harper 4 The story of oil told by one of the world’s fore- most journalistic observers. Marsh, Charles Fielding After harvest. 353p. Dc. N. Y., Apple-
ton $2
The Norfolk country in England is the setting for this story of two men and a woman and a struggle between good and evil.
Millais, J. G.
Rhododendrons and the various hybrids, 2nd ser.; lim. ed. 278p. il. (pt. col.) Q ’24 N. Y., Longmans $70 Moffat, James, D.D.
A critical and exegetical commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. 330p. (bibl. footnotes) O (Internat’l critical commentary) 24 ~+N«. Y., Scribner $3.50 Moore, F. J.
Outlines of organic chemistry; 3rd ed. re- written. 355p. diagr. D ’24 N. Y., Wiley
$2.50 Morgan, Arthur Eustace
Tendencies of modern English drama.
320p. O ’24 Nz. Y., Scribner $3
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This represents our present-day drama as one of ideas and gives a full study of its philosophical background. ome chapters are: H. A. Jones and Pinero, Shaw the Iconoclast, Shaw the Philosopher, The Drama of Revolt, The Irish Pioneers,
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Looking unto Jesus; introd. by John E. Brown. 146p. D [c. ’24] N. Y., Doran $1.25
The author is dean of John Brown University and managing editor of the American Evangelist. Murger, Henri
Scenes de la vie de Bohéme, ed. with in- trod. notes, exercises and vocabulary by John Van Horne. 231p. il. D (Century modern language ser.) ’24 N. Y., Century $1.25
Norris, James F.
Experimental organic chemistry; 2nd ed. 220p. il. D (Internat’] chemical ser.) '24 N. Y., McGraw-Hill $1.50
A revision of this standard laboratory guide to accompany the second edition of the author’s “Prin- ciples of Organic Chemistry.”
Patrick, David, and Geddie, William, eds. Chambers’s encyclopedia; a dictionary of
universal knowledge; new ed. v. tv. Dioptrics
to Freistadtl. 856p. il. maps (col.) diagr. Q
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known encyclopedia.
Peréz Escrich, Enrique, and DeLas Viifias,
Juan .
Fortuna, and La golondrinita, el gata y el mono; ed. with. exercises and vocabulary by Ruth A. Bahret. 1590p. il. S [e. ’24] N. Y., American Bk. Co. Q2 c.
Price, George Moses, M.D. Hygiene and public health; 3rd ed. rev. 314p. D ’24 Phil., Lea & Febiger $2.25
Prothero, Matthew Love and laughter [verse]. o4p. il. D ’23 Bost., Four Seas bds. $2
Proust, Marcel
Within a budding grove; tr. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff; 2 v. various p. De. N. Y., Seltzer $5 bxd.
The second part of the author’s continuous novel, “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” (Remembrance of Things Past). The first part was published in England and America as “Swann’s Way.” Randolph, John |
A treatise on gardening, by a citizen of Virginia, John Randolph, jr. (1727-1784); re- printed from the American Gardener of John Gardiner and David Hepburn; 3rd ed. 1826; ed. by Marjorie Fleming Warner; lim. ed. 68p. (1p. bibl.) O (Wm. Parks club pubs.,
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The intellectual resemblance of twins. various p. (bibl.) O (Psych. rev. pubs.; v. 33, no. 5, whole no. 152) [’24] Princeton, N. J., Psychological Review Co. apply
Mitchell, Broadus, i.e. John Broadus
Frederick Law Olmsted; a critic of the old South. 158p. (bibl. footnotes) O (J. H. U. studies in hist. and pol. science, ser. 42, no. 2) c Balt, Johns Hopkins Press
pap. $1.50
Morley, Arthur P.
Rockport; a town of the sea. sap. il. D [c. '24] Cambridge, Mass., Murray Pr. Co. National Bureau for Advancement of Music
The giving of high school credits for private music study; a survey showing the policies of the different states in regard to these credits and the practices of some of the larger cities. rosp. O c. ’'24 N. Y., [Author], 45 W. 4sth St. $r Norton, Florence G.
A primary program book. ssp. D e¢. Phil.,.
Westminster Press pap. 25c.
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Richards, Mrs. Waldo, comp. [Gertrude E. Richards]
The magic carpet; poems for travellers.
542p. Dc. Bost., Houghton $3 A new anthology, designed both for those who travel and for those who stay at home.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
Concentrated New England; a sketch of Calvin Coolidge. 58p. O [c. ’24] Indian- apolis, Bobbs- Merrill $1.25
Rose, William
From Goethe to Byron; the development of “weltschmerz” in German literature. 217p. (4p. bibl.) D ’24 N. Y., Dutton $2.50
“Weltschmerz,” the feeling which springs from man’s dissatisfaction with his environment is studied here in its appearance and effects upon Goethe, the Storm and Stress group, the autobiographists, Jacobi, Schiller, Klinger, Jean Paul and others.
Roth, Suzanne Contes des provinces; ed. with exercises
and vocabulary. 312p. il. S [c. ’24] N. Y., American Bk. Co. 88 c.
Stories of French life, containing few idiomatic ex- pressions and with a varied and practical vocabulary.
Runciman, Sir Walter
Before the mast—and after: the autobiog- raphy of a sailor and shipowner. 300p. il. O ’24 ~Bost., Chas. E. Lauriat Co. $4.50
The author is one of the few living men who had personal experience with sailing ships in the sixties, and his book is an account of his adventures on the sea, beginning at the age of twelve.
Rydell, Capt. Carl On Pacific frontiers; a story of life at sea and in outlying possessions of the United
States; ed. by Elmer Green. 278p. il. D (Pioneer life ser.) c. Yonkers, N. Y., World Bk. Co. $1.36
The author is the superintendent of the Philippine Nautical School.
Sargent, Porter, comp. A handbook of summer camps; an anuual
survey; Ist ed. 6609p. il. D (Sargent hand- bks.) [c. ’24] Bost. [Author], 14 a St. 5
Intended primarily to be a guide and counselor to parents. Schimpf, Henry W. ees
A systematic course of qualitative chem-
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Ivanhoe; abridged for use in junior high school grades by Elizabeth Hope Gordon and Hattie L. Hawley. 48op. front. map D ’24 +N. Y., Macmillan 88c.
Shillito, Rev. Edward
Christian citizenship; the story and the meaning of C. O. P. E. C.; with a preface by the Bp. of Manchester. 127p. D ’24 N. Y., Longmans $1.25
A account of the conference on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship, held in Birmingham, England, from April sth to April 12th, 1924. Shapleigh, Elizabeth
The specter. 224p. D ’24_ Bost., Four Seas $2
A discussion of Soviet Russia.
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The Yellowstone nature book. 229p. il. D c. Chic., McClurg $2.50 A resident naturalist of Yellowstone Park de-
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Snyder, Henry M.
' Snyder’s ma-jung manual; rev. and enl.
ed. with introd. by Ezra H. Fitch. 224p.
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Speltz, Alexander
Styles of ornament; exhibited in designs and arranged in historical order with de- scriptive text; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by David O’Conor. 653p. il. O ’24 Chic., Regan Pub. Corp., 77 W. Washington St. $5
A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, etc., as well as for technical schools, libra- ries and private study.
Stevenson, Gertrude Scott, tr.
The letters of Madame; the correspondence of Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Princess Palatine, Duchess of Orleans, called “Ma- dame” at the court of the King Louis XIV; 1661-1708. 288p. (2p. bibl.) il. O ’24 N. Y., Appleton $5
The lively correspondence of a scandal-mongering, witty woman.
Rees, Fred. H.
The loss adjustments of automobile liability, col- lision and property damage. 26p. O (Howe read- ings on insurance, no. 5) c. N. Y., Insurance Soc. of Nie. “4 pap. apply
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Additional ground-water supplies for the city of Enid, Okiahoma. various p. O (Dept. of int.; U. S. geol. sur.; water-supply pap. 520-B) ’24 Wash., D. C., Gov. Pr. Off.; Supt. of Doc. pap. apply
Rice, Grantland, ed. : 3 Spalding’s official golf guide. various p. il. D (Red cover ser.) c. N. Y., Amer. Sports Pub Co.
45 Rose St. pap. 25. Roberts, Rev. Guy, comp.
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Sermon (The) on the mount; as found in St. Mat-
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[YPANUSCRIETS two thousand years old, some of them in Sanskrit, original holy books of the Buddhistic faith, have been added to the archeological treasures of Harvard University. Some of the manu- scripts recently secured are long paper scrolls in Sanskrit brought from India, and some are translations into early Chinese made by Central Asian converts.
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OLLECTORS of first editions of Maur- ice Hewlett will be interested in knowing that in his “Extemporary Essays,” Oxford University Press, 1922, it has been found necessary to insert a cancelled page (No. 16), owing to errata in the last paragraph of the essay on W. H. Hudson. The orig- inal paragraph was of nine lines, while the inserted one is of seven lines only. The matter cut out was in reference to his wife.
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aS figures of the recent MacGeorge sale at Sotheby’s in London showed that some extraordinary prices were realized. The first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Marathon,” 1820, brought £300; Dickens’s “Pickwick Papers,” 1836-37,. £1,400; Goldsmith’s “Haunch of Venison,” 1776, entirely uncut, £205; Gray’s “Elegy,” 1751, said to be the finest copy known, £1,550; Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” 1667, with first title page, £550; Pope’s “Rape of the Lock,” 1714, sewn, uncut, £330, and Swift’s “Gulliver’s Trayels,” 1726, first issue, £725.
ie a forecaste of fall publications by Houghton Mifflin Company, just issued, several interesting limited editions are an- nounced. Harold Murdock’s “Earl Percy Dines Abroad,” will be published in a lim- ited edition of 500 copies; “Letters from British Officers, 1774-1776,” edited by Mar- garet W. Willard, many letters printed for the first time, 400 copies; “The Eve of Venus,” translated from the Latin by R. W. Postgate, 250 copies; “Ovyde,” trans- lated by William Caxton, part of the trans- lation of the “Metamorphoses” which Cax- ton made the manuscript of in the Library of Magdalene College, 250 copies; and Poems of Benjamin Thompson,” the first American poet to write of America and American life in the early days, 400 copies. These are all booked for publication in the month of October.
EORGE H. SARGENT writes about
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1 URKEY will soon open a great national library at Constantinople. Four libra- ries, comprising in all over 60,000 volumes, are to be united in the Faculty of Theology Building. These include the library of the Sultan Abdul Hamid and those of the Facul-
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ties of Letters, Law and Sciences. Turkish students are now inspecting organization systems of public libraries thruout the capi- tals of Europe so that the new library may be up-to-date in every respect. During the Turkish conquests many rare manuscripts were brought to Constantinople and many are still known to be in existence. It is expected that these treasures will now come to light and gradually become a part of the new national library, and that in a few years it will take high rank with the national libraries of Europe.
A BROCHURE written by Dingman Versteeg, early Dutch historian, entitled “New Netherland’s Founding,” contains im- portant information in regard to the date of the settlement of New York. The author begins by definitely setting the date of the discovery of the Hudson River by the Half Moon crew in 1609. Regarding the futile attempts of the Dutch navigators to find a northeast passage to China and the East Indies the author writes: “However, instead of finding a shorter and safer way to east- ern Asia, he and his crew became the proud discoverers of a new country in North America, which, five years afterwards, on October 11, 1614, was officially styled New Netherland, while the splendid river first navigated by the Half Moon perpetuates the name and fame of her intrepid captain, Henry Hudson.”
FOR well nigh a hundred years it has been a problem what became of the let- ters of Button Gwinett, signer of the Dec- laration of Independence. A more recent problem but growing in interest is what has become of the papers of Chester A. Arthur, president of the United States. These papers have disappeared from sight and from all knowledge of his family. It was thought that his papers were safely put away in a storage warehouse, but when the boxes were opened it was found that the collection consisted of nothing better than cancelled checks and receipted gas bills. As a result the period of the Arthur adminis- tration is a blank so far as his own corres- pondence is concerned, and it is likely to remain so, unless these papers are still in hands that will some day add them to the papers of the presidents in the Congres- sional Library. If they are still in existence, or if they have passed into hands to whom they do not belong, it is hoped that the fact will ultimately come to light and in some wav that they may be added to the national archives.
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i ihe latest issue of the “Transactions” of the Bibliographical Society contains several papers of interest. R. B. McKer- row discusses “Border Pieces Used by Eng- lish Printers Before 1641,” reaching the conclusion that while much can be learned bibliographically by a study of compart- ments the evidence from their occurrence must be used with great care. There is a need for a more complete series of fac- similes of English woodcut borders, and Mr. McKerrow hopes to enlist the aid of librarians and others in securing photo- graphs or facsimiles or borders up to i641. Charles Thomas-Stanford discusses the various editions of Euclid’s “Elements” from 1482 to 1660, epitomizing a paper read before the society, which is to be expanded to form an illustrated monograph. H. M. Adams compares the editions of Cicero’s “De Officiis et Paradoxa” of 1465 and 1466. G. D. Hobson describes “A Group of Bindings with Painted Plaquettes”— small metal tablets in relief used to dec- orate books. The plaquettes discussed are on a small group of bindings owned by Jean Grolier. W. W. Gregg supplements his previous paper on Massinger’s auto- graph corrections in “The Duke of Milan” with reference to other works of this dramatist.
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Monday afternoon, July 28th, at 2:30. American his-
tory and miscellaneous books embracing genealo- gies, Lincolniana, Western history, early printing, etc.; unusual collection of postage stamps. (No. 1359; Items 347.) Stan. V. Henkels & Son, 1304 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Tuesday afternoon, July 29th, at 2. Rare Ameri- can history and travel, standard and classical English books, scientific, agricultural and mechani- cal books, periodicals and journals in long runs, be- ing portion of Library of American Institute of City of New York. Pt. 4 (and final) (No. 334; Items 362.) The Walpole Galleries, 12 West 48th St., New York City.
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Asien, Land und Volkskunde. (No. 539; Items 1319.) Karl W. MHiersemann, Ko6nigstrasse 29, Leipzig, Germany.
Bibliographie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften. (No. 2; Items 922-1860.) L. Prager, Mittels- trasse 21, Berlin NW7, Germany.
Bibliotheca Schlemihliana, Blaeu’sche Globen,
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lied subjects. (888th Caxton head catalog; Items 351.) James Tregaskis, 66 Great Russell St., Lon- don, W. C. 1, England.
Books on the fine and applied arts. (No. 264; Items 932.) James Rimell & Son, 53 Shaftesbury Ave., London, W. 1, England.
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First editions in original covers. (No. 38; Items 3099-3892.) Antiquarian Book Co., 26A Great Wil- liam St., Stratford-on-Avon, England.
First Editions, rare books and illustrated works. (No. 37; Items 2683-4102.) Antiquarian Book Co., 26A Great William St., Stratford-on-Avon, England.
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liography, English history and literature, etc. (No. 40; Items 653.) Grafton & Co., 51 Great Rus- sell St., London, W. C. 1, England.
Livres, anciens et modernes.. (No. 9; Items 1655.) Librairie F. de Nobele, 28 rue St.-Sulpice, Paris (Vie), France.
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books on art and illustrated books, original etch- ings, drawings, lithographs, etc. (No. 20; Items 471.) Henry Danielson, 64 Charing Cross Rd., Lon- don, W. C. 2, England.
Miscellaneous list of second-hand books. (No. 61; Items 324.) Wm. H. T. Ansell, 113 Gladstone Rd.; Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England.
Modern theology from the library of the Rev. Frank Jones. (No. 332; Items 794.) S. Drayton & Sons, 201 High St., Exeter, England.
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17th and 18th centuries. (No. 11; Items 568.) George Y. McLeish, 66 Weltje Rd., Hammersmith, London, W. 6, England.
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masonry, Cumberland, local history, etc, (No. 331; Items 658.) S. Drayton & Sons, 201 High St., Exeter, England
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Zuwachsverzeichnis der Druckschriften der Na- tional-Bibliothek in Wien. (1923, III; Items 2776- 4012.) O. Héfels, Himmelpfortgasse 10, Wien 1, Austria.
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Internat’] Art & Science Bk. Co., 35 Nassau St., N.Y. Scientific Periodicals in sets or long runs.
International Guild, 1063 DeKalb Ave., Bklyn, N. Y.
Books by Dr. Robie and Long. Any good books on Love and Sex.
Geo. W. Jacobs, 1628 Chestnut St., Phila.
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
Camera Adventures in African Wilds, Dugmore. Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa, Tucker. Fantazius Mallare, Ben Hecht.
Vestments and How to Make Them, Weston, preface by Rev. S. P. Delaney, D. D.
Dead Finger, Elizabeth Sutton.
Albert Gate Mystery, Louis Fracy.
As the Sparks Fly Upwards, Townsend Brady.
Shot with Crimson, McCutcheon.
Canon in Residence, Whitechurch.
Golden Bough, Frazer, 3rd ed., 12 vols.
E. W. Johnson, 343 E. 140th St., New York
Agnes of Sorrento, H. B. Stowe. Trollope’s, A., Lesser known novels.
Johnson’s Book Shoppe, 306 E. Tenth St., Kansas City, Mo.
Batchellor Buttons, any ed.
Blackmer, Rollin C., The Lodge and the Craft.
Broken Wedding Ring, The.
Brown, Brian, Wisdom of the Egyptians.
Meade, Fragments of a Forgotten Faith. ‘
Molier, Transactions of Larned Ladies.
National Geographical Magazines, vol. 1 to present.
a Works of H. Jennings; Thos. Vaughn; A. E.
aite.
Owens, Law Quizzer.
Pfyfe, Thirty Thousand Woords Often Misspelled.
Sherwood, A., Many Marriages.
Spanish Inquisition, any ed.
Thaxter, Celia, New Year’s Bargain.
Wigmore On Evidence,
Johnson’s Bookstore, 391 Main St., Mass.
se roe Man of Gold.
rzybyczewski, Homo Sapiens.
Rice, Rocher ena” wart
Springfield,
Jones Book Store, 426 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles Hand and the Ring, by Anna K. Green.
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Mystery of a Hansom Cab, by Hume.
Master Hand, by Dallas.
The Principles of Yolitical!” Economy; System ot Logic, by John Stewart Mill.
Pepy’s Diary, vol. 1 and 2, Everyman’s Library, Reinforced ed., pub. by Dutton, Nos. 53 and 54.
StartIng Facts in Modern Spiritualism, by N. B. Wolfe. te
In the Garden of Charity, by Basil King, 4 copies.
Edw. P. Judd Co., New Haven, Conn.
Ebony and Ivory, Powys.
International Cook Book, Filipini.
Starlight, Bolderwood.
Kendrick-Bellamy, 16th St., at Stout, Denver
Aphrodite, by Pierre Louys.
Kilmarnock Books, 4th and Cedar Sts., St. Paul,
Mina,
Sylvia and Bruno; Sylvia and Bruno, concluded; either or both, red cloth, American eds. Kleinteich’s Book Store, 1245 Fulton St., Bklyn.
Beadle, Undeveloped West.
Korner & Wood, 1512 Euclid Ave., Cleveland
Martin, Little Brother of the Rich, Scribner. Anne Pendersdotter, H. Weirs-Jenssen. Times Midweek Pictorial, vol. 5, no. 24.
Lantern Book Shop, 28 Main St., Saranac Lake, N.Y.
E. R. Emerson’s Masks, Heads and Faces, Hough- ton, Mifflin Co., Boston, 1891.
Rudolf Utzinger’s Masken, 1923 as vol. 13 of Orbis Pictis, pub., Ernest Wasmuth, Berlin, Germany.
Charles E. Lauriiat Co., 385 Wash. St., Boston 3
History of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Quackenbos, Hypnotic Therapeutics; Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture.
Life W. H. Prescott, Peck, Mac., Eng. Men Letter
Ser.
Olcott, Henry S., People from the Other World, pub. Amer. Pub. Co., 1875.
Colley, Archdeacon, Spiritualism.
My Demon Motor Boat, Fitch.
Secrets of the Salmon, Hewitt.
Library Notes, Russell.
Watt, H. J., Psychology of Sound.
Bateson, Biological Fact and Structure of Society.
Leary, Stuart & Co., 9 So. Ninth St., Phila.
Gettysburg, Then and Now, by Vanderslice.
Lemcke & Buechner, 32 E. 20th St., New York Brandt, Rectification and Distillation of Alcohol.
W. U. Lewisson, 147 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Books and pamphlets relating to Geo. Wasliington.
J. B. Lippincott Co., Washington Sq., Phila. Isn’t It So, Mrs. Murphy, several copies.
Little, Brown & Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston
Roof of the World, by Percy Atherton, Little, Brown & Co.
Liveright Bookshop, 9 W. 49th St., New York Louisiana Folk Tales, by Alice Fortier. Mathematical Philosophy, x Keyser.
Science or Language, and Series, Max Muller. Beyond Death, Hugh Johnson.
Lord & Taylor Book Shop, sth Ave. at 38th St., N.Y. Capt. Desmond’s Daughter, Maude Diver.
B. Login & Son, 20 E. 21st St., New York Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosquitoes of North and Central America, 4 vols.
Lowman & Hanford Co., Third Ave., Seattle DeCosta, Archways of Life.
Eli Faure, Cineplastics. ‘
Parkman, A Half Century of Conflict, 2 vols., % mor., dark green; Montcalm and Wolfe, 2 vols., % mor., dark green.
Warner ,Susan Clegg.
Autobiography of King James II. of England, Bohn Library.
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BO asia eemeiemiaionsio Macauley Bros., 1268 Library Ave., Detroit, Mich. Colonel’s Dream, Chas. W. Chestnutt.
McDevitt-Wilson’s, 30 Church St., New York
Johnson, Angling in Canadian Waters. Hewlitt, Maurice, Open Country; Half Way House.
Madison Book Store, 61 E. s9th St., New York
Whittaker, Histories of the Theories of Ether and Electricity.
Jordan Marsh Co., Boston Daffodil Murder.
Medical Stan. Bk. Co., 301 N. Charles St., Baltimore
The Long Day, Dorothy Richards, Century, any ed. Robt. Smith Surtees, Complete Works, English ed.
Methodist Bk. Concern, 150 Fifth Ave., New York Hero Chums, Dromgoole.
Wm. H. Miner, 3518 Franklin Ave., St. Louis American Book Prices Current, after 1917. ; Some Early Emigrants to Virginia; Colonial Vir-
ginia Register, Standard. Allen, Grant, New Heathenism. Heine, Poems, Bohn Library. Reynolds, History of Freemasonry in Illinois. Quote any eds. of Walton’s Angler.
Missouri Store Co., Columbia, Mo. Lyon, Graphics, also Sardonics. Sylvester, The Great River. E. V. Mitchell, 27 Lewis St., Hartford, Conn.
Day on a Doge’s Farm, Symonds. Genealogies of Corson, Cone and Brewster Families. Life of Blake, Gilchrist.
Morehouse Pub. Co., 1801 Fon du Lac, Milwaukee Garrett Eternal Sacrifice.
Moroney, 35 E. 3rd St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Beckman, Bk. Distinguished Families ot Am. McGuffey, Second Reader, 1836.
Norman, Remington Co., Charles St., Baltimore Weeden, Old Voices; Bandana Ballads; Songs ot the Old South; Shadows. Sam Butler, Way of All Flesh, 1st ed.
Normandie Book Co., Morristown, N. J.
First eds. of Famous Novels, and any titles by Cabell, Kipling, Stephenson, Conrad, Hardy.
Old Corner Bk. Store, 50 Bromfield St., Boston Prothero, Life of Stanley. Gescorius, Grammar of Hebrew Language, 1903. Gabriel, Rudiments of the Hebrew Grammar, 1888. Harper, Elements of Hebrew Syntax, 1802.
O’Malley’s Book Store, 329 Columbus Ave., N. Y.
Books on Architecture and Carpentry, by Benjamin, Biddle, Norman, Pain, Haviland, Lefever, Swan, Langley, etc., printed in America before 1831.
C. C. Parker, 520 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Sturges, Appreciation of Sculpture. Le Gallienne, Painted Shadows. Cullum, Fifty Years Public~Service. Hay, Evil Vineyard. Wyeth, With Saddle and Scalpel. Spearman , Strategy of Great Railroads; Merrilie Dawes. Scidmore, Winter India, fresh copy. Wallace, A Wonderful Century. Harris, Life Oscar Wilde, first ed. Current History, Dec., 1919, 2 copies. Hutton, History Plays and Players.
Peabody Shop, 4 E. Center St., Baltimore Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. Morris, William, Poems. Meyer’s or Brookhard Lexicon, German. Pearlman’s Bk. Shop, 933 G St., N.W., Wash., D.C. Bligh, Desire for Qualities.
The Publishers’ Weekly
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Tanner, Canals, Railroad U. S.
Knox, Virgin Island.
Tabriski, Virgin Island.
Encyclopedia Britannica, Handy ed., brown sheep preferred, vol. 22, only. |
Mrs. Bird’s Travels in Persia.
Langdon Moore, Prison Life of.
Uncle Ned’s White Child. ;
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Hysteria.
Mencken, Heliogabolus. _
Wilstach, Potomac Landings.
Southworth, Only a Girl’s Heart.
Mrs. E. G. White, Spiritual Gifts, 4 vols.
Worth, Plutarch Restored.
The Pilgrim Press, 14 Beacon St., Boston 9
Problems and Programs of Negro Education, H. Paul Douglass.
The Southern South, Albert Bushnell Hart.
An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863-1910, The Religious, Moral and Educational Development of the American Negro Since His Emancipation, W. N. Hartshorn.
Negro Education in the South, Walter B. Hill.
Pilgrim Press, 19 S. La Salle St., Chicago, III.
A Mountain Trail; The Drift Toward Religion, by Albert W. Palmer, several each.
The Post-Box Bk. Service, 67 W. 68th St., New York
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, On Religion, Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, London, 1893.
Jerome, They and I.
Butler, Erewhon, 1st ed.
Chabot, Handwriting of Junius, 1871.
Chas. T. Powner Co., 177 W. Madison St., Chicago
Bobbitt, Curicula Making in Los Angeles.
Art of Cutting Metals, pub. American Soc. of Mech. Eng.
Family, Town, County and State Histories; also States.
Presbyterian Bk. Store, 278 Post St., San Francisco
Mysteries of Mithra, Cumont. Latin Christianity, Milman. The History of the Jews, Milman.
Presby. Comm. of Pub., Texarkana, Ark.-Tex. Life of Charles Carroll, Kate Mason.
Preston & Rounds, 98 oe St., Providence,
Bronson, Household Manufacturers’ Handbook, 1830.
Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J. Willoughby, Constitutional Law of the United States, vol. 1, 1910. Tucker, Constitution of the U. S., vol. 2, 1899. Clarke, Germany Yesterday and Today, 1893. Plume’s Life of J. Hacket, Lond., 186s.
Princeton Univ. Store, Princeton, N. J. With Lawrence in Arabia, Doran; please quote.
Putnams, 2 W. 45th St., New York
Bryant’s trans. Odyssey, 2 vols., Osgood, 1870-1880.
Byrne, Inspection of the Materials and Workman- ship Employed in Construction.
Clark, History of Yachting, 1904.
Cady, Way Life’ Begins.
Carl, With the Empress Dowager in China.
Dr. Irving’s Day on the Cooper River.
Embury, Early American Churches.
Ellwanger, Snuff Box Full of Trees.
Fraser, Thoroughbreds. ~
Greene, Corporation Finance.
History of the Tangier Regiment.
Hyndman, Awakening of Asia.
Howe, Dramatic Portraits.
Hopkins, How’s Your Second Act?
Le Gallienne, Painted Shadows.
Martin, Her Husband’s Purse; Poems and Verses.
Mitchell, Lost American.
Montgomery, Misunderstood.
Ostewald, Intro. to Theoretical & Applied Colloid Chemistry.
Parloa’s New Cook Book.
July 26, 1924
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Phyfe, 5000 Facts and Fancies,
Post Family by M. C. de F. Post, 1905.
Pyle, Rabbit Witch. i
Quiller Couch, Shakespeare’s Workmanship. Roosevelt, Winning the West, vols. 1 & 2, 1896; Fear God and Take Your Own Part; Winning ot the West, vol. 3. New Library ed.
Stephen, Insurrection, pvems.
Schriner, Trooper Peter Halcott.
Thackeray, Four Georges, vol. 23, Cabinet ed., orig. green cloth. :
Thurston, Greatest Wish in the World.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Co.
Thwing, American Colleges, Their Students and Work.
Taylor, Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles.
Walden by Thoreau, ill. in Sepia.
Wise, Diomed, Life, Travels and Observations of a Dog. :
Barber, Pottery & Porcelain of the U. S.; Anglo- American Pottery; American Glassware Old an? New; Tulip Ware of the Penna. German Potters.
H. W. Ralston, Box 24, Station O, New York The Man Who Lost Himself, H. DeVere Stacpoole, pub. John Lane & Co. Rare Book Co., 99 Nassau St., New York
Book of Seveta, Elias Alexander, London, 1771. Onomastigon of Punctilious Words and Comely Phrases, D. W. Alexander, Boston, 1820.
Book, Portraits, Autographs, Newspapers, Clippings, ,
etc., of the Alexander Family in England, Scot- land, United States and Canada. Christian Science Books and Pamphlets.
The Rare Bk. Shop, 723 17th St., N.W., Wash., D.C.
Hudson, Nature in Downland, rst ed. American Vignola.
Jowett’s Plato, 5 vols., Oxford.
Brugiere, Good Living.
Astra Castra.
Greene, Anna Katherine, That Affair Next Door. Aphrodite.
Little Journeys, 1896 to 1899 inc.
Kelly, Howard A., Medical Gynaecology. Mathews, Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties. Munsell, Index to Amer. Genealogies.
Peter Reilly Co., 133 N. 13th St., Philadelphia Campbell, Language of Medicine.
E. R. Robinson, 410 River St., Troy, N. Y.
Assessment Map of Cohoes, Union Map Co., 1874.
Argosy, vols. 31 to 52 incl.°
Boys of New York, any vols.
Cable, Strange True Stories of Louisiana.
Chatterton, E. K., Ship Models.
Collier’s Weekly, any vols.
Dunbar, S., Travels in America.
Dement, Dement’s Pitman’s Shorthand.
Diamond Dick, any vols.
Golden Argosy, vols. 1 to 5 incl.
Good News, any vols.
Golden Hours, any vols.
Literary Digest History of the World War.
Munsey’s, vols. 23 to 49 incl., and 62 to 75 incl., bound.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, an., 1014.
New York sc. Comic, any vols.
New York Ledger, any vols.
Old Cap Collier, any vols.
Pygmalion and Galatea, Schiller, Lang or Shaw. uritan, anything after vol. 8.
The Quaker, any vols.
Roscoe, W. E., History of Schoharie Co., N. Y., 1713-1882,
Snaps, any vols.
Tip Top Weekly, any vols.
‘a Companion, prior to 188: and after 188, ound,
F. L. Rowe, 422 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Mosheim or Neanders, Church History. Rules for Public Discussions.
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A Light in the East. Fox’s Christian Martyrs, abridged. Memoirs of O. S. Rogers.
St. Paul Bk. & Sta. Co., 55 E. 6th St., St. Paul
Cramer, The Method of Darwin. Mayna, Enchanters of Men.
Malcolm B. Schloss, 30 E. s3rd St., New York
Cobb, The Essential Mysticism.
Beck, The Ninth Vibration.
Eckhartshausen, The Cloud tipon the Sanctuary. Pick, Extra-Canunical Life of Christ.
de Molinos, The Spiritual Guide.
The Siva Sanhita.
Schulte’s Book Store, 80 Fourth Ave., New York
Vestments and How to Make Them, Delany.
Rockwell & Keeler Families, James Broughton.
Peru Old and New, Wright.
Studies in Modertn Literature, Otto Heller.
Collectanea, 5 vols., V. Stuckey Lean.
Sacred Books of_the East, vols. 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 3! and 38.
Audsley, Art of Organ Building; Organ Building in the 2oth Century.
Scrantom’s, Inc., Rochester, N. Y.
Check List Early American Bottles and Flasks, Van Rensslaer.
Centiry Book of Names, India paper ed.
Gate of Death, A. C. Benson.
Self-Interpreting Bible, 4 vols.
Chas. Scribner’s Sons, sth Ave. at 48th St., N. Y.
Anthology of Modern Italian Verse.
Britton, N. S., Trees, Holt.
Carl, K., With the Empress Dowager, Cent.
Cecil, E., A History of Gardening in England, Mur- ray, I9I0.
Dunsany, Time and the Gods.
Hyne, Captain Kettle, Federal Book Co.; _Meredith, Financier, Cupples & Leon.
Library of Southern Literature, 17 vols.
Longfellow, Evangeline, Riverside Aldine series only, Houghton.
Maury, Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.’
Menpes, Gainsborough, Text by Grieg, Black.
Munsterberg, Photoplay, A Psychological Appleton. :
Oertel, Lectures on the Study of Language, Yale.
Quiller-Couch, Delectable Duchy, Scribner; Splendi,
, Scribner. ,
Stoddard’s Lectures, 15 vols.
Stone, A. H., Studies in American Race Problems, Doubleday.
Sykes, Caliph’s Lost Heritage, Mac.
Wild, Rev. J., The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, pub. Robinson, London, Ontario, 1879.
Binns, Manual of Practical Potting, Van Nostrand
Caffin, C. H., Art for Life’s Sake, Prang, 1913.
Cameron, M. L., Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany, Methuen.
Church, Hammer, Bloch.
Cox, Introduction to Comparative Mythology, Scrib.
De Collin, Coriolin.
ne M., Chronicles of Stimpcett Family, Lothrop,
Kate
Study.
1888. Dickinson, Single Hound.
Douglas, H A., Venice on Foot.
Dulac, Portfolio.
Elements of Rigging and Seamanship, 2 vols., pub.
Steel, 1804. Fors, L. R., Gottschalk, N. Y., tis. Freeman, Italian Sculpture, Mae’ Gordon-Smith, R., Ancient Tales and Folk Lore ot Japan, Mac. Gregorovius, A History of Romie in the Middle Ages. Hanna, C. A., Scotch-Irish, 2 vols., Putnam. Henshawe, Democracy at the Crossways, Mac. Henty, In the Irish Brigade. Hewlett, Forest Lovers, ed. colored illus. Holliday, English Fiction, Century. Hoppin, Auton House, Houghton. Isham, American Painting, Mac. Jackson, A. V. W., Persia Past and Present, Mac. Landon, Across Unknown South Africa, Little, Brown, 2 vols.
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Joly, H., Legend in Japanese Art, Dodd, Mead. Lansdale, M. H., Chateaux of Touraine,. Century. Lardner, R. W., Gullible’s Travels, Bobbs, 1917. Lees, Wanderings in the Italian Riviera. Ludovici, Nietzsche and Art, Luce. Luff, Postage Stamps of the U. S. Mackenzie, Pompeii, A. & C. Black. Miles, E., Racquets, Tennis and Squash. Parmalee, History of Germany, Scribner. Peckham, G. W., Wasps, Social and Solitary, Hough- ton, 1905. : Peer, Cross Country with Horse and Hound, Scrib- ner, 1902.
Plato, Dialogues, tr. Jowett, Scribner, 4 vols.
Ruhl, A., White Nights, Scribner.
Sayce, A. H., Religion of Ancient Egypt, Clark.
Shakespeare, Works, Camb., 1821, ed. in 1 vol. with Sketch of Life, A. Chalmers.
Shedlock, The Pianoforte Sonata, Methuen.
Sykes, Glory of the Shia Worid, 1910.
Sykes, P. M., Ten Thousand Miles in Persia; Voy- age of a Pilgrim.
Town and Country, March ist and Dec. ist, 1919.
Turning, Travels in America. One. Thousand Years
Ago, Harper. Ward, F. de W., India and the Hindus, Scribner. — Tales of Space and Time, Doubleday-Mc- ure.
Wharton, E., Ethan. Frome, 1st ed. only, Scribner.
Wheelock, J. H., Human Fantasy, 10911.
Wilkes, Ch., Western America Including California and Oregon.
Willis, N. P., Letters Under a Bridge.
Charles Sessler, 1314 Walnut St., Philadelphia
Anything about Walt Whitman.
Tarkington, Christmas Party.
Autobiography of Herbert Spencer.
Anything on Early American Glass.
Leaves of Grass, Flap ed.
Keats, Letters, Forman ed.
Kipling’s The Brushwood Boy.
John Wesley and George Whitfield in Scotland, by Butler.
Visicn and Revision.
As It Was in the Beginning, Train.
Tohn V. Sheehan & Co., 1550</