Rare Books
[Collection of Italian bookseller's announcements and prospectuses]
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Brock Collection: Dealers collection
Manuscripts
Collection of miscellaneous business correspondence, print notices, circulars, prospectuses, bills, book lists, advertisements and similar material, addressed to Robert A. Brock as Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society and Southern Historical Society. Represented are publishers and publishing houses, booksellers, autograph dealers, printers & stationers, and publishers' agents
mssBR Box 253
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Collection of publisher and bookseller catalogs and prospectuses featuring erotica, most based in New York city
Rare Books
Collection of mail-order catalogs, subscription requests, prospectuses and catalogs for erotic literature, anthropology, sexology, and history. The majority of publishers represented were located in New York, although the Argus Book Shop had its primary location in Chicago, briefly setting up a shop in Manhattan from 1944 to 1950. Blackfriars Press, Argus Book Shop and the Falstaff Press have the largest representation. Publishers with only two or three items include: American Ethnological Press; Charles Book Haven; Charles L. Bowman & co.; Covici, Friede, Publishers; French Bookman; Horace Liveright, New York; Panurge Press; Private Press Publishers and Library Union Association. Several catalogs are anonymous. The Argus Book Shop was founded by Ben Abramson. The Falstaff Press was incorporated by Benjamin Rebhuhn in 1932. Rebhuhn, his wife and nephew were convicted of Federal obscenity charges in 1939; Abramson somehow managed to maintain a more "legitimate" reputation and avoided much scrutiny by the authorities. The materials presented in these catalogs were designed to appeal to a wide range of tastes and budgets.
623859
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[Collection of prospectuses for early 19th century English books]
Rare Books
Contains covers and/or title pages, some with title vignettes, and specimen pages for 7 English publications dating from 1807 to 1831. The prospectuses/dummies are bound together in marbled-paper boards with red leather spine and corners. Publishers' whose work is represented include: John Sharpe, Piccadilly; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Sample illustrations are included with some of the specimen pages.
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