The Working Press; Special to the New York Times.
Foreword by Theodore M. Bernstein. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1966).
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The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History.
Yonkers: Pushcart, 1978. Illustrated. 770pp., 8vo, black cloth, d.w., corners of cloth bumped. (Yonkers): Puhschart Press, (1978). Very good(+).
The Book of Libel.
454pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York, (1966). A practical guide for editors and authors.
Caxton: England's First Publisher.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. 220pp. 8vo, boards, dust wrapper. New York; Barnes & Noble, (1975).
The Life and Death of the Press Barons.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. Photo illus. 288pp. 8vo, 1/2 cloth, dust wrapper; light edgewear on d.w. New York: Atheneum, (1983).
Autographed Letter Signed with exceptional content
New York: 1821. 2 pages (front and back), 12.75 x 8.75 inches, with an integral address leaf, New York, July 16, 1821. Written to Philadelphia publishers McCarty & Davis, proposing a new biography of Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, in small part: "...I have been advised by a great number of citizens, to write an abridgement of the Life of Thomas Paine, and to have an engraved likeness of him taken from a miniature painting that I own...
At Random, The Reminiscences.
New York: Random House, 1977. Illustrated. 306pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Random House, 1977. Near-fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf.
New York: Random House, 1977. With b/w illustrations. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. New York: Random House, (1977). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Cosmic Vision.
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. Frontis. 143pp., thin 8vo, blue cloth; spine faded, ends worn; rubbed. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1922 Includes a history of the Doves Press, by its poet-philosopher founder.
The Lee Papers, A Saga Of Midwestern Journalism.
Illustrated. 419pp. 8vo, cloth. Illinois: Star-Courier Press, 1947. Very good copy in a good tattered dust wrapper.
Fifty Years of "Country Life"
London: Country Life, 1947. Illustrated, including three in color. 94pp., thin 8vo, green & yellow cloth, edges untrimmed. London: Country Life, (1947). A near fine copy.
The Ante-Room
270 pages, 8vo, red cloth, dust wrapper (worn wrapper). New York: Atheneum, 1960. Very good. Autobiography of the Director of Macmillan & Co.
Time Inc. , The Intimate History Of A Publishing Enterprise, 1923-1941.
Illustrated. Thck 8vo, burgundy cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Atheneum, 1968. Fine in fine dust wrapper.
The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing.
Illustrated, 326pp, 8vo, cloth. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. Very good in very good, price clipped, dust jacket.
Fifty Years: Borzoi Books 1915-1965 A Retrospective Collection; Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays... All Drawn from Volumes Issued During the Last Half-Century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf Over This SIgna and Device
New York: Knopf, 1965. 1088 pages (tears to margin of introductory page), thick 8vo, black and green cloth, dust wrapper (wrapper toned on spine and some small chips). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper, publishers board slipcase. New York: Knopf, 1965. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to Shirley Hazzard on the front free endpaper: "One of the writers and friends I am most proud of, April 5 - 1966"...
English Book Prospectuses
Newtown: Bird & Bull, 1984. 8vo, decorative paper boards; black morocco spine. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press & Minneapolis: Daedalus Press, 1984. No. 11 of 325 copies, with a separate portfolio containing facsimiles on different papers. Both book & portfolio in publisher's boards slipcase.
Holiday House, The First Fifty Years.
Illustrated. 152pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y.: Holiday House, 1985. Near-fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing
New York: Harper, 1912. Illustrated with black and white portraits, protected by tissue guards. 690 pages (deckle edges), very thick 8vo, gilt stamped burgundy cloth (only lightly rubbed, gilt is a bit faded on spine). New York: Harper Bros, 1912. A very good(+) copy.
Theirs Was The Kingdom: Lila and DeWitt Wallace and the Story of the Reader's Digest.
New York: Norton, 1993. Illustrated. 701pp. 8vo, cloth- backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper flaps glued to inside front and rear covers, library pocket pasted to rear end-paper. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1993). First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Illus. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1991). Fine Presentation copy.
Auschwitz In England; A Record of a Libel Action.
8vo, cloth, d.w. London: MacGibbon & Kee, (1965). First Edition. vg Signed by both authors.
The Lives of William Benton.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1969. Illustrated, 625pp, thick 8vo. Chicago: UP, 1969. Near fine in lightly worn dust jacket.
The Best Years of the Century. Richard Watson Gilder, Scribner's Monthly, and Century Magazine, 1870-1909.
Urbans: University Press of Illinois, 1981. Illustrated. 296 pages. 8vo, beige pictorial boards. Urbana: University Press of Illinois, (1981). First edition. A fine copy, as new in original shrinkwrap.
Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day-- Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete
Boston: David Godine, 1981. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 309 pages. Short 4to, green cloth, dust wrapper. Small smudge mark on back of wrapper. Boston: David Godine, (1981). First edition. Near fine.
Typed Letter Signed "Yousuf" on personal letterhead
Canada: 1959. 1 page, 7.25 x 6.5 inches, Canada, October 12, 1959. In this letter, Karsh tries to assist a friend in acquiring a literary agent, in part: "...I feel it is a rather difficult matter to suggest exactly the right person to fit a specific author. I am strongly of the opinion that one has in some way to come to know an agent personally to discover whether he or she is in affinity with one's own ideas and...