Reluctant capitalists bookselling and the culture of consumption by Miller, Laura J.

Table of Contents: “…Commercial culture and its discontents -- From dry goods merchant to Internet mogul : bookselling through American history -- Providing for the sovereign consumer : selecting and recommending books -- Designing the bookstore for the standardized consumer -- Serving the entertained consumer : the multifunction bookstore -- Bargaining with the rational consumer : selling the low-cost book -- The revolt of the retailers : independent bookseller activism -- Pursuing the citizen-consumer : consumption as politics.…”

Parnassus on Wheels by Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

Subjects: “…Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction…”
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In Luck at Last by Besant, Walter, 1836-1901

Subjects: “…Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Fiction…”
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Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs by Harper, Henry Howard, 1871-

Subjects: “…Book clubs (Bookselling)…”
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The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

Subjects: “…Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction…”
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Managing acquisitions and vendor relations how-to-do-it manual by Miller, Heather Swan

Subjects: “…Libraries and booksellers Handbooks, manuals, etc…”

Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H., 1854-1930 (Peter Hampson)

“…Theology -- Fanatics and free-thinkers -- Astrology, alchemy, and magic -- Science and philosophy -- History -- Politics and statesmanship -- Satire -- Poetry -- Drama and romance -- Booksellers and publishers -- Some literary martyrs.…”
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The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Field, Eugene, 1850-1895

“…My first love -- The birth of a new passion -- The luxury of reading in bed -- The mania of collecting seizes me -- Baldness and intellectuality -- My romance with Fiammetta -- The delights of fender-fishing -- Ballads and their makers -- Booksellers and printers, old and new -- When Fanchonette bewitched me -- Diagnosis of the Bacillus Librorum -- The pleasures of extra-illustration -- On the odors which my books exhale -- Elzevirs and divers other matters -- A book that brings solace and cheer -- The malady called Catalogitis -- The Napoleonic Renaissance -- My workshop and others -- Our debt to monkish men.…”
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The Arabic book by Pedersen, Johannes 1883-1977

Table of Contents: “…Writing and books in Arabia before Islam -- The Qur'an and Arabic literature -- Composition and transmission of books -- Scribes and booksellers -- Writing materials -- Arabic script; calligraphers -- Book painting -- Bookbinding -- Libraries -- Printed books…”