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This is the curious story of our long love affair with books. Whether comfort reads or cult novels, we carry them with us, inhale the smell of their pages, scrawl in their margins, and protect them from book thieves and bathwater. Despite the many enemies of reading - from poverty to prejudice, from the Spanish Inquisition to Orwellian regimes - its power has endured across centuries. This is partly thanks to people like Martin Latham, the longest-serving Waterstones manager ('it's not a career, it's a philosophic path'). In A Bookseller's Tale, Martin uncovers the history of our collective book-obsession, and introduces us to the Canterbury bookshop that has been his working home for three decades, complete at various points with two rocking horses, a hammock for staff naps and an excavated Roman bath-house floor.

Book history --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- book history --- 09 <036> --- 655.42 --- 655.42 Boekhandel--algemeen --- 655.42 Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- Boekhandel--algemeen --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- 09 <036> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Gidsen. Bijzonderheden m.b.t. het boek --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Gidsen. Bijzonderheden m.b.t. het boek --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Books and reading --- History.

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By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation of texts across the Atlantic between 1944 and 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents’ negotiations which allowed texts, and ideas, to cross borders. While providing comparative insights into the history of publishing in France and in the United States in the immediate aftermath of the war, this book aims at foregrounding the role of the book agent, an all-too often neglected intermediary in the field of book history. Grounded in archival work conducted both in France and the United States, this study is based on previously unexamined correspondence. Considering the concept of mediation as central in the field of print culture, this book addresses the dearth of scholarship on literary agents on both sides of the Atlantic, and intersects with the current scholarship on transatlantic, internationalm and transnational cultural and trade networks, as evidenced by the recently emerged field of sociology of translation in Europe.

Industrie et commerce. --- Livres --- Book industries and trade --- Industrie et commerce --- Histoire --- History. --- Book history --- Histoire. --- 339:094 --- 655.42 --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 655.42 Boekhandel--algemeen --- 655.42 Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- Boekhandel--algemeen --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- E-books

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The wide scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through this in-depth study of the library of James Nairn (1629-1678), a Scottish parish minister. The collection demonstrates a remarkable receptivity to new intellectual ideas. At some two thousand titles Nairn’s is the biggest library formed in this period for which we have detailed and accurate records. The collection is analysed by subject. In addition, there is a biographical study and chapters investigating aspects of the Scottish book market and comparing other contemporary Scottish clerical libraries. A short-title catalogue of the collection, giving references to relevant online bibliographies and catalogues, a select provenance index and a subject index complete the work.

Book history --- private libraries [institutions] --- book history --- Nairn, James --- anno 1600-1699 --- Edinburgh --- E-books --- Vie intellectuelle --- Nairn, James, --- Library. --- Scotland --- Intellectual life. --- 017.2 <41> --- 027.1 <41> --- 655.42 --- 655.42 Boekhandel--algemeen --- 655.42 Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- Boekhandel--algemeen --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- 027.1 <41> Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 017.2 <41> Catalogi van persoonsbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Catalogi van persoonsbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Edinburgh [Scotland]

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Apparue au milieu du XVe siècle, la presse à caractères mobiles de Gutenberg fait rapidement de l'imprimé religieux un vecteur essentiel des idées de la Réforme et de la Contre-Réforme. Mais une autre révolution est en marche : on assiste à la naissance d'un véritable marché, dont s'emparent autant les hommes d'Église - qui multiplient les commandes, Luther en tête - que les professionnels de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, à l'instar de la dynastie des Cramoisy. Si les imprimeurs doivent faire face à de véritables défis techniques (imprimer en grande quantité, imprimer des illustrations ou des partitions), ils profitent aussi de la manne financière qui les accompagne. D'autre part, un véritable circuit de distribution voit le jour, parfois très officiellement (avec la mise en place de l'Imprimerie royale en France), parfois de façon clandestine (pour apporter en Angleterre les traductions interdites du Nouveau Testament). Enfin, la production se diversifie, fournissant aux fidèles des textes pour accompagner leur foi, comme les Gesangbücher allemands, et au clergé des ouvrages pour encadrer ses pratiques, comme les rituels français. De la France à l'Espagne en passant par l'Allemagne et l'Angleterre, onze spécialistes du fait religieux s'intéressent aux imprimés en tant qu'objets. Exemples à l'appui, ils présentent les différents acteurs qui ont favorisé la production et la diffusion de ces ouvrages, ainsi que la grande diversité des livres concernés. --

Livres --- Book industries and trade --- Littérature religieuse --- Religious literature --- Industrie et commerce --- Édition. --- Publishing. --- 093:339 --- 655.42 --- 655.42 Boekhandel--algemeen --- 655.42 Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- Boekhandel--algemeen --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling --- Incunabelen. Incunabelkunde-:-Handel. --- Incunabelen. Incunabelkunde-:-Handel --- Livres - Industrie et commerce - Europe de l'Ouest - Renaissance --- Livres - Industrie et commerce - Europe de l'Ouest - 17e siècle --- Imprimerie - Histoire --- Livres - Histoire --- Littérature religieuse - Édition --- Livres religieux --- Typographie --- 655.4 <4> --- 094:242 --- 655.4 <4> Publishing and bookselling in general--Europa --- 655.4 <4> Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Europa --- Publishing and bookselling in general--Europa --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Europa --- 094:242 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Meditatie. Contemplatie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Meditatie. Contemplatie --- Christian literature --- Publishing --- History. --- Western Europe --- Printing presses --- Reformation --- Littérature chrétienne --- Presses à imprimer --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Édition --- Industrie --- Europe, Western.