Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1877-1968.

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Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1877-1968.

Trade catalogs, advertising of books, booksellers and other ephemera relating to the selling of books.

65 items (1 box) : ill.

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Whitaker & Ray Co.

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Herbert West (Firm)

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Wilson, Hinkle & Co.

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William P. Wreden (Firm)

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Frederick Warne & Co.

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Henry J. Wehman (Firm)

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World Publishing Company.

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In 1905, Alfred H. Cahen opened the Commercial Bookbinding Company in Cleveland and acquired the World Syndicate Publishing Company in 1928. His company then began publishing Bibles, dictionaries, and children's books and went public with a stock issue in 1929. By 1940, when the name was changed to The World Publishing Company, it had become the largest publisher of Bibles and dictionaries in the United States. Two reprint lines, Tower Books (sold at $.49) and Forum Books (sold at $1.00) were la...

Union Deutshe Verlagsgesellschaft.

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Western Hemisphere Inc.

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Wolcott Shop.

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John Wiley & Sons.

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Raymond Washburne (Firm)

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Richard S. Wormser (Firm)

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H.H. Warner & Co.

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John Wanamaker (Firm)

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Wanamaker's legendary department stores were oalaces of consumption that turned shopping into an event for ordinary people. Born in Philadelphia in 1838, John Wanamaker pioneered the concept of the department store. In 1861 Wanamaker and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown, opened Oak Hall, a men's clothing store. In 1876, intending to open a central market like London's Royal Exchange or Paris' Les Halles, he converted an abandoned Pennysylvania Railroad depot into a multipurpose clothing and spec...

T.D. Webster (Firm)

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