Antiquarian, Specialty, and Used Book Sellers

Antiquarian, Specialty, and Used Book Sellers
Author: James M. Ethridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558887664

This new reference work lists geographically some 3000 U.S. book dealers of antiquarian, specialty, and used books, providing address, telephone and FAX numbers, hours, stock size, and specialties. It also indicates whether the shop issues catalogs or undertakes special services such as appraisals and searches. Indexes allow access by subject, store name, and owner/manager. The volume invites comparison with R.R. Bowker's "American Book Trade Directory (ABTD)", now in its 38th edition, which lists bookstores dealing in both secondhand and new books and covers Canada as well as the United States. "ABTD" lists 3,483 used and antiquarian dealers among its nearly 31,000 entries. Both works have gaps, and "ABTD" doesn't note hours. Though, booksellers, collectors, special collections, and rare book rooms are likely to prefer the volume under review, especially because it costs so much less, general collections already possessing "ABTD" can probably pass on this new title.

The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina

The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina
Author: Robert J. Wickenheiser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 864
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This is a descriptive catalog of one of the world's largest collections of Milton and Miltoniana. Housed at USC's Thomas Cooper Library, the Wickenheiser Collection contains more than six thousand volumes, including more than sixty 17th-century editions of Milton's writings and significant holdings of 17th-century Miltoniana.

Cleopatra's Barge

Cleopatra's Barge
Author: David L. Ferguson
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1976
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Johannes Kaspar Richter von Kronenscheldt was born in 1644 in Saxony. He emigrated in 1684 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Allen in 1694. They had five children. He died in 1711. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.