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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Collection of Booksellers' Catalogs
Identifier/Call Number: Z999.C69
Physical Description:
28 Linear feet
(28 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1918-2016
Date (bulk): 1995-2016
Abstract: Booksellers' catalogs collected by the Clark Library and the Heritage Bookshop, dating from 1918 to the present. Booksellers
represented are largely from the United States and from England, though other countries (particularly France and Germany)
are also included.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF - please contact Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks in advance if interested in using these materials.
Collection is open for research, but is housed off-site and advance notice is required for paging. Please contact Clark Library
staff regarding this collection.
Provenance and Collecting History
Part of this collection was donated to the Clark Library in 2007 by the Heritage Bookshop. Originally, these catalogs were
a part of Heritage's in-house reference collection.
The majority of these catalogs were collected over time by the Clark Library, which regularly receives new catalogs from booksellers
and auction houses and keeps these for reference purposes. This collection will be added to over time.
This collection was processed by Rudy Arellano and Alejandro Sanchez-Nunez in 2015-2016. Some portions of this collection
were described and processed in 2011 by Kevin Wright.
This collection comprises antiquarian booksellers' catalogs dating from 1918 to the present. Most of these catalogs were
issued by American and British booksellers, though some French and German booksellers are also represented. The large majority
of these catalogs were collected over time by the Clark Library, which receives mailings and catalogs from booksellers on
a regular basis and retains these for reference purposes. Most booksellers represented focus on British antiquarian books
and manuscripts as well as book arts, as these are major collecting areas for the Clark Library, but other subject areas are
also represented by the catalogs gathered here.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by bookseller name. Please note that all bookseller business names are considered
to be corporate titles even when they appear to be personal names, so "John A. Smith" is filed alphabetically under J instead
of S.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Booksellers' catalogs--20th century