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Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Collection of Booksellers' Catalogs
Identifier/Call Number: Z999.C69
Physical Description:
78 Linear feet
(78 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1918-2023
Abstract: Booksellers' catalogs collected by the Clark Library, The Heritage Bookshop, and William Dailey Rare Books, 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.
Language of Material:
English
, French
.
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.
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.
Large portions of this collection were donated to the Clark Library in 2022 by the estate of William Dailey.
Most of the rest of the catalogs here 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 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.
Some portions of this collection were described and processed in 2011 by Kevin Wright. This collection was processed by Rudy
Arellano and Alejandro Sanchez Nunez in 2015-2016; additional materials (including those from the William Dailey Collection)
were processed and added to this finding aid in 2023-2024 by Alejandro Sanchez Nunez and Chanel Viera.
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.
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore
cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials
they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or
other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Booksellers' catalogs--20th century
Antiquarian booksellers
Booksellers