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Copies of remaindered books may be marked by the publisher, distributor, or bookseller to prevent them from being returned. "Remainder marks" have varied over the years, but today most remainders are marked with a stroke with a felt-tipped marker across the top or bottom of the book's pages, near the spine. [2]
The British government agreed to pay half the amount and guaranteed the remainder if it were not raised by public subscription. [8] Maggs have regularly set book price records; in 1947 they bought a second Gutenberg Bible—the Dyson Perrins copy—for £22,000, on behalf of Sir Philip Frere, and a few years later resold it to Mrs. Doheny of ...
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. Follett Corporation. Greenleaf Book Group, distributor and hybrid publisher. Heroes World Distribution, owned by Marvel Comics. Independent Publishers Group, owned by Chicago Review Press. Ingram Content Group. Publishers Group West. Two Rivers (formerly Perseus Distribution) Last Gasp.
Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.
1992. ( 1992) –2012. ( 2012) ; 2015. Website. rockbottomremainders .com. The Rock Bottom Remainders, also known as the Remainders, was an American rock charity supergroup consisting of popular published writers, most of them also amateur musicians. The band took its self-mocking name from the publishing term "remaindered book", a term for ...
Incorporated is a list of online marketplaces to which numerous small independent booksellers belong. AALBC.com, launched in 1998, focuses on books written by, or about, people of African descent. AbeBooks, online marketplace for used books, owned by Amazon.com since 2008. Adrian Harrington, rare and antiquarian books, based in the United Kingdom.
Remainder is a 2005 novel by British author Tom McCarthy. It is McCarthy's third published work. It was first written in 2001, although not published until 2005 (in a limited run of 750 copies printed by the French Metronome Press). The novel was later re-printed by UK publishing house Alma Books; Vintage Books printed the book in the United ...
Daedalus Books is a seller of books, music, and video founded in 1980. [ 2] While it also sells new titles, Daedalus Books' specialty is the remaindered book. Its philosophy is to keep bestsellers, classics, and overlooked gems available to the reading public. It sells its products via catalogs and a website.