Bookseller, publisher, and member of the Stationers ' Company, Playford published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments, and psalters with tunes for singing in churches.

In January 1858 he launched The Bookseller and in 1869 published the first issue of Whitaker's Almanack, a reference annual, which met with immediate ( and lasting ) success.

Later, the Anglo-American crime author, Raymond Chandler, successfully claimed that Chase had lifted a section of his work in " Blonde's Requiem " ( published 1945 ) forcing Chase to issue an apology in The Bookseller.

On Thames & Hudson ’ s tenth anniversary, the UK publishing industry magazine, The Bookseller, described the company as ‘ neither wedded to eclecticism nor dedicated to mass appeal, has produced some of the most ambitious picture books ever published ... and have sold them in a number which ten years ago would have been considered improbable and at prices which have won the surprised gratitude of thousands of readers .’

Bookseller Roy A. Squires was appointed Smith's " west coast executor ", with Jack L. Chalker as his " east coast executor ".

In May 2011, Hillingdon Council received the Library Innovation of the Year award at the 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards.

Bookseller Gerhard Ludwig, who worked for the influential publisher Neven du Mont in 1941, was dismissed immediately when he got into trouble with the Gestapo for political reasons.

* The Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created.

* Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year is first awarded.

The Bookseller of Kabul, her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

* 2004: The Bookseller of Kabul was shortlisted for the first Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Award 2004.

The book won the Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year in 1997.

His descendants built Southdale Center in 1956, opened the Target discount store chain in 1962 and the B. Dalton Bookseller chain in 1966.

Edmund Curll, Bookseller.

; David Sillar, Bailie ; William Gillies, Grain Dealer ; John Peebles, Convener of Trades ; James Johnston, Town Clerk ; Robert Wyllie, Harbour Master ; John Orr, Merchant ; James Allan, Merchant ( grocer ); Maxwell Dick, Bookseller ; William Shields, Senior, Merchant ; John Fletcher, Surgeon ; and Patrick Blair, Writer.

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In 2008, Vroman's was named Bookseller of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the international news magazine of book publishing.

Waterstones banned internet access to the trade magazine and its website, The Bookseller. com from all stores

However, others have suggested that this was due to an article printed by The Bookseller which ran negative publicity on the performance of the new " Book Hub " central distribution centre.

The Bookseller Industry Awards, formerly the Bookseller Retail Awards, are run by the trade magazine The Bookseller.

The Bookseller, 13 August 2009 </ ref > In March 2010, it announced a similar reorganization of its Wiley-Blackwell central marketing operations that would affect approximately 40 employees.

The Bookseller announced the new launch in its October 9, 2009 issue with an interview with Michelin Commercial Director Ian Murray.

Both the Oxford and London flagship stores have won Bookseller of the Year at the British Book Awards.

Another book, the Lesbian S / M Safety Manual won the 1990 Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.

* " The Small Rain "-First published in March, 1959 in the Cornell Writer, No. 2, pp. 14 – 32.

* " Low-lands "-First published in New World Writing, No. 16, Philadelphia: Lippincott, on 16 March 1960, pp. 85 – 108.

* " Entropy "-First published in the Kenyon Review 22, No. 2, in Spring 1960, pp. 27 – 92.

* " Under the Rose "-First published in The Noble Savage 3 in May 1961, pp. 233 – 251.

* " The Secret Integration "-First published December 26, 1964 in The Saturday Evening Post 237 No. 45, pp. 36 – 37, 39, 42-44, 46-49, 51.

* " Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life "-First published in The Daily Telegraph in 1974

* " Beware of the Dog "-First published in Harper's in October 1944.

* " Bitch "-First published in Playboy in July 1974.

* " The Champion of the World "-First published in The New Yorker on 31 January 1959.

* " Death of an Old Old Man "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1945.

* " Dip in the Pool "-First published in The New Yorker on 19 January 1952.

* " Edward the Conqueror "-First published in The New Yorker on 31 October 1953.

* " Galloping Foxley "-First published in Town & Country in November 1953.

* " The Great Switcheroo "-First published in Playboy in April 1974.

* " The Hitch-Hiker "-First published in Atlantic Monthly in July 1977.

* " Katina "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in March 1944.

* " Lamb to the Slaughter "-First published in Harper's in September 1953.

* " The Landlady "-First published in The New Yorker on 28 November 1959.

* " The Last Act "-First published in Playboy in January 1966.

* " Madame Rosette "-First published in Harper's in August 1945.

* " Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat "-First published in Nugget in December 1959.

* " My Lady Love, My Dove "-First published in The New Yorker on 21 June 1952.

* " Only This "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1944.

* " Parson's Pleasure "-First published in Esquire in April 1958.