[Rarebooks] FS: Bookseller's Broadside, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1880
Bob Petrilla
petrillabooks at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 08:28:50 EST 2013
Zahm Booksellers broadside. BOOKS...BOOKS...NEW AND SECOND-HAND AT S.H.
ZAHM AND CO'S BOOK ROOMS, 18 & 20 SOUTH QUEEN ST., LANCASTER, PA...
"...School Books New or Second-hand at the Lowest Prices. Fancy Cards,
Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Slates, &c. New Books Ordered at Lowest
Prices. German or English Books of all kinds Bought for Cash...."
Lancaster, PA: S.H. Zahm, Circa 1880. Original edition. Broadside, display
type, printed on card stock. 6.5" x 8" Very Good.
Samuel Hensel Zahm, bookseller and sometime publisher, opened his bookshop
in 1875 [see James Clegg, Directory of Second-hand Booksellers, 1891]. In
the 1880s, Zahm was issuing catalogs, &c. WolfPac lists one Zahm imprint, a
folio broadside (Our New Store.), ca. 1877. By 1903, the business had been
sold to Samuel Auxer. $75.00
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