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Oak Knoll was founded by Robert D. Fleck in 1976 to fill a
void in the book selling world. At the time, there were virtually
no antiquarian booksellers who specialized in both out-of-print
and in-print books about books, book trade history and the
book arts. Today, Oak Knoll is an international firm that
maintains an inventory of about 20,000 titles and a rapidly
growing back list of over 950 titles published and distributed
under its publishing imprint, Oak Knoll Press. Our main specialties
continue to be books about book collecting, book selling,
bibliography, libraries, publishing, private press printing,
fine printing, bookbinding, book design, book illustration,
calligraphy, graphic arts, marbling, papermaking, printing,
typography and type specimens plus books about the history
of these fields.
Oak Knoll is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2006.
The Press now issues about 40 titles a year. Many of the titles
are co-published with such important institutions as The British
Library, the Library of Congress, the Tate Gallery, Winterthur,
and the Private Libraries Association. The acquisition of
the renowned English publishing firm St. Paul's Bibliographies
in 1998 added many bibliographical titles to our list.
Oak Knoll is also the exclusive distributor of the books
published by the American Antiquarian Society, the Bibliographical
Society (UK), the Bibliographical Society of America, the
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, the
John Carter Brown Library and 20 other prominent organizations.
Over the past 30 years, we have issued more than 300 antiquarian,
publishing and new book catalogues to more than 25,000 customers
worldwide. Librarians, scholars and collectors have found
that Oak Knoll strives to live up to its mission statement.
We publish books about books that "preserve the art
and lore of the printed word."
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