Herbert Reichner (New York; Stockbridge, MA)

Thirteen volumes (23 cm), in the publisher’s printed wrappers, as issued. - A representative selection of catalogues issued in the United States by the learned émigré bookseller Herbert Reichner (1899-1971). From 1925 until the Austrian Anschluss in March 1938, Reichner was an active and successful bookseller-publisher in Vienna. He arrived in New York in September 1938, and a year later published his first catalogue from premises at 34 East 62nd Street. Until the fall of 1944, he was assisted by Leona Rostenberg. Reichner’s last catalogue was issued in 1968-1969, from Stockbridge, Massachusetts (Catalogue 34: Old and rare books illustrating the history of civilization, including many books copies of which were shown in the memorable exhibit of Printing and the Mind of Man: part one). After his death, the residual stock was purchased from his heirs by Douglas Parsonage and Otto Ranschburg, proprietors of Lathrop C. Harper Inc. Cf. Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers (Westport, CT 1998), pp.172-173. ¶