A Rare Book Saga: The Autobiography of H.P. Kraus

xvii, 386 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and images of title pages, artwork, Kraus's catalogs, etc. A memoir by the successful bookseller who was contemporary with dealers such as A.S.W. Rosenbach and Bernard Quaritch. Kraus boasted that he was the only bookseller in history to simultaneously own a Gutenberg Bible and the Psalters of 1457 and 1459 (he bought them for stock!).