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Oak Knoll Books and Press is a bookseller and publisher based in New Castle, Delaware. Oak Knoll Books specializes in the sale of rare and antiquarian books. Its publishing imprint, Oak Knoll Press, publishes "books about books" on topics such as printing history, bibliography, and book arts.
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About
Oak Knoll Books was founded in 1976 by Bob Fleck, its current owner. He created Oak Knoll Press in 1978. Both parts of Oak Knoll specialize in 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."
Currently, Oak Knoll Books has an inventory of about 29,000 titles. Oak Knoll Press publishes approximately 15 titles per year and co-publishes with partners such as the Library of Congress, the Bodleian Library, Winterthur, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Private Libraries Association. Oak Knoll also distributes publications issued by organizations such as the Grolier Club, the Center for Book Arts, and the CODEX Foundation. Articles about books published and distributed by Oak Knoll have been featured in publications such as Smithsonian.com and The Atlantic.
Oak Knoll is a member of several professional organizations, including the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the Association of American Publishers.
Press titles
Below are examples of books published by Oak Knoll Press: