Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 93
... American market which often afforded them no more than a slight advantage . For some years Charles Reade received from American publishers about the same amount on a new novel that the English serial rights brought him . Certainly not ...
... American market which often afforded them no more than a slight advantage . For some years Charles Reade received from American publishers about the same amount on a new novel that the English serial rights brought him . Certainly not ...
Page 135
... American sales quadrupled those in England . Melville tells of Thackeray's habit , on his visits to America , of inquiring at bookstores about the relative sales of his novels and those of Dickens , and of his conclusion " that five ...
... American sales quadrupled those in England . Melville tells of Thackeray's habit , on his visits to America , of inquiring at bookstores about the relative sales of his novels and those of Dickens , and of his conclusion " that five ...
Page 333
... American Bible Society , 298 . American Book Company , 300 . American Bookseller , 153 . American Conflict , The , 156 , 321 . American Cookery , 300 . American Doctor's Odyssey , An , 327 . American Encyclopaedia , 78 . American First ...
... American Bible Society , 298 . American Book Company , 300 . American Bookseller , 153 . American Conflict , The , 156 , 321 . American Cookery , 300 . American Doctor's Odyssey , An , 327 . American Encyclopaedia , 78 . American First ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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