Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... York's official printing to take him to the little town on Manhattan and to make him the father of New York's great publishing business . Reinier Jansen , who printed the Quaker ad- venture story , God's Protecting Providence , followed ...
... York's official printing to take him to the little town on Manhattan and to make him the father of New York's great publishing business . Reinier Jansen , who printed the Quaker ad- venture story , God's Protecting Providence , followed ...
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... York was known to American readers chiefly through a volume of selections entitled The Beauties of Sterne , from which all the naughty passages had been deleted . This little book was imported by many booksellers from London and ...
... York was known to American readers chiefly through a volume of selections entitled The Beauties of Sterne , from which all the naughty passages had been deleted . This little book was imported by many booksellers from London and ...
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... York Quaker who made a fortune in business and then retired and lived near old York , in England . He wrote his English Grammar for a girls ' school nearby ; and it was an abridgment of this book , first published in 1797 , which became ...
... York Quaker who made a fortune in business and then retired and lived near old York , in England . He wrote his English Grammar for a girls ' school nearby ; and it was an abridgment of this book , first published in 1797 , which became ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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