Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 195
... copies they have made , that over 8,000,000 copies of " In His Steps " have been printed and read in America up to the present time [ 1924 ] . Then he goes on to estimate ten million copies for Great Britain , two million in British ...
... copies they have made , that over 8,000,000 copies of " In His Steps " have been printed and read in America up to the present time [ 1924 ] . Then he goes on to estimate ten million copies for Great Britain , two million in British ...
Page 261
... copies and an advance sale of 1,506 . An eight - inch , double - column advertise- ment in the New York Times on November 16 , with coupon , brought in 192 orders ; and Simon & Schuster , who never sleep on a job , then risked a full ...
... copies and an advance sale of 1,506 . An eight - inch , double - column advertise- ment in the New York Times on November 16 , with coupon , brought in 192 orders ; and Simon & Schuster , who never sleep on a job , then risked a full ...
Page 276
... copies at two dollars in the fourteen months before the issue of the Pocket Books edition in March , 1943 ; then the book broke all records by selling a million copies in the 25 - cent form in less than a month . By 1946 it had sold ...
... copies at two dollars in the fourteen months before the issue of the Pocket Books edition in March , 1943 ; then the book broke all records by selling a million copies in the 25 - cent form in less than a month . By 1946 it had sold ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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