Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 69
... dollars , and T. B. Peterson put them into twenty - five volumes at five dollars . By that time a flood of cheap importations from England was chal- lenging American publishers . Then in the middle seventies a second outbreak of cheap ...
... dollars , and T. B. Peterson put them into twenty - five volumes at five dollars . By that time a flood of cheap importations from England was chal- lenging American publishers . Then in the middle seventies a second outbreak of cheap ...
Page 112
... dollars . A special autograph edition of three hundred , with additional poems , was published at five dollars in 1889. Finally , through David McKay , of Philadelphia , Whitman published , still from the Osgood plates though with the ...
... dollars . A special autograph edition of three hundred , with additional poems , was published at five dollars in 1889. Finally , through David McKay , of Philadelphia , Whitman published , still from the Osgood plates though with the ...
Page 243
... dollars . From five cents to five dollars was a big jump , and the publishers were a bit dubious : their first printing was only fifteen hundred copies , and they dared that much largely on the basis of one advance order for five ...
... dollars . From five cents to five dollars was a big jump , and the publishers were a bit dubious : their first printing was only fifteen hundred copies , and they dared that much largely on the basis of one advance order for five ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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