Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 169
... interest , and the new interest reprinting . At any rate , the demand suddenly picked up and swiftly mounted to surprising proportions . Two hundred thousand copies were sold by January , 1890. The book might have saved the faltering ...
... interest , and the new interest reprinting . At any rate , the demand suddenly picked up and swiftly mounted to surprising proportions . Two hundred thousand copies were sold by January , 1890. The book might have saved the faltering ...
Page 178
... interest in the old favorite , and was the occasion for a new Grosset & Dunlap edition . But it was the old cheap " libraries " that brought She a circulation of more than a million in the United States . Wrote a rhymester in Clips in ...
... interest in the old favorite , and was the occasion for a new Grosset & Dunlap edition . But it was the old cheap " libraries " that brought She a circulation of more than a million in the United States . Wrote a rhymester in Clips in ...
Page 227
... interest multitudes of middle - class readers . Wright was thirty years old and engaged in his most successful ... interests . The two men became fast friends , and they went over the manuscript of That Printer of Udell's together and ...
... interest multitudes of middle - class readers . Wright was thirty years old and engaged in his most successful ... interests . The two men became fast friends , and they went over the manuscript of That Printer of Udell's together and ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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