Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 109
... issued the poems in a little blue - and - gold book at seventy - five cents and sold five thousand copies of that in sixty days . Meantime several shilling collections of Poe's poems and tales had been published in England ; and Wiley ...
... issued the poems in a little blue - and - gold book at seventy - five cents and sold five thousand copies of that in sixty days . Meantime several shilling collections of Poe's poems and tales had been published in England ; and Wiley ...
Page 151
... issued the first numbers of their Lakeside Library in double - column quartos at ten cents a copy . Later the longer novels were issued at fifteen and twenty cents , though there were always many at a dime . " The great , popular want ...
... issued the first numbers of their Lakeside Library in double - column quartos at ten cents a copy . Later the longer novels were issued at fifteen and twenty cents , though there were always many at a dime . " The great , popular want ...
Page 179
... Issued in 1887 by M. J. Ivers & Company , of New York , as an " extra " in their American Series , it did well enough to suggest the similar publication the next year of A Romance of Two Worlds . Soon other cheap " libraries " picked up ...
... Issued in 1887 by M. J. Ivers & Company , of New York , as an " extra " in their American Series , it did well enough to suggest the similar publication the next year of A Romance of Two Worlds . Soon other cheap " libraries " picked up ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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