Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... month and 1,100,000 in two months . Random House , with a book club order and a large advance sale , ordered 440,000 copies of Captain Lawson's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo printed in advance of publication . The advance printing of a book ...
... month and 1,100,000 in two months . Random House , with a book club order and a large advance sale , ordered 440,000 copies of Captain Lawson's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo printed in advance of publication . The advance printing of a book ...
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... month ; it began that way , but soon changed to plans which allowed members to pass a given number of the monthly ... months after the Book - of - the - Month Club had made . its beginning . In 1929 Doubleday & Company purchased a 49 ...
... month ; it began that way , but soon changed to plans which allowed members to pass a given number of the monthly ... months after the Book - of - the - Month Club had made . its beginning . In 1929 Doubleday & Company purchased a 49 ...
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... month . Holt sold about 350,000 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 . Holt sold about 350,000 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 ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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