Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 129
... probably numbered over a hun- dred . Besides , Arthur was editor and publisher of Arthur's Home Magazine and a ... Probably J. C. Derby was not far off in estimating the sales of Ten Nights before 1880 at 100,000 . * But at last Six ...
... probably numbered over a hun- dred . Besides , Arthur was editor and publisher of Arthur's Home Magazine and a ... Probably J. C. Derby was not far off in estimating the sales of Ten Nights before 1880 at 100,000 . * But at last Six ...
Page 155
... probably could have been brought to the attention of the great popular audience in no other way . Certainly these cheap series had an enormous influence upon the creation of best sellers . Alone , they probably made few such successes ...
... probably could have been brought to the attention of the great popular audience in no other way . Certainly these cheap series had an enormous influence upon the creation of best sellers . Alone , they probably made few such successes ...
Page 263
... probably the very finest detective story ever written . " Harpers still publish it ; it is in the Modern Library , Everyman's , Armed Services Editions , and other series . Just ten years after the publication of The Moonstone , a young ...
... probably the very finest detective story ever written . " Harpers still publish it ; it is in the Modern Library , Everyman's , Armed Services Editions , and other series . Just ten years after the publication of The Moonstone , a young ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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