Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... published , and two of them - those by Weems and Sparks - have reached the over - all best seller list . Napoleon and His Marshals , by Joel T. Headley , was the first American book published by Baker & Scribner . Issued in 1846 in two ...
... published , and two of them - those by Weems and Sparks - have reached the over - all best seller list . Napoleon and His Marshals , by Joel T. Headley , was the first American book published by Baker & Scribner . Issued in 1846 in two ...
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... published five novels before Pollyanna , including the successful Miss Billy . But it was Pollyanna , which was published serially in the Christian Herald , and issued in book form by L. C. Page & Company , that made her one astounding ...
... published five novels before Pollyanna , including the successful Miss Billy . But it was Pollyanna , which was published serially in the Christian Herald , and issued in book form by L. C. Page & Company , that made her one astounding ...
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... published by the Viking Press in 1940 and by Pocket Books the next year ; it has sold very nearly 1,400,000 in the reprint . Ripley's Believe It or Not ! was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1929. They sold 150,000 copies , and ...
... published by the Viking Press in 1940 and by Pocket Books the next year ; it has sold very nearly 1,400,000 in the reprint . Ripley's Believe It or Not ! was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1929. They sold 150,000 copies , and ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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