Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... reprint publishers . Grosset & Dunlap , founded in 1899 by Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap , had long been the chief reprint house ; it was sold in 1944 to Random House , Harpers , Scribners , Little Brown , and the Book - of ...
... reprint publishers . Grosset & Dunlap , founded in 1899 by Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap , had long been the chief reprint house ; it was sold in 1944 to Random House , Harpers , Scribners , Little Brown , and the Book - of ...
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... reprint . Ripley's Believe It or Not ! was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1929. They sold 150,000 copies , and later included it , with a second series , in the Ripley Big Book ; in all forms , it has built up a total of a ...
... reprint . Ripley's Believe It or Not ! was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1929. They sold 150,000 copies , and later included it , with a second series , in the Ripley Big Book ; in all forms , it has built up a total of a ...
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... reprint . Less than ten per cent of the entire list have become best sellers without this aid . Pirated editions , including those of American books in Colonial times and the floods of popular works by English , French , and Continental ...
... reprint . Less than ten per cent of the entire list have become best sellers without this aid . Pirated editions , including those of American books in Colonial times and the floods of popular works by English , French , and Continental ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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