Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... sold their millions at 10 and 20 cents a volume in double - column quarto form , before the producers of cloth - bound books more suitable for library shelves edged into the game . These cloth - bound books sold for 25 or 30 cents ; and ...
... sold their millions at 10 and 20 cents a volume in double - column quarto form , before the producers of cloth - bound books more suitable for library shelves edged into the game . These cloth - bound books sold for 25 or 30 cents ; and ...
Page 219
... sold about 1,400,000 copies and inaugurated Mrs. Porter's career as a leading best seller writer . This was in 1910 , after the publication of A Girl of the Limberlost . That , too , was taken over by Grosset & Dunlap , and sold only a ...
... sold about 1,400,000 copies and inaugurated Mrs. Porter's career as a leading best seller writer . This was in 1910 , after the publication of A Girl of the Limberlost . That , too , was taken over by Grosset & Dunlap , and sold only a ...
Page 274
... 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 later included it , with a second series , in the Ripley Big Book ; in all forms ...
... 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 later included it , with a second series , in the Ripley Big Book ; in all forms ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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