Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... twenty - five cents , and in 1841 Israel Post issued them in twenty - cent weekly numbers . After the cheap - book era of the early forties , prices for Scott were reasonable for two decades : there were cheap issues , but also such de ...
... twenty - five cents , and in 1841 Israel Post issued them in twenty - cent weekly numbers . After the cheap - book era of the early forties , prices for Scott were reasonable for two decades : there were cheap issues , but also such de ...
Page 113
... twenty - five dollars , by Osgood's successors , Houghton , Mifflin & Company , with some de luxe copies priced at a hundred dollars . The same year the Grolier Club issued an edition in paper covers . But in 1891 the Readers ' Library ...
... twenty - five dollars , by Osgood's successors , Houghton , Mifflin & Company , with some de luxe copies priced at a hundred dollars . The same year the Grolier Club issued an edition in paper covers . But in 1891 the Readers ' Library ...
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... twenty - six of these in ten years ; but many were books by such important writers as Hardy , Blackmore , Besant , and Mrs. Oli- phant . The method of publication was much like that which had created such a sensation when it was used by ...
... twenty - six of these in ten years ; but many were books by such important writers as Hardy , Blackmore , Besant , and Mrs. Oli- phant . The method of publication was much like that which had created such a sensation when it was used by ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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