Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 69
... volumes at six dollars , and T. B. Peterson put them into twenty - five volumes at five dollars . By that time a flood of cheap importations from England was chal- lenging American publishers . Then in the middle seventies a second ...
... volumes at six dollars , and T. B. Peterson put them into twenty - five volumes at five dollars . By that time a flood of cheap importations from England was chal- lenging American publishers . Then in the middle seventies a second ...
Page 95
... volumes appeared twelve years later , two hundred thousand copies were sold within a few months . Butler sold the four volumes in one for $ 1.121⁄2 and Harpers priced it at twenty - five cents a volume . The Donohue printing house in ...
... volumes appeared twelve years later , two hundred thousand copies were sold within a few months . Butler sold the four volumes in one for $ 1.121⁄2 and Harpers priced it at twenty - five cents a volume . The Donohue printing house in ...
Page 108
... volumes , Longfellow was probably the most popular poet of the English language in this century . " Far different was the publishing history of another leading American poet- Edgar Allan Poe . Poor Poe did not receive more than a few ...
... volumes , Longfellow was probably the most popular poet of the English language in this century . " Far different was the publishing history of another leading American poet- Edgar Allan Poe . Poor Poe did not receive more than a few ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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