Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United StatesBowker, 1960 - 357 pages |
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Page 110
... Library , Macmillan's Modern Readers ' Library , the Penguin Books , Everyman's Library , and Scribners ' Modern Students ' Library pile up sales for it . Leaves of Grass has become a best seller as well as a classic . The first edition ...
... Library , Macmillan's Modern Readers ' Library , the Penguin Books , Everyman's Library , and Scribners ' Modern Students ' Library pile up sales for it . Leaves of Grass has become a best seller as well as a classic . The first edition ...
Page 151
... Library in double - column quartos at ten cents a copy . Later the longer novels were issued at fifteen and twenty cents , though there were always many at a dime . " The great , popular want today is for Cheap , Good Literature ...
... Library in double - column quartos at ten cents a copy . Later the longer novels were issued at fifteen and twenty cents , though there were always many at a dime . " The great , popular want today is for Cheap , Good Literature ...
Page 153
... Library , which issued cloth - bound books at fifty cents ; and Lovell's Standard Library , which furnished better paper and binding for a dollar . A new title was often issued in the three series at once . Now came a deluge even ...
... Library , which issued cloth - bound books at fifty cents ; and Lovell's Standard Library , which furnished better paper and binding for a dollar . A new title was often issued in the three series at once . Now came a deluge even ...
Contents
Vox Pop I | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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