Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 57
... weekly parts at twenty- five cents each . The next year the Verplanck Shakespeare was issued in weekly parts , illustrated , at half that amount . Even after the single - volume editions became so common , new and preten- tious sets ...
... weekly parts at twenty- five cents each . The next year the Verplanck Shakespeare was issued in weekly parts , illustrated , at half that amount . Even after the single - volume editions became so common , new and preten- tious sets ...
Page 76
... weekly periodical which they named Brother Jonathan . They called it a newspaper and used the large - page newspaper format in order to send it through the mails under cheap postage , but its news was subordinated from the first to its ...
... weekly periodical which they named Brother Jonathan . They called it a newspaper and used the large - page newspaper format in order to send it through the mails under cheap postage , but its news was subordinated from the first to its ...
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... Weekly , but it continued its lists until 1932. Then the Publishers ' Weekly itself , which had reprinted the monthly summaries first of the Bookman and later of Books of the Month , accepted the job of compiling the reports , doing it ...
... Weekly , but it continued its lists until 1932. Then the Publishers ' Weekly itself , which had reprinted the monthly summaries first of the Bookman and later of Books of the Month , accepted the job of compiling the reports , doing it ...
Contents
Vox Pop I | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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