Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... booksellers , and importers managed to give the readers of the new land about what they wanted . Often the printer was a bookseller , and nearly all booksellers were importers ; so the three functions were not infrequently combined in ...
... booksellers , and importers managed to give the readers of the new land about what they wanted . Often the printer was a bookseller , and nearly all booksellers were importers ; so the three functions were not infrequently combined in ...
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... bookseller . These printers and booksellers were local men , intimately acquainted with their home communities , and knew what their public wanted . Much of their work was cooperative : together they would supply the hawkers who sold ...
... bookseller . These printers and booksellers were local men , intimately acquainted with their home communities , and knew what their public wanted . Much of their work was cooperative : together they would supply the hawkers who sold ...
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... booksellers ' reports was immediately taken up by Books of the Month , a trade imprint journal published as an adjunct of the Dial by H. S. Browne & Company . Under " Best Selling Fiction " it listed ten books each month , and under ...
... booksellers ' reports was immediately taken up by Books of the Month , a trade imprint journal published as an adjunct of the Dial by H. S. Browne & Company . Under " Best Selling Fiction " it listed ten books each month , and under ...
Contents
Vox Pop I | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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