Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... hundred pounds each for Bleak House and Little Dorrit , a thousand pounds each for A Tale of Two Cities and Our Mutual Friend , and twelve hundred and fifty pounds for Great Expectations . Shortly before Dickens ' death they had ...
... hundred pounds each for Bleak House and Little Dorrit , a thousand pounds each for A Tale of Two Cities and Our Mutual Friend , and twelve hundred and fifty pounds for Great Expectations . Shortly before Dickens ' death they had ...
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... hundred dollars . A special autograph edition of three hundred , with additional poems , was published at five dollars in 1889. Finally , through David McKay , of Philadelphia , Whitman published , still from the Osgood plates though ...
... hundred dollars . A special autograph edition of three hundred , with additional poems , was published at five dollars in 1889. Finally , through David McKay , of Philadelphia , Whitman published , still from the Osgood plates though ...
Page 113
... hundred struck off for their own use in 1870. But it was not until James R. Osgood & Company , of Boston , published a reprint of the third English edition that the Rubáiyát really came to the attention of the American public . This ...
... hundred struck off for their own use in 1870. But it was not until James R. Osgood & Company , of Boston , published a reprint of the third English edition that the Rubáiyát really came to the attention of the American public . This ...
Contents
Vox Pop I | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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