BOOK PUBLISHING IN AMERICA

Charles A. Madison

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1966

Beschreibung

Near fine in tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the black cloth spine. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a near fine beige-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of $12.50. Small nick to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. No fading. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***236mm x164mm. xivi prelim-pages plus 628 pages including chronology of publishing events, bibliography and index to rear.***All the publishing houses of America and their histories, from genteel publishing, to the giants are here, in scholarly detail. ***'Book Publishing in America is about people - but it is history too in the broad sense of a vigorous culture expressing, inventing, and defining itself in such books as Tom Paine's Common Sense, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, in the voice of Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Smith, Saul Bellow, Norman Miller and James Baldwin. Charles Madison has made books his life - as an editor and as a writer - and he tells his story fondly, thoroughly, and from the inside. ***He describes in great detail the emergence of book publishing from its haphazard 19th-century beginnings to its present state as a many-faceted, powerful industry. All the books and all the publishers are here - from the houses that have grown into giants to those that have become merely great; from the best sellers to the surprising flops; from hardcovers to paperbacks, to the new frontier of communications.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice condition. ***Of interest to literary academics. Very hard to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6269

Bibliografische Details

Titel: BOOK PUBLISHING IN AMERICA

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: First Edition