The book in America ; a history of the making and selling of books in the United States / by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt in collaboration with Lawrence C. Wroth and Rollo G. Silver.
This is an important reference book for public libraries, school and college libraries -- an exceedingly useful and competent survey of books, their production and distribution, from the Colonial Days to the present. There is a vast amount of sound fact, a good deal that stimulates the imagination....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Bowker,
1951.
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| Edition: | Second [revised and enlarged American] edition. |
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| Summary: | This is an important reference book for public libraries, school and college libraries -- an exceedingly useful and competent survey of books, their production and distribution, from the Colonial Days to the present. There is a vast amount of sound fact, a good deal that stimulates the imagination. Perhaps there was no place for a more dramatic handling of the material, but one can see where this might have been made livelier reading. However, it is a serious study, done in collaboration with Ruth Shepard Granniss and Lawrence C. Wroth -- a work that was needed. - Kirkus Review. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Leipzig, in 1937, under title: Das amerikanische Buchwesen. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 493 pages |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-466) and index. |