Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America / edited by Michael Hackenberg.
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1987.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Getting the books out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States / Michael Winship
- 2. From printer to publisher: Mathew Carey and the origins of nineteenth-century book publishing / James N. Green
- 3. The subscription publishing network in nineteenth-century America / Michael Hackenberg
- 4. Dissemination of popular books in the midwest and far west during the nineteenth-century / Madeleine B. Stern
- 5. "Spiritual Cakes Upon the Waters": The church as a disseminator of the printed word on the Ohio Valley frontier to 1850 / Michael H. Harris
- 6. Copyright and books in nineteenth-century America / Alice D. Schreyer
- 7. Printing for the instant city: San Francisco at mid-century / Robert D. Harlan
- 8. California on stone, 1880-1906: a proposed sequel to Harry Peter's pioneering study / Bruce L. Johnson
- 9. Institutional book collecting in the old northwest, 1876-1900 / Terry Belanger.