Getting the Books Out

by Michael R. Hackenberg

Released 1987197 pagesEnglishLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry

Publisher: Center for the Book, Library of Congress

ISBN-13: 9780844405698

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Getting the books out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth century United States; From printer publisher: mathew carey and the origins of nineteenth-century book publishing; The subscription publishing network in nineteenth century America;Dissemination of popular books in the midwest and far west during the nineteenth century; "Spiritual cakes upon the waters": the church as a disseminator of the printed word on the Ohio Valley Frontier to 1850; Copyright and books in nineteenth century America; Printing for the instant city: San Francisco at Mid Century; California on Stone, 1880-1906: a proposed sequel to harry Peter's pioneering study; Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest.

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