From its beginnings in 1846 in a brick chapel on Park Row to its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s at 597 Fifth Avenue, the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons reflected many of the dominant movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American book publishing. Working with the correspondence and business papers of the house, Roger Burlingame prepared this centenary account of the firm in 1946. Filled with lively portrayals of writers and publishers, Of Making Many Books illuminates the professional careers of many ...
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From its beginnings in 1846 in a brick chapel on Park Row to its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s at 597 Fifth Avenue, the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons reflected many of the dominant movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American book publishing. Working with the correspondence and business papers of the house, Roger Burlingame prepared this centenary account of the firm in 1946. Filled with lively portrayals of writers and publishers, Of Making Many Books illuminates the professional careers of many Scribner authors: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, Rudyard Kipling, George Santayana, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and others. Burlingame shows publishing from the editorial side as well from the perspectives of W. C. Brownell, Maxwell Perkins, and John Hall Wheelock. Out of print for many years, this history of one of America's most venerable publishers is now reissued, with an introduction by Charles Scribner III, on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the house."
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xiii, 347 pp. First printing. Light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Bookplate on the front pastedown "With the compliments of Charles Scribner's Sons"
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Very Good in Good jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First printing with "A" on copyright page. Square and unmarked with a slight bit of foxing to endpapers. Full cloth binding. xii, 347pp. Jacket is good only, with small chips and creased rubbed along edges. In a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Name plate inside front cover. Pages light yellow from age. Clean text. Spine lean. Smudge on bottom corners of pages. Bottom corners slightly bent. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Fine. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper, with some offsetting to front pastedown and free endpaper. With a Scribner's presentation bookplate.
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Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 347pp. A bit of light general wear, a near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. A copy gifted by the publisher, with the gift slip laid down on the front pastedown.
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Good in Missing jacket. First edition from 1946. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards are good with minor wear. There is a 1/4" closed tear at lower spine end. Binding is good. Page edges have toning. Pages are clean and unmarked. LO.
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Good. 1946. 1946 Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xii and 347pp. Shelf wear to dj, including chipping and soiling. Price clipped. Yellowing to text block. (Subject: Books on Books. )
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Very Good. First edition. Very good with the gold stamping on the spine and front cover dulled a bit, light wear at the corners and spine ends, a former owner's name on the front pastedown has been scratched out, lacking the dustwrapper.