OF MAKING MANY BOOKS: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, and Publishing by Burlingame, Roger - 1996

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penn State University Press, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1996. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Light shelfwear.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996-10-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Penn State University Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good condition. Some light interior markings in pencil. Creased and cocked spine. 347 pp.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1996. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. Unread trade paperback, photo maroon covers. No names, clean text. Index. History of Charles Scribner's Sons publishers. 33725 shelf

Penn State Press, 1997. Soft cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Like new. (36)347pp. Indexed. Photos. A history of the publisher and its authors. Clean & unmarked. NOT ex-library. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years.

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xxxiv, 347p., stiff wrappers (Penn State reprints in book history).

Penn State University Press, 1996. Softcover. New. 6x0x9. New Old Stock. 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… Read More

Penn State Press, 1996-10-01. Paperback. Used:Good.