Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, and Publishing (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) - Softcover

Burlingame, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271016116 ISBN 13: 9780271016115

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Roger Burlingame (1889–1967) began his professional career as an editor at Scribner's, serving with the firm from 1914 until 1926. Later he became a prolific novelist and historian, publishing biographies of Benjamin Franklin, General Billy Mitchell, Eli Whitney, and Henry Ford, and a house history of McGraw-Hill, entitled Endless Frontiers (1959).

Charles Scribner III is the fifth Charles Scribner to work in the Scribner publishing house. There he oversees the publications of its classic authors, including those of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. He is the author of Rubens (1989) and Bernini (1991), both published by Abrams.

From the Back Cover

This reprint series, which operates in conjunction with the Penn State Series in the History of the Book, aims to give second life to classic works in the field of publishing history. The series will include publishers' memoirs, house histories, and studies of particular developments in the book trade - the advent of the paperback, for example, or the rise of the literary agent, or the history of the best-seller, or the coming of the book club.

Reviews

Originally published in 1946, this book celebrates the first hundred years of the distinguished publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons.

Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271016116
• ISBN 13: 9780271016115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384