Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America

Center for the Book, Library of Congress

ISBN 10: 1410220397 / ISBN 13: 9781410220394

Published by Univ Pr of the Pacific, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America
• Publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410220397
• ISBN 13: 9781410220394
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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CONTENTS Contributors Foreword Introduction Getting the Books Out: Trade Sales, Parcel Sales, and Book Fairs in the Nineteenth-Century United States From Printer to 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 Peters's Pioneering Study Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900