Brown paper boards with grey spine and red stamped print along spine. Corners are lightly bumped and rubbed. Boards are slightly cocked. Bit of rubbing along extremities. Binding is solid. Interior is unmarked, text is all bright and clean. Page edges are lightly soiled. Dust-jacket is in great shape though age-toned and soiled, price-clipped and has typical wear along extremities.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195041895
ISBN 13: 9780195041897
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Between Covers goes behind the famous imprints to tell the often surprising story of the men and women who have made up more than two centuries of American book publishing. The only comprehensive, single-volume history of the profession, it is a book rich in life and color, in anecdote and biography. John Tebbel offers fascinating portraits of the founders of the great houses--the Harper brothers, George Palmer Putnam, the Scribners, Henry Oscar Houghton, among them--as well as of the figures who led the industry after the First World War--Alfred A. Knopf, Horace Liveright, Bennett Cerf, Stanley Rinehart, Alfred Harcourt, and many others. Tebbel traces the evolution of the industry through a fascinating series of developments: the astonishing rise of paperbacks before the Civil War, book selling through subscription, the great fiction boom of the 1890s, bouts with censorship, the tremendous growth of specialized publishing, and the escalating role of advertising, promotion, and publicity. The closing pages deal with the explosion in mass market publishing of the postwar era and the entry of conglomerates, and examine the state of publishing today. Based on the author's monumental four-volume History of Book Publishing in the United States, Between Covers will be of enormous appeal to everyone who loves books and reading.

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We are a local secondhand bookshop serving the South Western area of Manitoba specializing in Local, Western Canadian, and Military History, with books in all others fields. Corporate name George Strange Ltd. Trading as George Strange's Bookmart Business number 122591555MC0001 all shares owned by George Strange. George Strange authorized representative.

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