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The book in America : a history of the making and selling of books in the United States by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt in collaboration with Lawrence C. Wroth and Rollo G. Silver
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Db.286
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, 1903-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--United States--History.
- Printing.
- Booksellers and bookselling--United States.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Publishers and publishing--United States.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Libraries--United States.
- Libraries.
- Book collectors--United States.
- Book collectors.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 493 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 2nd [rev. and enl. American] ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bowker, 1951.
- Contents:
- Book production and distribution from the beginning to the American Revolution / L.C. Wroth
- Book production and distribution from the American Revolution to the War between the States / L.C. Wroth and R.G. Silver
- Book production and distribution from 1860 to the present day / H. Lehmann-Haupt
- Bibliography (p. 422-466).
- Notes:
- First published in Leipzig in 1937 under title: Das amerikanische Buchwesen.
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