The time of their lives : the golden age of great American book publishers, their editors, and autho...
The time of their lives : the golden age of great American book publishers, their editors, and autho...
The time of their lives : the golden age of great American book publishers, their editors, and authors / Al Silverman.
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New York : Truman Talley Books, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N070.50973/26
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English
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498 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Newcomers -- 1. You Are What You Publish: Farrar, Straus and Giroux -- 2. Wishing for a Fair Wind: Grove Press -- 3. A Quest to Know More About the World: George Braziller -- 4. An Uncertain Partnership of Equals: Atheneum -- 5. A Most Unusual Cog in the Profession: St. Martin's Press --...
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New York : Truman Talley Books, 2008.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2008.
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"The golden age of book publishing began in 1946 and lasted into the late 1970s and early 1980s. In his intimate history of those years, Al Silverman shows the birth of many independent publishing houses. More than 120 of the heads of houses, editors and publishers, shared many never-before-told stories about how the most important books in postwar...
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The time of their lives : the golden age of great American book publishers, their editors, and authors / Al Silverman.
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N070.50973/26
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74VMbeBAJ3rO
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0312350031
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070.509730904
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991000950469702626
