Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, and Publishing

by Roger Burlingame

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271016116
• ISBN13: 9780271016115
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"