Author: Ticknor and FieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Popular Books Published by Ticknor and Fields
Author: Ticknor and FieldsAmerican Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century
Author: Michael WinshipPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of North America pushed ever further west. Michael Winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what Ticknor and Fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made. Winship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of Ticknor and Fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of Britain and North America.
The Bookshop
Author: Evan FrissPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593299930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times "It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost. Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field’s in 1944. The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.
The Man Without a Country and Other Tales
Author: Edward Everett HalePublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434476456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A collection of short stories by Civil War-era author Hale, including a short fantasy entitled "My Double and How He Undid Me."
The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields, and Their Predecessors, 1832-1858
Author: Ticknor, firm, publishers, BostonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Hawthorne and His Publisher
Author: Caroline TicknorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The annals of literature contains the record of various memorable friendships which have existed between authors and publishers. The names of Scott and Constable, ôTomö Moore and Longman, Browning and George Murray Smith, are permanently linked together. Yet it is doubtful if among all such notable friendships, any can rival that of Hawthorne and Ticknor. The value of the fragmentary story of this association, as set forth in the following pages, must of necessity lie in those passages in which the subjects speak for themselves. Especially does Hawthorne in his frank and spontaneous communications, penned from the consulate at Liverpool, reveals himself with a freedom from all restraint, not to be found elsewhere in his letters and journals.
New Peterson Magazine
Author: Ann Sophia StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Dakota
Author: Kathleen NorrisPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 054752756X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). “With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. RodePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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