THE FICTION FACTORY Or From Pulp Row to Quality Street. The Story of 100 Years of Publishing at Street & Smith
por Reynolds, Quentin
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- Muito Bom
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- first
- Condição
- Very good
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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NY: Random House, (1955).. (1955).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth backed brown cloth titled in gilt, in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the dust wrapper flaps are darkened. viii] & 283 pp. plus colophon. B&W textual illustrations & full-page illustrations in B&W & color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper <p>First edition.<p>Beginning in 1855 with "New York Weekly", Street & Smith published a huge number of weeklies, magazines, comics, annuals and hardcover and paperback series, including detective and crime stories, westerns and romances. They gave Theodore Dreiser his first job as a writer, paying him $15 a week, and later made him editor of Smith's Magazine at $60 a week. Reynolds recounts the history of the company and the writers who worked for it.
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- Livreiro
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 33448
- Título
- THE FICTION FACTORY Or From Pulp Row to Quality Street. The Story of 100 Years of Publishing at Street & Smith
- Autor
- Reynolds, Quentin
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very good
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- NY: Random House, (1955).
- Data de publicação
- (1955).
- Palavras-chave
- BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; PUBLISHING; STREET & SMITH; PULP FICTION; PERODICALS; COMICS; DETECTIVE FICTION; CRIME FICTION; WESTERNS; ROMANCE NOVELS; QUENTIN REYNOLDS; ILLUSTRATIONS; REFERENCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION. (Books-on-Books). (Publishing). THE FICTI
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