The book in America : a history of the making, the selling, and the collecting of books in the United States / by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt ... in collaboration with Ruth Shepard Granniss ... and Lawrence C. Wroth

Author: Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, 1903-1992
Published: New York : R. R. Bowker company, 1939.
Physical Description: xiii p., 2 l., 3-453 p. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970 and Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954

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Foreword.--pt. I. Book production and distribution from the beginning to the war between the states, by L. C. Wroth.--pt. II. Book production and distribution from 1860 to the present day, by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt.--pt. III. American book collecting and the growth of libraries, by Ruth S. Granniss.--Bibliography (p. 385-422).

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"Revised and enlarged in English text from 'Das amerikanische buchwesen', Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1937".

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