Research Catalog

Title

One hundred and fifty years of publishing, 1837-1987.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1987.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Little, Brown and Company.

Description

x, 234 p., [43] p. of plates ; ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

• 150 year of publishing, 1837-1987
• 150 year of publishing, 1837-1987.

Subject

• Little, Brown and Company > History
• Publishers and publishing > Boston > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [217]-221.

Contents

"A copartnership" -- The new firm prospers -- Building the law book list -- Building the history book list -- Courtesy of the trade -- Quotations and quillets -- Best-sellers -- Thomas Niles and his firm -- New ventures, 1900-1925 -- The expansive twenties -- Depression and celebration -- The war and its changes -- Postwar expansion, 1949-1962 -- Medical publishing -- The college division -- The law division -- Children's books, 1925 to the present -- A new association, 1962-1970 -- Support and service departments -- Present tense, 1970 and beyond -- Appendix : a history of the colophons of Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN

0316527912

LCCN

^^^86027679^

OCLC

15014793

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library