Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

New York : R.R. Bowker Co., 1939.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962
• Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970.
• Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954.

Description

xiii, 453 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Printing > United States > History
• Booksellers and bookselling > United States
• Publishers and publishing > United States
• Libraries > United States
• Book collectors > United States
• Printing > history
• Bookselling > history
• Book Collecting > history
• Publishing > history
• Libraries > history
• Book collectors
• Booksellers and bookselling
• Libraries
• Printing
• Publishers and publishing
• Geschichte
• Printing > United States > History
• Booksellers and bookselling > United States
• Publishers and publishing > United States
• Libraries > United States
• Book collectors > United States
• Verlag
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Revised and enlarged in English text from Das amerikanische buchwesen, Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1937."
• Inscribed to Elmer Adler and signed by the authors.
• WHS shelf-list has note: Inv. 1210.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance (note)

• WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.

Contents

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 andthe growth of libraries, by Ruth S. Granniss.--Bibliography (p.

LCCN

39027551

OCLC

• ocm01457427
• 1457427
• SCSB-161465

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library