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

Title
One hundred and fifty years of publishing, 1837-1987.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
Little, Brown and Company.
Description
x, 234 pages, 43 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm
Alternative Title
150 year of publishing, 1837-1987
Subject
  • Little, Brown and Company > History
  • Little, Brown and Company
  • Publishers and publishing > Massachusetts > Boston > History
  • Book industries and trade
  • Book Industry
  • Publishing
  • Book industries and trade
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Uitgeverijen
  • Little, Brown and Co
  • Boston
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts > Boston
  • Boston (Mass.)
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
  • 9780316527910
LCCN
86027679
OCLC
  • ocm15014793
  • 15014793
  • SCSB-9486106
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library