Books about Publishing History

1.
Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
Another Life: A Memoir of Other People 3.84 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins
Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins 4.16 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,614 ratings
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom 4.39 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius 4.30 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire 3.59 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio 4.25 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century 3.85 avg rating — 741 ratings
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The Years Were Good
The Years Were Good 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 3.52 avg rating — 495 ratings
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 5: 1905-1930
A History of American Magazines, Vol. 5: 1905-1930 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever
Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 4: 1885-1905
A History of American Magazines, Vol. 4: 1885-1905 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America
Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008
A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Fiction Factory, or From Pulp Row to Quality Street
The Fiction Factory, or From Pulp Row to Quality Street 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
Personal History: A Memoir 4.09 avg rating — 24,451 ratings
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Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America
Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Publishing, 1837-1962
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Publishing, 1837-1962 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's First Half Century
The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's First Half Century 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf 4.18 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Stet: An Editor's Life
Stet: An Editor's Life 3.94 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell
Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Paper Camera: A Half Century with New Rivers Press
Paper Camera: A Half Century with New Rivers Press 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book 4.07 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent
The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel 3.64 avg rating — 893 ratings
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The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950
The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire 3.50 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
by: Sean Howe
4.05 avg rating — 7,450 ratings
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A Trade Of Charms
A Trade Of Charms 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Best Years of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, Scribner's Monthly, and Century Magazine, 1870-1909
The Best Years of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, Scribner's Monthly, and Century Magazine, 1870-1909 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Thrown to the Woolfs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
Thrown to the Woolfs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read 3.83 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years (Kitchen Sink Comic Art Reference Series ; No. 1)
Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years (Kitchen Sink Comic Art Reference Series ; No. 1) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Remembering My Good Friends: An Autobiography
Remembering My Good Friends: An Autobiography 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.99 avg rating — 5,212 ratings
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Pulp Fictioneers: Adventures in the Storytelling Business
Pulp Fictioneers: Adventures in the Storytelling Business really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking 4.61 avg rating — 230 ratings
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God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne
God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893
Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The British Book Trade: An Oral History
The British Book Trade: An Oral History 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Pulp Jungle
The Pulp Jungle 4.06 avg rating — 63 ratings
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75 Years of Marvel. From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen
75 Years of Marvel. From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen 4.55 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Making of a Publisher
Making of a Publisher it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Michael Joseph: Man of Words
Michael Joseph: Man of Words really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life
Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels 4.07 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Our literary heritage: A pictorial history of the writer in America
Our literary heritage: A pictorial history of the writer in America 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others
Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others 3.90 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Comics As Art: We Told You So
Comics As Art: We Told You So 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Alarms and Diversions: The American Mind Through American Magazines, 1900-1914
Alarms and Diversions: The American Mind Through American Magazines, 1900-1914 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press
A Boy at the Hogarth Press 3.69 avg rating — 150 ratings
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons 4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing
Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Publisher
Publisher 3.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Books and Bookmen
Books and Bookmen 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market
Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation 4.05 avg rating — 736 ratings
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The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors 3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Book in the Renaissance
The Book in the Renaissance 3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 3: 1865-1885
A History of American Magazines, Vol. 3: 1865-1885 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
Literary Life: A Second Memoir 3.39 avg rating — 473 ratings
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The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher 3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 2: 1850-1865
A History of American Magazines, Vol. 2: 1850-1865 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Kindred Spirits - Adrift In Literary London
Kindred Spirits - Adrift In Literary London 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 1: 1741-1850
A History of American Magazines, Vol. 1: 1741-1850 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bound to be read
Bound to be read really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Flowering of New England
The Flowering of New England 4.04 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher
The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop
Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance 3.72 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 3.52 avg rating — 495 ratings
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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century 3.71 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900
The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future 3.48 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor
The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way
Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way 4.11 avg rating — 238 ratings
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American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals
American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life: The Gentle Satirist
Life: The Gentle Satirist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Remembered Yesterdays
Remembered Yesterdays liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Letters of Richard Watson Gilder
Letters of Richard Watson Gilder really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher
The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright, the Man Who Changed American Publishing
Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright, the Man Who Changed American Publishing 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Chronicles of Barabbas 1884-1934
Chronicles of Barabbas 1884-1934 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Memories of a Publisher 1865 - 1915
Memories of a Publisher 1865 - 1915 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Life in Publishing
My Life in Publishing 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings