OF MAKING MANY BOOKS: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing

Burlingame, Roger

ISBN 10: 0271016191 / ISBN 13: 9780271016191

Published by Penn State Univ Press, University Park, PA, 1997

About this Item

pp: xxxiv, 347pp with index. Bound in gray cloth, silver lettering on spine. 9.25" x 6".

Seller Inventory # 040718

Bibliographic Details

• Title: OF MAKING MANY BOOKS: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing
• Publisher: Penn State Univ Press, University Park, PA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271016191
• ISBN 13: 9780271016191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books on Books

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Synopsis

From its beginnings in 1846 in a brick chapel on Park Row to its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s at 597 Fifth Avenue, the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons reflected many of the dominant movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American book publishing. Working with the correspondence and business papers of the house, Roger Burlingame prepared this centenary account of the firm in 1946. Filled with lively portrayals of writers and publishers, Of Making Many Books illuminates the professional careers of many Scribner authors: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, Rudyard Kipling, George Santayana, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and others. Burlingame shows publishing from the editorial side as well&;from the perspectives of W. C. Brownell, Maxwell Perkins, and John Hall Wheelock. Out of print for many years, this history of one of America's most venerable publishers is now reissued, with an introduction by Charles Scribner III, on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the house.

About the Author

Roger Burlingame (1889–1967) began his professional career as an editor at Scribner's, serving with the firm from 1914 until 1926. Later he became a prolific novelist and historian, publishing biographies of Benjamin Franklin, General Billy Mitchell, Eli Whitney, and Henry Ford, and a house history of McGraw-Hill, entitled Endless Frontiers (1959).