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Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
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Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
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The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The Years Were Good
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Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 5: 1905-1930
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Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 4: 1885-1905
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Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America
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A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008
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The Fiction Factory, or From Pulp Row to Quality Street
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Personal History: A Memoir
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Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America
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One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Publishing, 1837-1962
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The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's First Half Century
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
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Stet: An Editor's Life
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Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell
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Paper Camera: A Half Century with New Rivers Press
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
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The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel
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The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950
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Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
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A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
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3.51 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
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A Trade Of Charms
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The Best Years of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, Scribner's Monthly, and Century Magazine, 1870-1909
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Thrown to the Woolfs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
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The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
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Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years (Kitchen Sink Comic Art Reference Series ; No. 1)
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Remembering My Good Friends: An Autobiography
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Pulp Fictioneers: Adventures in the Storytelling Business
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75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
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4.61 avg rating — 236 ratings
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God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne
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Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The British Book Trade: An Oral History
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The Pulp Jungle
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4.07 avg rating — 70 ratings
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75 Years of Marvel. From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen
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Making of a Publisher
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Michael Joseph: Man of Words
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Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
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4.07 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Our literary heritage: A pictorial history of the writer in America
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others
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3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Comics As Art: We Told You So
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4.04 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Alarms and Diversions: The American Mind Through American Magazines, 1900-1914
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press
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Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
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Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing
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Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship
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Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market
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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
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The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
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3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Book in the Renaissance
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Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 3: 1865-1885
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
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The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
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A History of American Magazines, Vol. 2: 1850-1865
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Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
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"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
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Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
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The Flowering of New England
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The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher
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Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop
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So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
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3.71 avg rating — 1,231 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
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3.52 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
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3.71 avg rating — 327 ratings
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The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900
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Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future
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The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor
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Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way
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American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals
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Life: The Gentle Satirist
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Remembered Yesterdays
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The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher – A Definitive History of American Letters and Author Anecdotes
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Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright, the Man Who Changed American Publishing
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My Life in Publishing
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