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ISBN: 0585348030 9780585348032 9780300076028 0300076029 0300076029 0300084765 9780300084764 Year: 1999 Publisher: New Haven, Conn.


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Schrijvers, uitgevers en hun collaboratie. 4: Uitgevers en boekhandelaren
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ISBN: 9029551224 9789029551229 Year: 1992 Publisher: Amsterdam: De arbeiderspers,


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The letters of Sylvia Beach
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ISBN: 9780231145367 0231145365 9780231517843 023151784X 0231145373 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. Founder of the Left Bank's Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), her facility for nurturing talent and promoting the avant-garde are legendary. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Beach's friends and clients included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, she carved out a unique place at the crossroads of English and French letters. This volume reveals Beach's wit and resourcefulness, sharing her negotiations with Marianne Moore to place Joyce's work in The Dial; her battle to curb the piracy of Ulysses in the United States; her struggle to keep Shakespeare & Company afloat during the Depression; and her long love affair with the French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier. The letters also illuminate Beach's childhood in Princeton, New Jersey, her work in Serbia for the American Red Cross, her internment in a German prison camp during the Second World War, and her friendships with a new expatriate generation in the 1950s and 1960s.

From author to reader : a social study of books
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ISBN: 0710090897 9780710090898 Year: 1982 Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,

Bestsellers : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 9780199214891 0199214891 0191776963 1435613961 0191550485 1281149365 9780191550485 9780191578694 019157869X 9781435613966 9781281149367 9780191776960 9786611149369 6611149368 Year: 2007 Volume: 170 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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For the last century, the tastes and preferences of readers of fiction have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists. John Sutherland takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why.

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