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A changing view from Amsterdam : where next with book history?
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ISBN: 9789056296452 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Vossiuspers UvA


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The development of the international book trade, 1870-1895 : tangled networks
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ISBN: 9780230275638 023027563X 9780230295032 0230295037 1349324957 9786612998607 1282998609 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York ; Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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An international trade emerged between 1870 and 1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. This book surveys the transactions of select British and colonial publishers and distributors who pioneered distribution routes and used communication and transportation advances to overcome book piracy and other impediments to trade. The international print economy in the late nineteenth century included a social network of agents who often cooperated, as well as competed, with each other to improve book distribution and access to overseas markets. Increasingly, agents like Edward Petherick who developed an international distribution agency, a Victorian Amazon.com, thought of the world as a linked network in which books were transnational commodities. One connection led to another as books were produced, distributed, and consumed, and the social network expanded as agents engaged with one another in order to facilitate the international circulation of books.


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177 jaar Van Stockum : sinds 1833 : 177 jaar boekhandel, veilinghuis, uitgeverij en literair leven in Den Haag
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ISBN: 9789070095055 Year: 2010 Publisher: Den Haag Uitgeverij Van Stockum


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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.


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The literary market : authorship and modernity in the old regime
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ISBN: 9780812241952 0812241959 0812203577 128389100X Year: 2010 Publisher: Philadelphia, Penn. University of Pennsylvania Press

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A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves-the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property-than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.


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The Nature and uses of eighteenth-century book subscription lists
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ISBN: 9780773437579 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston (NY) Edwin Mellen Press

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