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Language
English
Description
As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets about her own past. In Copenhagen, veteran CIA operative Hayden Gray, determined that this sweeping story be buried, is suddenly staring down the barrel of an unexpected gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy...
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Contains concise individual company histories on the publishing houses in Britain from the dawn of the early modern book trade (from the then common practice of a publisher commissioning, financing, printing, and selling publications directly to the public) to the modern era of specialization and the establishment of publishing as a distinct trade separate from printing and bookselling.
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Contains concise individual company histories on the publishing houses in Britain from the dawn of the early modern book trade (from the then common practice of a publisher commissioning, financing, printing, and selling publications directly to the public) to the modern era of specialization and the establishment of publishing as a distinct trade separate from printing and bookselling.
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the period of transition for the British book trade that saw the emergence of some great manes of the trade, but was also a time when publishing firms most often were still controlled by single individuals who made judgments based on literary merit, political alliances and pressures, friendships, or the prospect of high profits.
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Discusses the literary book trade in Britain, beginning with the introduction of the handpress and ending within a century of the revolution that widespread mechanization would bring to book production. This development occurred during a time of religious, political and social upheaval, including the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and the struggles between the Crown and Parliament leading to the Civil War of the 1640s and the Glorious Revolution...
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