Ezra Greenspan Books
George Palmer Putnam
"This study is based on archival research into not only Putnam's own papers but into the records of his business, the papers of other family members, and the archives of persons with whom Putnam ha...
Read MoreBook History, Vol. 3: 2000
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A study of book history. Areas addressed include: procuring books and consuming texts; how the other half read; what we talk about when we talk about the "New Yorker"; and book propaganda. Contribu...
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Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly de...
Read MoreWilliam Wells Brown
"Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone's, "rented" out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Misso...
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