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Book History, vol. 11
336 pages | 28 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 2008
ISBN 978-0-271-03418-8 | cloth: $57.00
Paperback edition is not available in the U.S.
Ezra Greenspan is Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his many publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His publications include The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; and (with Simon Eliot) A Companion to the History of the Book.
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