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In 1994, James Raven encountered a letterbook from the Charleston Library Society detailing the ordering, processing, and shipping of texts from London booksell
When Novels Were Books
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Authors: Jordan Alexander Stein
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The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over th
Libraries in Literature
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Authors: Alice Crawford
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writ
Reluctant Capitalists
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Authors: Laura J. Miller
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores
An Empire of Print
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-29 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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