The Building of the House; Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1970

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xv, [3], 695, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. DJ is in a plastic sleeve taped to boards. Some top edge discoloration. The author was a graduate of Wellesley who also earned a Master's degree from Northwestern. She spent part of the Second World War with the Office of Strategic Services' Research and Analysis organization. In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields began a small publishing business and gradually gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. The duo formed a close relationship with Riverside Press, a Boston printing company owned by Henry Oscar Houghton. Shortly after, Houghton also founded a publishing company with partner George Mifflin. In 1880, Ticknor and Fields and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher and creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Derived from a Kirkus review: Mrs. Ballou has a font of information about the company which began as a press (Henry Oscar Houghton was originally a printer but one of great taste) and which through all its early years was closely affiliated with the Riverside Press as well as its subsidiary Atlantic Monthly. Although there were many other associates and editors to follow, George Harrison Mifflin who joined Houghton as a partner in 1872 developed the firm and eventually they acquired Ticknor and Fields notable manifest of writers, reorganized, and expanded through the '70's and '80's. Notables appear, from the early New England constellation down to Hawthorne and Lowell, Henry James and Howells. . . and also Kate Douglas Wiggin and Sara Orne Jewett along with many names the general reader today will not remember. The book ends in 1921. Mrs. Ballou has taught on several campuses. Her scholarship is impressive. The book will be particularly appreciated by an specialized audience.…

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Titre
The Building of the House; Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years
Auteur
Ballou, Ellen B.
Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Année de publication
1970
État de l'article
Good
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Good
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Hardcover
Édition
First Printing [Stated].

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