Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-Century America

CONTENTS Contributors Foreword Introduction Getting the Books Out: Trade Sales, Parcel Sales, and Book Fairs in the Nineteenth-Century United States From Printer to Publisher: Mathew Carey and the Origins of Nineteenth-Century Book Publishing The Subscription Publishing Network in Nineteenth-Century America Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth Century "Spiritual Cakes Upon the Waters": The Church as a Disseminator of the Printed Word on the Ohio Valley Frontier to 1850 Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-Century America Printing for the Instant City: San Francisco at Mid-Century California on Stone, 1880-1906: A Proposed Sequel to Harry Peters's Pioneering Study Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900