Large 8vo. 283 pp, acknowledgments, 11 chapters, epilogue, bibliography, index with color and b&w illustrations throughout. First Printing, 1955. Brown cloth with gilt figures and lettering to front board, black leather backstrip with gilt lettering to spine, and decotative endpapers. “Here you’ll read of Horatio Alger, Jr., Buffalo Bill, Nick Carter (possible the greatest fictional detective of all time), Frank Merriwell, The New York Weekly, Ainslee’s and Smith’s magazines, Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Max Brand (and his ten pseudoyms), the Shadow, and all the other landmarks of American publishing that originates with this firm.” from the jacket flap.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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