Books on Books

Books on Mid-Century Publishing, Especially Paperback Publishing

• Nat G. Bodian, THE JOY OF PUBLISHING (Open Horizons 1996), https://archive.org/details/joyofpublishing0000bodi. 

• Thomas L. Bonn, UNDER COVER: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AMERICAN MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS (Penguin 1982), https://archive.org/details/undercoverillust0000bonn/mode/2up. 

• Martha Brodersen & Beth Luey, A GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLISHERS' ARCHIVES (Book Industry Study Group 1996). 

• Louis A. Coser, Charles Kadushin, & Walter W. Powell, BOOKS: THE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF PUBLISHING (Basic Books 1982).

• Allen Billy Crider, ed., MASS MARKET PUBLISHING IN AMERICA (G.K. Hall 1982). 

• Kenneth C. Davis, TWO-BIT CULTURE: THE PAPERBACKING OF AMERICA (Houghton Mifflin 1984).

• Jason Epstein, BOOK BUSINESS: PUBLISHING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (Norton 2001).

• Chandler B. Grannis, ed., WHAT HAPPENS IN BOOK PUBLISHING (Columbia UP 1957), https://archive.org/details/whathappensinboo00gran/page/n5/mode/2up. 

  • • 2nd Edition 1967, https://archive.org/details/whathappensinboo0000gran/page/n5/mode/2up.  

• Kathryn Luther Henderson, ed., TRENDS IN AMERICAN PUBLISHING: PAPERS PRESENTED AT AN INSTITUTE CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, NOVEMBER 5-8, 1967 (U. Ill. Graduate School of Library Science 1968), https://archive.org/details/trendsinamericanalalle/page/n5/mode/2up. 

  • • Foreword (p. v)

    • Dan Lacy, Major Trends in American Book Publishing (p. 1)

    • Charles Madison, Current Trends in American Publishing (p. 16)

    • Robert W. Frase, The Economics of Publishing (p. 29)

    • Abe A. Goldman, The Prospective New Copyright Law (p. 39)

    • Dan Melcher, The Role of Computers (p. 49)

    • Robert J.R. Follett, Current Trends in Educational Publishing—A Personal View (p. 60)

    • Edwin Castagna, A Librarian Looks at American Publishing (p. 75)

    • Louis Epstein, Bookstores: A Main Distribution Agency for Books (p. 89)

    • Emily Scossberger, The American University Press (p. 95)

• George Thomas Kurian, THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING (1975). 

• Charles A. Madison, BOOK PUBLISHING IN AMERICA (McGraw-Hill 1966), https://archive.org/details/bookpublishingin0000madi/page/n7/mode/2up. 

• Paula Rabinowitz, AMERICAN PULP: HOW PAPERBACKS BROUGHT MODERNISM TO MAIN STREET (Princeton UP 2014).

• R. Reginald & M. R. Burgess, CUMULATIVE PAPERBACK INDEX, 1939-1959: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO 14,000 MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK BOOKS OF 33 PUBLISHERS ISSUED UNDER 69 IMPRINTS (Gale 1973), https://archive.org/details/cumulativepaperb0000regi 

• Frank L. Schick, THE PAPERBOUND BOOK IN AMERICA (Bowker 1958), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011731331.

• André Schiffrin, THE BUSINESS OF BOOKS: HOW THE INTERNATIONAL CONGLOMERATES TOOK OVER PUBLISHING AND CHANGED THE WAY WE READ (Verso 2000), https://archive.org/details/businessofbooksh0000schi_e3p3. 

• Piet Schreuders, PAPERBACKS, U.S.A.: A GRAPHIC HISTORY, 1939-1959 (Blue Dolphin 1981). 

• Leonard Shatzkin, IN COLD TYPE: OVERCOMING THE BOOK CRISIS (Houghton Mifflin 1982), https://archive.org/details/incoldtypeoverco00shat/mode/2up. 

• Al Silverman, THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREAT AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHERS, THEIR EDITORS AND AUTHORS (Truman Talley 2008). 

• Dan Sinykin, BIG FICTION: HOW CONGLOMERATION CHANGED THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY ANDAMERICAN LITERATURE (Columbia UP 2023)

• Datus C. Smith, Jr., A GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLISHING (Bowker 1966). 

• Madeleine B. Smith, IMPRINTS ON HISTORY: BOOK PUBLISHERS AND AMERICAN FRONTIERS (Indiana UP 1956).

  • Specifically, Supplement: United States Book Publishing Firms Surviving from Before 1900, at p.329, https://archive.org/details/imprintsonhistor00ster/page/328/mode/2up.  

• G. Thomas Tanselle, GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF UNITED STATES IMPRINTS (2v., Belknap Press of Harvard UP 1971).

• Russi Jal Taraporevala, THE AMERICAN BOOK INDUSTRY (D. B. Taraporevala 1966).

• Buzz Teacher & Janet Bukovinsky Teacher, eds., AMONG FRIENDS: AN ILLUSTRATED ORAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING IN THE 20TH CENTURY (Two Trees 2023)

• John Tebbel, BETWEEN COVERS: THE RISE AND TRANSFORMATION OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN AMERICA (Oxford 1987), https://archive.org/details/betweencoversris00tebb. 

• John Tebbel, 3 A HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED STATES: THE GOLDEN AGE BETWEEN TWO WARS, 1920-1940 (Bowker 1978), https://archive.org/details/historyofbookpub0003tebb. 

• John Tebbel, 4 A HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED STATES: THE GREAT CHANGE, 1940-1980 (Bowker 1981), https://archive.org/details/historyofbookpub0004tebb. 

• John Tebbel, PAPERBACK BOOKS: A POCKET HISTORY (Pocket Books 1964).

• John B. Thompson, MERCHANTS OF CULTURE: THE  PUBLISHING BUSINESS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Plume 2d ed. 2012).

• Thomas Whiteside, THE BLOCKBUSTER COMPLEX: CONGLOMERATES, SHOW BUSINESS, AND BOOK PUBLISHING (Wesleyan UP 1981), https://archive.org/details/blockbustercompl0000whit. 

Memoirs by Publishing Professionals

• Robert L. Bernstein, SPEAKING FREELY: MY LIFE IN PUBLISHING AND HUMAN RIGHTS (New Press 2016).

• Cass Canfield, THE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE (U. Penn. Press 1969). 

• Cass Canfield, UP AND DOWN AND AROUND: A PUBLISHER RECOLLECTS THE TIME OF HIS LIFE (Harper's Magazine Press 1971), https://archive.org/details/updownarounda00canf. 

• Bennett Cerf, AT RANDOM: THE REMINISCENCES OF BENNETT CERF (Random House 1977).

• Bennett Cerf & Donald Klopfer, DEAR DONALD, DEAR BENNETT : THE WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE OF BENNETT CERF AND DONALD KLOPFER (Random House 2002), https://archive.org/details/deardonalddearbe00cerf. 

• F.N. Doubleday, THE MEMOIRS OF A PUBLISHER (Doubleday 1972).

• Jason Epstein, BOOK BUSINESS: PUBLISHING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (Norton 2001).

• Hiram Haydn, WORDS & FACES (HBJ 1974), https://archive.org/details/wordsfaces00hayd/mode/2up. 

• Michael Korda, ANOTHER LIFE: A MEMOIR OF OTHER PEOPLE (Random House 1999).

• Freeman Lewis, A BRIEF HISTORY OF POCKET BOOKS (Pocket Books 1967).

• Henry Regnery, MEMOIRS OF A DISSIDENT PUBLISHER (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1979), https://archive.org/details/memoirsofdisside00regn/page/n5/mode/2up. 

• Barney Rosset, ROSSET: MY LIFE IN PUBLISHING AND HOW I FOUGHT CENSORSHIP (OR Books / Counterpoint Press 2016).

• André Schiffrin, THE BUSINESS OF BOOKS: HOW THE INTERNATIONAL CONGLOMERATES TOOK OVER PUBLISHING AND CHANGED THE WAY WE READ (Verso 2000), https://archive.org/details/businessofbooksh0000schi_e3p3. 

• Charles Scribner, Jr. & Joel R. Gardner, IN THE COMPANY OF WRITERS: A LIFE IN PUBLISHING (Scribner's 1990), https://archive.org/details/incompanyofwrite0000scri. 

• Charles Scribner III, SCRIBNERS: FIVE GENERATIONS IN PUBLISHING (Lyons Press 2023). 

• Jacob Steinberg, I NEVER HAD A BEST-SELLER: THE STORY OF A SMALL PUBLISHER (Hippocrene 1993).

• William Targ, INDECENT PLEASURES: THE LIFE AND COLORFUL TIMES OF WILLIAM TARG (Macmillan 1975).

• Victor Weybright, THE MAKING OF A PUBLISHER: A LIFE IN THE 20TH CENTURY BOOK REVOLUTION (Reynal-Morrow, 1967), https://archive.org/details/makingofpublishe0000weyb_d9p3/page/n7/mode/2up. 

Books About Publishers/Series

• ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1915-2015: A CENTURY OF PUBLISHING (Knopf 2015)

• Ellen B. Ballou, THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN'S FORMATIVE YEARS (Houghton Mifflin 1970), https://archive.org/details/buildingofhouse00ball/page/n5/mode/2up.  

• Thomas L. Bonn, HEAVY TRAFFIC AND HIGH CULTURE: NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY AS LITERARY GATEKEEPER IN THE PAPERBACK REVOLUTION (S. Ill. UP 1989). 

• Charles Scribner III, SCRIBNERS: FIVE GENERATIONS IN PUBLISHING (Lyons Press 2023). 

• DOUBLEDAY: THE STORY OF A COMBINED OPERATION IN BOOK PUBLISHING (Doubleday, Doran 1945).  

• Eugene Exman, THE HOUSE OF HARPER: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLISHING (Harper & Row 1967). 

• Loren Glass, GROVE PRESS, THE EVERGREEN REVIEW, AND THE INCORPORATION OF THE AVANT-GARDE (Stanford UP 2013).

• Loren Glass, REBEL PRESS: GROVE PRESS AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORD (Seven Stories Press 2018).

• Julianna Haubner, SIMON & SCHUSTER: A CENTURY OF PUBLISHING (forthcoming 2024).  

• William H. Lyles, DELL PAPERBACKS, 1942 TO Mid-1962: A CATALOG INDEX (Greenwood 1983).

• William H. Lyles, PUTTING DELL ON THE MAP: A HISTORY OF THE DELL PAPERBACKS (Greenwood 1983).

• Clarence Peterson, THE BANTAM STORY: THIRTY YEARS OF PAPERBACK PUBLISHING (Bantam revised & updated ed. 1975). 

• Stephen Prothero, GOD THE BESTSELLER: HOW ONE EDITOR TRANSFORMED AMERICAN RELIGION A BOOK AT A TIME (HarperOne 2023) (biography of Eugene Exman).

• Jonathan D. Sarna, JPS: THE AMERICANIZATION OF JEWISH CULTURE, 1888-1988 (Jewish Publication Society 1989). 

• Jay Satterfield, THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS: TASTE, CULTURE, AND THE MODERN LIBRARY (U Mass 2002), https://archive.org/details/worldsbestbookst00satt. 

Wayne Smith, PAPERBACK PARNASSUS (1976) - collection of articles from PW?

http://robimes.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-family-tree-of-paperback-book.html