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Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 480 pp. w/ CD image archive. Collection of 37 essays designed to present American book history for classroom study featuring primary sources and images. Covers Literacy and Reading Puritan New England to the rise of Zines. Book Condition : Near Fine; no text marks; a few stains to text block. No Dust Jacket..
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Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary [With CD-ROM Image Archive] Hardcover - 2002
by Scott E. Casper (Editor); Joanne D. Chaison (Editor); Jeffrey D. Groves (Editor)
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TEXTBOOKS have been a staple of American publishing ever since the late 1680s, when a Boston bookseller named Benjamin Harris issued The New-England Primer to inculcate literacy and piety in Puritan children.
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- Title Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary [With CD-ROM Image Archive]
- Author Scott E. Casper (Editor); Joanne D. Chaison (Editor); Jeffrey D. Groves (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 461
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
- Date April 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781558493162 / 1558493166
- Weight 2.37 lbs (1.08 kg)
- Dimensions 9.48 x 7.26 x 1.44 in (24.08 x 18.44 x 3.66 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Intellectual life, Publishers and publishing - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001006911
- Dewey Decimal Code 002.097
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