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This collection has no restrictions.
A sample collection of the uniformly bound, uniformly priced, pocket books he published in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Arranged.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Name of Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Gift of the estate of M. Lincoln Schuster, 1971 & 1981.
Source of acquisition--Schuster, M.L. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971. Accession number--M-1971.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed RE 02/--/81.
American publisher of the LITTLE-BLUE BOOK, BIG-BLUE BOOK, and PEOPLE POCKET Series. His philosophy of book publishing was to build up a reputation, offer a product of wide appeal, and then reach a sound economic ratio between cost of production and cost of selling. As the series became internationally famous and sales grew, the unit price was reduced from $.25 in 1919 when the series began to $.05 in 1922. By 1928 the LITTLE-BLUE BOOK Series alone included 1,260 titles.
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