 | 1886 - 508 páginas
...scores, even hundreds, of manuscripts of American authors unopened, simply from the fact that it was impossible to make the books of most American authors pay, unless they were first published and acquired recognition through the columns of the magazines." Mr. Dana Estes... | |
 | 1886 - 894 páginas
...scores, even hundreds, of manuscripts of American authors unopened, simply from the fact that it was impossible to make the books of most American authors pay, unless they were first published and acquired recognition through the columns of the magazines." Mr. Dana Estes... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1896 - 540 páginas
...discouraging effect upon American authorship. I will add my mite to that statement. For two years past, though I belong to a publishing house that emits nearly $1,000,000...American authorship would be at a still lower ebb than it is at present. Take, for instance, an author of eminent genius who has just arisen. I refer to Charles... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 718 páginas
...have absolutely refused to entertain the idea of publishing an American manuscript. I have returned scores, if not hundreds, of manuscripts of American...recognition through the columns of the magazines. Against such an adverse current, American authorship was slowly winning its way. In 1829, it is asserted... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price, Susan Belasco Smith - 1995 - 298 páginas
...profession of authorship as well as on the pervasiveness of the form in disseminating works of literature: "It is impossible to make the books of most American...and acquire recognition through the columns of the magazines."15 And, as Joan Hedrick has pointed out in her recent biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe,... | |
 | 1920 - 558 páginas
...publisher, Mr. Dana Estes, was thinking when he testified before the Senate Committee on Patents in 1886: "I have returned many scores, if not hundreds, of...recognition through the columns of the magazines." Mr. Estes's dismal testimony came at the period when piracy had reached its second high-water mark,... | |
 | 1920 - 540 páginas
...publisher, Mr. Dana Estes, was thinking when he testified before the Senate Committee on Patents in 1886: "I have returned many scores, if not hundreds, of...recognition through the columns of the magazines." Mr. Estes's dismal testimony came at the period when piracy had reached its second high-water mark,... | |
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I have returned many scores, if not hundreds, of manuscripts of American authors, unopened even, simply from the fact that it is impossible to make the books of most American authors pay, unless they are first published and acquire recognition through... 