60 years of best sellers, 1895-1955
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Sixty Years of Best Sellers
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired,
what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought,
but with what they did think, write, admire.
—A History of Criticism by George Saintsbury
60 YEARS OF
BEST SELLERS
NEW YORK, R. R. Bowker Company
1956
Library of Congress Card Number: 56-13419
Copyright, 1956, by R. R. Bowker Company
62 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
Printed in the U.S.A. by
Rae Publishing Company
Contents
- Sixty Years of Best Sellers
- Frederic G. Melcher
- Key to Endpapers
- A Guide to Best Sellers
- Best Sellers
- Best Sellers
- Best Seller Subjects
- Cookery
- Detection and Mystery
- Juveniles
- Novelties and Games
- Pamphlets
- Poetry and Drama
- Reference
- Religion
- Subscription Books
- Westerns
- Early Best Sellers
- About Best Sellers
- Title and Author Index
- First Book, 79: First Hundred Million, The, 225
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This free edition of 60 years of best sellers, 1895-1955 by Alice Payne Hackett comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #79660, released 2026-09-27. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer.