DIGIRENT - Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity)
Megan L. Benton
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Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton epub Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton pdf download Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton pdf file Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton audiobook Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton book review Beauty and the Book: Megan L. Benton summary | #3036835 in Books | 2000-01-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x5.25 x1.00l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Albertine|Item just as described.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Christmas gift for my daughter|By buckfolk|I really can't rate the book until after Christmas. My daughter suggested it as she knew one of the persons included quite well. If she is happy with it, I will let you know. The book l|From Kirkus s|Benton (English/Pacific Lutheran Univ.) explores the clash between cultural purists and preying capitalists in the publishing worlds mad rush to create deluxe editions of distinguished authors during the 1920s and '30s. In this boom of fine editio
In post-World War I America, teeming as it was with magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts and movies, many feared that the survival of traditional, serious books was in peril. This concern led to a publishing boom in fine editions; books valued primarily for their beauty, craftsmanship, extravagance, status, or scarcity. Beauty and the Book is a lively cultural history of the explosion in demand for these deluxe books during the 1920s and 1930s. Megan L. Benton argues ...
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