Book review
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Gayle Garlock. Canadian Binders’ Tickets and Booksellers’ Labels
Gayle Garlock. Canadian Binders’ Tickets and Booksellers’ Labels. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 158p., ill., CD. ISBN 9781584563372. US $95.00 (hardback). At first glance, Gayle Garlock’s Canadian Binders’…
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Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of Little Women
Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of “Little Women.” Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. x, 271p., ill. ISBN 9781421415581. US $44.95. In this thoroughly researched and well-documented text, Clark explores…
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Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of “Peyton Place.” Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiv, 223p., ill. ISBN 080145364X. US $24.95. In this comprehensive analysis of Grace Metalious’s 1956 novel,…
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Casey Brienza. Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics
Casey Brienza. Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xiii, 214p., ill. ISBN 9781472595874; 9781472595881. US $29.95 (paperback)…
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Rebecca Rego Barry with a Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places
Rebecca Rego Barry with a Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Press, 2015. 256p., ill. ISBN 9780760348611.…
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Noelle Gallagher. Historical Literatures: Writing about the Past in England, 1660-1740
Noelle Gallagher. Historical Literatures: Writing about the Past in England, 1660-1740. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. xx, 272 p., ill. IBSN 978071999243. GBP £16.99 (paperback). Charting important territory in Restoration…
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Mark Rose. Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright
Mark Rose. Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright. Cambridge, MA; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2016. xiv, 219 p. ill. ISBN 9780674048041. US $29.95 (hardback). With the…
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Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond, and Jeroen Salman (eds.). Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond, and Jeroen Salman (eds.). Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvii,…