20th century
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Nancy Stock-Allen, Carol Twombly: Her Brief but Brilliant Career in Type Design
Nancy Stock-Allen’s book is an unapologetic homage (“Her brief but brilliant career in type design” is the subtitle) to the work of type designer Carol Twombly, whose career bridged the…
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Amanda Laugesen, Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War.
n Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War, Amanda Laugesen maps out Franklin Publications’ global initiative, “a kind of American Cold War book empire, one…
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Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Norwich and New York: Impermanent Press and The Grolier Club, 2015. 164p., ill. ISBN 9781605830629. US$ 500.00. Lynd Ward was one of the most…
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Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. ix, 272p., ill. ISBN 9781421421346. US $50.00. Bartholomew Brinkman’s surprising, skillfully argued Poetic Modernism…
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Caroline Maniaque-Benton and Meredith Gaglio, eds. Whole Earth Field Guide
Caroline Maniaque-Benton and Meredith Gaglio, eds. Whole Earth Field Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. xii, 107p., ill. ISBN 9780262529280. US $34.95. The Whole Earth Field Guide is a heavily…
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The Pulp Magazines Project
The Pulp Magazines Project. Patrick Belk, Nathan Madison: 2011. <http://pulpmags.org/> The first generation of cooperative, open-access libraries were text-based transcriptions like Project Gutenberg. In the past 20 years digital imaging…
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John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present; William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger, eds. Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom
John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2016. 334p. ISBN 9780786494903. US$ 40.00. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy…
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Kristin L. Matthews. Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature
Kristin L. Matthews. Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature. Boston and Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 222p. ISBN 9781625342355. US$ 29.95. In Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and…