Canvassing Books, Sample Books, and Subscription Publishers'...
Arbour, Keith. Zinman, Michael. Canvassing Books, Sample Books, and Subscription Publishers' Ephemera, 1833-1951, in the Collection of Michael Zinman. Ardsley, N.Y.: Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, 1996. First edition. xxvii, 517 pp. Facsimiles. Publisher's cloth with gilt stamped spine. Fine. Internally clean and bright. $65. * This book catalogues over 1,700 individual items from the private collection of Michael Zinman, documenting the materials used by traveling salesmen to sell books door-to-door by subscription. It provides a comprehensive bibliographic catalog that serves as a definitive reference for the history of American book marketing and sales. "The Michael Zinman Collection, acquired by the Library Company in 2000, is the largest collection of early American imprints, books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the colonies and states before 1801 formed by a private individual since days of the pioneering Americana collectors of the 19th century." (librarycompany.org/portfolio-item/michael-zinman-collection.).
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Book number 86077