New York: Bloomberg Press, 2009. Second Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An indispensable survival guide for anyone in the media industry and the lawyers who serve them Especially now, in an age of instant global access through digital media, it is vitally important that journalists, authors and publishers, as well..... More
New York: A Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster, 1998. Second Printing. Paperback. Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Now, more than ever, political journalists are central figures in the titanic struggles of modern history, not only telling us about events but also interpreting them and shaping our views. This engrossing book explores the relationship between journalism and..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Reprint. Paperback. Presented here are four major theories behind the functioning of the world's presses: (1) the Authoritarian theory, which developed in the late Renaissance and was based on the idea that truth is the product of a few wise men; (2) the Libertarian theory..... More
Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector's edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1924, this enduring classic fired the opening salvo in a campaign for serious recognition of the importance of popular culture. Seldes - a journalist, editor, and cultural critic - believed that for a...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2002. First Norton paperback edition. Paperback. A National Book Award recipient. Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In an intimate and intriguing memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1994. Second Edition. Hardcover. Cataloging and Classification is also a name for the course that covers general principles of bibliography, cataloging, and indexing, that is required for students working toward degrees in Library/Information Science. Of the few texts available for the course, Lois Chan's Cataloging..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Toni Ellis (cover design). First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff’s groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the great Modernist..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
Cleveland, Ohio: Forum Books, 1963. Revised edition. Softcover. A collection of articles, poems, essays, and excerpts on the subject of book making. The forty-two contributions range from observations on the story of the alphabet to the pleasures and duties of the amateur printer, and have a great deal to say..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the latest book in the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew..... More
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