Word: grosset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually the sale of cheap books in the U. S. is a good deal bigger than most people suppose. Reprints, at 39? to $2.49, total at least 10,000,000 copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...
Died. Philip Grosset, 53, salesman in his brother Alexander Grosset's publishing house (Grosset & Dunlap); by drowning, from a canoe; at Hubbards...