Word: harcourt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eventual sale of the U. S. book rights only to Harcourt Brace, leaves M. Clemenceau free to dicker with bidders for the U. S. serial rights and other rights abroad. He may yet reap more than...
...Publishers Harcourt Brace & Co. will spring the surprise. They paid a reputed $35,000 for the U. S. book rights. First U. S. publisher to discover that the Tiger would write his memoirs was astute Albert Boni of Albert Charles Boni, Inc. From Paris last spring he went out to see the old gentleman. He learned that the best offer Clémenceau had had for world rights on the book was 25,000 francs ($1,000), from a French publisher. Publisher Boni offered $25,000. Amazed, delighted, M. Clémenceau struck the bargain then and there. But Publisher...
CHICAGO?The History of its Reputation?Henry Justin Smith & Lloyd Lewis ?Harcourt, Brace...
...Long a Harcourt, Brace best seller, it has been followed by Miss Mayo's novelization of the same subject, Slaves of the Gods, today a near bestseller...
...there was a brilliant period, when books were being illustrated by Kate Green-away, Randolph Caldecott, Sir John Tenniel and Walter Crane. The Widener collection brought to Harvard a good assemblage of Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very well represented in the Lewis Carroll collection made by Harcourt Amory, '76, and given in his memory by Mrs. Amory and their children. The other two, Crane and Caldecott, are thoroughly taken care of by the books, original drawings, and autograph letters given last autumn by A. H. Parker '97, to form the Caroline Miller Parker collection in the Harvard...