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Getting people to read; volunteer programs that work [by] Carl B. Smith and Leo C. Fay. Introd. by Peter S. Jennison.

Book/Text

New York, Delacorte Press [1973]

1973

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 76-3405Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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Reading in America 1978 : selected findings of the Book Industry Study Group's 1978 study of American book-reading and book-buying habits and discussions of those findings at the Library of Congress on October 25 and 26, 1978 / edited by John Y. Cole and Carol S. Gold.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress, 1979.

1979

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 80-3467Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Prodigals and pilgrims : the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800 / Jay Fliegelman.

Book/Text

Cambridge ; New York ; Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1982

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 82-650Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The State of the book world, 1980 [microform] : three talks / sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

Microform

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981.

1981

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FormatMicroformCall number*XM-14439 [Microfiche]Item locationSchwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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U.S. international book programs, 1981 / edited by John Y. Cole.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress, 1982.

1982

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 82-1290Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Aliteracy, people who can read but won't / edited by Nick Thimmesch.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research, c1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 84-1821Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Consumer research study on reading and book purchasing / prepared for the Book Industry Study Group, inc. by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, inc.

Book/Text

[Darien, Conn.] : The Group, 1978.

1978

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFF 83-973Item locationOffsite
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Two-bit culture : the paperbacking of America / Kenneth C. Davis.

Book/Text

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 84-2825Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Novels, readers, and reviewers : responses to fiction in antebellum America / Nina Baym.

Book/Text

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 84-5932Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Printing and society in early America / edited by William L. Joyce ... [et al.].

Book/Text

Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, c1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 83-2874Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Forbidden books in American public libraries, 1876-1939 : a study in cultural change / Evelyn Geller.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 84-2216Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Books in our future : a report from the Librarian of Congress to the Congress.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 85-2247Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The labor of words : literary professionalism in the Progressive Era / Christopher P. Wilson.

Book/Text

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1985.

1985

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 85-2279Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Charles Dickens's quarrel with America / Sidney P. Moss.

Book/Text

Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., 1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 85-3002Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Fiction in public libraries, 1900-1950 / Esther Jane Carrier.

Book/Text

Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1985.

1985

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 85-3148Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Modern science fiction and the American literary community / by Frederick Andrew Lerner.

Book/Text

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985.

1985

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 85-7261Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The community of the book : a directory of selected organizations and programs / compiled by Carren O. Kaston ; edited and with an introduction by John Y. Cole (Center for the Book).

Book/Text

New Brunswick [N.J.] (U.S.A.) : Transactions Books, c1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 89-2508Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Early Cooper and his audience / James D. Wallace.

Book/Text

New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.

1986

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 86-952Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Amerikanische Leserforschung / Edith Klemenz-Belgardt.

Book/Text

Tübingen : G. Narr, c1982.

1982

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 86-5188Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Myths and mores in American best sellers, 1865-1965 / Ruth Miller Elson.

Book/Text

New York : Garland, 1985.

1985

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 87-388Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Book of the month : sixty years of books in American life / edited by Al Silverman.

Book/Text

Boston : Little, Brown, c1986.

1986

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 86-5218Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Books in our future : perspectives and proposals / edited by John Y. Cole.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 88-3632Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Needs and opportunities in the history of the book : America, 1639-1876 / edited by David D. Hall and John B. Hench.

Book/Text

Worcester [Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society, 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 87-2098Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Happily ever after : a guide to reading interests in romance fiction / Kristin Ramsdell.

Book/Text

Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 97-2013Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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"Well acquainted with books" : the founding framers of 1787 : with James Madison's list of books for Congress / by Robert A. Rutland.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress, 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 88-7729Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America / edited by Michael Hackenberg.

Book/Text

Washington : Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 88-7203Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Rediscoveries II : important writers select their favorite works of neglected fiction / edited by David Madden & Peggy Bach.

Book/Text

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 88-11092Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Handbook of American popular literature / edited by M. Thomas Inge.

Book/Text

New York : Greenwood Press, c1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-RMRR PS169.P64 .H36 1988Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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Heavy traffic & high culture : New American Library as literary gatekeeper in the paperback revolution / Thomas L. Bonn.

Book/Text

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 89-3031Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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American donated books abroad : a guide to distributing organizations / William M. Childs.

Book/Text

Washington, DC : American International Book Development Council, c1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 90-350Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The popular book; a history of America's literary taste.

Book/Text

New York, Oxford University Press, 1950.

1950

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 90-3170Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-NBB 77-893Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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The Open door : when writers first learned to read / [selected by] Steven Gilbar ; preface by Barbara Bush ; afterword by John Y. Cole.

Book/Text

Boston, Mass. : D. R. Godine in Association with The Center for the Book, 1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 90-2618Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The State of the book world, 1980 : three talks / sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 90-292Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
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American best sellers : a reader's guide to popular fiction / Karen Hinckley and Barbara Hinckley.

Book/Text

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-*GBO 89-21336Item locationOffsite

The letters of the Republic : publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America / Michael Warner.

Book/Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 90-7870Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The community of the book : a directory of selected organizations and programs / compiled by Maurvene D. Williams ; edited and with an introduction by John Y. Cole (The Center for the Book).

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress, 1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 90-6752Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Beyond literacy : the second Gutenberg revolution / R. Patton Howell, editor.

Book/Text

Dallas, TX : Saybrook Pub. Co. ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1990]

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 90-9703Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Who reads literature? : the future of the United States as a nation of readers / Nicholas Zill and Marianne Winglee ; foreword by Jonathan Yardley.

Book/Text

Cabin John, Md. : Seven Locks Press, [1990]

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 91-2514Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Walt Whitman and the American reader / Ezra Greenspan.

Book/Text

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 91-1134Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Reading rooms / edited by Susan Allen Toth and John Coughlan ; foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin.

Book/Text

New York : Doubleday, 1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 91-3886Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Potboilers : methods, concepts, and case studies in popular fiction / Jerry Palmer.

Book/Text

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 92-2895Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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[1988 CEBA awards. Category 27] [videorecording] : [public service, corporate, political announcements].

Film, Slide, etc.

United States : [various stations], 1987.

1987

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The making of middlebrow culture / Joan Shelley Rubin.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992.

1992

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 92-3161Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Unprofessional behavior : confessions of a public librarian / by Will Manley ; illustrations by Gary Handman.

Book/Text

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1992.

1992

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 92-5471Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Reading in the 1980s / edited by Stephen Graubard.

Book/Text

New York : Bowker, 1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 92-158Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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A fictive people : antebellum economic development and the American reading public / Ronald J. Zboray.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

1993

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 93-2197Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Readers in history : nineteenth-century American literature and the contexts of response / edited by James L. Machor.

Book/Text

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993.

1993

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 93-3012Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Cultures of letters : scenes of reading and writing in nineteenth-century America / Richard H. Brodhead.

Book/Text

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1993.

1993

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 93-9547Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Publishing and readership in Revolutionary France and America : a symposium at the Library of Congress / sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division ; edited with an introduction by Carol Armbruster ; foreword by John Y. Cole.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

1993

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 93-9288Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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