The Fiction Factory: From Pulp Row to Quality Street.
Reynolds, Quentin.
Price: 52.50 USD
New York:: Random House,, 1955.. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, STATED FIRST PRINTING. 283 pages with index. Color and black & white photo illustrated. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Deckled page edges. The book and dust jacket are near NEAR FINE with light rubbing to board bottom edges, very lightly bumped front top corner. NOT price-clipped. Dust jacket notes read: "In these colorful and nostalgic pages, you will meet the fabulous people-fictional and real-who turned out the material that has fed the Street & Smith publishing 'factory' during its first glamorous century. Here you'll read of Horatio Alger Jr., Buffalo Bill, Nick Carter (possibly the greatest fictional detective of all time), Frank Merriwell, THE NEW YORK WEEKLY, AINSLEE'S and SMITH'S magazines, Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Max Brand (and his ten pseudonyms). The Shadow, and all the other landmarks of American publishing that originated with this incredible firm. An you'll have a lively look at the inside workings of the enormously successful magazines of today-Mademoiselle, Charm and Living for Young Homemakers-as well as the science-fiction hit, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION. These, then, are the men and women whose talents went into the building of this giant publishing venture, and of the unforgettable finished products they created, from dime novels and westerns and confession stories to the fashion and homemaking 'slicks' of our modern era." First edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dj.
