Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 508
PRIZE DESIGN BY a very popular We all know that manybook. modern novels sell enor- mously, but here is a book — a spelling-book— that makes their sales seem small: EUMORLfJMOra/E … HER-OWN-BOOK- 903 iSIGN BY BETH HOWARD. In the thirty-five years time(i855-90) dur-ing which it waspublished by theAppletons, 31,-155,000 copieswere sold. Onelarge press waskept constantlyat work on thisbook year in andyear out. In1855, 1,093,500copies were sold,and in each ofthe next twoyears this…
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