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The novel was a selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club. In the succeeding years, it has been included in several lists of recommended reading: Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (1988), Aurel Guillemette's The Best in Science Fiction (1993), David Pringle's Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995) and the Locus Reader's ...
[7] [8] By 1947, Doubleday was the largest publisher in the United States, with annual sales of more than 30 million books. [citation needed] In 1954, Doubleday sold Blakiston to McGraw-Hill. [9] Doubleday's son-in-law John Sargent was president and CEO from 1963 to 1978. In 1964, Doubleday acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw. [10]
In May 1953 Sargent married Neltje Doubleday, who was 18. [2] She was the granddaughter of the late Frank N. Doubleday, who founded the Doubleday publishing company in 1897. [2] The couple had a daughter Ellen and son John Turner Sargent Jr. After they divorced in 1965, Neltje Doubleday Sargent moved with their children to Wyoming.
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club.It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. [1] Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. [1] The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, [2] in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2) office building that was constructed in 1906 ...
Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom. It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K. The firm ...
The size of the club did in fact create the Book of the Month Club as a brand. Being a "Book of the Month Club" selection was used to promote books to the general public. Book of the Month Club was acquired by Time Inc. in 1977; Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications in 1989. [9] [10] The original judges panel was eliminated in 1994. [11]
Dust jacket photo, 1953. Paul Darcy Boles (March 5, 1916 - May 4, 1984) was an American author, as well as working in radio, television and advertising. [1] [2] His more than 150 short stories [3] appeared in many American and European periodicals, including Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post, [2] Seventeen, [4] Playboy, and Cosmopolitan. [5]
The Crime Club returned on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour radio series with adaptations from the Doubleday imprint. Each installment was introduced by the series host, The Librarian, portrayed by Barry Thomson and Raymond Edward Johnson (who was better known as the host of Inner Sanctum Mysteries ).