The Batsford Companion to Popular Literature Tapa dura - 1982

London: Batsford, 1982. 1st edition, 8vo, 207pp, line drawings; cheap paper browning at edges o/w VG Copy in VG DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Batsford Academic and Educational, London, first edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 207 pp, ills. From the blurb: "In this pioneering work, Victor Neuburg has assembled a wealth of information about popular literature, from the invention of printing to the present. The field is potentially vast and still in the process of definition: the present guide thus makes no attempt to be comprehensive but instead, by judicious selection, to give a vivid picture of the range and variety of popular literature and its producers. As a broad principle of selection, 'popular literature' is here taken to include three main categories: what unsophisticated readers choose to read for pleasure; what one group feels another ought to be reading for its own good - such as tracts, temperance literature and pamphlets; and the literature of self-improvement, including cheap reprints of the classics and manuals of self-instruction. The entries concentrate on Great Britain and the USA and range from the history… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.