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20th-Century American Bestsellers

A LibGuide to ENSP 3559: 20th-Century American Bestsellers

Histories, Journals, and Reference Works

American Film Institute. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced In the United States. University of California Press, 1971.
Bold, Christine. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Elliott, Emory, and Cathy N Davidson. The Columbia History of the American Novel: Emory Elliott, General Editor ; Associate Editors, Cathy N. Davidson ... [Et Al.]. Columbia University Press, 1991.
Film Literature Index. Filmdex, inc, 1973.
IMDB
Start (but don't end) here for movie versions of your book.
Kurian, George Thomas. The Directory of American Book Publishing, From Founding Fathers to Today's Conglomerates. Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Magill, Frank N, et al.. Magill's Survey of Cinema--English Language Films, Second Series. Salem Press, 1981.
Magill, Frank N. Magill's Cinema Annual. Salem Press, 1982.
The National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints ; a cumulative author list representing Library of Congress printed cards and titles reported by other American libraries
754 volumes of pictures of catalog cards, alphabetical by author last name. Helpful for assignments one and two. HathiTrust version is searchable.
Publisher's Weekly
The print edition is the only complete version of this valuable trade magazine. The HathiTrust has searchable full-text up to 1917 (at http://bit.ly/2Clv5Ks), and contemporary electronic versions are available from many sources through the library catalogue, but those only go back to 1990 at the earliest.
Publishing History
Scholarly Journal. Online and searchable 1977-2000. All issues in print at Z284 .P85 in the stacks or (current issues) in the periodicals reading room.
RR Bowker Company, et al.. The Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information. R.R. Bowker, 1962.
Sometimes has sales figures.
RR Bowker Company. Books In Print. R.R. Bowker Co, 1948.
Salem, James M. A Guide to Critical Reviews. 3rd ed. Scarecrow Press, 1984.
Tebbel, John William. A History of Book Publishing In the United States. R. R. Bowker Co, 1972.
On reserve in Clemons and in Shannon Reference. Fabulous resource.
Tebbel, John William. Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing In America. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Essential.
WorldCat (UVa Portal)
If you find your title and then choose "View all editions and formats" you get very useful information for assignments one and two.

The Business of Publishing