American Nights Entertainment is a 1923 collection of essays by Grant M. Overton about books and authors, written for readers and booksellers. It offers a warm, informed tour of the literary world and the people who make and sell books, appealing to anyone curious about early twentieth-century reading culture.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
American Nights Entertainment Grant Overton By GRANT OVERTON About Books and Authors AMERICAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET THE WOMEN WHO MAKE OUR NOVELS Fiction ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT THE ANSWERER WORLD WITHOUT END THE THOUSAND-AND-FIRST NIGHT (In Preparation) American Nights Entertainment
BY GRANT OVERTON New York, 1923 D. APPLETON & CO. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY GRANT OVERTON First Printing, September, 1923.
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. Bound in Interlaken-Cloth This Book IS DEDICATED TO BOOKSELLERS AND BOOKREADERS EVERYWHERE BY THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHERS WHO HAVE JOINED IN ITS PRODUCTION
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