This Week's Acquisitions
- Amy Brill, The Movement of Stars (Riverhead, 2013). In the 1840s, a young Quaker woman interested in astronomy encounters a Black sailor from the Azores. (Lift Bridge)
- Alexis Weedon, Victorian Publishing: The Economics of Book Production for a Mass Market, 1836-1916 (Ashgate, 2003). Important monograph tracking the emergent literary "mass market," the growth of various niches, various advertising and marketing strategies, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- The Gospel Magazine and Protestant Beacon 15 n.s. (1880). Bound volume of this staunchly evangelical publication, featuring poetry, deathbed narratives, missionary news, etc. (eBay)