Dummies (Bookselling)
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Dummies (Bookselling)
- Here are entered works on special sample copies of books issued to canvassers, showing sample pages, illustrations, bindings, etc.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001712
- info:lc/authorities/sh87001712
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh87001712#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Canvassing books (Subscription book trade)
- Prospectuses (Bookselling)
- Salesmen's dummies (Bookselling)
- Sample copies of books
Broader Terms
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Ridpath, J.C. The story of South Africa, 1899.
- found: Bookman's glossary, 1983: p. 76 (Salemen's dummies)
- found: Melcher, D. Printing & promo. hdbook, 1956: p. 87 ("To a book salesman, a dummy is a prepublication imitation of a book, showing jacket, binding, table of contents, and perhaps a sample chapter")
- found: Amer. dict. of printing & bookmaking, 1894: p. 150 (Dummy: a few pages of a book ... put together in advance of the real publication. ... To issue dummies for canvassers is the universal practice)
- found: Web. 3 (Prospectus, meaning a-2)
- notfound: Haller, M. Bk. collector's fact book, 1976;Genre terms, 1983;Harrod, L. Librarians' glossary, 1971;Vitale, P. Bibliography, 1971;Glaister, G. Gloss. of the bk, 1979
LC Classification
- Z1033.D85
General Notes
- Here are entered works on special sample copies of books issued to canvassers, showing sample pages, illustrations, bindings, etc.
Change Notes
- 1987-03-20: new
- 1997-05-28: revised
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