50 Years of Best Sellers 1895-1945

Alice Payne Hackett. First edition, third printing. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1945. A Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with original price ($3.00) intact. In a protective mylar wrapper. Red cloth and gold lettering on the spine. No markings in the book, 140 pp.

Miss Hacket spent 20 years as associate editor at Publishers Weekly where she examined nearly every book published in America, while reading many of them.