Books in the United States

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As of 2018, several firms in the

In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.^[4]

The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977.

Types

• American cookbooks
• Astronomy books

Bookselling

Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's

• BookExpo America, trade fair
• New York Antiquarian Book Fair (est. 1960)

Clubs

• Book of the Month Club
  , subscription business, est. 1926
• Oprah's Book Club, est. 1996
• Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, est. 1993. Members include:
  • Book Club of California, San Francisco, California; est. 1912^[8]
  • The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; est. 1895^[9]
  • Florida Bibliophile Society, Bayonet Point, Florida; est. 1983^[10]
  • The Grolier Club, New York, New York; est. 1884^[11]
  • The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts; est. 2002 ^[12]

Collections

Some notable collections of books of the United States include:

• American Antiquarian Society (est. 1812), Worcester, Massachusetts
• Library of Congress (est. 1800), Washington DC

Digitization

The nonprofit

• 
  Harper & Brothers

  printing press, New York City, 1850s
• 
  Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago
• 
  Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby, 1925; published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• 
  Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook, 1975 edition, first published in 1931
• 
  Bookshop, Chicago, 1940
• 
  De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943
• 
  Powell's bookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)
• 
  Children reading in the White House, 2012
• 
  Texas Book Festival est. 1996, Austin, Texas (photo 2016)

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• ISSN 0000-0019
  1872-
• G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889). "Bibliographies of Countries: United States of America". List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London.
  OCLC 3816244 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• ISSN 0028-7806
  1896-

• American Bibliography
• ISSN 0006-7385
  1905-. (Book reviews)
• Alice Bertha Kroeger; Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917). "Bibliography: National and Trade: American". Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.). American Library Association
  .
• Henry Walcott Boynton (1932). Annals of American Bookselling, 1638–1850. J. Wiley & Sons – via HathiTrust.
• Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), The Colonial Printer (2nd ed.), Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive
• OCLC 67889130
• Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt [in German] (1951). The book in America: a history of the making and selling of books in the United States (2nd ed.). Bowker.
• Cecil J. McHale (1957), Guide to General Book Publishers in the United States (4th ed.), Ann Arbor, MI{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• ISSN 0028-7504
  1963-
• Charles A. Madison (1966). Book Publishing in America. McGraw-Hill.
  OCLC 729685674
  .
• ISBN 0-8352-0489-8
  .
• ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0
  .
• U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory,
  ISSN 0193-6417
  1979-
• Michael Hackenberg, ed. (1987), Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America, Washington DC: Center for the Book. Chapters include:
  • "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
  • "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
  • "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
  • "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
• Margaret A. Blanchard, ed. (2013) [1998]. History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1-135-91749-4
  . (Includes several articles about books)
• ISBN 978-1-85984-763-3
  .
• History of the Book in America, University of North Carolina Press
  , 2000–2010

• ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8
  .
• "Books That Shaped America". Exhibitions. Washington DC: Library of Congress. 2012.
• Scott E. Casper; Joan Shelley Rubin (2013). "America". In Michael F. Suarez;
  ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6
  .
• "How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com", Working Knowledge,
  OCLC 55998168
• "Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers", New York Times, July 31, 2018. (Discusses BookTube and Booksplosion book club)

See also

• Copyright law of the United States
• African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80
• American literature
• Category:American writers
• Literacy in the United States
  • Reading education in the United States
• Book censorship in the United States
  • List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
• One City One Book, initiated in Seattle in 1998 ("If All of Seattle Read the Same Book")
• Mass media in the United States and Category:History of mass media in the United States

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Books from the United States.

• OCLC 213273863 + "Print Culture
  "
• Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies:
  • History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern
  • History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830
  • American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
• BibSite – via Bibliographical Society of America. (Includes articles on American book history)
• Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. (Database created from work of Haynes McMullen) JSTOR
• "What Middletown Read". Indiana: Ball State University. Database and search engine built upon the circulation records of the Muncie (Indiana) Public Library from 1891 to 1902