Title
Supplement: The Publishers’ Trade List Annual 1890
Coverage
New York
Publisher
The United States Book Company
Date
October 1890
Subject
Catalogue of The United States Book Co.
Description
While there’s only one Conan Doyle title to be found in this catalogue’s 110 pages of piracies, The Firm of Girdlestone, it illustrates price-point strategy. The book was available three ways: as a $1 clothbound gilt-edged book with a Lovell’s International Series imprint; a paper edition from the same publisher, costing 50¢; and a paper edition from Seaside Library for a mere 20¢.