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178:"We will never grow so large that all members of the firm cannot read and be interested in any book we publish," Farrar said. "While we believe in applying journalistic methods to publishing we feel that ... there is a need for literature that is written in quiet places and that is brought to the public with dignity." 133: 215:, the award recognized good publishing β€” "the creative idea, cooperation with the writer, careful production and imagination and successful marketing." The Manhattan publisher won the award for seven volumes of the 1179:, February 15, 1943. A 65-volume opus produced over 37 years by Farrar & Rinehart and its corporate successors, the Rivers of America Series was celebrated by the Library of Congress on its 60th anniversary ( 1221: 181:
During the early summer of 1929, Farrar and Rinehart designed and distributed its first promotional piece, the first cannon in what they hoped to be a successful advertising campaign for the book
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supported her sons and their company by leaving Doubleday, Doran; her bestselling mysteries became a mainstay of the new imprint.
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in 1927. Both Stanley and Fredrick were the sons of the famous playwright and author, Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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In February 1943, Farrar & Rinehart received the first Carey-Thomas Award for creative publishing from
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Murray, Timothy D.; Mills, Theodora (1986). "Cosmopolitan Book Corporation". In Peter Dzwonkoski (ed.).
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that appears on the copyright page of every first edition, issued by Farrar & Rinehart
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Dates are the earliest and latest known years of association with Farrar & Rinehart.
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In 1931, Farrar & Rinehart acquired the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation from
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publishing house, the result of a merger between their mutual employer, the
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American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980. Trade and paperback
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Defunct book publishing companies of the United States
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Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Index

John C. Farrar
Stanley M. Rinehart
Frederick R. Rinehart
Rinehart & Company
New York City
Rivers of America Series
Nero Wolfe
Rex Stout
Publishers Weekly

Clarence P. Hornung
colophon
John C. Farrar
Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr.
Frederick R. Rinehart
Doubleday, Doran
George H. Doran Company
Doubleday, Page & Company
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Hearst
Anthony Adverse
Publishers Weekly
Mathew Carey
Isaiah Thomas
Rivers of America Series
Roger Straus
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Rinehart & Company
Dorothy Aldis
Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia

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