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Doubleday ISFDB publisher search(42)

• 1897 Doubleday & McClure
• 1900? Doubleday, Page
• 1910 move to Garden City
• 1927 Doubleday, Doran --MERGER EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY; NAME ADOPTED 1928-01-01 (or 1927-12-31)

first book (non-genre) Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler https://lccn.loc.gov/28003166 o[275335]

• 1946 Doubleday and Company

ISFDB publication series

• Every Child Should Know --now as publ by Doubleday, Page & Company
• What Every Child Should Know Library --now as publ by Doubleday, Doran ; Keep-Worthy Books (1946)

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What Every Child Should Know Library

The Parents' Magazine, 1932? to 1946 --chiefly reissues from ECSK

Every Child Should Know

Grosset & Dunlap alpha list of 22 vols

[1] The Bookman 49.6 1919-08 p.xx Grosset & Dunlap advert "These books have colored wrappers [jackets] and colored frontispieces." --boxed in 20 volume sets, also 5 and 10; single copies 75c + postage; alpha list of 22

(not one as [main] That ...

Birds

Earth and Sky ------

m Essays

m Fairy Tales

m Famous Stories

m Folk Tales

m Heroes

m& Heroines

- Hymns

m Legends

m Myths

Natural Wonders ------ (* 2 not listed by Christian Publ 1915)

Operas ------

Pictures

- Poems

- Prose

- Songs

Trees ------

Useful Plants ------ (* 2 not listed by Christian Publ 1915)

Water Wonders ------

- Wild Animals ------

Wild Flowers ------

m : edited by H. W. Mabie - : another names as editor

D, Page apparently genuine sequence of 14 (Myths, t.p. 1907)

1. Poems [1904] ------earliest hit (unex.) 1904-06
2. m Fairy Tales (1905-05) ------earliest hit (unex.) 1905-06
3. m Myths (1905-10) ------earliest hit (unex.) 1905-09
4. Songs
5. m Legends (1906-09) ------earliest hit (unex.) 1906-09
6. m Heroes ------earliest hit (unex.) 1906-10
7. Birds
8. Water Wonders [Apr 1907]
9. m Famous Stories (1907-08) --indb ------earliest hit (unex.) 1907-09
10. Hymns
11. m Heroines ------earliest hit (unex.) 1908-01
12. m Essays ------earliest hit (unex.) 1908-03
13. Prose
14. Pictures

Folk Tales ------earliest hit (unex.) 1910-07

11 of those 14 credited as "Edited by" (all but Birds, Water Wonders, Pictures) those 14 include 7 of 8 anthologies by Mabie

Doubleday, Doran (& Gundy); Heinemann 1927/1928

12 ProQuest hits 1927-09-23/24 alone

1927-09-23 [2] and several other newspapers

-09-23 [3] NYHT p2 --covers subsidiaries etc

-10-02 [4] --note on timing (Jan 1)

-12-27 [5] --first publ as D, Doran 1928-01-09 (Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler)

-12-31 [6] NYT p28 "Corporate Changes" : Name Changes

-12-30 [7] Montreal p10 "Publishers Consolidate" --Canada operations as Doubleday, Doran and Gundy (Toronto -12-29)

--cf. ISFDB publisher S. B. Gundy

WorldCat search doubleday doran gundy (75, from 1928 essentially) 1928--35 except one as 1925 (c)1921

• H G Wells 1928 o[8], 1929 o[9], [1929] o[10]
• Vincent Starrett 1928 o[11]

[12] Gazette 1928-03-31 p13

11 adequate US/CA hits 1928-03 alone

review by Herbert Gorman NYHT -03-25 pK2 "Sparkling Waters of Bimini" $2.50 [13];

shorter review, unsigned NYT -03-25 p26/28

Cover title Seaports in the Moon: A Story of Perennial Youth --cf. Gazette review

About 70 WorldCat library records report publications by Template:Publisher of Toronto as 1928 to 1935. One reports a 1925 printing, copyright 1921, OCLC Fiction Finder; that must be spurious, as the Doubleday, Doran and Company name, too, was adopted at the turn of year 1928.