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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)

bold date stated t.p. verso

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

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

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

Announcements in The Dial (such as 1906-03-16 p204-11 "annual list of books ann. for Spring publication ... some 850 titles")

1906

Birds, Heroes, 90c -- 1906-03-16 p204/11 p210

NYT -09-15 pBR569 "More New Books" Legends, Net 90c (postage 9c)

(evid. delayed) NYT -10-13 pBR671 "This Week We Publish" Heroes, decorated, "$1.10 postpaid."

NYT -11-03 pBR725 "Big Sellers" current printings Heroes 2, Legends 2, Poems 9

1907

Hymns, Famous Stories, 90c -- 1907-09-16 p172/86 p185 "Announcement List of Fall Books"

Nashville American 1907-09-08 pA6 "Literary Notes": "Doubleday, Page & Co. will publish this week ..." 6 inclg Famous Stories ECSK (and Alice in Blunderland)

1908

Heroines -- NYT -02-29 pBR117 advert "Decorated $1.00 postpaid."

The Dial -04-01 p216 Heroines That is a new volume

"Doubleday, Page & Co. published on Friday last ..." 6 inclg Heroines ECSK, Nash Amer 1908-03-01 p29

The Dial

"Announcements of Spring Books", and "... Fall Books" ; "List of New Books"

1904-03-16 p209/17 p216 (Poems That ECSK, illus, 90c)

1906-03-16 p204/11 p210 [2] ;

List -10-01 p213/15 (Legends, Songs, 90c); List -11-01 [3]

; 1907-09-16 p172/86 p185

(continued) 1910-10-01 p243/47 [4] p247 Folk Tales front. 90c; Operas front. 90c; Earth and Sky illus. $1.20

("Announcements of Spring Books") 1900--09 (25) --almost all The Dial, for which "Page View" is adequate

The Dial 1900-03-16 p209 ; 1901 p208 ; 1902-04-01 p231 ; 1903-03-16 p187, 207? ; 1904-03-16 p209/17 ; 1905-03-16 p206 ; 1906 p204 ; 1907-03-16 ? ; 1908 p183, 218? ; 1909-03-16 ?

1904-03-16 p209, >700, excluding "early Spring books" prev. issued and noted

("Announcements of Spring Books") 1910--19 (18) --almost all The Dial

The Dial 1910-03-16 ? ; 1911-03-16 p223 ; 1912-03-16 p238 ; 1913-03-16 p253 (Spring and Summer) ; 1914-03-16 p231 ; 1915-03-18 p219 (Spring and Summer) ; 1916-03-16 p287 ; 1917 p256, 273?

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ECSK contents (7 vols among 8 ed. by Mabie)

• Fairy Tales --NEED indb
• Myths :
• Legends : "Containing such as 'Sleepy Hollow', etc."--advertNYC
• Heroes : "from Leonidas at Thermopylae to Abraham Lincoln"--advertNYC
• Heroines : "An inseparable companion volume ... [no examples]"--advertNYC ; "The heroines range all the way from Alcestis to Florence Nightingale."--TheDial
• Famous Stories --indb
• Folk Tales

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

12 ProQuest hits 1927-09-23/24 alone

1927-09-23 [5] and several other newspapers

-09-23 [6] NYHT p2 --covers subsidiaries etc

-10-02 [7] --note on timing (Jan 1)

-12-27 [8] --first publ as D, Doran 1928-01-09 (Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler)

-12-31 [9] NYT p28 "Corporate Changes" : Name Changes

-12-30 [10] 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[11], 1929 o[12], [1929] o[13]
• Vincent Starrett 1928 o[14]

[15] 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 [16];

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.