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The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf

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Author: Cerf, Bennett
ISBN:978-0-394-47877-7
Publication Date:Aug 1977
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Random House
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $28.00
Book Description:

“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.4 x 9.5 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.54 Pounds
Author Biography
Cerf, Bennett (Author)
Bennett Cerf was born in 1898, in Manhattan. He was educated at Columbia University. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Cerf died in 1971.




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