Reminiscences of Meredith Wood, 1955

Biographical Note

Publisher

Scope and Contents

Family background and education; military service; Chemical National Bank; early association with Robert K. Haas, 1925; officer of Book-of-the-Month Club from 1929; booksellers vs. book clubs; impressions of publishers; choosing book judges; book dividends; phonograph records; premiums

Subjects

• Book-of-the-Month Club.
• Book clubs (Discussion groups)
• Book industries and trade.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Starr, Louis Morris, 1917-1980, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Wood, Meredith, 1895-1974--Interviews.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975