11/5/2022 0 Comments Gregg mccormick inkslinger![]() ![]() One way that the Book Clubs have marked their editions when they are otherwise identical to trade editions is to use a small square, round, or sometimes leaf-shaped blind stamp in the bottom right corner of the rear board. Blind stamping - An impressed mark, decoration, or lettering, not colored or gilded, usually appearing on the binding. ![]() TABLE 1.76īinding - The cover of the book. THE BINFORDS & MORT LITERARY SENSIBILITY. iv GLOSSARY OF BOOK AND PUBLISHING TERMINOLOGY. ![]() Finally, thanks to Phoebe Skinner, who has lived with and supported this project since its conception. These individuals include Peter Kopp, Steve McQuiddy, David Milholland, Ralph Mort, Charles Seluzicki, Peter Sleeth, William Talbott, and Jean Ward. Over the past ten years I have benefited from the friendship of a number of people who have challenged my ideas and engaged in thoughtful conversations about various aspects of this project. Numerous librarians provided essential access to research materials, including Gay Walker at Reed College, the University of Oregon Special Collections staff, Brian Johnson at the City of Portland Archives, the Oregon Historical Society staff, Jim Carmin at the John Wilson Room, the University of Washington Special Collections staff, and my own colleagues at Lewis & Clark College. Antiquarian booksellers, including John Henley (Portland), Charles Seluzicki (Portland), Elisabeth Burdon (Portland), Mark Wessel and Michael Lieberman (Seattle), Scott Givens (Albany and Corvallis), and Roger and Ilse Roberts (Portland) were indispensable in uncovering sources. At Portland State University my thesis defense committee, including David Johnson, Carl Abbott, William Lang, and Caroline Litzenberger provided me with thoughtful suggestions necessary to complete this project. ![]() David Johnson, Jim Kopp, Paul Merchant, and Doug Erickson in particular were persistent in encouraging, teaching, providing me with sources, reading drafts, and shaping my ideas. These publications had a widespread impact on Oregon’s cultural development.ĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS This project benefited from the generosity of many. Instead, the thesis proposes that by looking at the output of Oregon’s most popular publisher, Binfords & Mort, one finds that an older style of writing focused on the pioneer period continued to be popular well into the twentieth century. Davis’s and James Stevens’s critique of Oregon writing, Status Rerum in 1927. The thesis also challenges the standard claim that Oregon literature underwent a major shift toward modernism after the publication of H.L. This thesis examines the economic and cultural contexts for Binfords & Mort, and its larger cultural impacts. Although Binfords & Mort did not publish books that received widespread critical praise from national literary critics, its books sold well to Oregon readers. Between 19, when the Binford family sold the publishing company, Binfords & Mort published around one thousand titles, and became a one of the leading influences on the Oregon literary scene. In 1930, Binfords & Mort began publishing works of fiction, history, poetry, children’s literature, and natural history by Pacific Northwest authors with content focused on the Pacific Northwest. One of the largest regional publishers west of the Mississippi was the Binfords & Mort publishing company of Portland, Oregon. Thesis Committee: David Johnson, Chair Carl Abbott William Lang Caroline LitzenbergerĪBSTRACT During the first half of the twentieth century there was a flourishing of publishers in the United States that specialized in books with content targeted for regional audiences. The Binfords & Mort Publishing Company and the Development of Regional Literature in OregonĪ thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of ![]()
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