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The Bookman
James Montgomery Flaggposter forThe Bookman(April 1896)
Former editorsHarry Thurston Peck,Arthur Bartlett Maurice,G.G. Wyant,John C. Farrar,Burton Rascoe,Seward B. Collins
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderFrank Howard Dodd
Founded1895
Final issue1933
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
ISSN2156-9932
Title page of first volume ofThe Bookman(February–July 1895)

The Bookmanwas a literary journal established in 1895 byDodd, Mead and Company

Frank H. Dodd,head of Dodd, Mead and Company, establishedThe Bookmanin 1895.[1]Its first editor wasHarry Thurston Peck,who worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906. With the journal's first issue in February 1895, Peck created America's firstbestsellerlist.[2]The lists inThe Bookmanran from 1895 until 1918, and is the only comprehensive source of annual bestsellers in the United States from 1895 to 1912, whenPublishers Weeklybegan publishing their own lists.

In the April 1895 edition,The Bookman's editors explained the need for an American version of the already established LondonBookman:"The Bookmanhas been a great success since its first appearance in London in 1891, and it is believed that there is ample room and sufficientclienteleamong the great multitude of readers, for a literary journal of the same character in America. The American Edition will retain all of the popular features of the EnglishBookman,but it will be freshly edited and contain additional material of immediate importance to readers in the United States. "[3]

In 1918, the journal was bought by theGeorge H. Doran Companyand then sold in April 1927 toBurton RascoeandSeward B. Collins.After Rascoe's departure in April 1928, Collins continued to edit and publish the magazine until it ceased publication in 1933.[4][5]

It was edited byArthur Bartlett Maurice(1873–1946) from 1899 to 1916; by G.G. Wyant from 1916 to 1918;[6]and byJohn C. Farrarduring the years it was owned by George H. Doran. Only under the brief editorship of Burton Rascoe from 1927 to 1928 did it abandon its conservative standards and political stance, publishing, for example,Upton Sinclair's novelBoston.[7]Its last editor was Seward Collins, under whose editorshipThe Bookmancarried articles conforming to his conservative views, influenced byIrving Babbitt,and promotedhumanismanddistributism.Collins himself was moving towardsfascismduring his years as editor.[citation needed]WhenThe Bookmanceased publication in 1933, Collins launchedThe American Review.

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  1. ^"Frank H. Dodd Dies";The New York Times,January 11, 1916
  2. ^Laura J. Miller (2000)."The Best-Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction".In Ezra Greenspan (ed.).Book History.Vol. Three.Penn State Press.pp. 286–304.ISBN0271020504.
  3. ^"The bookman v.1 1895 Feb-Jul".HathiTrust.Retrieved2022-06-23.
  4. ^Wagenknecht, Edward (1982).American Profile 1900–1909.p. 215.ISBN9780870233517.
  5. ^"Bookman Sold".Time.April 18, 1927. Archived fromthe originalon November 25, 2010.
  6. ^"With Authors and Publishers".The New York Times.May 26, 1918.
  7. ^Hart, James D.; Leininger, Phillip W., eds. (1995). "Bookman, The".The Oxford Companion to American Literature.

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