Books and the public
By: by the editor of the Nation ... [et al.]
Contributors: Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946; Unwin, Stanley, Sir, 1884-1968.; Sadleir, Michael, 1888-1957.; Blackwell, Basil, Sir, 1889-; Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969; Ibbetson, Peter; Saxton, Henry B; Young, Charles; Jeffery, Jeffery E.
Publisher: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Book industries and trade; Publishers and publishing
Other titles: Nation and Athenaeum.
Notes: "Green paper wrappers lettered in black." -- Woolmer.

"The symposium contained in this book appeared originally in the form of articles in The Nation and Athenaeum (February-May, 1927)." -- foreword.

Woolmer, 1986 ed., 134.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Jackson, Thelma Cox.
Table of contents: value: Books and the public / the editor of "The Nation"; value: Are books too dear? / John Maynard Keynes; value: Are books a necessity? / Stanley Unwin; value: Ambiguities of the book trade: (i) The literary agent.  (ii) The circulating library / Michael Sadleir; value: Mass-suggestion and the book trade / Basil Blackwell; value: On advertising books / Leonard Woolf; value: On the reluctance to buy books / Peter Ibbetson; value: The condition of the book trade / Henry B. Saxton; value: The bookseller's point of view / Charles Young; value: The printed word / Jeffery E. Jeffery.